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Post by bigjohn on Jan 25, 2024 11:56:26 GMT -6
Best thing to happen after the ground thaws is get a pounding rain. Tightens up the ground.
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Post by krank on Jan 26, 2024 7:30:11 GMT -6
I dunno but it gets rid of that dirty snow and dillutes the salt.
I found a good trapping spot. Owned by corporate farmers who would allow me to trap. They bulldozed 300 acres of timber a few years ago. We predator called the huge brush piles. Now the tiny creek up the middle is grown up in willow. During deer season I found mink sign there. Thinking about getting up and hour early and checking sets and maybe make $9.
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Post by bigjohn on Jan 26, 2024 10:18:29 GMT -6
Picked up an otter today in my only set I've got out. 9 day schedule and she was right on time. Was surprised it was a female as only one scent marker was left the last time she was through. She had 4 embryos the size of peanuts.
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Post by trapdog on Jan 26, 2024 17:58:39 GMT -6
Best thing to happen after the ground thaws is get a pounding rain. Tightens up the ground. Rain settles the mud, my grandma used to say. |
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Post by bigjohn on Jan 26, 2024 21:32:32 GMT -6
Best thing to happen after the ground thaws is get a pounding rain. Tightens up the ground. Rain settles the mud, my grandma used to say.[/quote Learned it on construction jobs. Always hated walking in slop. Hard rain and a day later it was a world of difference. |
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Post by krank on Jan 29, 2024 7:18:25 GMT -6
Weather is not showing any precipitation in the near future. I would like to see the slop go away. I have been refraining from driving on the dirt but things are stacking up.
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Post by Walleye Joe on Jan 29, 2024 9:56:27 GMT -6
Sunny, warm and dry predicted for my area the next 10 days.
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Post by bigjohn on Jan 29, 2024 13:22:48 GMT -6
Sun finally out and is warming right up. Loaded up some traps and headed out to set for beaver and otter. Water was still too high in most places so I only got a couple of sets in.
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Post by bigjohn on Jan 31, 2024 15:32:17 GMT -6
Picked up one beaver yesterday and after skinning I took the carcass to an area I've caught cats before. Checked on it today and the coons had completely stripped the carcass clean. Area around it was tracked up with fresh coon tracks, the very reason I don't have any active cat sets out.
Also driving down there, I spied an armadillo digging along the road. I tried to wack it with my tator rack but wasn't fast enough. We sure don't need them dang things.
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Post by walkadog on Jan 31, 2024 19:57:01 GMT -6
I'm going out Friday to set some otter traps out ,can't find anymore beavers to target.
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Post by krank on Feb 1, 2024 7:19:06 GMT -6
All the meat eaters love beaver. A possum will lay there forever and nothing but birds eat a coyote
I was squirrel hunting last week and for some reason, there was 5 armadillos out there. I had a muzzle loader so I drilled the first one and reloaded and got a second one before they were gone. No squirrels but I had a gun to clean when I got home.
Armored possums look slow but they have a high speed option. I have seen them hop like a kangaroo and screech loudly.
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Post by bigjohn on Feb 1, 2024 12:39:05 GMT -6
They claim the road killed armadillos aren't actually run over by a tire. As a vechicle passes over them they jump up from fright and hitting the undercarrage is what kills them.
krank, I've had coyotes eat coyote carcasses when the temps get like a couple of weeks ago for extended periods of time. Now otter will only be eaten by crows and birds of prey, especially eagles. I don't know if those birds can actually taste anything or not.
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Post by bigbob on Feb 1, 2024 16:23:41 GMT -6
Best thing to happen after the ground thaws is get a pounding rain. Tightens up the ground. Rain settles the mud, my grandma used to say. Or, more like, washes it away! |
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Post by krank on Feb 2, 2024 7:20:05 GMT -6
Sarge had a story of an armadillo breaking his gastank on the van while transporting prisoners.
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Post by bigbob on Feb 2, 2024 11:46:33 GMT -6
That must have been a fun report to write! LOL
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Post by bigjohn on Feb 2, 2024 12:08:31 GMT -6
Put out the two beaver carcasses I skinned yesterday in a wood line along a corn field. This morning they were gone and the area was tore all to heck where the coyotes dragged and fed on the beaver. Only thing left was a beaver back foot.
The 2 beaver I caught today were deposited in the same place and I imagine they too will be gone tomorrow.
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Post by bigbob on Feb 2, 2024 15:06:38 GMT -6
Set up some game cam's and watch the fun!
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Post by segsarge on Feb 2, 2024 21:04:32 GMT -6
Wow, I had forgotten I posted that story. I was the one who had to write a report to the Warden. Luckly, the Warden wasn't an armadillo expert and bought off on what happened. I had no idea one could bust open a plastic gas tank.
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Goodbye 2020
Dec 31, 2020 5:08:59 GMT -6
Goodbye 2020
Dec 31, 2020 5:08:59 GMT -6
