snaring coyotes
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River Runner
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Fencelines are the ultimate...but I'll let the known trappers elaborate. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Rich Cronk
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BJanecke,
Does your uncle have a large weed patch or maybe a CRP field where you could set up snares? If so, I can explain a very deadly method of snaring coyotes. I always placed large warning signs where ever I had these snares set in weed patches. "Warning, Large traps in use". This was to warn bird hunters who use dogs.
Does your uncle have a large weed patch or maybe a CRP field where you could set up snares? If so, I can explain a very deadly method of snaring coyotes. I always placed large warning signs where ever I had these snares set in weed patches. "Warning, Large traps in use". This was to warn bird hunters who use dogs.
Mr. Mister
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Rich,
I'd like to know your secret set up!
Steve
I'd like to know your secret set up!
Steve
Rich Cronk
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Ok, I will explain this weed patch snaring method the best that I can. Somewhere around here I have a short video of a couple of my weed pat setups if anyone feels that they need a copy.
A weed patch of 100 yards square will work just fine. A CRP field is really super for this little trick that I learned from the late Wayne Soper.
Drop off a dead cow, or maybe a couple of dead hogs near center of your weed patch for a draw station. Drive past the draw station in east-west direction with your pickup. Drive through on your same tracks several times to make two perfect trails with your tire tracks. Now drive past your draw station in north-south direction, making a couple more good trails. About fifty yards out from draw station, drive a circle around draw station, making yet two more narrow trails through the tall grass.
Buy a roll of #9 black wire and cut it into lengths about 40" long. Make up some five foot snares of 1/8" 7x7 aircraft cable. I have used a lot of 3/32" diameter cable which worked ok most of the time, but I did have a few chew outs because of the deer stops we have to use in Iowa.
I used the bent washer type snare locks because they were cheap, and I made a lot of them myself. Either buy or make your own disposable cable stakes. They used to call them "Iowa dispoable stakes".
Bend a U shape in each 40" length of your #9 wire about two or three inches from the end. Cut or grind a notch in a steel re-rod stake to use as for driving the wire into the ground. Begin hanging your snares about twenty feet back from draw station. Check your local laws on just how far back from your bait that a trap or snare must be kept. Drive the #9 wire into the ground right next to one of your tire tracks with your notched stake placed in that "U" on one end of the wire. Drive it in just far enough so that it seems secure when you bend it back and forth.
About 18" up from the ground, bend the wire into a 90 degree angle so that it sticks out over the tire track. Attach end of your five foot cable to the cable stake and rive cable stake into the ground right next to your #9 wire. You will want to check your state law on maximum size you can make your snare loop. In Iowa the loop can be no more than 8" wide, so that is the size I made mine. I would attach the snare to #9 wire by wrapping several turns of black electrical tape around snare cable and wire a couple of inches or so back from the snare loop. I like bottom of snare loop about 10"-12" up from the ground.
When placing your next snare, walk about ten feet down your tire tracks and place next snare in the OTHER tire track. When placed in this staggered fashion, you have a few snares placed over every easy trail to the bait station.
If your snare appears too obvious, you can drive a hole in the ground with a trap stake and push a weed or other natural item such as a dead tree branch right beside the snare to help conceal it or narrow the trail in a thin spot. Do not over do the placing of tree branches or anything that may make the trail seem too un-natural.
I should also mention that it is very important that you get permission from the farmer before dumping the dead criter out there for draw station.
A weed patch of 100 yards square will work just fine. A CRP field is really super for this little trick that I learned from the late Wayne Soper.
Drop off a dead cow, or maybe a couple of dead hogs near center of your weed patch for a draw station. Drive past the draw station in east-west direction with your pickup. Drive through on your same tracks several times to make two perfect trails with your tire tracks. Now drive past your draw station in north-south direction, making a couple more good trails. About fifty yards out from draw station, drive a circle around draw station, making yet two more narrow trails through the tall grass.
Buy a roll of #9 black wire and cut it into lengths about 40" long. Make up some five foot snares of 1/8" 7x7 aircraft cable. I have used a lot of 3/32" diameter cable which worked ok most of the time, but I did have a few chew outs because of the deer stops we have to use in Iowa.
I used the bent washer type snare locks because they were cheap, and I made a lot of them myself. Either buy or make your own disposable cable stakes. They used to call them "Iowa dispoable stakes".
Bend a U shape in each 40" length of your #9 wire about two or three inches from the end. Cut or grind a notch in a steel re-rod stake to use as for driving the wire into the ground. Begin hanging your snares about twenty feet back from draw station. Check your local laws on just how far back from your bait that a trap or snare must be kept. Drive the #9 wire into the ground right next to one of your tire tracks with your notched stake placed in that "U" on one end of the wire. Drive it in just far enough so that it seems secure when you bend it back and forth.
About 18" up from the ground, bend the wire into a 90 degree angle so that it sticks out over the tire track. Attach end of your five foot cable to the cable stake and rive cable stake into the ground right next to your #9 wire. You will want to check your state law on maximum size you can make your snare loop. In Iowa the loop can be no more than 8" wide, so that is the size I made mine. I would attach the snare to #9 wire by wrapping several turns of black electrical tape around snare cable and wire a couple of inches or so back from the snare loop. I like bottom of snare loop about 10"-12" up from the ground.
When placing your next snare, walk about ten feet down your tire tracks and place next snare in the OTHER tire track. When placed in this staggered fashion, you have a few snares placed over every easy trail to the bait station.
If your snare appears too obvious, you can drive a hole in the ground with a trap stake and push a weed or other natural item such as a dead tree branch right beside the snare to help conceal it or narrow the trail in a thin spot. Do not over do the placing of tree branches or anything that may make the trail seem too un-natural.
I should also mention that it is very important that you get permission from the farmer before dumping the dead criter out there for draw station.