... and @ 20 spincast feeders going ...

When I first started using them I didn't stake them down good enough. Had 1 disappear and then 5 days later it came back to me on the hand of a coon that was now stuck with his other hand in a new set. Hunger wins over caution when it comes to coons!

Great work! Those traps do work very well. I am betting with that many feeders you will be at 80-100 coons by the end of 30 days with 16 traps set. I trapped one June in the Hill Country on 4 protein and 4 spin feeders with 5 live catch traps and caught 88 coons in the 30 days. There are more of coons on a place than what you realize till you start trapping them. I need to rebait mine since I saw new 2 sets of tracks in the silt on a road after this last rain. I had one coon on TC at a water trough before the rains that I could not catch so I know I have 3 now...at least.

We're restricted to the weekends we can get down, hence buying more traps so we can get max results when we can go.

I just finished rigging out the 2nd set of 6. Ordered some 3/32 7 strand wire on Amazon and ferrules. Created an adjustable loop on the tie down end so you can wrap it around t-post, tree, feeder leg, etc.

Run the cable around whatever you want to attach it to, feed the trap back through the loop and cinch it down.

Whatever you attach to, make sure they can’t get the anchor line caught up, otherwise they will tear their leg/foot off or chew it off. Learned this after a while of finding feet in the traps. The trap needs to be able to spin once they get caught without binding up. Hope this makes sense.

We'll take them when you are done. If anyone is selling any between Allen and Dallas probably interested in next few weeks. We plan to buy some anyway if not.

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I started using Z-Traps at the suggestion of a forum member several years ago and have eliminated my raccoon problem. I keep cameras on my protein and corn feeders, and if a coon shows up the traps come out, and they are gone.

I'm a nerd and keep all kinds of records for my 1D1 exemption. A little bit of math and I figure for every coon I see on camera at a protein feeder, that coon is costing me a dollar every night it is out there.

I'm also part of a native habitat restoration effort and got tired of the other landowners complaining about coons, but no one followed up on my suggestions. So, in a demonstration at a single feeder, I trapped nine coons in two nights. I do believe a cheap game camera is part of the effort because the work can be overwhelming on places with a lot of feeders. You got to know where to channel your efforts and when. I have maybe a coon show up once a month now at each of the various feeders, but my cameras live out there. Some feeders, depending on the habitat, haven't seen a coon in over a year, but the camera stays on the feeder. I pull the pictures once a week and set the traps when needed.

The coons also tend to show up around your camp area looking for scraps, so save at least one trap for around your camp area. We have 3 and overnight have filled the limits more than once.

Google earth anchors they are very handy and allow you to set a trap pretty much anywhere you would want. They also keep the coon from wrapping the cable around anything that could bind the trap and allow the coon to twist and rip its are off.