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Old 03-07-2015, 11:39 AM
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Nomercy448
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Originally Posted by turke7
Hey guys, Ive been trying to hunt urban coyotes but they keep putting the slip on me and have been coming in very late at night. This is in an urban setting and we have a bad coyote problem but conventional hunting hasn't been working out so far. I want to try trapping them; I have my trapping license etc but I've never really done any trapping. I obviously can't use any body traps or snares due to the presence of pets. Which leaves me with live traps or coil/spring traps. If I went with foothold traps I was thinking something like this: http://www.flemingtraps.com/duke-3-c...-leg-trap.html as its the rubber jaw so if a pet gets caught it does minimum damage. Any tips or suggestions would be great!

I just found these traps called Collarums which sound great but are a bit pricey, anyone know anything about these?
Live trapping coyotes in urban settings really is your only option. Footholds are just too high risk.

A Duke #3, even padded and offset will smash a 10lb lap dog's leg.

The collarums can still kill or severely injure a dog. It's a spring loaded snare with a fixed stop, if an animal is too small, it escapes, if the animal is too large, it dies. If a lap dog gets a front leg through the collarum snare and gets the snare around its body, even a smaller dog can be killed by suffocation.

Night hunting has been my most successful urban hunting as well. Never as productive as baited live trapping, but it's productive. I'm actually very sad that Benjamin discontinued the Rogue PCP .357", as I'd love to have one for that very purpose. Suppressed firearms work well enough also. Not all municipalities allow any type of rifle for urban hunting.
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