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Post by hawkeye on Dec 3, 2009 22:30:31 GMT -5
A lot faster and better just to put gloves on. Scansy deleted my statement about how awkward gloves are. Just something else to carry around and lose. Besides trying to flip a trigger over the jaw of your trap with a glove obstructing your finger. Do you really think your gloves are going to fool that fox or coyote and he won't know a human has ever been near that set? I want to play poker with you!
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Post by scansy on Dec 4, 2009 21:09:42 GMT -5
Scansy deleted my statement about how awkward gloves are. Not letting that go, huh?
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Post by hawkeye on Dec 7, 2009 19:27:30 GMT -5
;D Heck Scansy, I let that go before it happened. Just trying to explain why I don't usually wear gloves when I'm setting traps. Too danged awkward.
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Post by foxman on Dec 9, 2009 18:45:16 GMT -5
Hawkeye, Sounds like you need gloves that fit. As far as beating me at poker I'm sure you will, but I will give you a run for your money when It comes to trapping. I have made a living off of fox trapping a lone for over 25 years. So I will keep wearing my gloves and don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking you or anybody for not wearing gloves. It just works better for me to wear them
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Post by hawkeye on Dec 10, 2009 22:58:47 GMT -5
The gloves I do wear are Titan machanics gloves, very comfortable and form fitting, still a nuisance.
I am not that much of a fox trapper, we have to many coyotes to contend with to ever try to focus exclusively on fox. But I started going coyote trapping with my grandpa as soon as I could stand on the seat of his pickup and see over the dash board.
Back when Eastern Oregon coyote were worth something my dad and him made a lot of money trapping coyotes. SOmetimes they wore gloves, sometimes they didn't.
I'm not saying your wrong and I'm right. But, as I explained on T Man the other day, there are a lot more important things than gloves and human odors. Too many beginners get caught up in the odor thing, and don't pay enough attention to location and bedding their traps, then when they don't catch anything or have their traps dug up they blame the lure or bait, which isn't fair to the lure maker, or their odor, so they waste time boiling traps and sterilizing their clothes.
And when we spend so much time talking about odor and gloves we are just giving them the impression that it is more important than it is.
Let me ask you a question. How far from his line of travel will your favorite lure draw a fox? 20 feet?
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Post by foxman on Dec 10, 2009 23:29:25 GMT -5
trap location and trap bedding are very important. The best lure don't pull them very far at all. Trap location is the key to catching fox and coyotes for sure.
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Post by huckleberry on Dec 11, 2009 22:23:13 GMT -5
LOL..this has been debated for as long as man has been trapping.
IMO....... it is what makes YOU a better trapper. if you have the confidence in wearing gloves, then wear them. If you don't feel the need, then don't.
I wear gloves most of the time when trapping. not for scent control however, he-ll they stink alot worse then my hands. I have very seldom felt that any scent left by them has been a factor in what I have caught. even with fox and yotes.
Location is key to catching anything. Lure usage along with knowing when to use bait along with lure is right up there also.
As OST said on here a few years ago, a yote aint nuttin but a long legged possum. So many trappers get all hung up on all the "lore" of trapping them, they make it so much harder then it really is.
i did a yote call for my ADC biz about a month ago. A chicken thief yote. Four other trappers had tried him. I talked to, even met one of those four. My God, ya would thought he was going to perform surgery in the back of his truck. Wouldn't even touch a trap without "special" gloves on.
he was pulling his traps that day at the chicken farm. I grabbed four traps, with my bare hands. Grabbed the shovel i use for setting mole traps, and headed off. caught that yote two nights later.
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Post by BlueRidgeTrapper on Dec 13, 2009 2:21:59 GMT -5
trap location and trap bedding are very important. The best lure don't pull them very far at all. Trap location is the key to catching fox and coyotes for sure. From my short time in the field I agree 110%...in our area I have found that lures don't need to be too loud to catch the critters.
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Post by stinger on Jan 2, 2010 16:48:55 GMT -5
my wife brings boxes of latex gloves home from the dental office for me ............ I use them for luring
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