Congratulations! If you hadn’t known, be very careful of the claws particularly the back claws when you’re getting close. They can rip you up but good. Also even tho you may have dispatched the cat, just scratching yourself with a claw while handling the animal can get septic in a hurry. Cats claws carry a lot of bad stuff. How is the belly? Snow white, wide, and sharp black spots are the goal but mostly found in western cats. Osky
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A woman's heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth and I can find no sign on it.
Been seeing quite a few cat tracks up around the new house but too busy building to deal with them this year.
Had 2 goals this year, catch a coyote and a bobcat. Both would be first for me. Pulled my last 2 traps tonight and calling it a season. Ended with 19 coyotes and the 1 bobcat.
Nest raiders I really didn’t keep track of but well over 20 each of coon and possum. 8 skunks and 4 armadillo.
Word got out that I was trapping and having some success and I have people calling and stopping me in town wanting me to trap their properties. I enjoy it and it’s hard work but worth the effort. It is hard to believe the amount of rabbits I’m seeing around the house and see 2 covey of quail fairly regular. All but one of the coyotes was caught within a mile of my house and still hear them nightly. 14 of the 19 were males. Two of the 14 went over 40 lbs which is quite large for our area. Most of the males hovered around the 30 lb mark.
Had a small possum during the wee hours in my possum/feral cat bucket. I tried to make myself wait to mess with it, but I finally got a headlamp and went out and took it off. Pretty smallish IMO, but when I was turning it over to get the tongs on a spring I noticed it had little varmints underneath it. They must breed younger than i was aware
Was talking to the conservation agent to tag my bobcat and he asked if I was still trapping. I told him I had pulled traps as it was so close to end of season. He said there is an extended portion that I can continue trapping on private ground till April. Going to boil some traps and reset this weekend a couple of select spots.
Was talking to the conservation agent to tag my bobcat and he asked if I was still trapping. I told him I had pulled traps as it was so close to end of season. He said there is an extended portion that I can continue trapping on private ground till April. Going to boil some traps and reset this weekend a couple of select spots.
Would love to catch #20
Can start on the coons in August as well.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
Old video but proves how many critters are in this world.
A guy I know claimed he has caught near 60 in 1 cage at a silo since last fall. Could be true but he also claims to have gutted a deer with a car key at one time.
Last edited by 10gaugemag; 02/21/24.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
Varmints are for sure detrimental to huntable tasty wildlife. I go after varmints as often as I can, although I wish I could do more. I've had a state wildlife biologist at a WMA tell me before that varmints were the biggest detriment to reestablishing the eastern turkeys in the areas I've hunted. ( I know that was very hard for him to come right out and say it- must have been a weak moment) There's just not many people trapping varmints like there was when fur trapping was lucrative. I know a lot of people that run deer feeders that get upset about legions of coons gobbling up their corn, but just a small percentage will actively try to trap. They'll spend a lot of money on cages and special slingers and rig up contraptions on the legs of their blinds and feeders, but won't make a one time purchase of a few traps that will be useful for many years, and proactively work on eliminating the problem
Got one put away this morning. One less problem to deal with later on down the line
I've lost track of the # of Coyotes I have trapped and called in and killed this winter some where over 200 Coyotes and and at least that # of Coons butt I have only gotten 8 Skunks And 7 Badgers I always keep track of the Badger & Skunk #'s , I hang snares all summer for pigs, trapping is almost year around here, this place is a big picnic basket for predators. Rio7
Word got out that I was trapping and having some success and I have people calling and stopping me in town wanting me to trap their properties. I enjoy it and it’s hard work but worth the effort. It is hard to believe the amount of rabbits I’m seeing around the house and see 2 covey of quail fairly regular. All but one of the coyotes was caught within a mile of my house and still hear them nightly. 14 of the 19 were males. Two of the 14 went over 40 lbs which is quite large for our area. Most of the males hovered around the 30 lb mark.
Large ranch in the west the guy has taken around 45 coyotes this year, most snaring. Listening at night or looking at tracks in fresh snow you’d never known any were taken. 40 plus pound coyotes are big for anywhere. After 50 plus years of knocking them down between the Mississippi and the Rockies I don’t believe the average was quite 30 lbs. you are doing very well.
Osky
A woman's heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth and I can find no sign on it.