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Trapping - What did you catch today. 2008


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32 is the most we ever did, hide opener 2 years ago. Doing it with dogs is the only way to go. Thats hunting sun down to sun up though, and them nights can be far and few between. Some nights everything just goes right.

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Used to do that to once in awhile myself coon hunt behind dogs...had a friend that ran of all things, Norweigan Elk hounds....little huskie squat dogs with a curled tail? They were some kind of Norweigan dogs, they weren't hounds in the true sense.

They were the trailers and tree'ers...really good at what he trained em to do....he had a little redbone that was the kill dog...that little sucker would grab and kill wounded coon that looked to be as big as he was! Grab em by the neck and shake em like they were little tube socks!

That used to be fun! At the time, I could put up with the late night hustle, long hunts, bloody shins, being whipped in the head by branches, (Once I had about a 7 pound ear of dried field corn whip back and hit me across the bridge of the nose...didn't put me down but I bled for a good 10 minutes! I thought a Sasquash had punched me from the dark corn row!) falling down chasing the dogs and all the rest that goes with it, mud, dirt, water, it was all good.

This pic might bring back a memory or two then!

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This must be the good old days of coon hunting? Has there ever been more than the last ten years or so? Cool pic. It was not a good night to be that coon.

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I'll try again . Coon hunting must be as good now as it ever was. Seems to be a very big population over the last ten years or so.

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It is good but theres man things that play a factor in it. You have to spend a lot of time getting permission to hunt spots, I got 1500 acres or so worth of private property I can hunt, But i have countless hours and gas spent in driving around getting them spots.

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I was pheasant hunting yesterday and my setters pointed a coyote. I shot him in the neck at 20yds with #4 birdshot and dropped him instantly. close to 50 lbs. I was only able to get a cell phone pic. The landowner is going to skin it.

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I have been thinking of getting into trapping now after looking at the pics I really want to get out. I think I might have to go get me some trap for next year.

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Was at my sisters in st. paul today and there was a possum on the compost pile today....wonder if the coons are going to get active in this warm weather?

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Seen there where a couple sets of coon tracks on the river. The must of moved a little last nite.

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