Raccoon, possum, and woodchuck in a Duke, Conibear style, 110!

Dultimatpredator

Dultimatpredator

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Yep!…


Well, I guess it’s possible! I have a few nuisance animals on my property I’m trying to get rid of. In my state we have to build a box to use grip traps on the ground and set them back at least 7 inches. I wasn’t targeting a raccoon, but I guess they work on them…eventually. I’ve had a skunk and a possum living in my shed I’ve been trying to get rid of and ended up with a raccoon today. It explains why the 110 that I had set open a larger pail snapped off twice and I never caught anything. This guy’s hands looked like they got slapped from my previous misses. the big pail set gave it more room to move, so it probably stuck its hands through instead of trying to walk through it. I will have to make some more smaller boxes like the one I caught it in today. I was expecting to see a small possum or a skunk this morning and then instead I got this guy. I did bend the triggers back at a 45° so that way it would have to stick its head in pretty good before it went off. I didn’t do that before and I’m sure that’s why I fired to quickly and had a pull out. So bending the triggers away at a 45° angle, definitely got it to get its head in far enough to get it behind the neck. The raccoons have been cleaning the duck and geese nests nonstop so at least I ridded one of the egg raiders. Wasn’t the monster one I saw the other day. This one was a smaller male. Must’ve been last year’s batch. I always figured a 110 would be too small for a raccoon. I’m impressed it did the job. It caught it and dispatched it as designed. Stone cold dead when I found it. I’ve caught squirrels in them that I have to dispatch previously. It just depends on if they stick their necks in straight up and down to go across the windpipe, and if they turn their head sideways, you’re not going to end up dispatching the animal with the trap itself. Last time I checked it was 10:30pm last night. I checked it again when the sun came up and had this guy in it done for count, laying there stiff as a board. I would assume a box just big enough to fit this trap in is key. I used an old metal mailbox. I removed the flag and the front door. I then made a slit 7 inches in as required by our state trapping law to hold the spring. I would say there was maybe an extra inch of room around the 110. I screwed a few pieces of wood along the side so it couldn’t squeeze or push the trap sideways. I ended up getting a giant one with an air rifle the other day that was in the garage going through our garbage can. This one must’ve been its little brother. In out state we can get rid of raccoon along with many other nuisance animals. One down, quite a few more to go! Want them originally for muskrats, but boy they sure come in handy for everything.

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My first otter was in a 120( Federal ground regs). There is a 160(6x6") that would be more productive in a box/pail set on the ground for raccoon. Key to the body grippers, trigger on the inside bar for box/pail and on the bottom(trigger wire pointed up).
 
That’s how I rigged it. But triggers on top. Triggers were bent away at a 45 degree, or more, angle so it had to poke its head way in before the trap fired. I also angled the set spring up so the grips were pushing against the bottom of the mail box that I rigged it in.
 
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Pretty cool. We can’t use coni’s down here, but DP’s and cages have been taking a few. I don’t set too many footholds this time of year due to fawns. Even though we’re limited to a #2, they ain’t getting out.
 
I never tried them till we had a muskrat problem. They caved in the river bank with holes and dens. Ive caught squirrels with them. I will either place them flat on the ground or hang from a few screws on a tree(my prefered). I figured Id try them on raccoons. Didn't want to dispatch them in a rural area and wanted them DOA.
 
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Finly had some action last night. The fireworks Must have got them moving. The trap I caught the raccoon in was set off. So a miss. Re baited and we'll see what happens tonight.
 
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Same trap was set off again with a miss for the 2nd time. I might have to set a camera by it to see whats going on. I might have to bend the triggers a little farther back? guessing its sticking its arms in and pulling out or just one big headed animal not getting far enough in and pullimg out
doesnt look like there was a struggle again. The trap was just laying there sprung on the ground like last time. maybe ill have to make wood cover with a circle on the front of my box so the animals need to crawl in head first. Its just open right now with the trap exposed.
 
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Now I know why i'm getting misses. I had two misses In the last week or so in was scratching my head why. There was a mink running around today so I set a few live traps. I just went out to check a few minutes ago and found a super small possum that was suitcased in a 110. I watched it start to pull itself out of the trap! It slid out from the trap from just in back of its armpits all the way to the rear legs in one try when I put a flashlight on it. I dispatched it before it pulled itself on any further. I would say it's probably the size of a big rat. So the small possums that get suitcased can pull themselves out of a 110 trap! That blows my mind. I am sure if I wouldn't have dispatched did It wouldn't have been there in the morning. I don't know for sure if it would have pulled its legs through the trap But I can tell you.It pulled its body from the front to the rear without even trying. Never thought that would have been possible.
 
I caught a fox in a 110. Was marten trapping. Released him unharmed as the season was closed. Had he been over 10 feet he wouldn't have been so lucky. Eastside of the State was closed.
 
That was the little possum I caught the other day. I watched him trying to slide out of the trap. He easily slid from his armpits down to his rear hips in one easy swipe! I can't believe that thing moved around in the trap like a mouse squeezing under a door.


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...another nuisance possum caught on my property in a 110. I knew I had another something living in the hole under my shed. Two of the live traps were set off in the last week but nothing in them. Think they have been caught in live traps before and know the drill how to set the doors off by grabbing the levers on the side . I bent the triggers back straight on this 110 and it still caught it under the chin. Checked it last night in the dark before I went to bed and then again this morning at about 5 AM. He was stone cold and stiff as a board.



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Another Raccoon! I even bent the prongs back straight. I was trying to catch a couple squirrels that chewed a hole in the roof of the porch last week. I ended up removing the squirrels by other means...my air rifle. That $5 trap sure can hunt!

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I've been trying to catch a woodchuck and apparently wasn't the right bait. It’s been digging holes all over in our rocks. I put an apple behind the 110 about an hour ago , with some peanut butter and some imitation vanilla. I also stuck a tomato next to it. It didn't take long...

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I think I’m going to have to clean that trap up. When I went to bait it, it went off on my finger. It didn’t completely close all the way and was left open about a half inch or so which was fine with me since it went off on my hand. I’ll have to soak it in vinegar for a day or two and then wax it.
 
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I figure I need to clean it up a little bit somehow. I waxed one once and it sure was slippery! Probably should swing in and by a couple more new ones for five bucks.
 
I think I just waxed the hinge pins on the side last time and not the whole trap. Maybe just a good soak and vinegar to eat the rust and some rust oleum paint.
 
There must’ve been another one down there last night. I had a miss. The trap was laying on the ground fired off. The apples were dug out and chewed on. I would assume it must’ve dug around from the side to get in by the bait. Just reset it with fresh bait.
 
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