Hyperwrx

Keep em coming in. No rest for the wicked trapper. Keep up the hard work.

Advice I charge nothing. I'm happy to get guys going in the right direction fur handling-wise. A $300 bobcat can become a $150 bobcat with just a few simple mistakes.

See you this week sometime.

I live in Gilbert/Queen Creek area if you are interested. PM me.

The Project Coyote crew has all their ducks in a row and California predator hunters are in a world of hurt right now.

Can you post some pictures of the knock offs. Specifically the pan, cam, and door tracks.

The United States has a rich history of trapping wildlife. Pretty much everyone has an ancestor who trapped or somehow was involved with trapping at some point. It's a down right shame many citizens not only want nothing to do with it, but actively campaign against it.

What I used to trap in when we were getting $600-900 a pelt. Queen bed in the back 2 twins in front, full bathroom with shower, full kitchenette with stove oven and microwave. TV ad DVD player. I was dumb to sell it. Sold it and bought a smaller trapping truck. 25 mpg was more important I decided. For 2 wheel drive I am impressed. short wheel base gets me all over and into the good stuff.

Yes I always use 2 coilspring traps hooked together to 1 disposible stake hammered into the ground 18 inches. 2 clean and clear paths to the dirt hole set. 1 trap in each. stuff in middle so he has to take one of 2 routes in. Lots of backing so he has to approach from front. Like a tree or wash side.

Small female was released. Mean old Tom. 20ish pounds Same tom on my tailgate. One of my bigger bobcats. He fetched $480 at the ATA sale. Danglers I make myself. I swear by them. Lion at my bobcat Lots of fun double days. Hard to believe that trap has an offset. It does. A bobcat or coyote will often times make a pitchers mount of the trap area. Kit fox in a foothold. Poor thing became a snack for a coyote. I called and told my daughter I got her a cat as a pet. She was in the when I drove up.garage. He doesn't seem to be to friendly dad and I dont think he's gonna each much." Big cat. Grey foxes Double foot catch He's done given up on gettign out. Doube foot attached to an iron post. He was not getting away Just get it over with. Im trim on a coat already Skinning this bobcat I found 3 crossman pellets in his hide. Seemed to not hinder him.

im sure trapping next to neighborhoods is real good, probably very little competition too. there was like 12 bobcats around our house in las sendas couple years ago but havent seen them in a long time. saw some javelinas and coyotes the other day though. While I am not opposed to trapping near a neighborhood if it breaks no regulations, I never said that's where I was. You assume that. I live in Gilbert. I have to travel 40 minutes just to get out of the M unit. BTW you neighborhood is in an M unit. No trapping allowed. Get out of the city limits and 440 yards from a house and those bobcats are free for the taking. The closest locations just outside the M unit is where most all the new trappers go. The bobcats in those areas get cleaned out quick and early in the season (November). Plus you have the highest chances of getting traps stolen because lots of trappers are out and about. To really get into new bobcats you need to not be afraid to drive. Last year I had 3 different lines. Each one took me 3- 3.5 hours to do round trip. No traps stayed in the same place for more than a few weeks. Some trapping pictures from last season- The barely caught... The you're so caught it aint funny... Kit Fox http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp105/Hyperwrx/Trapping%202013-2014/20140209_170319_zpsab54e806.jpg Typical cage set Bread and butter This SUV just picked up a bunch of illegals in the desert. I was skinning a bobcat on my tailgate when they drove by. Always backing my glock 23 in plain sight. Pup in a cage. Let him go, A stray like this ought to be a meal for a few coyotes. Im caught so I mine tis well tear the crap out of your cage. More cats in the desert 20ish pound cat. That funny guy here gave me flack last year for blurring the mountain out. He said they were houses. LOL.

That was not the case, but If I was next to her 'yard', following the current G&F regulations, I am not at fault and she has no right to tamper with a legally set trap, regardless if she dislikes trapping. The work 'yard' is not found once in the trapping regulations.

Lots of these videos are quite old. This coyote growled and bit me on the leg so I stopped and set up my phone/camera thinking he'd try to bite me again. Bad camera work but a triple on fox. Coyote attacks my grey fox taxidermy decoy. I get so excited I cant even shoot straight. LOL

No, not a lot. Half a dozen. Also some bloopers. Called in a fox to 5' and forgot to load my shotgun. My flinch when I pull the trigger is classic. Few fox doubles on video, 1 triple on video.

