Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Trapping Gobbler down! Trapping paying off.

Only if the other hunters with you/around you
are on board. A good many I personally know
spend lots of money trying to coon proof their
feeders spending money on coon guards for
the legs and coon proof timer cages and pricey
coon proof spinner slinger plates and other
such stuff. I've told every one that for around
the price of one of those trick spinner plates,
if they went and bought 4 dog proof coon traps
and properly achored them and set them out,
they'd be proactively working on the problem,
and with minimal care the traps will last forever plus
3 and a half days and they'll have em until they're
too old to hunt.
I've trapped way more varmints than I ever
have put a bead on

Corn feeders are the worst thing to happen to turkey populations.

How so ?

I've hunted a couple of ranches several hundred
miles to the west of here that didn't have much of
anything for the game to eat. The one place was
2 sections IIRC, and there might have been two
dozen oak trees on all of it. The rest was spindly
mesquites and prickly pear and probably 3 blades
of grass per square foot. What little food there
was had cattle and deer and swine and game
birds competing for it. If not for the lease hunters
feeding corn and protein and the ranchers
feeding the cattle, it would have been a scorpion
and rattlesnake ranch. There were a gazillion
turkeys ( all Rio Grande) and I'm fairly certain
that they were pretty grateful for the corn that
got slung out of the feeders every day. I know
the deer were. Seemed like every cactus pad
you'd look at had several deer bites out of it