I got it through the NARGC, they’re good for mags but not too good for greys. Bit small.

No babies in winter.

Why do you watch then ?

😂😂

He is with Jesus in heaven!! 🎊 🎈

I have to clear them off farmers land as their numbers are far too high. A small healthy population of rabbits are fine but when their damaging property and eating the farmers grass, then we have to reduce the numbers.

@@vk_6915 ok Ty for explaining I was so confused on what the rabbit didn’t know rabbit numbers were high

@@BkDkEdits34 rabbits breed like crazy...unfortunate but necessary. If you let them grow in numbers, the vegetation depletes really quickly since all they do is eat and sleep.

short answer: they are a fucking plague

Should take your show to Kindergartens and young kids in Early Grades .🤔

Yeah

Shared 3 ways, back straps for me, back end for the dogs and front end for the ferrets!

@@vk_6915Sounds fair. I ate many a bunny in my day

That’s a good size rabbit. Population here has been way down for years but there starting to come back.

Nicely done. Don't know when I last seen a rabbit. Grew up on them

​@@vinniesdayoff3968how they taste. Can you describe? Some say it tastes gamey. Idk what that means.

The ones caught in the live cage traps, yes I shoot them.

If you look just inside each compartment, you’ll see a bar running across the length of the entrance but a little bit inside. The crow/mag when enters the trap will automatically perch on this bar(trigger). The weight of the bird pushed it down, firing the door down as there’s an upright length of bar holding the trap door up. Hope this comes across clear enough.

The bar is set about 6 inches back from the trap door if you look.

@@vk_6915 Thanks for that! I have a round trap but the birds keep coming in and out without activating the gate! Any advice?

@@CDR390 all I can say, is set it as light as you can, hair trigger style. Or else what I have seen with a new trap I had was where the part that holds the door up has a little bit of a burr on it from where it was cut when making it, so it’ll never release the door to shut. I rubbed it with an angle grinder and made it smooth and the door shuts very fast now.

They’re made by a guy for the NARGC. I’m not sure if you can buy them commercially. They are a good trap, handy to transport too👍

How’s things? Very poor winter mink trapping for me. Hopefully next season is better.

Haha, that’s for sure!!

It gets me every time😬

Greycrow numbers are massive in the west of Ireland. Mags aren’t as bad but still not great as there aren’t many trapping them. I seen a male hen harrier last week very close to me. I do believe that all the work I put in has helped the hen harrier, as their very vulnerable being ground nesting birds. I used to think the fox was the biggest problem in my area. After the human, it’s corvids and mink.

Dispatch them, it’s local conservation work.

@@vk_6915 God 🥲

We have a few ravens here, plenty of mags though

In this part of the country that will never be a problem, that’s for sure👍👍

Thanks mate👍

Thanks 👍

What’s Emglish?

@@vk_6915 Typo - Old age thing

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beaucoup de traduction ; laisse a désirez... ou le traducteur ni connait rien et invente pour complétez.

@@clambroth1923 It's more than old age mate. But nice to see your lobotomy was a complete success.

Thanks bud👍

I have a few in the freezer skinned, it’s more pest control, there is a bounty on them her in Ireland.

I wouldn’t exactly call it coursing. Pest control yes, I wasn’t doing it for sporting purposes.

Yes it’s unusual, I never caught anything but the standard colour with different white colouration on them in this area, it was a nice surprise to see it.

Cheers bud, the mink were slow going for me this season

Yes the small streams are overlooked by many. That’s a larsen trap, we use it to catch magpies and greycrows. It’s to control the population of both these species. They pluck the eyes out of our sheep if they go on their back, which they seem to love doing. Also they eat the eggs of song birds and the wild pheasants we have. It’s amazing the amount of bird life around after just a couple of years trapping these predators

@@vk_6915 that would be a terrible way to loose your eyes! They sound like some birds we have around here that raid the nests of other birds and destroy their eggs and kill the chicks. I usually shoot those birds with my air rifles to try and help out.