On your trappers tag all you need to have is your trappers ID number, nothing else. All that extra space can be smartly used by putting in your local G&F office address. Mine also say DO NOT TOUCH AZ GAME & FISH. Who knows if it makes a difference. Can't hurt. I know a fellow trapper who had signs made out of thick plastic and be put them on the top of his cages as a deterrent to thieves. DO NOT TOUCH and the whole 9 yards. Problem was he used the AZG&F quail logo and they took exception to it. He had to pull all his signs. I'd be careful telling the public there is rabies in the area without the authority to actually do that. If the signs can be traced back to you and people get in an uproar you might at the very least get your cages pulled by G&F and you have to explain yourself. That's a hassle and puts you under a magnifying glass by G&F. I'd cut out that part or cover it.

I would too, thats why I was intrigued. Never ceases to amaze me what those little bullets will and wont do when they are screaming down range. Thats me, Strawberry or ATA sales or conventions, bumped into ya several times. They messed up and sent me overseas again this year so I spent most of last season at schools on the east coast. Made it to the sale this year and sold everything I had during all the "no sales", lol. I was leaving and had fun collecting what I brought. Success! I dig the #4 Creek Double Longs for an exposed pan cat set. For everything else canine I am a modified #3 Bridger guy. Only lug around cages cause AZ makes me. I thought this was you. I took all the cats and foxes I had and dumped everything at the last ATA sale as well. I think I made out fine, but my fur was way before all the no sales came up and Ron had to get up and lecture everyone. I know some good fur that either no saled or got pennies on the dollar due to the buyers working together to walk away with lots of nice fur for a song and dance. The Briarpatch sale in Kingman did no better or even worse. NAFA might have squeezed out a little more cash but money in my hand quick is worth a percentage of my profits. I appreciate the sacrifices you go through serving in the armed forces. You guys doing what you do, enable hunters and trappers all over the United States to enjoy the freedoms we do in a round about way. No trapping overseas? .17s are a real blast to shoot. I've shot grey foxes broadside and 15 yards and had no visible entry and no exit. Pick em up and it sounds like a slushy mess inside. Instant death. Here is a fun video. 2 foxes and 1 cat on 1 stand. 1 fox I shot though the grass on and missed. 25g at 3900 fps can't go through anything and expect the trajectory to go haywire or the bullet fragment. Bobcat was recovered a little ways away.

Lost one to a guy on horseback last year. He tore off the plastic, opened the door, dumped out everything inside, and walked off with the cage. Horse tracks leading up to the cage. Once had a few guys walk up the trail just after I checked a trap. Those horses were flipping out smelling that bobcat gland lure. One rider said what are you doing, my horse smells something and hates it. I told him I was trapping nearby and left it at that. They were good old boys and didn't have a problem with it. Also last year I pulled up and looked toward a cage trap I had set in a wash. The barbed wire fence just off the road had a giant X with red duct tape on it. Great I thought. I hopped hte fence saw the door was down and jogged over there. In the cage was a big tom bobcat with the door shut. The antis has put red duct tape all over the cage but were afraid of opening the door to let the cat out. They pushed through the wire a sub sandwich LOL and had a pan of water OUTSIDE the cage against the door. Since a bobcat has an anteater tongue and can lap it up 6 inches away? I dispatched that tom and pulled the set. Later I called up the AZ G&F guy in charge of trapping and asked if he had any report of suspected illegal traps in this area. He did and said he was going to check on it that afternoon. I told him it was legally set and the details. I made a big deal about how they tampered with a trap, which is a crime defined in the AZ G&F regulations and he said he'd look into it. AZ G&F will never pursue criminal charges on a civilian messing with a trap even if they admit they did it. They don't want bad publicity. Stealing is another thing, they act like they'd go after someone on, but not tampering with a legally set trap. Even if its illegally set, they can't tamper with it. They are to contact AZ G&F and they handle it. If a land owner finds a trap on his property I imagine he can mess with it, but even that I am not sure. Once had a loonie woman tossing river rocks over a fence to set off a foothold trap I had. Fox had dug around the trap not setting it off but making it visible. I pull up and yell at her as she continued to toss rocks over the fence as I was pulling the set. She tells me I'm a murderer and she is going to tell the police. I pulled the set and went off to check the next trap down the dirt road. The snowbirds come from a different state and think they have a right to force hunters and trappers to adhere to their morals and ethics. My stance is follow the law. If the law allows you to mess with my stuff then go ahead. If it doesn't, then back off and deal with it. If you don't like it, work within the perimeters of the law to fix what you don't like. In the meantime, get the heck out of my way I got money to make!

