they work great. Been using them for about 20 yrs. One important suggestion is to put the bait in the trap before setting it, to avoid prematurely setting off the trap while installing the bait after the trigger is set.
Great video! My neighbor has a raccoon problem in Wyoming. I will help him get set up getting rid of raccoons. He’s 81 years old and I want to help him. Also I see you had a Iowa state university cyclone sweatshirt on! I follow the cyclones. My grandpa graduated there in 1922!
dog proofs are great traps. we have had a lot of success using Jeff Dunlaps Smokey fish DP bait. We are a trapping channel out of Indiana. good luck on your line.
I haven't done any foot hold trapping in awhile, but I've recently been dealing with raiding coons killing chickens. With electrified poultry netting, I thought we were good and couldn't figure out how they'd gotten inside the fence and then into the coop until I put up a trail cam and they came back. The identifying feature of the kills that told us we were dealing with coons was that only the heads were eaten. What we discovered was they weren't climbing the electrified net from the ground, but would stop short of the netting, study it, then jump part way up and scramble over the top. Because they weren't starting from the ground, they weren't grounding out and getting shocked. (I've since learned they do make electric netting with alternating ground and hot lateral lines that would have prevented this.) I'd been fairly successful with cage traps, but I saw the recent killers on camera sniffing and looking at the trap, then moving on. By the way, I also use mackerel. Great bait! Or I should say - usually great; it's what I'd baited the cage traps with but they had chicken heads and a couple of sport kills in mind. Some chickens were killed with a bite to the head, but the whole chicken was otherwise untouched. The half dozen or so traps I already have, (aside from 2 cage traps), are the spring jaw type, but I've ordered the DP traps to set near the house where our dog could inadvertently get caught if I used my jaw traps. These coons might avoid going in a cage trap, but the DP traps are much more natural and innocuous looking. Cheers and happy trapping.
@@UnorthodoxOutdoorsTV Thank you. Fingers crossed that we can prevail and end up with a bird count higher than the number we've lost. I'd be embarrassed to say what I've spent trying to keep the chickens safe. We've easily spent more than what store bought eggs and chicken would cost over some number of years, so now it's practically a matter of principal. We're not waiting to see what happens next, but "taking the fight to the enemy," as they say. Liked. Subscribed. Notifications: All 👍
They killed 4 of my birds last week; killed in the same manner. I bought 2 of these traps Tuesday and baited them with beef fat pieces in bacon grease. Got one Coon Wednesday night and another last night. Excellent traps. The chain did break on one the very first time, but the critter got wound around some branches. The chain material looked cast where it broke. May have to beef up the chain or use a cable.
@@07blackdog Ugh, sorry to hear about the bird loses, but glad to hear you're having success trapping. I started with 3 DP Traps and quickly went to 6 because a couple of mornings we discovered we had coons in all 3 traps! More than likely we had more than 3 come in but the traps were already full. The amount of coons coming in when we started was stunning, but we're caught up and only catching one here and there now. Plus, they go for the easy treats in the traps first and are trapped before they even get a chance to think about what they need to tear up to try for a chicken. We've also learned that coon carcasses work great to sweeten a mulch pile. I guess this will be the first year I'll need to pull bones out of the garden mulch as we spread it. 😄
That don’t sound like a raccoon we had the same problem it’s a mink the mink bites the head or the head off and sucks out the blood then they leave the rest of the chicken untouched
That also looks like some prime mink territory. I would have to gang set some traps if there is any sign around. Same goes for coon traps too, not just DPs but some legholds and body grips because coon travel in groups a lot of the time and you can load up at one location.
More than likely I made them but I can't remember, as a few of them have been purchased from other trappers . Thanks for watching! Make sure to subscribe as we will start to make trapping videos more regular on our channel when it's in season!
So.........Ive had my trap out for 3 weeks........nothing yet. Ive tried countless baits...... and nothing yet ! My camera shows at least 12 coons pass by the trap per night. None even go near it ! What will coons eat ? Tried.. marsh mellows bacon grease with corn..... cat / dog food. and many others. Nothing they even look at ! What do coons eat ?
Thanks for watching! Make sure to subscribe and hit the bell for notifications because there are more to come! A snare trapping basics video is coming soon and there are plans to do a canine trapping video this winter as well!
Was a great video! A lot of people keep asking for more trapping videos yet I know it is hard to keep up for sure.! We have uploaded 6 raccoon trapping videos so far and people seem to like them and ask for more all the time lol. Please go check them out on our channel and tell us what you think in the comments. www.youtube.com/@618huntingcrew/videos
We raise chickens for eggs. Raccoons get into the chicken coop and they will kill every chicken they can catch. And they bite the heads off and leave the rest. You can build a great coop and they will still find a way in. They are smart but very destructive. I lost 5 laying hens this week and have traps set tonight.
Having caught myself, I will say it hurts, but nowhere near as much as hitting your thumb with a hammer, which I did just yesterday for the first time in forever. 😆 The upside is that continuous compression on any combinations of nerves, (median, ulnar, radial depending on position of catch), soon causes numbness to the extent that a small percentage of coons roll out and leave their paw behind if you don't use swivels on the anchor chain. The swivels prevent them from rolling until the trap can't turn anymore giving them enough leverage to fracture and chew at their paw until it separates. Smart as coons are, they're apparently not smart enough to avoid the next trap indefinitely and some have been caught that were already missing a front paw.
First time using these i got a coon on the same one every day for about a week and ive been using them for about a year now with a success rate of about 35% on each trap per day. Try to set it near a water source and near a food source like a deer feeder as well. A mix of dogfood and whatever food they’re used to in the area (mine happened to be corn) works the best. If you dont have access to these and you’re deep in the woods, try to find a small little coon trail and secure the trap to a nearby tree. Then take your dogfood mix and put a small pile in front of the trap. Then take handfuls of the mix and scatter a small trail leading from the trap back to the coon trail, it works better if you cross the dog food trails with the coon trail at two separate points so they have the best chance of smelling it. Happy trappin yall
The coon`s head is down as he plods along the trail. Put the trap smack in the middle of the trail for the highest percentage of catches, and space your traps out along the trail for maximum effect.
