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Post by gobblerfreak on Jan 14, 2007 19:41:27 GMT -5
 Someone made a thread a while back on the NWTF website asking if anyone's heard rumors of guys getting coyotes by tying cables between trees, over trails with treble hooks dangling baited with chunks of meat. Once the coyote jumps and bites onto the hook it is then left to suffer and die a horrible death. This is appalling and I am very sad to admit I have heard of folks doing this. I have never personally heard names or seem it done but if I did, would have no quams about reporting it and dismantling their "Traps". As hunters/ trappers/ outdoors men I feel we owe our quarry a certain amount of respect and dignity, these fellows obviously aren't Outdoors man!
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Post by hunter7x on Jan 15, 2007 11:48:24 GMT -5
I've never seen or heard of it, but have the same feeling you do. If I'm going to kill something I'm going to kill it. Don't see any reason to torture it or prolong it.
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Post by Decatur on Jan 15, 2007 12:21:38 GMT -5
That's disgusting!
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Post by sgtwal on Jan 15, 2007 14:39:41 GMT -5
This is one of those stories that never dies. Every outdoorsman has heard of it, but none has ever done it or actually knows anyone who has.
I'm not saying it hasn't been tried, I have met some folks who were mad enough to try it. Only that I would think it is more of an urban legend story than reality.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 15, 2007 14:49:23 GMT -5
I have heard of some poachers using trot lines in the woods to catch wild turkeys.
They bait them with canned corn.
All hear say though..
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Post by biggame75 on Jan 15, 2007 20:47:44 GMT -5
I've heard of it, but also never seen it or no anybody that has done it.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Jan 16, 2007 7:16:36 GMT -5
Sad way to take critters!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by gobblerfreak on Jan 16, 2007 10:50:49 GMT -5
 Nothing against our neighbors to the south, but i have heard this is a popular method in the Kentucky backwoods. I'm by no means Pointing a finger, as with most of You, these are Rumors I've heard and until proved otherwise, they should remain just that. Still Rumor or not it is still very unsettling!
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Post by superdave on Jan 16, 2007 13:39:30 GMT -5
Idiots are doing it.I have a friend who pulled some off of his land.He knows who was doing it & when he told me I ripped him for not reporting it to a C.O. & letting them catch the guy.He did not see him set them but did see him watching the area with binocs from his truck on a regular basis.That is why he looked the thicket over & found them.This is a poor outdoorsman at best.This was no kid,guy is in his late 40s.
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Post by parrothead on Jan 16, 2007 14:31:23 GMT -5
I wish they would of Done that to Sadam.
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Post by trapperdave on Jan 16, 2007 16:19:47 GMT -5
wait till they nab a $10,000 coonhound and wind up in prison with a felony, not to mention all the other non-target animals that get ahold of it! I say anyone caught doing something like that should get a mouthfull of treble hooks themselves
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Post by kyle on Jan 17, 2007 9:24:15 GMT -5
its sad but is it illegal do catch coyotes like that
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Post by trapperdave on Jan 19, 2007 20:16:04 GMT -5
yes
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Post by bill on Jan 25, 2007 7:51:25 GMT -5
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I have heard of some poachers using trot lines in the woods to catch wild turkeys.
They bait them with canned corn.
All hear say though..
Woody
How do the turkeys open the cans?
Bill
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Post by randyb on Jan 25, 2007 7:55:08 GMT -5
I have never seen it done, but have watched videos on survival that show peole that in an emergency situation that hooks can be used for more than fishing. That they can be used on birds, mammals, etc. I will point out that the video stressed this as an option only in an emergency.
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Post by Decatur on Jan 25, 2007 7:56:06 GMT -5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Woody How do the turkeys open the cans? Bill With their spurs! ;D |
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Post by duff on Jan 25, 2007 18:41:29 GMT -5
wait till they nab a $10,000 coonhound ... Coonhounds cost $10K  |
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Post by wapahiti on Jan 31, 2007 7:29:57 GMT -5
We found a turkey trot line on are property about 12 years ago. I found an open can of green giant corn. The hooks were large and had corn completely threaded to the eye. We tore it down and reported it to the CO. Never found out who put it there but we have an idea.
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Nothing against our neighbors to the south, but i have heard this is a popular method in the Kentucky backwoods. I'm by no means Pointing a finger, as with most of You, these are Rumors I've heard and until proved otherwise, they should remain just that.
