tmc
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Post by tmc on Nov 25, 2019 18:20:00 GMT -5
Great job, Mac! No tracks of any canines on any part of my line since last Tuesday... I would've said "meat-eaters," but there are poachers afield after all. Good luck, nyrat. Here's hoping for a good harvest.
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Post by tony1967 on Nov 25, 2019 18:22:16 GMT -5
I got 16 rat sets out after work today. A couple of my go-to farm ponds had no rat sign at all this year, so kind of disappointing. Figure I will trap some ponds for a couple days then hit the swamp I have permission on for some beaver and hopefully a few more rats. Hoping to get a couple fox / coyote sets out after this weekend of deer hunters everywhere.
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Post by nyrat on Nov 26, 2019 13:21:30 GMT -5
19 rats 1 coon and one mink today
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Post by trappermac on Nov 26, 2019 15:04:52 GMT -5
Nice going Nyrat. Water sets here took one coon today. Rats are scarce around me. I walked a lake near me today, its on state land. Used to always see rat activity and bank dens while canoeing on it, especially at the marshy end. I walked quite a bit of it, saw two feedbeds, so nothing worth setting. Swamp by my house would have 20 or better huts in it 10 years ago, haven't seen a hut now in four years and the water levels are fine. Really sad whats happened to rats here in western NY. I can't find them anywhere I look, all places that were always good for some rats in the past.
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Post by nyrat on Nov 26, 2019 17:56:50 GMT -5
our rats are coming back slowly lots of mink around and hawks. been 5or 6 years with low population always ave 100 to 150 within 5 miles of the house shooting for 75 and done here .went north this year for 2 checks and had 98 rats old mink ranch up by mexico and road side ditches
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tmc
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Post by tmc on Nov 26, 2019 18:00:08 GMT -5
Big time congrats, guys!
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Post by tony1967 on Nov 27, 2019 6:54:00 GMT -5
Picked up 4 rats from my few sets yesterday and dropped in a couple canine sets where I found some sign.
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Post by trappermac on Nov 27, 2019 11:32:12 GMT -5
A nice red and a mink today. Looks like a weather change coming.
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Post by tmc on Nov 27, 2019 14:15:02 GMT -5
I think I'm experiencing not so much a "slow drip" as it is a "slow-motion drip." Today, nice female grey fox today at a post set. Yes, I'm hoping the weather change will have favorable catch results. I think I may just go pour a nice glass of hope lol! But maybe that won't produce very favorable results...
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Post by nyrat on Nov 27, 2019 19:36:47 GMT -5
11 rats and 1 coon today pulled some today will get in some new sets tomarrow and a bonus knife in my wife new 2019 suv tire less than 2000 miles on it
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Post by nyrat on Nov 28, 2019 13:02:13 GMT -5
13 more rats and 1 mink a bonus visit from walleyed this morning very nice to see him and happy thanksgiving to all
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Post by trappermac on Nov 28, 2019 20:34:32 GMT -5
Quiet morning for me, I hope you let Bob skin those rats for you..I know he's got an injury preventing him from trapping...skinning your rats might scratch the itch...
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Post by trappermac on Nov 29, 2019 17:21:06 GMT -5
Two reds this AM, last three fox have been large adult, cherry reds, and a lot of tick bites. I've noticed this years young fox have been free of ticks mainly, but the large ones are as bad as the coyotes I've gotten. This one is from Wed.....
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Post by nyrat on Nov 29, 2019 21:09:49 GMT -5
8 more rats pulling ever thing tomarrow found three new holes one nite then down for awhile 7 check days this year 2 up north 5 down south 153 rats 3 mink and 2 coon
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Post by walleyed on Dec 1, 2019 14:52:48 GMT -5
Quiet morning for me, I hope you let Bob skin those rats for you..I know he's got an injury preventing him from trapping...skinning your rats might scratch the itch... I was on my way to the Thanksgiving feast at my sister's and didn't want to smell like large water voles so I passed. I have been skinning Grey Fox to scratch my Itch. I hope to make up for my lack of muskrat during the Spring Float season. NYRat Mark is tearing them up. w
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tmc
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Post by tmc on Dec 2, 2019 21:16:20 GMT -5
Well, it's not that I'm happy someone suffered damage to their vehicle, but this morning around 7:00 there was a group of 8 does and fawns crossing the road into the orchard, right at the end of my driveway. One didn't make it across; maybe it should've asked a chicken how to do it right? Anyways, big button buck, too crushed up to be fit for human consumption. So I dragged it down into the orchard to a place about 200 yards straight out behind the house. Once this storm exits the area and I have time, I'll be making as many sets as I can after the coyotes and fox establish trails to and from the carcass. I won't be setting anywhere close to the deer to keep it legal/ethical. So, we'll see what I can get done with this "gift."
