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04-30-2016, 09:58 AM
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Location: RI
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Have-a-heart traps?
Have a woodchuck living under the shed.
Anyone use one of these traps?Would rather trap it and bring it somewhere but if that doesn't work its gonna get itself shot.I'm not going to deal with that thing having a feast in my gardens.
Does anyone here have a trap they're not using?
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04-30-2016, 10:20 AM
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They are out , and so is my trap already... Shoot the bastage... I would but not no gun ...lol. BTW you can not catch and move them in Ma... Shoot or drown them only. Maybe a pie ?
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04-30-2016, 10:39 AM
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Location: RI
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I might actually have one under the deck, let me check...
Like VB said it may be illegal to move them but if it's creating a nuisance I'd think animal control would help.
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04-30-2016, 10:43 AM
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Yep I have one.
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04-30-2016, 12:26 PM
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Super Moderator
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get some organic mixture of some kind of reppelant made with animal urine either fox or something. They hate it, it kept them out of our yard and garden. Walmart has it.
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1984 was a warning, not a guidebook!
It's time more people spoke up with the truth. Every time we let a leftist lie go uncorrected, the commies get stronger.
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04-30-2016, 01:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
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Actually on the big blue bug show this morning Tony suggested dirty cat littler works great.
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04-30-2016, 06:34 PM
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swimmer is the king of woodchuck trapping
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05-01-2016, 10:53 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
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Na, the best woodchuck trap I ever had was a little mongrel dog named Jake. He systematically kill Mom, Dad and 5 kids. He'd bring em back dead and line em up on the front lawn. He was awesome!
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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05-01-2016, 01:30 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: marshfield
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Na, the best woodchuck trap I ever had was a little mongrel dog named Jake. He systematically kill Mom, Dad and 5 kids. He'd bring em back dead and line em up on the front lawn. He was awesome!
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Lol. My Akita, niko, was a varmint killing machine
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my 1st wife didn't like me fishing so much
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05-01-2016, 03:50 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Quote:
Originally Posted by niko
Lol. My Akita, niko, was a varmint killing machine
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What about your new pup/firstmate?
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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05-02-2016, 04:26 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
Yep I have one.
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Sent you a PM. |
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05-02-2016, 04:30 PM
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Location: RI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Na, the best woodchuck trap I ever had was a little mongrel dog named Jake. He systematically kill Mom, Dad and 5 kids. He'd bring em back dead and line em up on the front lawn. He was awesome!
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If my Dachshund wasn't 16+ I wouldn't even have started this thread.My Simon was awesome in his day,he would've been under that shed in a heartbeat dragging that bastage out!Best dog ever...really going to miss him when his day comes. |
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05-02-2016, 06:30 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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I have two sizes of the have a hearts. A recent emigre to the shed underworld has so far refused all offerings of foods inside the big trap.. Caught two squirrels, which isn't all bad, but the chuck has yet to eat any of the apples or fresh lettuce. Going to put peanut butter on the next apple and see what happens.
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05-02-2016, 06:31 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
swimmer is the king of woodchuck trapping
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Having an unresolved issue now brother. May be losing touch.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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05-03-2016, 07:26 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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We watched rabbits running around our traps last night. Big Rabbits
Lol
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05-03-2016, 07:47 AM
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Location: Libtardia
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Drive around your neighborhood and collect several Hillary signs and post them around your garden. That should scare away anything and anyone.
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05-03-2016, 07:50 AM
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BuzzLuck
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nebe
Drive around your neighborhood and collect several Hillary signs and post them around your garden. That should scare away anything and anyone.
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PETA would get you for cruel & inhumane treatment!!! |
 Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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05-03-2016, 08:27 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Swimmer
I have two sizes of the have a hearts. A recent emigre to the shed underworld has so far refused all offerings of foods inside the big trap.. Caught two squirrels, which isn't all bad, but the chuck has yet to eat any of the apples or fresh lettuce. Going to put peanut butter on the next apple and see what happens.
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Bait is relatively ineffective on yard pigs ( wood chucks) best bet is "blind" or trail sets....pad the wire with grass and settle it into the ground so it doesn't rock... they don't like the feel of the wire or anything suspicious that moves... use a series of grasses and small twigs to make a subtle trail to guide them into the trap..if you feel you must bait them.... buy a small Zuccinin plant and put it in the trap ( beyond the trip pan with he rear door closed) still make an effort to break up the outline of the trap..by using the live plant you'll eliminate all other critters except the ocassional bunny... come execution time.. put the trap in a plastic bag and tape it to the tail pipe..hell go night night. |
A good run is better than a bad stand!
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05-03-2016, 09:31 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Attleboro, MA
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I had a tough time figuring out what bait to use as well....tried LOTS of veggies. The thing laughed at me....and taunted my wife by sitting on the top step of the deck!! I did some research and heard fresh brocolli. Told my wife to get some fresh brocolli at the Grocery....she came home with 3 heads of the stuff!! But, it did the trick the first day.....caught him at dusk. Then, I caught his sister a few days later.
Needless to say, I ate a lot of brocolli that week myself....
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05-03-2016, 11:22 AM
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time to go
Join Date: Oct 2007
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I wonder if putting dry ice in the hole would eliminate the problem.
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05-06-2016, 04:48 PM
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Location: RI
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I'm going with what the damn thing likes...tomatoes.
Otherwise it will be at the business end my RWS .22cal. air-rifle.Or maybe the Beeman if I want to hit in the eyeball.
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05-07-2016, 05:51 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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to get gophers out west
that could actually duck a 22 LR
i had to aim at the popped up head
then lower it and aim for the dirt in front
and skip it in there- that worked well
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05-15-2016, 05:21 AM
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Location: RI
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Got a racoon in the trap this morning.Getting it out of the trap was certainly easier said than done.
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05-15-2016, 08:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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First woodchuck of the year !
seen him a few times before , I have a very lucky trap or just dumb woodchucks.
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05-16-2016, 03:19 PM
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Location: RI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vineyardblues
First woodchuck of the year !
seen him a few times before , I have a very lucky trap or just dumb woodchucks.
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Apparently I need a lucky trap or a stupid woodchuck.
As each day passes it looking more and more like death for this thing...I'm done with the trap. |
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05-18-2016, 05:05 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Another one today,,, I am guessing a guy it had nasty flys all around it and stunk like chit....
Trap is two inches away from the gate in the right corner of my back yard...
They must just follow the path from the woods and just go under the gate and Bang.
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05-19-2016, 06:11 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vineyardblues
Another one today,,, I am guessing a guy it had nasty flys all around it and stunk like chit....
Trap is two inches away from the gate in the right corner of my back yard...
They must just follow the path from the woods and just go under the gate and Bang.
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Classic "blind" set.. best friend of ADC and fur trappers alike.... |
A good run is better than a bad stand!
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05-19-2016, 02:32 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
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I wish my dog would kill mine. It only gets the babies. And it won't go in the trap. Fortunately it won't cross the yard from where it lives to the garden because of the dog. My cousin shoots them with a bow and eats them. They're not bad if cooked slow, like a pot roast.
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"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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05-19-2016, 03:55 PM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
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Rws Diana +1 woodchuck 0
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05-20-2016, 10:27 AM
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Registered User
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Location: RI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ThrowingTimber
Rws Diana +1 woodchuck 0
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I've waited countless hours for that thing to poke its head out,have yet to see it while I have a gun in my hands.
I don't like keeping any of my pellet guns cocked for to long,its bad for the spring and the piston seal. |
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