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Post by conibear on Jun 12, 2005 21:39:21 GMT -5
Just woundering how many of you guys snare mink, i've tried my luke at it and had good results in the winter in holes, and trails, how do you guys trap them in the fall, trails culverts etc.
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Post by Snareman on Jun 12, 2005 22:04:42 GMT -5
Talking with a buddy, we talked about our favorite target animal. I first said mink, then fox... then otter. LOL! It was hard to make up my mind. I really like to snare everything I can from chipmunks to coyote, but it always comes down to mink.
I rely on snares to do the brunt of my work, but also rely on foot traps and conibears to get full maximum benefit as in some areas I don't have the luxury of time to catch them due to either competition or freeze up weather. I like to use mainly trail sets or spots where a mink is likely to travel as he goes about his hunting ways. Like people who pop in pocket sets, I often take and pull grass in strategic spots to create a trail. A good set of brush snips are often used on my line.
I like it to have a stretch of water or shoreline where I have several snares hangin' just knowing when the mink come through, he's toast!
Snareman
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Post by conibear on Jun 13, 2005 12:33:15 GMT -5
Thank you snareman for your input, i also use legholds, and conibers, for mink, but the last few years with otter prices good it seems everybodys starting to trap more, and running into more theft even in blind sets, and there just something about seeing a fuzzy tail in a snare. thanks agian.
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Post by Snareman on Jun 13, 2005 13:38:11 GMT -5
Mink snares are about invisible too the human eye, unless they're aware of them and looking for them. I had a spot set up for 2 days and had someone come in and set on top of me. I ended up setting more snares and traps all over the area to compensate.. and to say "TAKE THAT!", but the guy ended up telling me after he set his traps, he noticed the snares. He asked if I really snared mink with my snares and I said yes. I don't think he was too interested.
What was cool is that one day I caught a nice large buck mink. He was dispatched by snare from what I could see as I approached him. I heard a "clang" off in the distance and knew it was the other guy walking up the shoreline with his walking stick/shovel.
He arrived just in time to watch me take a nice buck mink out of my snare while his pocket set and trap were only 9 feet away. ;D In that immediate area, I ended up taking 5 more mink... as after he knew I had the area pretty well covered, he packed up and left.
Snares definitely work!
Snareman
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Post by conibear on Jun 13, 2005 14:00:43 GMT -5
Snareman i fell like i'm missing the boat all i've ever used is just regular mink snares l ordered from the snare shop, and any other snare for that matter, but my mink snares where getting knocked down when i checked them so i tought it was coon or compeition until i put some bmi 110s on the trail and started to take the mink, is what i'm getting at is i seen you have loaded snares for everything i'm very intrested in them, i would like to talk to you more about this. I have your phone# from your site, i don't live to far from you, thank you.
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Post by Jake on Jun 13, 2005 18:48:07 GMT -5
I am definitely going to buy some mink snares before this season. I have a huge trail on the Missouri R. by some Beaver dens/pool and I dont feel like messin with 110s because I think that snares have that wide open feeling with any animal. And as for the chipmunks, tell me more. In Ohio, theres so many chipmunks, its not funny. Normally I catch 13-lined ground squirrels by hand here in NE, but chipmunks are smart- they have emergency exits! I cant wait to snare mink!
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