Trapping For a Week in Kansas: Coyote Camp, 2021

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Trapping For a Week in Kansas: Coyote Camp, 2021

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Follow along as we load up and head to Kansas to chase after coyotes where we show the good, the bad and the ugly during a week of camping and trapping on the same farms we turkey hunt in the spring. The video ends with an important recap of some of the lessons we learned that might help you plan your own "coyote camp" some day. #trapper #trapping #coyotetrapping

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@MidwesternTrapper 2 жыл бұрын

I envy you and your sons relationship, I hope someday soon my boy will be out on the line with me. First video I’ve seen of yours and I enjoyed every bit of it. I’d also love to trap out west sometime!

@davidrose415 Жыл бұрын

I flag all of my sets with orange trail tape. DPs I put it on the tree I'm setting on. Coil springs I put on a tree near by, and either build a cubby around the trap, or put a short stick in the ground by my bait hole. Now my conabears it depends on if I have burrow under a tree/in the ground or if I am digging a set. Hold on hear me out cause this works extremely well. I dig a hole a little smaller than my conabear square, then build a shoulder for the trap to set on. Then small trenches for the springs to rest in out of the way. I dig the hole about 18" deep and put a opossum leg or something large at the bottom. I only cover the trap itself with dirt not the hole. Either they try to dig it and the trap will spring upward and grab their leg (trust me it won't hurt their leg cause we caught a hawk in one of these sets and released it completely unharmed, now we feed the hawk to keep it away from our sets), or they stick their head in to grab the bait and the trap springs up grabbing their head. I am yet to walk up on one triggered and the animal pulled out. Get lots of pull outs on coil springs. I have had misfires on my 220s because I didn't get the safety off all the way. This set works wonders though. We have only had one miscatch on the hawk. Seems birds just know to leave it alone. Now we do sometimes catch feral cats and dogs. If these traps get them by the head highly unlikely the dog or cat will survive, most of the time the feral cats/dogs try to dig the set and you get them by the leg. These cats and dogs are a major problem though killing the animals I want around, so we would shoot them anyway. All of our neighbors know I do this and keep their dogs in their fenced yards and their cats in the house. I trap their places along with ours for the same reasons. They will hunt the deer and turkey in season (I hunt public land to support the system here in Texas) where we are making a safe place for them so we can see the deer and turkey but they will go on neighboring properties in abundance for them to hunt them. Any way this is a set I use that is different from everyone else.

@stevenreep385 2 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a fun trip y’all had! I wish I had someone to go do that with

@coyotethumper1536 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, it’s nice to be able to make those memories with your Son they are priceless and cherished times that he will carry on, nice job. Take care

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rod for the nice words.

@stephensmith6808 3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for the video of "Mercy" but couldn't pull it back up for some reason. I wanted to share it with a few people. If I could like it more than once I would. God bless you my friend and may he give you a great season of trapping and hunting in the future!

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

It’s actually on BiggsTime Trapping’s channel ... one of my favorite videos ever made on the trapline.

@WildAboutBeingOutdoors 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed watching your video guys . Liked how you show the ugly part too. Pretty cool how you put together a list of the extra stuff to take along. 👍🏻

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment; we should have one or two more trapping videos up in the next month or so, too.

@CedarIIOutdoors 3 жыл бұрын

This is the first video I've watched from you guys. The video production is awesome. I started your video this morning but had to come back to finish. Lessons learned segment is great. That father/son time in priceless, as you know. I subscribed, obviously. Tight chains.

@cottrellshuntingandtrappin3016 3 жыл бұрын

Great video you all looked like you enjoyed yourselves. But most of all the memories made with your son. I am a trapper here in West Virginia. I enjoy taking my kids with me on the trap line.

@alexboael25 3 жыл бұрын

keep it real and thanks for all the advice!!! beginner trapper here!

@michaelurban4802 3 жыл бұрын

Hey I love your videos I just got into trapping, however I’m a registered nurse so I just wanna give you a little information here without being critical. When someone has sleep apnea it’s their trachea and such that is closing. They actually stop breathing is what happens. But it’s not your esophagus. There a Soffa guess is the tube where food goes from your mouth to your stomach. The trachea is your windpipe. Thanks again for such a cool videos!!

