Posted by Billy NY on June 20, 2015 at 07:14:08 from (104.228.35.235):
In Reply to: number three posted by larry@stinescorner on June 19, 2015 at 15:47:59:
They over ran me last year, I trapped 1/2, shot the rest, they thin the previous year, but over ran me the year before that. Seems I reduce the population but it bounces right back in a year. So every other year its a problem lately. I've got one trying to rebuild a den under the back steps again, he's gotten off with warnings as I have missed each shot. He knows I'm after him too, he's got a den down the hill, but they love to be up near this house. I had an un-planned cover crop of pig weed in the upper garden patch, and they love that stuff, but I tilled that in for green manure, but he likes whats on the surrounding lawn. Field adjacent is not cut yet so, and I'm waiting on my new to me tractor to be delivered so for the first time in 13 years I can try to enjoy cutting this field, that helps keep em back, but they do run the old fence row as its wider with small trees and vegetation, makes a nice covered path.
They certainly are smart, vicious when caged though, wear a thick pair of welders gloves if handling. I dump them into a steel garbage can from a trap, can grab them from the back of the neck, control their body, they will submit. Most times I just tip the can over where I release them, lately I've had to dispatch most of them as I could not keep up with traps. I use ripe bananas for bait when trapping. Been a long time since I have caught one by hand, I used to be really good at out smarting them in the field, it does take patience though. They can get smart to that and will run to an alternate den if need be, as there is a network of them here now. Most go to their own den, but I have seen them run to another known hole more than once, after seeing them use another den exclusively. Depends on their age too, young ones are not as smart or cunning. If they do this, it might be a battle once inside if occupied by another one.
Outflank them undetected when grazing, know their path to the den, get in between them and the den, spook him where he's grazing with a rock or something, or just wait. Its like catching a ground ball in baseball, they will run right to you, but freeze at your feet, then you pounce and pin them to the ground. Thick gloves are required, elbow length if you can, but welders gloves will do. I've never had one be able to get to me by accident, but trust me, they could lop off a finger or darned close to it !
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