podunk kennels

What do yall mean by antler trap?

Rhody Hunter

I have heard of an old box spring and you throw corn in it and hope that the antlers get knocked off on it. any king o obstructions will do with some bait.
the other kind of traps i have heard of them getting caught in hog traps, tehy can be caught with snares on a trail , extreme survivial tatics with a loaded branch with a spike on it . I saw it some where in a survival manual. I also have heard of a 5 gal bucket buried in the ground with an x cut in the bottom yhat is facing up and tied off. the deer step thru the x and he can't pull his foot out . kind of a foot hold trap.
all of this is probably illegal . I have also heard of fish hooking them with a cable and a hook placed in an apple high enough to make them reach up for it . I 'm not sure of the last as being true or myth ?

halfbakedi420

make a rectangle box...bout 2X2X6 feet long ....put post coming up from the middle of the sides and put a small rope from post to post...when the deer eat and lift their head, the rope hits the back of the antler and hopefully knocks it off.

sns21

You can use a cattle panel as well for this. Put a post in the ground and bend the panel around the post in a V shape and put corn close to the post. Antlers will get knocked off as they try to feed. With big panel you can sometimes make two V's with a couple posts. There are some other ideas out there too, but a lot more complex.

uncle matt

And if a deer gets its antlers into this baited "trap" and the antlers aren't ready to come off?

Or a deer get ino some old box spring with it's leg(s)?

fastetti

You beat me to it Uncle Matt! I can't see how people use rope, chicken wire and things like that. Ive seen deer drop there antlers as early as late december and as late as April. I can't imagine what would happen if a deer who wasn't ready to drop until April got his antler caught in a trap like that in February.

I personally wouldn't make one but have seen some good ideas. Im not against them but wouldn't want to risk injuring a deer that could be a trophy two years down the road to get an anter or two.

The one that I have seen that people have been using that I think is pretty good is using bungee cords attached above some feed such as corn. When they go for the corn and bring there head up if the anters are at all "Loose" the bungees will give them a decent jar. If for some reason the antlers get caught, the elasticity in the bungee will give the deer some "Give" to pull away or even break. This takes nothing more than a few cheap non-heavy duty rubber bungee cords and a couple small trees next to each other and some corn. Good luck!

Misouthernguy

take cattle fence make a 4ft circle and stake it down throw corn or whatever you want in it and you will find them on the ground....

gyro288

If you are going to try it.Here are a couple of tested SAFE traps.
I really hope your not dumb enough to try bungee cords or a matress.

TownMaN

it is possible to make a deer trap need a DNR permit to trap um though this is one we have used
They arent very good pictures of the trap but it is basically a big plywood box with sliding doors on both ends.
One end has snow fence blocking the hole.
Traps are baited with corn and there is a trip wire inside the trap that causes the doors to close

jaywalker

I thoght the same thing Matt.