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Predator Hunting is Enjoyable and Beneficial

I enjoy hunting predators, but I also know its benefits for increasing the amount of wildlife on properties. I do most of my predator hunting on public lands. Up until five or six years ago, I was about the only one around my area who hunted public lands for predators. But then central Pennsylvania started conducting a large predator hunt for money, and today during that time, you can hardly go into the woods without

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Trapping Beavers, Coyotes and Bobcats

My partners and I have some landowners we were trapping for who were having problems with beavers flooding much of their hunting lands. When they asked us to trap beavers, we agreed and bought some Conibear traps. We learned that trapping beavers was a lot of hard work. You have to break the dam, which takes about three hours, set the trap and catch the beaver. But then those beavers left will return and have

Predator, Land Management

Hunting and Trapping Predators as a Family

My purposes for trapping are two-fold. I use trapping and predator hunting to improve our hunting lands for wildlife and to spend quality time with my children. Our children aren’t just spectators in our trapping, they’re also participants. All three of them can set dog-proof raccoon traps and cage traps. There’s nothing more fun for us and them than running our traplines. On those trapping excursions, we spend quality time with our children, and we’re

Predator, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

A Record Year for Predator Hunting and a Raccoon Recipe

Two years ago, in 2016, my hunting partners and I had our best year of predator hunting and took 15 coyotes, 25-30 gray foxes, five red foxes, 18 bobcats and at least two to three dozen possums and the same number of raccoons. I’m often asked what I do with the raccoons and possums after we skin them. I’m not going to eat a possum, but I did get a recipe from an older man

Small Game, Predator, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Understanding Patterns and Calling for Predator Hunting

I once caught five bobcats out of the same trap placed in the same location. The following year, I caught four bobcats in that same trap. So, I learned that you can pattern predators much like you pattern deer. Year after year, predators will return to some of the same places where you’ve caught them previously. Predators are much like cockroaches and wild hogs – you can beat their numbers back, but you’ll never entirely

Deer, Turkey, Predator, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Fewer Predators, More Deer and Turkeys

To have more wildlife on your property, especially deer and turkeys, you must manage predators. Mossy Oak GameKeepers ProStaffer Michael C. Johnson of Plainfield, Georgia, started trapping and harvesting predators about nine years ago. Johnson has been a Mossy Oak ProStaffer for three years. Michael Johnson | Mossy Oak ProStaff I started hunting and trapping coyotes, foxes, raccoons and possums, because they were keeping turkey and deer numbers down on the properties my family and

Deer, Turkey, Predator, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

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