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, wrong terminology ... couldn't think of trachea on the fly while trying to keep my other thoughts together I wanted to convey, LOL... Thanks for taking the time to comment, and we appreciate you being a little part of our channel. Let me know if you have any questions as you embark upon your new endeavor! :)

@hillbillytrapperwestvirgin2722 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. I would love sometime to go out state trapping. New places. Keep up the great videos !

@coyotethumper1536 3 жыл бұрын

I had kind of the same issue with waxed sand so I do a 50/50 dirt to sand ratio for waxing and it has worked well for me.

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's funny... even after as long as we've been doing this, it seems like every season we keep evolving and experimenting with new methods and techniques. For instance, we've ALWAYS been huge polyfil users... never really had any problems with it and caught tons of animals on it. But this season we used screens all year. Caught some fur, but we second-guessed ourselves on the ability to pack between the pan and the inside of the jaws (we like EVERYTHING packed solid, except the pan -- and then it'll be too late.) So I just finished cutting pan-shaped rectangles of pipe insulation to use as a filler beneath the pans... we're going to try those next. Could we go out and catch fur any day of the week using our old techniques? Sure we could... but we enjoy trying and experimenting with new stuff as much as the next guy. :)

@ellobo1326 2 жыл бұрын

I spray all my tools orange so I will hopefully not overlook them and leave them in the first place.

@nicholascampbell3369 3 жыл бұрын

Looked like an awesome trip!

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! It was both fun and relaxing, even though we were hitting it pretty hard.

@paulnoble5610 3 жыл бұрын

great vid guys looked like a lot of fun cheers from australia

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Now THERE’s a cool place to trap!! 😎😁

@jack0903 2 жыл бұрын

The coon was corn feed.

@gregbowen9546 3 жыл бұрын

Looked like a fun trip and great area to trap! Nice critters too!

@mikepuckett8086 3 жыл бұрын

I use a lot of table salt and peat moss, a lot cheaper than wax dirt and very reliable

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Certainly many ways to skin a cat in this business; that’s for sure! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! Tight chains!

@mikepuckett8086 3 жыл бұрын

@@StaggsintheWild really enjoyed your video, I live in south east Kansas, so probably not to far from where you were, made the trip out to south west Kansas to trap coyotes the last two years, what an adventure to be able to trap new territory, what a great blessing to have your son trapping with you.

@lonniechartrand 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like you need a tad longer ramps! lol I cannot imagine having almost 4,000 acres of prime yote ground to trap on! The "double ferrule trick" is one of the HANDIEST tips I have been shown in over fifty years of off and on trapping off. I am going to ask your opinion on a hotly debated item. Do you think, when an animal digs up a trap, that it thinks "Oh wow! That is a trap!!!" and avoids it, or is it just as simple as "Something is different here."? I can understand if dealing with a "trap wise" critter, but for a first timer coming across a trap I find it hard to comprehend that they know that the trap is "danger". Of course I also question the importance of scent control. When an animal smells "human scent" do they really know that it is "human"? These are the things I ponder when running my traps. Same thing with deer hunting! I will pee in a buck scrape just to get the buck's curiosity up, and have NEVER had a buck abandon, or spook, from a scrape that I peed in. I mean, how would that buck know that it was a human that peed there? Unless they know what Natural Light smells like! lol

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

As you know from watching all my videos on this channel, I run a LOT of cameras over my sets, and have for almost a decade and a half. After close observation and lots of reflection, I've come to the conclusion that animals almost NEVER attempt to unearth or uncover a trap due to "smell" -- but almost ALWAYS it's due to stepping on a tippy trap or loosely packed dirt. In fact, I actually contest that most of the time, it's NOT a canine which is doing the digging, in direct opposition to what most people say on trapping forums or on Facebook groups. Ever follow a thread and the first "guess" at what's digging at a trap is "You've got a fox playing with you!" or... "It's a smart old coyote that's been pinched before!" COULD those be viable possibilities? Yes, they COULD be. But more than likely, they're wrong guesses. I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money that if you compiled all those questions of "What's digging my trap up?" and aggregated them into percentages of what animal it ACTUALLY was doing the digging, well into the 90th percentile would be raccoons. They just have a natural propensity that when they feel loose or shifting soil beneath their feet, they start digging. Whether it's a curiosity thing or a hunger emotion triggered by the chance they may have found a shallow rodent's hiding hole, they start digging without fail. So... my takeaway is this: Bedding a trap SOLIDLY, without it being tippy or wobbly, is of the utmost importance. Following closely in second place is packing the trap in well, and not leaving loose soil around the jaws or between the jaws and the pan. Figuring out how to keep the trap working in our ridiculous Midwest freeze-thaw conditions is next, because a frozen-in trap won't catch critters. But that's another discussion for another day... :)