Great video. Someday I want to start filming. I dont know the specifics or circumstances of the shot but it looks as though the same branches blocking the camera shot were blocking yours as well. Did the small .17 pill not penetrate the skull completely? Not armchairing your shot at all, but with your experience with that gun do you think the results would have been more "instant" with a shot 3-4" lower in the neck? The one down fall I experience with the smaller calibers is the need for a well placed shot. Sometimes as I'm sure you know I have to wait a bit longer for the right angle. I'm not a contest caller so I feel I can afford a few extra moments to wait em' out. Shot placement is my #1 concern when using any of the .17s. From splashes to unethical kils, the .17 are a gun made for a patient marksman. I don;t know if I mentioned it in this thread but I lost a lion down near Patagonia 4ish years ago. Was shooting grey fox and a lion showed up on stand nestled in the Junipers. I let him get as close as I could as I knew the .17 FB was going to have to work a miracle. All I had was a head and upper shoulder shot so at 33 yards I zerod on the head between the eyes and the bullet defiantly smacked him in the face as he jumped and flipped all over in the dirt for a while but I was unable to recover him. I think the bullet ricocheted off the skull. On the coyote in the video, my angle was a bit different than his. I didn't have much of a shot and the head was the best spot at that moment. Coyote was looking at us dead center and I expected him to bug out quick. Bullet penetrated but not like what you'd expect. I'd expect an instant death at 25g flying at 3900. You the same Wumpuspus cat that is or was an active military guy down South? Didn't I meet you at an ATA sale? You're a fan of sleepy creek footholds?

Calling in a lion with an electronic caller doesn't really take much talent. Knowing where the lions are and being patient is 9/10ths of the battle. Show me a hunter who hand calls one in and successfully harvests and he has my utmost respect. THAT is no small feat.

That's bobcat. Quick test is to smash it up and you'll see its mostly hair and bone matter, no vegetation, seeds and stuff.

How would you know it is private land in the first place? A fence? Since when is a barbed wire fence considered anything but a cattle barrier? Your foothold trap has to be on private property, 1/2 mile away from a building, 100 yards off the blacktop, 75 feet off a dirt road, 50 feet off even a trail, not by a camping area, boat dock, park, no sight-exposed bait within in 30 feet of the trap, that included feathers, trap has to be 6 inch jaw spread or less, offset or padded jaws, shock-spring and 2 swivels equipped....................... bla bla bla. The rules are so tight on foothold traps if trappers were checked, chances are they'd get caught for something. On private land, they have to post it, a certain distance from each sign, the sign has to be a certain dimensions and letter size and a mess of other stuff. Most trappers, me included will just pass up ANY PRIVATE land where the owner at least attempts to post it, this included no a simple trespassing sign. I pass on those as it's better to not ruffle feathers when trappers are walking on thin ice as is. If you did put your cage trap or foothold on private land and the owner of said land found your trap, you'd have no grounds to get it back. If you are trespassing on his private land (no signs posted) and he catches you making a set he tells you to leave you say sorry, and walk away. I have had that happen a few times. "Hey, how was I to know this was your private land?" Last year I found a nice piece of private land with a big thicket nearby (good bobcat habitat and bobcat sign everywhere). Problem was the land was easily within the 1/2 mile occupied building. I found the closest place on the private land to that thicket which was just outside the 1/2 mile radius and put a few dirt hole sets there. Next day I pull up in my truck to see a guy on a horse 25 feet from my set looking at it. I'd caught a nice tom bobcat and it was making a rucus with the cowboy and horse nearby. I don't use drags. I anchor my traps with disposable stakes. Well, if I am legal, I'm legal I think and I get out to dispatch the bobcat and see how this cowboy wants to handle this. I choke it down with him while he stars at me. I looked at him and say, "That was a 30 second rodeo. What did you think of that?" He says, "Is twhat you're doing legal? I thought trappers couldn't use jaw traps no more." I explain to him the changes in the regulations and the stipulations to using a foothold and where the private land ends and the 1/2 mile radius started. I was 50 feet in the clear. He said, "well dang, you keep on doing what you're doing. Good luck." and he rode off. Now that he knew I was there, I just pulled those 2 sets and moved on. One guys talks to another guy and you can't trust nobody these days so that's a problem waiting to happen. A good trapper will move in, harvest the low hanging fruit so to speak, and move out without nobody knowing what he was up to. Draw no undue attention.

