Awesome! What did you use for bait? We are getting ready to start setting traps pretty quick.
they are expensive, but thinking of getting one of the traps that have a cage in the back for a live bird to use as bait. We have plenty of pidgons at work I can trap.
they are expensive, but thinking of getting one of the traps that have a cage in the back for a live bird to use as bait. We have plenty of pidgons at work I can trap.
Duck carcass in this one. Had a good pheasant hunt last week and will be using those too. Have a friend who just ordered some traps from cagingbobcats.com. No cage in the back for live bait, but well built, stack inside each other to transport and cheap in comparison to most. The guy who builds them did alot of video research of the cats walking up to traps of various builds and ended up on a final design.
We do our best to brush the cages in, and have seen tracks in the snow around them. We trapped two last year, both on beaver meat, from some we had trapped.
Hope not to jinx myself but I've had my live traps out for 3 days and a friend has for over a week and no skunks as of yet. Maybe the extreme summer heat burned them black buggers up, or maybe they just didnt have enough pheasant eggs to eat.
I HATE getting skunks in the trap. I've been sprayed so many times. Even if you shoot them with a .223 from a hundred yards, and go the next day to get them out of a leg hold, the spray will still get on you.
Fortunatly, I keep a spray bottle of neutralizer with us.
Fortunatly, I keep a spray bottle of neutralizer with us.
Not to rob the the thread, but I guess a skunk is considered to be a predator.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCmFZFHYNVU
Sick but still amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCmFZFHYNVU
Sick but still amazing
If I'm ever that close to a skunks arse, I deserve to get shot! YUK!
