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What's the best live trap you have used
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07/09/20 01:21 AM
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David7912
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Had 5 coons on the back porch last night,that's about 4 to many ! What's the best trap y'all have used ? I can't shoot them cause I live inside the city limits but the last one I caught which was huge tore out thru my tractor supply trap.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/09/20 02:12 AM
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scalebuster
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Get a dog proof trap and a baseball bat. No shooting involved.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/10/20 12:31 AM
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Sterling Grizz DP Trap is the original Lil Grizz and is the best.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/10/20 08:15 AM
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Old Stony
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Dukes dog free have been the best coon traps I've found....and I've used them a lot !
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/10/20 11:22 AM
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mikei
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Another vote for the DP traps and the ball bat. Silent and deadly.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/10/20 12:37 PM
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SnakeWrangler
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Dukes dog free have been the best coon traps I've found....and I've used them a lot ! Another vote for the DP traps and the ball bat. Silent and deadly.
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/10/20 02:20 PM
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Dennis in Ft Worth
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Dukes are good. My primary target has been the squirrels that decimate my pecans, so been running three live traps continuously. Here's one day/overnight catch recently. You'd think I lived in the country, not in town Ft Worth--
Me and ol' RUGER, 74 years and still shooting.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/12/20 11:55 AM
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David7912
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Thanks for the advise I beefed up my traps by adding some stiff reinforcement wire around the sides caught 3 this morning.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/12/20 10:53 PM
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The DP’s are hard to beat
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/13/20 12:50 AM
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Dukes are good. My primary target has been the squirrels that decimate my pecans, so been running three live traps continuously. Here's one day/overnight catch recently. You'd think I lived in the country, not in town Ft Worth-- Yep, we have 2 live traps in the back yard (burbs) and are constantly catching possums, rats, and cats. No squirrel yet but my wife would be overjoyed if we caught one...or a dozen! Damn things play heck with her garden.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/17/20 06:56 PM
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If u r going to use dog proof traps. Then go with z traps. I run up to 8 dz dog proof traps in trapping season duke , little grizz, diablo . I run mostly dukes. But have a dz or so of grizz and z traps too. The z trap has push triggers. I will be changing some more over to push to also. I have looked and looked the live traps over. 98% of the live traps r frameless. Freedom brand makes a frame trap. On them if wire gets bad replace it. I got sick of looking them over. So I bought a good wire welder started making my own. For coons I make 12x12x36. For Bobcats 18x10x36 or 20x10x36. I have at the most in each trap less than 40.00 each. Try to buy a bobcat live trap for 40.00. Hope by time season gets here to have 12 bobcat live traps made too use. Just making mine in my spare time. I use 1/4 smooth rod to make the frame and trigger. Make your own u can build like u want and its fun.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/24/20 04:49 PM
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post more pics of what you catch - I miss trapping
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/24/20 05:22 PM
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I accidentally caught an alligator in a castnet once.
Sometimes it's hard being me! But somebody has to do it.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/26/20 07:30 AM
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I have a bunch of trapping pictures. Just dont know how to post them. Coons, bobcat, coyotes, fox, beaver, otters, muskrats, oppsums, skunks.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/26/20 01:41 PM
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Dennis in Ft Worth
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Not my best pic, but you can tell what this is...
Me and ol' RUGER, 74 years and still shooting.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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07/26/20 07:11 PM
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David7912
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I'm still working on them
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
[Re: mikei]
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07/26/20 10:27 PM
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Another vote for the DP traps and the ball bat. Silent and deadly.
Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
[Re: David7912]
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08/02/20 07:23 AM
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I am welding up a 20x12x 36 for Bobcats. Try my hand at live trapping a bobcat.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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08/02/20 05:43 PM
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Use peanut butter for bait. I had one coon pull a 9MM on me and tell me "Put the peanut butter down and step back."
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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08/02/20 06:37 PM
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Use peanut butter for bait. I had one coon pull a 9MM on me and tell me "Put the peanut butter down and step back." My hunting buddy and I have always said "When the hogs acquire firearms and start shooting back, we're gonna find something else to do!"
I have two unwritten rules: 1. 2.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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08/02/20 07:35 PM
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I am welding up a 20x12x 36 for Bobcats. Try my hand at live trapping a bobcat. I'm not gonna say a word other than please video......
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
[Re: David7912]
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08/05/20 11:50 PM
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David7912
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Caught 2 using canned peaches this past weekend
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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08/22/20 02:09 AM
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David7912
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Who me?
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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08/22/20 08:48 AM
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I've tried a lot of different baits for coons, but have found the easiest and best bait I have found is plain old cheap fish flavored dry cat food. I have had marshmallows melted down inside the Duke's traps and things like that, but the dry cat food is not a problem.
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Re: What's the best live trap you have used
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08/23/20 01:22 AM
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Another vote for the DPs. Turn the captive into a non living entity, wrap it up tight in a black plastic trash bag and chuck it in a dumpster somewhere.
I know nothing!
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