@@TheHuntForDinner sounds the same. It might be the area where I live but the land has lots of these little dips all over it and if a sheep ends up on her back in one it’s going to end bad for the sheep becoming blind. A lot of people don’t like it but it’s the most effective way to control these birds.

@@vk_6915 most people don’t understand predator control and the positive impact it has on wildlife as a whole. To them it’s just killing with no benefit.

Yes they are definitely over looked, those boxes are just recycled plywood

Cheers bud 👍

They are, I normally get between 6/8 mink a year from that exact spot. Numbers where down this year.

@@vk_6915 Good in a way the numbers are down meaning your doing your part but bad in a way too because it dampens the enthusiasm of trapping when all ur checking is empty traps but that's what separates the men from the boys - the lads that are willing to persevere through the days of empty traps and not give up because they know they are doing the job right. Lads in ym club loved when they caught a mink and gave up trapping, literally after a number of weeks of empty traps.... I told them numerous times that they will spend more time checking empty traps than full ones

@@hollowpoint8800 that’s it, but you know deep down the trap will be fired, it’s only a matter of time.

@@vk_6915 Exactly, all about perseverance

Yeah hopefully it will, I have another larsen trap on the go tonight

@@vk_6915 My brother in law has my trap. He has a big piece of clear perspex on top of it. It really makes a difference in the wetter weather

@@minktrappingpaddy I put clear plastic from my feed bags on it and lightly cable tied to hold it, it seems the keep the bird dry.

@@vk_6915 A couple of big tiles are a great job too

Yeah they are very handy, good killing trap too👍

Yes, I do my best to stay away from them. I’m surprised that it got to the trap, considering it was set in the river for mink.

Thanks bud, I subbed you last year👍👍

What would be the point going to the trouble of trapping them and letting them go??????

@@vk_6915 Relocating them I mean. Corvids are intelligent and wouldn't go near a place if they had been trapped there. I don't care about the trouble, you're being cruel and ignorant, the traits of just another goddamned human.

@@tabithathecat he kiss them ... You mean relocation ))))) I hope your neighbor relocates you his rats. Corvids are realy intelligent this means they do not go in the trap but continuing to live in the same plase. is he cruel ? Can you only say that if you don't eat meat and .... your cat and dog too? in other cases it means that someone must be cruel in your place ... kill, cut, protect from the parasite (corvids are pests) Convenient to be good at the expense of others ??

@@tabithathecat that’s true and they would tell all their friends not to come back, hate seeing them trapped like that they’re way too intelligent for that and they’re beautiful birds

@@titija100 no they’re not

Cheers bud, I went to the fella you recommended 👍

@@vk_6915 who'd I recommend?

@@hollowpoint8800 Val Campbell

@@vk_6915 ah yes, Val is some character!

@@hollowpoint8800 he is, I’ve a big lump of a mink to get mounted when the restrictions lift

I trap them as the numbers are way too high in the area. They predate on birds eggs and after a couple of springs trapping the difference is amazing. All the land around me sheep farms, if a sheep ends up on their back and can’t get up again(which can be very common) the greycrows and magpies will peck the eyes out of the sheep. There is only one outcome when that happens.

@@vk_6915The creator of heaven and earth commands all creation to BE fruitful and multiply. Who is anyone to take a life of another being!!??. Have mercy and relocate them

@@wezzagustus4868 I understand your thoughts but I won’t relocate them. Our government want us the actively cull them.

@@vk_6915 fuck government! Be governed by consciousnce. Did the creator not command all of creation to BE fruitful and multiply? Who is anyone to take the life of another being? Where is compassion and empathy? Humane catch and release?

@@wezzagustus4868 why do people search and watch videos that their totally against?? It’s a bit stupid. No need to reply 👍

No bud not enough power in the mk4 fenn, grand for rats, you need mark 6 or 116 bmi for the mink

Good stuff, a lot of the time greys will go in to msgs, so you might get lucky 👍 Thanks!

