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Posted by Jrbhunter (Member # 459) on January 30, 2006, 09:08 AM:
Finally another trapping pic and story for ya.
I pulled my last trap around December 28th, the rainy warm weather was killing me and it seemed like I was having to rush everywhere while I had a trapline out. I planned on taking a week or two off but I enjoyed all the free time and never did put the line back out... until last week.
Last Thursday I got home in time to make a couple sets near the house, I planned on putting half a dozen down but again the sloppy fields limited my travel and I only set a whopping two.
These two sets where what I consider TEXTBOOK K-9 trapping, wide open area with an access road running along a crop change. The traps were placed in a hayfield so the blending job was GREAT looking, one on each side of the 2-track access road. Again, I use Bridger #3's with some RK & Fox urine.
Saturday morning I had a beautiful male waiting for me. This guy wasn't rubbed at all, really good fur, and he was sort of special because he rounded off my season total to 30 coyotes. He looked small in the catch pics because he was all balled up... once I saw that I had to go back and take a photo of the pelt to show how big he really was. He probably weighed 36-38 pound.
Here's the location, the trial is marking the spot of one potential set. The other set will be placed directly to the left.. across the lane.
Here's the set I placed on the right, next to the corn.
Here's the one I put on the other side of the access road... adjoining the CRP plot.
And here he is, he chose the set nearest to the CRP.
Pretty good pelt:
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on January 30, 2006, 03:16 PM:
Good looking dog. Looks like you're getting a lot of Spring green, too, huh? Killed a garter snake in my backyard last week walking between the fur shed and the old swingset frame I use for skinning critters. Your area looks a whole lot like mine. Most ppl wouldn't be able to tell them apart.
Posted by Jrbhunter (Member # 459) on January 30, 2006, 04:51 PM:
Yeah unfortunately we are getting some green back around here... hard not too with 65° highs! Most of my experience with Kansas is wide open flat fields.... which is similar to MOST of Indiana. Where I'm from it's more like Kentucky, a big field is 20 acres and a small hill will take your breath.
Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on January 31, 2006, 03:56 AM:
Way to go Jason!
Nice looking coyote!
Posted by JoeF (Member # 228) on January 31, 2006, 03:39 PM:
Neat pictures, it's been a long time since I've seen that posture from a coyote. Ever wonder how many that we walk by that just hunker down?
As I posted on another thread:
When I see you guys messing with these live coyotes I'm reminded of the old 7mm Mauser that I have which has a scar about 3/4" long on the end of the barrel where a coyote chomped down on it. It looks like someone took a scratch awl to it. If they can do that to barrel steel (even 1896 vintage) just imagine what they could do to human flesh....
Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on January 31, 2006, 08:57 PM:
JRB,
Great pictures! Its too bad the fur market doesn't like those blackish and red coyotes. I think their fur is absolutely gorgeous! Although your coyote is all balled up, his legs look really long.
Lance: "Killed a garter snake..." WHAAAAT??????
Who kills garter snakes? You don't eat them do you (I hear that all the time about coyotes)? Lance, those critters make perfectly good FREE kiddie pets! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
[ January 31, 2006, 09:00 PM: Message edited by: Locohead ]
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on February 01, 2006, 09:03 AM:
Not being judgemental, understand? But, I also wondered about killing a harmless garter snake, gopher snake, king snake, etc. Rattlers....just depends?
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Rich (Member # 112) on February 01, 2006, 10:11 AM:
Leonard,
I know where you are coming from because back in the 40's and 50's I was living up in the niobrara river breaks (canyons) of nebraska. Rattlesnakes everywhere. The rancher's believed that bullsnakes would kill the rattler's, so we were not allowed to kill the bullsnakes.
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on February 01, 2006, 01:41 PM:
Before y'all blacklist me and write me off as a snake-hatin' bastard, I apparantly stepped on it earlier in the afternoon when moving all my stuff from the shed to the skinning frame. He was code blue when I found it and despite heroic measures to save it (shorty of an V and ventilations), it was pronounced DRT soon after being found. So lay off.
