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Post by paskinner on Oct 30, 2010 19:17:06 GMT -5
Our trapping season has been in for a week now. So far, I've just been playing around, waiting for the fur to prime up more, and trying to catch some nuisence fox, but only got coon and possums. The big boars are looking good, little coon are bluer than blue, but that's normal for PA in October. I'm going to be laying some serious steel this coming week. Here is Logan with his first coon of the year. Don't he look smug?
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Oct 30, 2010 20:23:31 GMT -5
Kids are still purdy. Nice coon .I saw one come out last evening when I was deer hunting I first thought was a pig .Know where me and Billy are going to be in a couple monthes
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Post by ThunderMoon on Nov 5, 2010 16:44:45 GMT -5
Looks like Californias new flag..
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Post by paskinner on Nov 5, 2010 21:12:32 GMT -5
Looks like Californias new flag.. HuH? Sorry, lost me on that one.
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Post by paskinner on Nov 8, 2010 13:23:04 GMT -5
The coon carcasses are starting to pile up. Got this birthday fox yesterday....
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Nov 8, 2010 22:52:09 GMT -5
Hey whats the white stuff? Yall giveing me the fever bad we have a couple weeks till opening ,still mad at the deer though got to work on them some more .
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Post by ThunderMoon on Nov 12, 2010 0:02:48 GMT -5
We have a grizzly bear on the Ca. flag,but after the elections seemd like the bandits will rule on,so i am going to make one with a racoon on it. By the way,how much for a fox hide? ? Nice catch.
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Nov 12, 2010 11:34:36 GMT -5
Back in the 70s after we left Nam the Special Forces made a raid to one of the POW camps our Intelagence community told us held some of our boys so we went and raided the camp and naturally none was there so we got a patch made with a black background and a mushroom on it with the initials standing for kept in the dark and fed horse shit but they made us quite wearing it .Maybe you ought to make a flag like that
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Post by paskinner on Nov 12, 2010 12:21:43 GMT -5
I'll sell you a tanned fox hide for $40. I have three reds and one gray. Here is one we got yesterday. Big gray. I think I'll probably tan him. The snow didn't last long. It's like summer here today, but that won't last either!
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Post by paskinner on Nov 19, 2010 22:29:44 GMT -5
I'm supposed to be fox trapping...what is this odd creature.
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Nov 19, 2010 23:18:16 GMT -5
Sure has a dark face .ours have a face that looks more likea grey fox .Our season starts tomorrow but we are holding out on all but coons and beaver for a while
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Post by paweaver on Nov 20, 2010 15:40:17 GMT -5
Yeah, seems like eastern yotes vary a lot in coloration. We get the more typical colors too, and I see pictures of people with red and black ones. The oddballs are the money makers-I'll have to tan this one to make him worth the time. I'd rather skin a deer, than one of these killers. If I get another one, I'm going to try pulling it off with the truck, he just didn't want to peel at all!
Funny, I had a male red fox in the same set today. If you were a fox, would you go into a circle reeking of coyote? Kinda shoots down the old theory that you shouldn't use coyote urine on fox sets. Today was the first day of our water season, got some muskrat and mink sets out.
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Nov 20, 2010 16:27:29 GMT -5
Yup we get some blacks but I never caught one .They aint no fun skinning em .Cant never tell what a critter is going to do Ive had them stick their noses up at a cracker jack set but come to one that had possums in them before or one that was just thrown at the ground ,who knows .
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Post by paweaver on Nov 20, 2010 18:44:29 GMT -5
Cody, Ain't that the truth. This set caught a woodchuck a few days before, and I didn't bother going back to the truck for my stuff. I had my little container of dry dirt and since it was pretty much a mudhole, I just took a stick, wallowed out a hole, bedded my trap in the mud and poured dirt over it. I thought, "I'll re lure it tomorrow." But of course, forgot all about it the next day, and that's the one caught the yote, crudest looking set you ever saw, with no lure in the hole.
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Nov 20, 2010 23:19:59 GMT -5
My favorite thing to say about deer hunting holds true for trapping (stranger things have happened) meaning you can try your best to get busted and then seems you can wave your hands at one and they just stare or ignore you all together . I used to spend alot of time makeing fox and mink sets ,well I still like to bed my fox sets pretty solid but mink sets well when I still had mink (use the same set for coons mostly pocket sets) I put the trap under water and dont even cover it anymore and catch alot more because I get more traps set . a couple weeks ago I was set up on a deer trail ,it was down in a creek bottom and I was in a climber on side of a big hill and had a trail right under my tree but really thought the other trail was going to be the hot one and a big buck came down the trail beside me and I heared it but thought it was a bied and turned my head a little and got busted ,then the other night I was going over to Billy's house and a 8 point was standing by the road looking across the road and I pulled up and stopped besidehim and didnt even pay me any attention go figure
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