Any chance of more videos like this?

@@cathalhoward6798 it won’t be until the spring when the greys and mags are getting paired up and territorial for nesting. I’m at the mink trapping at the moment. Have a new video up last week. Caught another yesterday but will be putting down a new line next week, so should see a bit of action with the mink.

@@cathalhoward6798 I have another video on Larsen trapping on my channel that you can check out.

Evil devil......

Cheers fella, just tipping away at it in my area, they just keep coming though.

@@vk_6915 keep it up, not enough lads doing it. What part of the country are you?

@@nialllyons94 I’m in the northwest bud. Mink trapping is slow with all the water and the fecking restrictions that were in place

Murder is good work?

@@wezzagustus4868 yes, when you factor in the dozens of songbird/ground nesting bird clutches that will survive now, definitely good work. Conservationists usually fall into 2 groups: killers or huggers. Youre clearly a hugger but unfortunately its the killers that achieve the most

Not sure I understand what you mean bud?

Rats cats gray crows stoats also destroys the small bird population but you decide to kill the smartest bird out their shoot them May be a more human way to call the. How would you like to be trapped in a cage for a couple off days and then get your head chopped off for a couple off penny a bounty you call it

@@vincentscannell4866 the trap is checked twice a day, I trap greycrows and mags in those Larsen traps. They are never more then 12 hrs in them, probably more like 8 hrs. There is only a bounty on mink in Ireland. No one does it for a bounty. For your information, stoats are protected by law. I have no rats around me because I keep the place tidy. Magpies are as bad as greys in their actions even worse on songbirds. Actually a swift blow to the back of the head is enough, no need to be chopping heads off. You are being a bit over the top I think. If everyone done their part we’d have a good balance.

Dont think you know what your talking about Vincent. Magpies are lethal predators to songbird nests in spring/summer. Theyre notoriously hard to shoot in high numbers so the larsen traps allows us to knock the numbers far more effectively, reducing nest predation. Go to any Dublin suburb if you wanto see the impact uncontrolled magpies and greycrows have. Very few songbirds and countless corvids. Coincidance maybe?

Many solutions or alternatives in life so why is murder always the first and accepted option!?

@@wezzagustus4868 That is humanity shit from the very beginning, they are devils children....

@@jannepetersen4660 lol 😂

That’s Tuna, it’s handy to keep in your bag as bait, I normally use sardines as they are very cheap and work great, thanks!

@@vk_6915 Ok, I catch mink on the coast and its very hard to get them on any bait. Maybe catch some young ones or if its very cold. Not many mink left where I hunt. Seems like we have to use scent glands to get them in traps here.

@@Haldenhoundfoxterrier their inquisitiveness is their biggest problem

I was lucky alright! When I inspected the mink after, the trap appeared to have caused a lot of damage. What’s the craic with you, you getting out at all?

@@vk_6915 No lad, just that one mink earlier. Looks like the river was well trapped by someone else. Been messing round in the shed with a few ideas. Also was out with the dog last weekend, and came upon a class looking spot, but not much mink sign. Lots of otter and fox prints in the mud though

@@minktrappingpaddy what dog do you have? My lakie bitch died last week, the red one in a previous video. I have one second season terrier now.

@@vk_6915 I have a black and tan dog about two and a half years old. To be honest he's seen very little. I haven't the time to work him which is a pity.

@@minktrappingpaddy it can be hard to get the work for them at times.

I get them from fourteen acres in the UK. Here’s a link if you want to buy them. www.fourteenacre.co.uk/shop/bmi-116-body-grip-traps-bulk-buy-uk/

@@vk_6915 thanks, I've been looking for them for ages

@@outdoorseire6771 no problem, happy trapping and mind your fingers 😂

Quavo Huncho that’s bad bud, get one of these traps going! Those greycrows will do the same. They need controlling 👍