Wild life camera/trail cam
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Wildlife Watcher
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Any luck with the camera?
Well there was something after a few days .... but I'm not sure what!! It was at 3.16am and was just going out of the left side of the picture. Definately furry, short legged. I repositioned the camera at the weekend and put it further down the post so it will be closer to ground and hopefully activate better.
Ha ha!! A mate said "Are you sure its not a person?" Pleased its not!!!
Hunter5567
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Should be interesting. Maybe put some food out with cayenne pepper in it.
I've heard mothballs may work for repelling.
At my deer camp, we occasionally take a dishwashing sponge and cut it in half and soak in bacon grease and throw out for coyotes.
They will eat it and promptly get their bowels blocked since they can't pass the sponge and go somewhere else to die.
Cruel but effective but I've never seen a coyote kill that didn't involve shredded fur on rabbits or squirrels or a pile of feathers after a turkey kill, not to mention killing deer fawns or hamstringing deer to be taken down by the pack. Bobcats as well.
I've heard mothballs may work for repelling.
At my deer camp, we occasionally take a dishwashing sponge and cut it in half and soak in bacon grease and throw out for coyotes.
They will eat it and promptly get their bowels blocked since they can't pass the sponge and go somewhere else to die.
Cruel but effective but I've never seen a coyote kill that didn't involve shredded fur on rabbits or squirrels or a pile of feathers after a turkey kill, not to mention killing deer fawns or hamstringing deer to be taken down by the pack. Bobcats as well.
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But f8&k that!!!!!
Because a beasts doing in nature what it’s intended to do still isn’t a reason to cause it slow painful death like that !
Cruel? Your not f&@king joking
I’m no snow flake but no ! Unacceptable ....
If your going to kill something kill it quick for f$&k sake!
Paul
But f8&k that!!!!!
Because a beasts doing in nature what it’s intended to do still isn’t a reason to cause it slow painful death like that !
Cruel? Your not f&@king joking
I’m no snow flake but no ! Unacceptable ....
If your going to kill something kill it quick for f$&k sake!
Paul
Hunter5567
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Well, you might think different after you find quite a few fawns and deer with the hide ripped off their hindquarters and a few bites taken out of them but still alive and no telling how long they layed there before you came along to put them out of their misery.
Also how many were in like condition that you didn't find. The coyotes are so wary you can't catch them in traps and do their misdeeds at night where no hunting is allowed. There are no game management personnel on these leased properties and most hunters only going out there on the weekends. Flocks of turkeys with 30 or more in a group steadily dwindling down till there is maybe 5-8 left out of the group. They are wary enough to gather very few pictures on game cameras but you sure run across the evidence. Tried varmint calling and after maybe a few attempts they won't come to the calls. The coyotes will also go to your house if you live nearby and kill and eat your pets so that you don't dare let them out without them being on a leash. I say fork the coyotes.
Also how many were in like condition that you didn't find. The coyotes are so wary you can't catch them in traps and do their misdeeds at night where no hunting is allowed. There are no game management personnel on these leased properties and most hunters only going out there on the weekends. Flocks of turkeys with 30 or more in a group steadily dwindling down till there is maybe 5-8 left out of the group. They are wary enough to gather very few pictures on game cameras but you sure run across the evidence. Tried varmint calling and after maybe a few attempts they won't come to the calls. The coyotes will also go to your house if you live nearby and kill and eat your pets so that you don't dare let them out without them being on a leash. I say fork the coyotes.
Sounds like you guys should be allowed to hunt these at night & with night vision / lamping ...
My aunt in Illinois says they come in to her property at night at back of house ....
I hear numbers are well up ....shame you can’t do anything more to make a balance ... but no I still wouldn’t stoop to doing that to them .
Paul
My aunt in Illinois says they come in to her property at night at back of house ....
I hear numbers are well up ....shame you can’t do anything more to make a balance ... but no I still wouldn’t stoop to doing that to them .
Paul
Hunter5567
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Well we tried everything we could to humanely dispatch and nothing worked. We only resort to that method when we find the mutilated half dead deer and it's only thing that is selective for only coyotes or feral dogs as raccoons, bobcats, etc. can't swallow it and we only put a few out and quit after that. You can't use any kind of poison. We have had feral dog packs running as well and the mutilations may have been because of them and they will attack people as well having no fear of man. I'd much rather dispatch them with a shot and actually hate to have to kill any dog type animal. I guess another worse aspect of it is the hogs will find the injured animals and basically eat them alive. After having seen a deer having been disemboweled and dragging part of it's guts through the bramble piles and still alive at the end of it, well it makes your blood boil. I call them AL Quaidayotes.
greenshoots
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There are no game management personnel on these leased properties
find that statement inaccurate, arnt they hunted for their pelts i have seen a pile of 30 skinned yotes
greenshoots
find that statement inaccurate, arnt they hunted for their pelts i have seen a pile of 30 skinned yotes
greenshoots
Hunter5567
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The land I hunt on is part of a hunting lease that is leased from a Timber Company. We have about 16 members on 1300 acres.The land is managed for timber with hunting as a subsidiary part of the lease. They have been known to come out and thin and harvest the pine plantation part in the middle of hunting season, whenever they get ready to harvest that part of the timber of their 100's of thousands of acres they lease out. Every member gets 2 areas to set up their own stands, feeders, etc. and hunt. A lot of the area is grown up clear cut areas with brush over you head or cleared areas after harvest plus swamp areas. You have to trap coyotes for pelts during the trapping season but I live in the southernmost area of the US. The pelts down here are basically worthless since we don't have much of winter down here and especially if you blow any big holes in them. A lot are kind of mangy as well and not fit to be touched let alone skinned. Most good coyote pelts come from the western and northern states.
