Patience, The Key Ingredient for Successful Trapping

Recently I set a couple of traps for woodchucks that had eaten a section of a flower garden.  I set two positive sets, double door 9×11 Comstock Cages in two intermittently used den hole openings under the house.  For 12 days there was no activity,...

Chipmunk Catch

The other day I went out to the shop and noticed I had caught a chipmunk in a swing panel trap.  Not unusual, except that though the trap had a peanut in it, left over from a job, the trap had been left unset.  With the angled doors closed and bait inside,...

National Trappers Convention / New York Convention

Judy and I just returned from the National Trappers Convention near Buffalo in Hamburg, N.Y.  Even with a light turnout for the show, primarily due to low fur prices, by the evening of the first day we had sold out just about everything, including a dozen beaver...

Large Comstock Cages for Coon

Tim in Ohio generally uses 9×11 Comstock double door cage traps for raccoons without issue, but at times chooses a larger Comstock double door trap.  This time Tim used a couple of larger 12x15x33 cages set tall, 15 high and 12 wide, in trail sets in the...

Sight Hunting / Trapping Groundhogs with Double Door Cage Traps

This sort of sight hunting for chucks integrates hunting with trapping and adds an element of excitement to the experience, while it both speeds and enhances the process.I know I have mentioned a lot of this before in different posts, but would like to tie it...