What is your go to coyote set?

[mossyoakpro]

2lb hammer

LOL...good deal

 

[buckpasser]

5.75 INSIDE so laminating jaws is perfectly legal. But my big iron comment is geared more towards pan size so the 5.75 is self limiting in that regard. BTW the IL/OL 650 is Georgia legal. As are inside laminated #3.
Yes, inside the perimeter I use 450 size gear more for PR than anything else but there is always the what if. Besides I do about equal fox vs coyote.
With smaller gear position and guiding is everything.

Duke #3s are legal in standard form, by between a 1/16 and 1/8 of an inch, depending on which chinaman forged them.

 

[Doug B.]

Duke #3s are legal in standard form, by between a 1/16 and 1/8 of an inch, depending on which chinaman forged them.

Another member here (I won't say his name) pointed out to me that although the regulations do say 5.75, it also states #2 traps. I thank him for pointing that out and I will stick with the #2 AND the 5.75 requirements. Different LEO's might let it go either way, but you are not really gaining anything if you have to laminate a #3 to get 5.75" and I don't want a ticket either way. That is my take. YMMV.

 

[buckpasser]

Another member here (I won't say his name) pointed out to me that although the regulations do say 5.75, it also states #2 traps. I thank him for pointing that out and I will stick with the #2 AND the 5.75 requirements. Different LEO's might let it go either way, but you are not really gaining anything if you have to laminate a #3 to get 5.75" and I don't want a ticket either way. That is my take. YMMV.

There’s no doubt that the trapping regs need updating as they are somewhat contradictory. I was actually told by a member of DNR that the measurement was the official portion of the law. That makes the most sense as any manufacturer can call a trap anything they want. I could create a buckpasser coyote #2 that’s 9” inside spread. Whoever drafted those regs had no business writing it both ways!

 

[buckpasser]

This ought to clear it right up. Photographed right from the official state trapping regs page. Clear as mud.

 

[Doug B.]

This ought to clear it right up. Photographed right from the official state trapping regs page. Clear as mud.


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That is the exact quote from the regulations my friend on here showed me. I'm glad we got that cleared up!

I agree bp, the regs need to be updated and more specific on everything so there is no gray area.

 

[gawildlife]

The 5.75 is the official. "#2 rule" is just a header or title.

I would, and have, set a duke #4 inside laminated without worry.

 

[buckpasser]

I think I found the official law worded as such:

 

[ScarFoot]

A lot of trappers like a post set or a flat set or whatever. There is also a lot of different modifications to some sets. What is your most used set?

I try to keep it pretty simple. The reason for that is because I have tried some of the elaborate sets. Like a trench set for example. Now, I'm not knocking a trench set or any other kind of set for that matter because I know they WILL catch coyotes. But i have spent between 30 and 45 minutes setting a trench set, just trying to get every little detail perfect in my way of thinking. Only to come check it the next morning and have a silver fox! Or even worse, a coon! And it looks like a bomb has consploded all over my set. Now, I know some of y'all don't do remakes and that's fine, but I have caught a lot of coyotes in remakes. So, how do you do a trench remake from a consploded coon catch?
Same thing with a flat set that has made a catch. How do you make it a flat set remake after a catch.
I usually always make them into a dirt hole set. And actually I go ahead and make most of my sets a dirt hole to start with. I do like to change it up if I do more than one set at a given location though. My first set will usually be a dirt hole. Then I will change the other one to a flat set or a post set or even a compass set. But I guess my go to set would be a dirt hole set.



Sorry guys! I'm just trying to keep some discussion going here in the trapping forum cause it is the most interesting forum on the board. Humor me............please!

I use a drag and let them run off leaving my set largely intact. They don't get far.

 

[furtaker]

Yes, it's the inside measurement of 5.75 that counts. I use 650s inside laminated and they're legal.

 

[shotgunpapa]

Summer or early season post sets winter dirt hole.

 

[Doug B.]

Seems like everybody likes a dirt hole. And for good reason. There has been a lot of fur caught at them cause it seems like a natural happening to the predators.

 

[Railroader]

Looks like I'm gonna have to learn how to set in trees, if this rain don't let up...

 

[sportsman94]

Looks like I'm gonna have to learn how to set in trees, if this rain don't let up...

pipe dream set is supposed to be waterproof!