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Post by trappermac on Dec 3, 2019 5:51:28 GMT -5
Quiet here right now, pulled everything Saturday as we had to travel on Sunday and Mon. Won't get anything back in until the weekend here, or maybe Friday. If weather cooperates I'd like to do some marsh trapping.
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Post by nyrat on Dec 3, 2019 18:45:08 GMT -5
back into the 40s next week will be setting the road side ditches for rats and maybe a few coon sets
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austin
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Post by austin on Dec 4, 2019 5:31:37 GMT -5
back into the 40s next week will be setting the road side ditches for rats and maybe a few coon sets Mt Morris NY forecast...
Sat high 31F / low 20F Sun high 44F / low 40F Mon high 47F / low 43F Tue high 46F / low 25F Wed high 28F / low 18F
by the time Sunday morning's low ice melts off around Tuesday, Wednesday's cold snap will lock things back up. Welcome to another December freeze-thaw-freeze cycle
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Post by Zagman on Dec 4, 2019 8:20:20 GMT -5
Well, it's not that I'm happy someone suffered damage to their vehicle, but this morning around 7:00 there was a group of 8 does and fawns crossing the road into the orchard, right at the end of my driveway. One didn't make it across; maybe it should've asked a chicken how to do it right? Anyways, big button buck, too crushed up to be fit for human consumption. So I dragged it down into the orchard to a place about 200 yards straight out behind the house. Once this storm exits the area and I have time, I'll be making as many sets as I can after the coyotes and fox establish trails to and from the carcass. I won't be setting anywhere close to the deer to keep it legal/ethical. So, we'll see what I can get done with this "gift." Gotta watch out for those "big button bucks"! LOL Start paying attention to deer hunter talk: Me: "Hey Bubba, did you get a buck this year?" Bubba: "No, but I got a BIGGGG doe. Nice big doe....." Me: "Was it self-defense?" My other favorite is tracking a deer that was wounded. The hunter (bow or gun) is CONVINCED the deer is dead. Keeps telling you where he hit him, the deer's reaction, etc. Whether you leave it two hours or 24 hours, you get on the trail, the hunter just CONVINCED it is dead. After 1/2 mile of tracking, the hunter is NOW convinced the deer will be fine....just a flesh wound! Gotta love deer hunters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MZ
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austin
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Post by austin on Dec 4, 2019 8:46:38 GMT -5
lol... real deer hunters watch their targets tip over and kick out within visible sight
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Post by tmc on Dec 4, 2019 8:51:35 GMT -5
Well, it was a buck fawn, and it was as big as an average size doe, so - the "big button buck" moniker stays put.
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Zagman
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Post by Zagman on Dec 4, 2019 9:40:13 GMT -5
Big fawn is like saying "big midget" LOL
I get it.....not disparaging you, your statement just triggered in me the other stuff I hear deer hunters say.
Here's another:
Me: "Hey Bubba, let me see a pic of that buck you shot this year (replace the word buck with turkey, fish, coyote, whatever)
Bubba, scanning through his phone pics, finds it and says: "The pic doesn't do it justice. It looks smaller in the photo than it was....
Me: "That's odd, Bubba, because you look as BIG as ever in that pic!"
MZ
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Post by Zagman on Dec 4, 2019 9:47:31 GMT -5
lol... real deer hunters watch their targets tip over and kick out within visible sight Not with a bow, unless you spine them! I've shot four deer in the last three years with my 25-06. Combined, no BS, the four of them have run less than 100 yards.....NO BUll, like 20 yards each give or take. I double-lunged them all.....I am surgical with the gun. You wouldn't want me shooting at you with it..... Longest shot.....110 yards. Closest. 60 yards. Four deer. One doe...three bucks. One "Giant" buck. All dead in 25 yards or less with NO meat ruined. Bubba: "That gun is too lite for deer" Or even better, Bubba: "You are doing it wrong! Double-lunging is for bows and arrows. No exit hole for blood trailing! You need to shoot them in the shoulder and bust them all up with a bigger caliber gun!" Me: "Four bullets, four deer, and they run 25 yards each, no meat ruined, and I am doing it wrong?" "Um......OK?" Deer hunters.............. MZ
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Post by trappermac on Dec 4, 2019 9:57:27 GMT -5
1) "get anything?" 2) "could have, let a six and a smallish eight go by that I thought were small, holding out for something bigger"
Translation - I didn't see squat, but two bucks ran across the road in front of me on the way there.
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