I have used by GoPro Hero 3+ Black edition with the remote and not had a problem with my Foxpro CS-24C or my Minaska AR-2.

I don't reload except for shotgun so I end of paying out the nose for bullets. I shoot Armagaddon 20 g FB hollow points by Nosler. 4200fps out the barrel. Fairly flat trajectory. It's an inbetween caliber for bobcats, foxes, and a coyote. If you are looking for just a coyote gun with a super flat trajectory in a bolt action, I'd go with a .22-250 hands down. It's a good fur caliber for coyotes. Well placed shots will not have you sewing much if any. Hit a shoulder and you'll experience a splash as another mentioned. .22-250 is THE coyote fur gun. The best guys in the United States swear by them, and if those guys count on that caliber, I'll take their word for it and use one. I have one and have killed proally 50ish coyotes with it over the years. Mean gun out to great distances. Packs more of a punch and isn't as fur friendly on a little grey fox or a thin skinned bobcat. My .17 Remington is a nice coyote gun. Accurate and fast. Few follow up shots are needed if a hunter can have the patience for a quality shot. My recipe- no wildcats since I don't reload. I own these all and shoot them regularly. .17 Fireball- Fox and bobcats (fur gun) .17 Remington- Bobcats and coyotes (fur gun) .22-250- Coyote (fur and competition hunt gun) .223- Coyote only (recreational gun) I shoot more with a 12 GA shotgun shooting #4 or F shot than all the other combined. As mentioned everyone has an opinion.

