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cowboy:
That's some purty interesting stuff. I heard of this one when I was a kid running a small trapline. Bore a hole in a block of wood about 2"X2" then drive in four (ground to a very fine needle point) nails angled in from four sides with enough room for a coon to reach in, put some kind of shiny object in the hole. The coon will reach in and clench his fist around said object and not be able to pull back out past the nails - shazam............he wont let go they said - it never worked for me ;D.
Key:
Coon trap. Drill a 1 inch hole in a log about two inches deep. Drive two sharppened 6 penny nails at an angle so that each nail comes through the hole about 1 inch from the of the hole. The tips of the nails should be about 1/2 inch from each other.
Put bait in the bottom of the hole. When a coon reaches down to grab the bait and tries to pull it out the nails will hole him until you get there.
DanaM:
Here is one an ole timer told me about. Take an old fashioned box spring, remember the ones with no fabric? just springs.
Stake it down in the woods, sprinkle corn in it, when old mossy horns comes to eat his antlers get tangled in the springs,
then ... well you get the idear.
gene roberts:
yeah some of those are kinda weird but does anyone have a really weird one.
Auggie:
My grandpa told me of a feller back in the depression days ,made a line of small treble hooks(like a trot line)bait it with corn and set it just high enough for the turkeys to get hooked eating the corn.I thought that was a little weird or are ya lookin for like the game mouse trap weird? Auggie.
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