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    Had 10 new ALP's to put into some A24s today....out of 10, 6 of them looked like this.



    Gave them a good dose of fly spray ?!?

    This however was the catch of the day Good old school styles note the duck feathers @sore head stoat !!!





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    Good stuff seeing you all still giving the critters a hard time
    Cleared 28 traps today for one insomniac hedgehog.

    Evan have done a good job clearing the wilding pines along my dune line but you have to ask yourself why they couldn’t of left a couple of specific stumps 30cm higher.
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    [QUOTE=Sparrow;1024448] Attachment 143112[/QUOTE

    That is just crazy stuff right there !!!
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    Great results @ Orcrist – keep showing us the results – puts this post to shame
    I had to take a trip to Auckland to see my Son’s new house – long grass on sections all round him so I took four new boxes with new Victor pro traps soaked in boiled linseed oil
    Relaxing in the family room and we spotted a mouse playing around under the fridge – no worry – we can sort him out so got a Victor out of a box and put some peanut butter on the foot plate – positioned it beside the base of the bench unit beside the fridge
    Only took the mouse a few minutes to come out and check out his new dinner – a bit embarrassing really as he accessed it sideways – in and out numerous times and had a few feeds – I thought maybe I had left too much sticky oil on the foot plate saddle - it took about ten minutes before he made a fatal mistake and climbed on the front of the foot plate – jeeze it made a bang when it tripped – poor little buggar
    A good example of how a narrow box or tunnel ensures the rodent presents correctly to a trap

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    Quote Originally Posted by Orcrist View Post
    Well done and my you continue to deplete the area of them.
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    Went and checked a high country line today, only 13 traps in the line but it is a bit of a walk.. 13 traps , 2 sprung empties, 4 not touched and 7 stoats in the balance... The back end had been chewed off all but 3 of them so no tails. 4 weeks since last checked. I did see a cat so might have to get a SA cat trap off Carol at Dead rat. Thoughts please on, would it be the cat that is cheweing the back half of the bodies off my stoats ? I am running all DOC 150s up on that line with fairly tight entrances... The sprung empties i suspect the cat is rattling the boxes and triggering the traps as quarter of my captures are weasels and i have a light trigger/spring off on my traps. I am now starting to put big rocks on my traps to stop any movement if the cat rattles the box. Thoughts please on the cat eating the bodies ?
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    @sore head stoat it could a cat but don't discount further stoats.

    I have seen it before when having a run on weasels in a certain trap that if i have not checked it fast enough.....all that is left is a head.

    Reset = another weasel

    Having a camera or two if can answer a lot of guestions if you can source them

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    Sore Head Stoat (or all head no stoat haha) I had a camera on a trap that caught a stoat and everything in the bush came over for a lick and a chew, cats several times, a possum also rats and hogs, we need to bottle that smell. Kiwi-Hunter I had a tunnel trap that I painted black inside and outside including the trap and it was about 6 months before anything went in it then it started catching everything maybe the paint smell put them off for a while, I also have a tunnel trap with the sides and top made of white corflute very visible and it catches all the critters and shitloads of possums.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BillyXmas546 View Post
    Sore Head Stoat (or all head no stoat haha) I had a camera on a trap that caught a stoat and everything in the bush came over for a lick and a chew, cats several times, a possum also rats and hogs, we need to bottle that smell. Kiwi-Hunter I had a tunnel trap that I painted black inside and outside including the trap and it was about 6 months before anything went in it then it started catching everything maybe the paint smell put them off for a while, I also have a tunnel trap with the sides and top made of white corflute very visible and it catches all the critters and shitloads of possums.
    Gday Billy, I am getting sick of getting half stoats, probably 10 or 15 of them now gggrrrr, lol. Yes mustelid must be a powerful stimulant/attractant to other animals.
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    Weasel caught on fresh rabbit only put the trap there a week ago, the rat caught using blue stuff. Remember Helen caught 4 weasels using mayonnaise well she got another one using mayonnaise on a golf ball, the weasels on my trap lines are a bit fussier.
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    Sore Head Stoat can you hang a weasel above a leghold, might get number one predator
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    I have just made the first boxes for my Doc200 traps. I noticed a few thinks when they were finished. One of the traps needed a hammer adjustment to the trigger mount which was too high. When the trap was activated the trigger arm snaped to the rear of the trap but the trap didn't slam closed. That was an easy fix. I bashed it lower. The other thing is they are both difficult to set. When you lift the wire setting loop the trigger doesn't locate on the sear and you have to get your hand down there in the danger zone to get it right. Is this normal? or is it me or the traps?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dermastor View Post
    I have just made the first boxes for my Doc200 traps. I noticed a few thinks when they were finished. One of the traps needed a hammer adjustment to the trigger mount which was too high. When the trap was activated the trigger arm snaped to the rear of the trap but the trap didn't slam closed. That was an easy fix. I bashed it lower. The other thing is they are both difficult to set. When you lift the wire setting loop the trigger doesn't locate on the sear and you have to get your hand down there in the danger zone to get it right. Is this normal? or is it me or the traps?
    Thanks

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    I have never had to bash a trap , they have worked perfectly esp from new.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BillyXmas546 View Post
    Sore Head Stoat can you hang a weasel above a leghold, might get number one predator
    yip few number 1 s about but i can only get to my high country lines once every 2 3 or 4 weeks, so leg holds are not an option for me.

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    Another question.. I have done this more than once. The other day i cleared one of my high country lines, the half stoat line lol.. On the way back home i pass another of my lines and i stopped and checked a few of those traps. I moved 1 of the traps 10m from where it had been for a couple of years and when i checked them today it had a stoat in. Now i have done this before, moved a trap and whammo next check it has an animal in. i have also put a new trap 30m away from a long established trap and the new trap has caught something.. Do you think the animal caught had been in the area all along and knew the other traps were danger but this new object was worth checking out ? Thoughts please.

 

 

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