And Danny, ringneck snakes make much neater pets, and in KS, there ain't none of them "free". Non-game animals can only be possessed if you have a state-issued scientific collection permit, Granted, that doesn't stop (me) most people, but it's there anyway.
Posted by pup (Member # 90) on February 01, 2006, 01:58 PM:
Thats all right Lance, I will gladly accept the title. Growing up with copperheads here in Ok. I am reminded of an old farmer who had a saying" there are only two kinds of snakes around here boys" " rattlesnakes and cobras" if it doesn't rattle then it must be a cobra".
A couple years ago good ol Jay stuck a dead small rattler in the floorboard. I'm still digging the seat fabric out. Still have yet to collect on that one, Jay.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on February 01, 2006, 02:10 PM:
No prob. Lance. Good explain. I'll tell you what, I don't know what a ring neck snake looks like? But, if you can find a prettier snake than a California "Mountain" King Snake, I'll be surprised. They are black with red and yellow, or white bands. Actually, looks a bit like a coral snake. Even a two color, yellow banded California King is a very attractive snake.
My old partner pulled the rattle snake in the back of the truck stunt with me, once. It was a payback. When my son left home, he left us with a giant gopher snake, a six footer. That sucker was mean. I let her go in the riverbed one cold night, I don't know if she made it or not, and don't care.
Now, we got an Iguana, left here by our oldest grandson. <sigh>
Good hunting. LB
this is Sam heading down the stairs, daily
and this is where he whiles away the hours
[ February 01, 2006, 02:50 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on February 01, 2006, 03:03 PM:
I wish I knew what was going on with this camera. I have sized and cropped and edited the above photos to a fairtheewell, two different programs, saved, of course, and yet, they come out way too big? I don't get it?
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on February 04, 2006, 02:44 PM:
Thanks for the explanation Lance. (You didn't have to though) I know you love animals! Anyway, I've looked for ringnecks under logs and such around cottonwood trees and near water. They say thats where to find them. I've yet to see one. The colors God gave them are fantastic!
In Colorado, we are allowed to keep up to five of the more common critters. We can keep Garters, bull-snakes, Western hognoses, Leopard frogs (garter snake food) and a variety of lizards asnd other amphibians. You can kill all the bull frogs you want anytime of the year. They flat out don't belong here and will eat every baby of any critter around until there is nothing left but bull frogs.
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on February 04, 2006, 04:14 PM:
Actually, our prairie ringnecks are rather bland in color, usually mud brown on the dorsum with a yellow or orange belly and matching ring just behind the head. Usually about as big around as a pencil and up to a foot long or so. Very low key critter that lives off earthworms, makiing it an easy keeper.
Here's a pic.
http://sdakotabirds.com/non_birds/prairie_ringneck_snake_1.htm
Posted by Jay Nistetter (Member # 140) on February 04, 2006, 07:42 PM:
Leonard,
When you resize a photo, save it in 600 pixels instead of inches.
Also make sure it is a jpg.
Posted by Jack Roberts (Member # 13) on February 04, 2006, 10:02 PM:
600 pixels will fit on most peoples screen.
Anybody who can put digital photos online surely should know how to put a width limit on them????
Jack
Posted by brad h (Member # 57) on February 04, 2006, 11:44 PM:
That ringneck is kind of neat looking snake.
This is our unique pink and yellow albino King. He thinks he's tough be he aint all that.
[ February 04, 2006, 11:46 PM: Message edited by: brad h ]
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on February 05, 2006, 11:02 AM:
quote:
Anybody who can put digital photos online surely should know how to put a width limit on them???? Jack
You would think so, wouldn't you?
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Jrbhunter (Member # 459) on February 06, 2006, 12:43 PM:
I've called and killed three more juvies from this location since I trapped the big male shown above... three months of attempts with no luck before I took him out. Now that he's gone they are dropping like flies.
Maybe it's the weather, maybe it's the time of year or maybe it's no coincidence at all.
Makes you go hmmmmmmmm. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on February 06, 2006, 05:42 PM:
I've seen some pictures where they look kind of a bluish purpley olive flavor! Those are the ones I wanna catch!
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