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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/14/17 07:44 AM
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Dang check out the tick on the neck of thay female yote. Its the size of a cherry.
I believe that this is a practical world and that I can count only on what I earn. Therefore I believe in work, hard work. -George Petrie (1945)
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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/14/17 08:47 AM
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That is so cool. Makes me want to buy a heap ton of traps and catch something. Thanks fellas! 
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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/14/17 08:48 AM
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Congrats CNC! It always seems like after that first coyote it gets easier.
I know you're keeping up with everything going on with your sets, baits and lures but here's one to keep tabs on.
Watch your set locations. I've trapped several properties for years and some locations are just magnets for predators. Some will be a natural funnel or on a food source so they'll make perfect sense but others will be oddball places that for no apparent ryme or reason draw them in.
I've found a couple of spots like this by setting on coyote sign.
Another thing to watch is your remake sets after catches. I used to try to hide sets and cover up signs of a catch but have better success just cleaning up the catch circle somewhat and resetting in the same spot.
A remake has all the scents and sign of a struggle and that is a natural draw to predators. Thanks!.......I’ll keep that in mind about the odd places. These catches came in places that were no brainers. As I was driving up to the first one this morning I remember thinking to myself that if any set was gonna produce it was gonna be that one. I just moved over and did my resets right beside the first one. It just seemed like the yotes had turned up the circles they were in so bad that it messed up any funneling advantage using structure and vegetation.
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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/14/17 08:49 AM
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Dang check out the tick on the neck of thay female yote. Its the size of a cherry. Yeah, I noticed that thing as soon as I walked up to her. Freakin nasty! 
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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/14/17 08:50 AM
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The geese were swimming around and honking like crazy when I pulled up this morning. When I drove across the lake I noticed that there weren’t any baby geese with them this time. I think something may have got the rest of ‘em. We would probably be best to go after the "bird" predators during Feb/Mar/Apr if protecting the young turkeys and such was our main focus. We’re probably about to the point this season where it’s too late. What’s done is done as far as they're concerned. Still got baby deer to drop later this summer though.  Will turkeys and geese, etc try to nest again this year in a situation like this or is that it??? 
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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/14/17 12:06 PM
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Congrats on more great catches. Keep on getting after them.
"Cull" is just another four letter word...
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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/15/17 02:08 AM
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Congrats on the catches. This is a great thread. Turkeys will re-nest this late, not sure about geese. Those small geese may have been eaten by loggerheads. Not much you can do about that. You sure are giving them a better chance by taking out yotes and whatever else you catch out there though. Thanks fellas! Johnal.....I've heard a couple gobblers still giving it hell while I've been there so hopefully I'm not too late to make a difference this year. Maybe they're still doing their thing.
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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/15/17 05:23 AM
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Day 7…….Total to date....12 coon, 1 possum. 3 yote Two more coons today. A lil’ young male on the left and a big female on the right.  Ants have been giving me fits in my DP’s over the last few days. I was gonna stop and get some ant spray this morning but found some 7 dust I already had in my gardening stuff. We’ll see if it has any negative impact. They didn’t care about fresh spray paint so maybe they won’t care about the 7 dust either. 
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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/16/17 08:42 AM
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Here’s another pic from this morning to give y’all an idea of the bigger picture set location for one of this morning's catches. The lake is generally shaped like a Christmas tree and probably 800-900 yards from one end to the other. This set is near the top end of the tree on the edge of a woods road that runs parallel to the water. You can see part of the lake in the background.  This is my remake from the other catch this morning but its how I had it set up when I caught the other yote....not the one above. I had originally made a compass set but just wasn’t happy with it so I used some logs to mimic a dirt hole set. I snapped this pic before finishing the remake so you could see my pan. I was afraid that a set like this was gonna be too “unnatural” but it seemed to work. 
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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/16/17 12:28 PM
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Congrats!
I've never had good luck building a set like you did with the sticks. Looks like what the Western trappers build for cats.
Just goes to show you that what works for some doesn't work for others.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/16/17 01:11 PM
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Im wanting to go buy some traps now. Damn yall.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/16/17 02:33 PM
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Im wanting to go buy some traps now. Damn yall. I've got a couple dozen already rigged out I'm going to sale if you're interested.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: The 500 Acre Project
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05/16/17 02:37 PM
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Congrats!
I've never had good luck building a set like you did with the sticks. Looks like what the Western trappers build for cats.
Just goes to show you that what works for some doesn't work for others.
Thanks!.....I’ve caught a couple of them by the whole foot but a couple have barely been caught by the toes. Is that just the luck of how they step on the pan or is there something I can do to get more whole foot catches? I’m lucky I didn’t miss that last one.
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