The Timber company will not give permission to night hunt on the property for which you need written permission and have to notify the La. Dept of Wildlife and the Sheriff's Office 24hrs prior to going after outlaw quadrupeds at night. Moot point since they won't give permission. Last year might have produced some pelts since we actually got 6" of snow which is the most I have ever seen in 50 years of hunting down here. Usually it's a max of a 1/2" of snow on one or 2 days about once every 6 years.
This year I think we got maybe 7 days total of temperature just below freezing. Not unusual to wear shorts at Christmas time.
My lease is about 25 miles east of Baton Rouge, LA. which is about 70 miles north of New Orleans.
Lots of water moccasins, copperheads, rattle snakes, and alligators in the bayous that run through the property as well.
We border on the Tickfaw River and when it rains a lot it will flood over half the lease and out to the blacktop to the point that you can't even get to the gate but it will subside within a day or three. When the Great Flood of 2016 happened the whole place was underwater but maybe only 2 feet deep at the highest points on the lease with lower areas up to 16 feet deep.
We manage the property ourselves with a 4pt minimum on a buck to be taken and 2 does per member.
You are allowed 6 deer on the hunting license with 2 buck tags, 1 either sex, and 3 doe tags. I also hunt in the northern part of the state where the season opens earlier at the end of October for regular firearms. Down here it opens the 3rd weekend in November but archery season opens October 1st, Usually too hot to hunt at that time with copious amounts of mosquito spray needed to be applied, Primitive season opens the weekend before for a week in the respective areas. There are 10 different areas in the state that open or close at their own times with some having either sex hunting every day for the whole season or like my area, a total of 16 days for either sex hunting. You can take a buck and a doe on the either sex days Normally you can take a spike buck with at least 3" of horn showing. We let those walk on our lease and also a fine for a doe less than 65lbs.. Some leases have a 6 or 8pt minimum.
We are looking at other methods to control the coyotes and not have to use the sponges. Especially looking at birth control options to be put in bait if it will work. We have lots of raccoons on the property as well but don't know it will affect them but they could use it also. One member caught over 400 coons last year using dog proof coon traps and sells the skinned carcasses.
They will tear up the feeders. Also have some members that run hog dogs in the off season. Last year they caught 19 hogs one weekend and 2 weeks later caught another 17 so it is thinning them out some in our area but we are surrounded by about 20-30,000 acres of timberland in other hunting leases with hogs roaming throughout. All hogs must be kill be killed and cannot be transported live out of your area.
Used to have lots of problems with night hunting in our county till they starting imposing a $1500 restitution per deer poached and they can seize all your equipment and guns plus your vehicle if you get caught. That slowed that down considerably.
The Timber company will not give permission to night hunt on the property for which you need written permission and have to notify the La. Dept of Wildlife and the Sheriff's Office 24hrs prior to going after outlaw quadrupeds at night. Moot point since they won't give permission. Last year might have produced some pelts since we actually got 6" of snow which is the most I have ever seen in 50 years of hunting down here. Usually it's a max of a 1/2" of snow on one or 2 days about once every 6 years.
This year I think we got maybe 7 days total of temperature just below freezing. Not unusual to wear shorts at Christmas time.
My lease is about 25 miles east of Baton Rouge, LA. which is about 70 miles north of New Orleans.
Lots of water moccasins, copperheads, rattle snakes, and alligators in the bayous that run through the property as well.
We border on the Tickfaw River and when it rains a lot it will flood over half the lease and out to the blacktop to the point that you can't even get to the gate but it will subside within a day or three. When the Great Flood of 2016 happened the whole place was underwater but maybe only 2 feet deep at the highest points on the lease with lower areas up to 16 feet deep.
We manage the property ourselves with a 4pt minimum on a buck to be taken and 2 does per member.
You are allowed 6 deer on the hunting license with 2 buck tags, 1 either sex, and 3 doe tags. I also hunt in the northern part of the state where the season opens earlier at the end of October for regular firearms. Down here it opens the 3rd weekend in November but archery season opens October 1st, Usually too hot to hunt at that time with copious amounts of mosquito spray needed to be applied, Primitive season opens the weekend before for a week in the respective areas. There are 10 different areas in the state that open or close at their own times with some having either sex hunting every day for the whole season or like my area, a total of 16 days for either sex hunting. You can take a buck and a doe on the either sex days Normally you can take a spike buck with at least 3" of horn showing. We let those walk on our lease and also a fine for a doe less than 65lbs.. Some leases have a 6 or 8pt minimum.
We are looking at other methods to control the coyotes and not have to use the sponges. Especially looking at birth control options to be put in bait if it will work. We have lots of raccoons on the property as well but don't know it will affect them but they could use it also. One member caught over 400 coons last year using dog proof coon traps and sells the skinned carcasses.
They will tear up the feeders. Also have some members that run hog dogs in the off season. Last year they caught 19 hogs one weekend and 2 weeks later caught another 17 so it is thinning them out some in our area but we are surrounded by about 20-30,000 acres of timberland in other hunting leases with hogs roaming throughout. All hogs must be kill be killed and cannot be transported live out of your area.
Used to have lots of problems with night hunting in our county till they starting imposing a $1500 restitution per deer poached and they can seize all your equipment and guns plus your vehicle if you get caught. That slowed that down considerably.
Hunter5567
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Anyways, enough about me and derailing this thread.
I want to hear about the mystery animal.
I want to hear about the mystery animal.
Well sorry to disappoint - I resited the camera 5 days ago so it was pointong directly at the area the phantom crapper tends to use, secured the camera lower down the pole so it was more animal height and then went to check to today. New deposit in border right in front of the camera. Checked the camera and ........... it hadnt been triggered!!!! Im going to have run through the instructions again re setting it up!!!
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