traps stolen!!!!!
11-11-2007, 07:35 PM
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: galesville, wisconsin
Posts: 229
traps stolen!!!!!
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...
11-13-2007, 02:35 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: wisconsin
Posts: 1,061
RE: traps stolen!!!!!
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.
11-14-2007, 07:23 AM
#5
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 10,277
RE: traps stolen!!!!!
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.
11-14-2007, 12:16 PM
#7
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: galesville, wisconsin
Posts: 229
RE: traps stolen!!!!!
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
