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Re: Another Season

Postby MuddyWaterWarlock » Wed Dec 12, 2012 4:26 pm

Educate me! What is the difference between Red and Gray Fox tracks? Don't say color!
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Re: Another Season

Postby Olly » Wed Dec 12, 2012 4:28 pm

MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:Educate me! What is the difference between Red and Gray Fox tracks? Don't say color!


One's from the "other" side of the tracks.




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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Wed Dec 12, 2012 5:22 pm

MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:Educate me! What is the difference between Red and Gray Fox tracks? Don't say color!


Color :lol:

That's the easiest one. Reds prefer to hunt in fields and open areas, grays stay in (or very very close to) the thick woods. Reds are bigger by about 20% or so. And reds are worth more. I have no scientific proof, but reds seem to eat more meat.
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Wed Dec 12, 2012 5:23 pm

Just realized you said "tracks". Grays are smaller and more oval. The heel pad is much closer to the toe pad on a gray fox track.
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Re: Another Season

Postby MuddyWaterWarlock » Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:58 pm

assateague wrote:Just realized you said "tracks". Grays are smaller and more oval. The heel pad is much closer to the toe pad on a gray fox track.

Thanks! As far as color around here sometimes they are very similar and hard to tell at a glance. Just don't see many of the bright red pretty ones anymore.
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Thu Dec 13, 2012 2:57 pm

An update. Shaping up to be a very, very poor year, but things could change. I thought last year was bad, but I'll be lucky to get close to last years totals, and I pulled all my traps by the middle of January because it was so warm they were losing their winter coats. It's still fun, but it needs to be a little colder. For the record, I had two mangy foxes (both reds, of course) so far, and I have two coon hides in the freezer.
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Re: Another Season

Postby one2many » Thu Dec 13, 2012 3:06 pm

assateague wrote:An update. Shaping up to be a very, very poor year, but things could change. I thought last year was bad, but I'll be lucky to get close to last years totals, and I pulled all my traps by the middle of January because it was so warm they were losing their winter coats. It's still fun, but it needs to be a little colder. For the record, I had two mangy foxes (both reds, of course) so far, and I have two coon hides in the freezer.
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poor season for you maybe but still looks nice hanging there. you are a skinning machine :thumbsup:
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Thu Dec 13, 2012 3:22 pm

My neighbor (and trapping mentor) is the skinning machine. Takes him 7 minutes from hanging-skinning-scraping-on the stretcher for a red fox, maybe 9 for a gray, and 12 for a coon. He's got 213 so far this year, but he is retired, and runs his trap lines all morning into the afternoon. I think he's got about 55-60 sets out, which still isn't a huge number. He's just killing his average- I think it's around 7.1 a day (a little better than 13%) , mines down to .8, which is 8.8%, based on the average number of traps I've had out (although if you count the effing skunks and possums I'm probably up to about 12%. Bastards.). The catch goal is 10% of your trap count, so I'm slacking, but I've been so busy with work that I just don't have time to get more than a dozen traps out at any given time, and often less than that. Right now I've only got 7 sets out. Irritates me.
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Re: Another Season

Postby Eric Haynes » Thu Dec 13, 2012 4:48 pm

assateague wrote:My neighbor (and trapping mentor) is the skinning machine. Takes him 7 minutes from hanging-skinning-scraping-on the stretcher for a red fox, maybe 9 for a gray, and 12 for a coon. He's got 213 so far this year, but he is retired, and runs his trap lines all morning into the afternoon. I think he's got about 55-60 sets out, which still isn't a huge number. He's just killing his average- I think it's around 7.1 a day (a little better than 13%) , mines down to .8, which is 8.8%, based on the average number of traps I've had out (although if you count the effing skunks and possums I'm probably up to about 12%. Bastards.). The catch goal is 10% of your trap count, so I'm slacking, but I've been so busy with work that I just don't have time to get more than a dozen traps out at any given time, and often less than that. Right now I've only got 7 sets out. Irritates me.


You are making me wish I would have got back into it this year rather than next. I have a lot of land I can trap, but honestly, I just hate all of the work after the catch. Wish I knew someone to do all the skinning and stretching and we could just split the cash.
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:06 am

Getting that average back up today.
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Re: Another Season

Postby Goldfish » Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:43 am

Your wood stack is getting low. Or are you planning on burning coons?
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Sat Dec 15, 2012 2:06 pm

Went down to see how the neighbor did today. Another banner day for him! :lol:
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Re: Another Season

Postby one2many » Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:05 pm

assateague wrote:Went down to see how the neighbor did today. Another banner day for him! :lol:
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if i wasnt lazy i would start running a trap line again :oops:
you all seem to have lots of fox there
how many hours a week does the guy put into trapping?
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:45 pm

He's got a ton of time in it. As far as actual trapping time, I don't know. Right now, he's only got between 58 and 64 traps out, but they're scattered all over creation. As I said, he's retired, so he drives around checking them and having coffee all morning, usually gets home around 1:00, then skins until about 4 or 5.
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Re: Another Season

Postby Olly » Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:48 pm

assateague wrote:He's got a ton of time in it. As far as actual trapping time, I don't know. Right now, he's only got between 58 and 64 traps out, but they're scattered all over creation. As I said, he's retired, so he drives around checking them and having coffee all morning, usually gets home around 1:00, then skins until about 4 or 5.


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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:32 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Another Season

Postby huntfishnv » Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:38 pm

assateague wrote:Went down to see how the neighbor did today. Another banner day for him! :lol:
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That's impressive. I've always wanted to take a fox.
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:57 am

With the weather being what it is (hot) I hate to bad mouth any catches. But lately, I've gotten into some really big coons. The "problem" is that they're not worth even half as much as a gray fox, and are twice the work to skin and flesh. Since Sunday, I've got one red, one gray, and 7 coons. But at least they're big.

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Re: Another Season

Postby Goldfish » Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:16 am

I'd probably be pretty big and fat too if I were eating a billion eggs from the black ducks that nobody can shoot.
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:45 am

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

The place I'm trapping now has a compost shed right through the woods, about 50 yards away. I suspect fat coons are in my future until I move on from there. The compost sheds are where the chicken farmers throw their dead birds. You have to walk the houses every day, and collect the dead (usually suffocated) birds, then they throw them in big open sided pole barns. They're like Golden Corrals for coons around here.
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Re: Another Season

Postby Flightstopper » Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:09 am

But do they get a chocolate fountain??
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Re: Another Season

Postby Weston81 » Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:10 am

Or Cotton Candy.
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Re: Another Season

Postby obxbufflehead » Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:10 am

Flightstopper wrote:But do they get a chocolate fountain??

And cotton candy?
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Re: Another Season

Postby obxbufflehead » Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:11 am

obxbufflehead wrote:
Flightstopper wrote:But do they get a chocolate fountain??

And cotton candy?

Damnit Weston! Beat me to it!!
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Re: Another Season

Postby Weston81 » Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:14 am

Sorry buddy, I just remember them pimping their CC for months on TV, wasn't a big selling point to me.
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Re: Another Season

Postby obxbufflehead » Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:16 am

Weston81 wrote:Sorry buddy, I just remember them pimping their CC for months on TV, wasn't a big selling point to me.

Na your good man. Same here. Used to go there when I was little. My dad would call it the trough lol.
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:19 am

A good day.
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Re: Another Season

Postby Weston81 » Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:40 am

NICE!!
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Re: Another Season

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Re: Another Season

Postby Olly » Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:37 pm

How money am I looking at there?

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