Private land does not mean the public can not go on it. Much of the area I trap is private but you'd not know it because there are no signs designating it as anything. Guys are all over it on quads, waking, and trucks. County maps show me where the public/private land is and I stick to those. Careful, some cities like Tucson annex land and it changes ownership status. Even if its private, you can legally trap with without the land owner even knowing if you follow the trapping laws to a T. It's a slippery slope that I don't suggest any trapper walk unless he knows the laws and isn't in an area that can lead to non-target animals caught. In the grand scheme of things, is catching 1 more bobcat worth being on the news and jeopardizing trapping for everyone in the state? That's how we lost footholds on public land in the 90's. Someone caught a yappy dog on a legally set trap and all heck broke loose. In Cali a few years ago a serviceman who traps legally placed a legal trap in an area where some old liberals were feeding the bobcats. Someone found a legally trapped bobcat and all heck broke loose. Many of us sent our own hard earned cash to fight that legal battle. ATA sent cash, NTA sent cash. In the end CA Trapping didn't take a hit with regards to regulations but now we see idiotic groups like Project Coyote spring up from the ashes of unfortunate events like that. Trapping the line of legality (ON THE LEGAL SIDE but on the razors edge) is not to be taken lightly. Veteran trappers do it because they know the snares (no pun intended) and avoid them. New trappers should stay clear of the line of fuzzy interpretation. Play it safe so we and our kids can trap for years to come. AZG&F HabiMap everyone likes to use to see boundary lines is not only not up to date and reliable, but clearly states you can't use it as a legal document in interpreting AZG&F regulations. I had a close call with AZG&F last year based on the Habimap boundary lines. I was allowed 24 hours by the G&F agent in charge of trapping to move my traps or be in violation. Not my fault in my opinion, but the guy worked with me on it and allowed me to remove the traps, which I was grateful for. The agent told me the Habimap is a reference but when it comes to legality, the outlines in the current regs is what counts in a court of law and before the commission. I lost a half a dozen footholds last year to competing trappers. They know bobcat habitat and know where footholds 'ought' to be. It's then basically get out and look around and they find them. Bad part comes with what you mentioned your issue was, they can see a clearly defined trap route and just follow you as you drive along and collect what they can find. Good thing is the AZG&F guy who was or still is in charge of trapping will actively help find lost traps if you can give them a lead. Ron Day, the previous AZG&F biologist until a few years ago, is also a LEO and trapper himself and would stop and or confront an individual a trapper suspects has his traps and try to get them back. He helped me a few times. If a trap is stolen and it has your trapper ID number on it you don't need to fret about it. You don't need to call G&F about it. I have had multiple AZ G&F agents explain this to me and trappers at meetings. Example- say you place a cage or foothold somewhere legally. It gets stolen. You write it off and keep trapping the following months/years. The thief has your foothold and a year later traps Pima Rd and Dynamite Rd. in Upper Scottsdale (M Unit- can't trap there) chasing after the bobcats in the area. He is going to check his trap every few days if not every day. Eventually some old coot is going to be walking his yappy dog in a wash in that area and come upon a bobcat in a cage or foothold and they will call G&F. G&F will go in and look at the trap ID and do some background work. They wont contact you. They will then do a 24-7 stake out on the trap knowing the thief will see a dropped door or have to approach on foot and they'll nab him. At that point they'll match trap with caught illegal trapper and realize you are not at fault. You'll then get a call and you can come down and get your trap if you can show ID. This exact scenario happened but I changed the details a bit. I just keep a document with any trap that was stolen, and the date and location. On your cage traps, etch in to the underside of the pan your initials or trapper ID number. A trapper can pull your tag and replace it with his own and now its his trap. Have some mark you can ID your traps. I do it on my footholds also. I know a trapper who got back his cage traps being sold on a corner in AJ by having such a mark. On your traps ID tag don't put any personal info such as your home address. Just your trapper ID number. I have caught multiple domestic dogs. I sure as heck don't want a pissed dog owner coming to my home if my legally placed trap nabbed their illegally unleashed dog. I put the Mesa AZG&F office address. Let them take the trap there and they can deal with it. I'll get a call to come get my trap and hopefully the idiot who illegally tampered with a legal trap will get in trouble (this will never happen although legally it should). Up on the Navajo once it snows, some of the Native Americans will drive the 2 tracks looking for footprints off the 2 track into the snow. They'll take the traps along down the line. Navajos can trap their land and not pay the $250 license us pale skins have to have. Only 20 permits for us pale skins allowed per year. Take a broom with you and wisk away the tracks in the dirt as you walk back to the truck. Better is to step on rocks or vegetation if its available. Better yet is to set trap, wisk away footprints, and look at the trap with your binoculars from your truck's front seat and see if it's been tripped. Re-lure once a week. for some of you guys with 4-8 traps getting out of your truck to hike and check traps wont get old for a while, but it will in the end. Imagine checking 50-75 sets. Keeping your butt in the drivers seat to check becomes a criteria on where I place a trap. If I can see my steering wheel, I'll place my trap. If I need to cut a branch or two to see it, I will. If I have to use other tricks to see my set behind brush or rocks I will. There are lots of things you can do to know if your trap is sprung, even if you can't actually see the trap itself.

If you are looking to put up fur, shooting a target animal in the head risks a lot of blood getting on the fur and making a mess of the fur in the head area, thus creating more challenges stretching it on a stretcher. With foxes in cage traps, I put the business end of a rugar revolver in the cage, the fox bites the 6" barrel and I shoot it down the throat into its vitals. No exit, no head damage, blood typically stays in the fox. I shoot a .17 Fireball (25g @ 3900) when chasing fox and bobcat but wouldn't recommend it on coyotes if a headshot is what you are looking for. I shot a lion in the forehead in 36B with my .17FB and never recovered it. Here is a video of a coyote I shot in the head with the .17FB. Right between the eyes. Coyote was not ethically dispatched in my opinion and I wont try that again. FYI, I was targeting foxes and the coyote came along. I has Dan Carey build me a .17 Remington upper last year for my AR-15 and find it does a much better job dropping a coyote with minimal fur damage. Shot about 15 so far this year and enjoy just putting crosshairs on a coyote out past 250 and seeing it drop.