Small Game, Predator and TrappingFrom shooting squirrels in your backyard to calling coyotes in Arizona. This forum now contains trapping information..
Checked traps this morning and got to the first set to see that it had been stolen. I could see that there had been a catch there, but it was a conibear and animals don't simply run away with them and the entire trap and stand was gone. caught a coon in another set farther down the field and then came to another set to find blood on the trail, but the conibear and stand were gone again!!!! lost 2 traps to trap thieves and i was on the edge of a corn field 50 yards from the road!!!!!!!! god i hate trap thiefs!!! just had to vent guys...
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I hate thieves! (Are you staking or wiring the traps down realy solid or not) Most guys use drags just for foot holds. A coon sometimes has some fight left after getting hit with a body grip. Let him die in the woods where nobody will see them.
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If I was in an area where theft was a concern, i would make a point of gettng there at first light to check the traps. But, if it was a coonhunter that took the trap and coon at 1AM, there is not much you can do about it.
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Body grips dont usually cause bleeding. Mabe a predator. Mabe a thief. Time for a trail cam?
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no, they don't bleed very often in a conibear, but i have had a couple bleed out of the noze before, or maybe the coon somehow only got partly in the trap and was still alive. they could have killed it
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traps stolen!!!!!
