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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 3058366" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>When you are younger it's hard to say to yourself stop, take a step back and think it over when you are having a hard time with anything. But with a predator problem so many times that is the best way to find the solution. There have been so many times that you get a call go out and get the offender or offenders quickly after the other guy has been trying hard and is at their wits end. Most of the time it's just because they got frustrated and weren't thinking clearly about it. I am as guilty as anyone else of not stepping back and relaxing enough to allow my thought process to actually process what is going on but as I aged it became easier to do just that. The pressure is on I have to get this done type of thoughts keep rolling around your mind, but you are defeating yourself with that type of thoughts. I have never slept a lot, but I can't count the number of times that I have left a coyote problem disgusted and feeling defeated by them, just to wake up with the answer popping into my head, or the answer to any number of other problems because I relaxed enough to let the answer come out of my mind's eye. I made a good living solving other people's problems for them because most of the time they would get frustrated and let themselves become overwhelmed. Not only doing predator control but in other areas of life. I had a younger guy call me and ask me if I would come out and help him with a yearling lamb killing coyote. He had been trying for a couple of weeks, he had M-44's set snares set a few leg hold traps set but the killing kept happening. Only small portions of them would be eaten then a new kill would be made, first clue. I met him and we went out to look at the kills, on the freshest one I skinned the neck back the canine teeth were only about an inch apart, second clue, coyote canines are farther apart than that. He showed me his M-44's and they were driven straight down in the ground and close to the ground. I removed one of his and relocated it to the up-wind side of a trail. Selected a small backing bush, set it at an angle, so that it compensated for the animal's mouth and neck as it reached down to bite it. Now it was set so the animal couldn't roll on it and it would deliver it full amount in the animal's mouth not to the side or into the air. I made sure that it wasn't driven too far down so the animal's nose wasn't rubbing in the dirt as it reached down to bite and pull upward either. next we looked at his snare sets, and I showed him some of the things that I did a little differently and explained that I liked to dull my snares by cleaning them simmering them in baking soda water, because if they shine in sun light, they will also shine in moon light. I showed him the tracks around the kills coming down the trails and told him they were bobcat tracks not coyote tracks, and that the spacing of the canine teeth were too close to be coyote teeth and that the yearlings were too big to be killed by a red fox, which have close to the same spacing on their canines. Because he had predetermined that it had to be a coyote and then had become frustrated at not getting a coyote and wasn't trying to get a bobcat, he hadn't taken a step back and really figured out what his problem was, and how best to deal with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 3058366, member: 91783"] When you are younger it's hard to say to yourself stop, take a step back and think it over when you are having a hard time with anything. But with a predator problem so many times that is the best way to find the solution. There have been so many times that you get a call go out and get the offender or offenders quickly after the other guy has been trying hard and is at their wits end. Most of the time it's just because they got frustrated and weren't thinking clearly about it. I am as guilty as anyone else of not stepping back and relaxing enough to allow my thought process to actually process what is going on but as I aged it became easier to do just that. The pressure is on I have to get this done type of thoughts keep rolling around your mind, but you are defeating yourself with that type of thoughts. I have never slept a lot, but I can't count the number of times that I have left a coyote problem disgusted and feeling defeated by them, just to wake up with the answer popping into my head, or the answer to any number of other problems because I relaxed enough to let the answer come out of my mind's eye. I made a good living solving other people's problems for them because most of the time they would get frustrated and let themselves become overwhelmed. Not only doing predator control but in other areas of life. I had a younger guy call me and ask me if I would come out and help him with a yearling lamb killing coyote. He had been trying for a couple of weeks, he had M-44's set snares set a few leg hold traps set but the killing kept happening. Only small portions of them would be eaten then a new kill would be made, first clue. I met him and we went out to look at the kills, on the freshest one I skinned the neck back the canine teeth were only about an inch apart, second clue, coyote canines are farther apart than that. He showed me his M-44's and they were driven straight down in the ground and close to the ground. I removed one of his and relocated it to the up-wind side of a trail. Selected a small backing bush, set it at an angle, so that it compensated for the animal's mouth and neck as it reached down to bite it. Now it was set so the animal couldn't roll on it and it would deliver it full amount in the animal's mouth not to the side or into the air. I made sure that it wasn't driven too far down so the animal's nose wasn't rubbing in the dirt as it reached down to bite and pull upward either. next we looked at his snare sets, and I showed him some of the things that I did a little differently and explained that I liked to dull my snares by cleaning them simmering them in baking soda water, because if they shine in sun light, they will also shine in moon light. I showed him the tracks around the kills coming down the trails and told him they were bobcat tracks not coyote tracks, and that the spacing of the canine teeth were too close to be coyote teeth and that the yearlings were too big to be killed by a red fox, which have close to the same spacing on their canines. Because he had predetermined that it had to be a coyote and then had become frustrated at not getting a coyote and wasn't trying to get a bobcat, he hadn't taken a step back and really figured out what his problem was, and how best to deal with it. [/QUOTE]
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