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

And I pee off my stands and in scrapes all the time... have for decades. And my trophy wall after hunting exclusively highly pressured public land only during that time frame doesn't look too shabby... ;)

@roydriskill8342 2 жыл бұрын

Staggs in the Wild, have you ever tried hay sets to offset the amount of wax dirt needed in Kansas freeze thaw conditions? I live in northwest Kansas & have almost completely quit using wax dirt on flat sets & instead using wheat straw to make hay sets.

@kenneth3558 3 жыл бұрын

In your opinion are these stakes better then an earth anchor? In my little trapping experience dig outs is caused more from them smelling the trap or the scent you leave behind while making the set. Do yall use rubber gloves and change them between sets? Its cool to see some trapping videos keep up the good work.

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Well, first of all I believe these stakes fall under the general classification of earth anchors; they're just a different "type" of anchor. Hope that makes sense. Watch for an upcoming video dedicated SOLELY to this anchoring system, and why we believe it is THE best on the market today... so that should answer your question. :) I have run a LOT of cameras over our sets (watch the "Catching Canines" and "Catching Cats" videos as an example). Most of us older trappers have come to the conclusion over a decade-plus trapping that scent on the trap is NOT the most important thing -- even though you'll see lots of guys quickly say that on forums or Facebook pages. Typically, the people who say that are newer trappers "guessing" at what the problem is with little factual evidence behind their guess. It falls into the same category or example as everyone guessing that it's a fox digging up their traps -- when there's about a 98% chance it was a raccoon. :) By FAR the most important ingredient in not having your traps dug up and exposed is SOLID bedding; your trap shouldn't MOVE until it has fired. Likewise, the bedding around the trap and inside the jaws next to the pan HAS to be solid. That's what is happening 99% of the time when a trap gets dug up... It's not that an animal has "smelled" your trap, but it's found loose dirt and is either curious or is looking for a place that a vole or mouse may have possible buried itself and is looking for a quick easy meal. Hope that helps. It's a belief, philosophy or mindset that is contrary to the majority of what you'll see from new trappers who love to respond to questions on the internet... without having years and years of experience to back up their answer. ;) Hope that helps. Greg

@kenneth3558 3 жыл бұрын

@@StaggsintheWild This does help a lot. Like I said before I have little trapping experience. Unfortunately all my trapping has been done in florida where leg catch traps are not legal and places to trap are harder to come by. We designed a loaded snare that used a piece of pvc that was placed in the ground with a plate cut to the ID of the pvc. When the animal stepped on the plate it would release the tension on a snare combined with a jumper. In this set we didn't have issues with loose bedding as the pipe was pushed into the ground and the dirt was removed out of the center to put the plate in. I don't remember having many traps dug up. Maybe a couple. We mostly had the tension device uncovered or dug up. After awhile we finally got land owner and Florida wildlife consent to use leg catch traps and Belisles. We did see more dig ups. So what your saying about loose bedding makes a lot of sense then again most of our soil is sand so it packs pretty easy. I'm always trying to learn and appreciate the info.

@paulshuntandtrap1039 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve got apnea as well and I opted for sleep dentistry, so I can travel without needing a cpap and electricity.

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately such devices are only effective on slight to mild cases; I was in the sleep lab about five minutes before they sent me home, telling me “they’d seen enough”, lol.

@mikerafonemusic6177 3 жыл бұрын

I was pheasant hunting outside of McPherson my dad shot a coyote and go $15 from the game warden

@Dunlap-uj5zl 3 жыл бұрын

👍

@dirkg7062 2 жыл бұрын

Do you leave these animals in the trap until they eventually die?

@StaggsintheWild 2 жыл бұрын

Of course not! We check our traps every morning and make a determination then whether we want to take the animal or release it based on conservation goals we have for the area.

