It's really been pretty rare for me to have something eaten in a trap. I like to check mine at first light when possible so most animals haven't been in the trap that long to start with. I had a possum eaten once that I remember when I had to leave some traps for a day because I just couldn't get to them safely because of a flash flood a few years ago. I came up on a coyote trying to get a coon that was caught once but he took off when he saw me. I actually saw the yote first and thought he was in the trap and figured he pulled out until I saw the coon caught in it.
Anyway, congrats on the catches guys, those are some nice ones. I hope to get some out in a week or so.

Those catches were in Perry County.

I had a buddy working near his hunting club on a 2week outage so I set the traps and he ran them. He had to be at work at 6 am so he couldn’t run them until after dark. Almost makes you wonder if you could put a possum in a cage and have live bait. He did say that it was obvious that he probably ran the coyotes off one of the kills. One problem I had was that he couldn’t reset so I had to make a couple of long rides just to set out. Don’t ask, I never figured out why either.

Another beaver this morning.

Set out some traps yesterday for the upcoming 3 days of dry.

5 more turkey egg eater!




God Bless,
David B.

You're working on the nest robbers David! Congrats!

Nice work boff

y'all are putting a hurting on them this year. Keep it up

3 more coons today.






God Bless,
David B.

Bringing the pain aren't you David?
Keep'em going we got a few more days of dry weather.
I'm moving everything to the farm today, lots of yote sign over there

Another 3 today.
I pulled all the traps as the rain is setting in tonight, and I just don't have the time to be checking them.



God Bless,
David B.

11 coons in 3 nights is pretty dang good David! I found a little coons sign in my chufas today so I guess it's time to set a few traps.

Way to go David! Back in the day I could sell coons for $25 each green. Too bad that was 1980....

Good job on the beaver too Hank

Yep,

I miss those prices. I actually made money then.

God Bless,
David B.

If you're a coon on property frequented by BOFF, you are in DIRE and IMMINENT danger!

Tanning time around here. I took 7 coons, an otter and a beaver out of the pickling solution this afternoon and put them into the tanning solution. Will get pics of the finished product in a couple days.

And here are the finished hides. Some will be for sale in the next few days.

Looks good Matt!

I'm getting a late start this spring. I put out 9 DP's yesterday though and snagged 2 coons last night on Corn Pops cereal. I trapped them for several weeks last spring and ended up taking 24 coons and possums off this one spot. I'll be curious to see if they've come back just as thick this year.

One more coon last night.......all small young coons so far.

One more single catch last night......4 coons in 3 nights. It's still early but last year I was averaging 2-3 coons per night in the beginning.