John Gryphon
Well-Known Member
I had some week old deer guts in my ute tray and decided to start trapping again after a lay off.
I went to an old farm track that has a few rabbit burrows in the track batter and set two traps,one in the mouth of a burrow entrance to which I pushed up some lovely smelly deer guts with the shovel handle. I then semi blocked the entrance with a stone and two mornings later voila!
As I drove over a grassy spur this morning young dog alerted me to "something ahead" 140 yards in fact. It was a yellow bitch in a trap and she had rolled in the wet red clay/earth and except for her moving I wouldn't have seen her as she was much the same colour as the earth.
She`s been scalped,i will drain her bladder and the scalp is heading into the freezer once cool to make it six @ $120 each.
Anyway there may be one,maybe two people interested enough to look at the pics of the re set.
The 'drag' is a length of grader blade with steel rods welded on either side,note in pic that one rod as initially installed is still in the ground and I was surprised that she hadn't pulled it.
A little bit of paunch content in front of the trap. Some gut showing behind the block stone.
The drag as found today.
The venue this morning.
The end result.
I went to an old farm track that has a few rabbit burrows in the track batter and set two traps,one in the mouth of a burrow entrance to which I pushed up some lovely smelly deer guts with the shovel handle. I then semi blocked the entrance with a stone and two mornings later voila!
As I drove over a grassy spur this morning young dog alerted me to "something ahead" 140 yards in fact. It was a yellow bitch in a trap and she had rolled in the wet red clay/earth and except for her moving I wouldn't have seen her as she was much the same colour as the earth.
She`s been scalped,i will drain her bladder and the scalp is heading into the freezer once cool to make it six @ $120 each.
Anyway there may be one,maybe two people interested enough to look at the pics of the re set.
The 'drag' is a length of grader blade with steel rods welded on either side,note in pic that one rod as initially installed is still in the ground and I was surprised that she hadn't pulled it.
A little bit of paunch content in front of the trap. Some gut showing behind the block stone.
The drag as found today.
The venue this morning.
The end result.