@TheOutdoorUniverse66 3 жыл бұрын

Nice videos. How do you like the No BS extremes traps

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love them... I started off 15 years or so ago with fully modified Bridger #2s and later implemented a bunch of MB550s and ran them for years. The KO Jrs are just SO much more solid, and built like a tank. I love the industrial coating that Kendall puts on them; it lasts for years and really takes catching a coon in them to rub it off... the only thing you'll need to do is carry some archery bowstring wax in your bag with you and run some wax over the dog notch to bring the out-of-the box pan tension down to a more respectable 2-3 lbs. But that's the ONLY thing you have to do to them.

@TheOutdoorUniverse66 3 жыл бұрын

@@StaggsintheWild awesome. I have some as well and did you what you said on bow string wax. I didnt have to time to really set a line this year so living vicariously through your video instead. Thanks for the reply and be safe out in this crazy world

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheOutdoorUniverse66 Possibly might have one more video coming out from this season called "Trapping a small farm" where I'm going to try to show some details on locations, why I chose them, and then follow along for a bit to see how we did. Should be a fun little video. :)

@TheOutdoorUniverse66 3 жыл бұрын

@@StaggsintheWild awesome. I live by Pomona KS. I see you all must be from Missouri as you drove past Kaufman Stadium heading West. Lol

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheOutdoorUniverse66 Yes, about as far away in Missouri as you can get, LOL!! I live about 8 miles from the Mississippi River about 2 hours south of St. Louis. :)

@joelmartz2889 3 жыл бұрын

Could i just give the little guy a little advise sneakers and crocs leave a lots of scent around the trap site rubber boots would help significantly in areas you are trapping without lots of human coyote interaction !!!!!!

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the input ... 😊 There’s a WIDE and deferring opinion on scent control measures we trappers can take, obviously. I didn’t mind him wearing what he did because more than the “type” of footwear he was using, I think it’s more important to consider “what” you’re walking through and then transferring out to the trapline. For instance, if he was going to gas stations and filling his car up and standing around in spilled gas at the pump, or working in a machine shop and then going out to set traps in those same shoes, I’d think that would be worse even if they were rubber boots. He didn’t do anything in those (and doesn’t hardly ever) except play and run around outside ... So I see exactly what you’re saying ... just something else to think about. 😊 Above all, glad to have you as a trapper watching the videos and sharing on our page and enjoying the action. Tight chains buddy!

@adamwarren1918 3 жыл бұрын

What's your preferred method of dispatch for the best hide integrity/profitability?

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

.22 to the head for coyotes; catch pole for cats.

@adamwarren1918 3 жыл бұрын

@@StaggsintheWild Could you tell me why you use the two different methods between animals?

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

@@adamwarren1918 Sure thing! I've never actually studied the anatomical differences between the two, but if I were a betting man I'd say that the carotid artery lies BENEATH the musculature of a coyote; they're almost impossible to choke out short of having some power-assisted pole... Cats choke out VERY easily, leading me to believe their carotids lie on the OUTSIDE of their neck muscles and below the skin. A cat can be choked out EXTREMELY quickly and it's a very humane method of dispatch. In fact, you have to be very cautious and careful if you choose to release any, such as a lot of us trappers do with females or young bobcats.

@adamwarren1918 3 жыл бұрын

@@StaggsintheWild Thank you for taking the time to explain. Im just getting into trapping. Im your next door neighbor over here in KS and am looking forward to learning all I can. Your videos have been a great help so far.

@Crazyhorseflats 3 жыл бұрын

Roughing it?? Thays luxury!!

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

😁 We agree. We’re very blessed.

@ericl2424 3 жыл бұрын

Did you say in cat video you trap in Missouri?

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Trap and live in Missouri.

@ericl2424 3 жыл бұрын

Be interested in helping/teaching how to do sets next season since almost over? I'm in central MO

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Very possibly could make that work ... for my day job, my sales territory goes up to just below Columbia.

@ericl2424 3 жыл бұрын

I'm between Columbia and Jefferson city

@lonniechartrand 3 жыл бұрын

Can you "heat treat" your $8.00 driver with a torch?

@StaggsintheWild 3 жыл бұрын

Possibly. I'm not well-versed in working with metal, so I just ordered one that had already been done for me to ensure it was done correctly. It's got a bit nicer top to which to hammer on as well. :)

@lonniechartrand 3 жыл бұрын

@@StaggsintheWild That "tempering" process can get complicated and you have to then worry about the metal getting brittle and breaking. I like your idea better of just BUYING the hardened one!