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Post by billallenisu on Dec 13, 2013 17:44:14 GMT -6
One of my consistent fox locations each year is at a culvert under a field entrance. Its at the half mile point to a section with a big wide field entrance that goes into both fields. The fields are separated by a fence which helps. Its probably 3 times as wide as a normal field entrance. I set it when I moved up here for coon because there was an abandoned corn crib on the other side of the road. Set was just a 1.5 covered with a little grass to blend. I still haven't caught a coon there but haven taken 6 fox there. It still doesn't make sense to me that it worked with an uncovered trap, but that just shows how much I have left to learn.
Bill
Lyon County, Iowa
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Post by TexA on Dec 13, 2013 18:46:10 GMT -6
Slug-Deer Season always seems to bring out the WORSE in some seemingly "NORMAL" people !
I guess that is THE #1 reason I never really got "into" that kind of "DEER HUNTING" !!!!!!!!!!!
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It would take a little more work at each set,
but you could use a SLIDER ROD into the culvert, (instead of into the water, like on a Beaver Set.)
and make your set on the outside edge of the wheel track going into the field
so if/when the critter you're after gets caught in the trap,
the trap will slide over the grade, down to the culvert
and the trap will slide down into the cover - OUT OF SIGHT
and be waiting there for you and no one else would know.
I'v done it and IT DOES WORK !!!!!!!
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Post by grinnergetter on Dec 13, 2013 23:26:46 GMT -6
Cyclones!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great game thought th clones were going to give it away on free throws
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Post by paulb on Dec 14, 2013 7:04:16 GMT -6
Yes it was a good game,,,,had to listen to it on radio,,,could not get espeu,,,,,
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Post by billallenisu on Dec 14, 2013 9:20:31 GMT -6
Cyclones!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great game thought th clones were going to give it away on free throws X2. Ironic ending. Isu can't hit free throws all night and they win it on three big misses by Iowa. Thought isu kind of stole that one. Bill Lyon County, Iowa |
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Post by 4fur on Dec 15, 2013 20:43:41 GMT -6
Two examples of the best and the worst of ROW K-9ing. Caught a dog yesterday morning at a field entrance in the ROW. Little Walker with no collar that I suspect belonged to trespassers hunting a nearby bottom timber with spot lights. Happy ending as temps were moderate that night, the MB550 OS caused zero paw damage and she didn't bight me as I released her well before sunrise. Then this coyote provided a lot of entertainment this morning...  He was a growler-barker-howler and really put on a show. It's just a mile south of my house as the crow flies, so I picked up the girls for a quick ride along. The little one dispatched her first coyote. Lucky we had plenty of shells!  This is another angle of the location...  The dead end road leads to a pasture and a big timber. The girls have a bobcat cage trap set in the overgrown windbreak of the abandoned farmstead in the background. The tile 50 yards away went dry this year so I hope they catch a cat before a coon. |
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Post by billallenisu on Dec 16, 2013 5:52:53 GMT -6
For your coyote set, was your backing the transition from the short grass to the long grass? Thanks for sharing the pics.
Bill
Lyon County, Iowa
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Post by 4fur on Dec 16, 2013 20:20:12 GMT -6
Actually I made the set in the tall grass, close to the post so it wouldn't get run over. Used a tile spade to shave the brome off the set pattern. I used the trap bed piece of sod as a backing and often import another big clod, corn stalk rootball or piece of sod to use as a backing. I'm using untreated traps so I need to kind of show them where to put their foot. I'm also using untreated dry dirt and need to know exactly where my trap is so I can sweep snow off it when temps rise enough to melt the snow. A big backing helps for this, too.
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