Trapping Stoats

[IanB 0]

Whats the best method for trapping stoats?

[john b 38]

Alive or dead ?

 

I'm afraid I'm going to have to offer up my seesaw box trap again. Works on alsorts of predators that like tunnels.

 

 

 

 

 

(one trick pony, I know, I know ..... )

[Guest Bigbob]

Fenn mk6s in rabbit burrows to catch rabbits ,i caught more stoats and weasels than rabbits

[IanB 0]

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Alive or dead ?

 

I'm afraid I'm going to have to offer up my seesaw box trap again. Works on alsorts of predators that like tunnels.

 

 

(one trick pony, I know, I know ..... )

 

Hows that setup and built John?

[john b 38]

It's already on an earlier post, so I won't repeat it.

 

http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/index...?showtopic=9243

 

Work your way down it and I've posted more pics and a description

 

I've just upgraded the design so that it's a bit more accessible - lids slides off to see what you've caught.

 

Want to buy one ? :11:

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Whats the best method for trapping stoats?

 

Any tunnel they can see light at the other end of. Trap of choice to intercept them as they rush through. JohnB's 'Boisgellan / Clausius' works well on stoats. Use a dead mouse, under the see - saw, for weasles. Fresh blood will have a stoat rushing headlong into hell

 

Traditionally favoured site to set is at a gap in a hedge, ditch or where ever the stoat's travelling. Gives them a 'safe place' to head for when they make that break from one side to the other. Want him dead? Mk 4 will do it. Nothing much to a stoat.

 

See? Now you can flog all those un needed Mk 6's to me! I need them for these damn mink!

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Hey! I've just read your original post, JohnB ~ including the comments by 'FoxDropper'! Great!

 

So These work well for mink, eh? Fantastic!!!

 

Right; I'm into town within the next few days. I'll pick up some timber and get to work! Let you all know how I get on

 

Wood I can always afford and time's free. Mk 6's are prohibitive and need tunnels anyway! I think this could be the answer to a Lot of my problems here. They're heavy to hump around, yes. But I'll just take one at a time out. Once set, they're there for good and - in the Very unlikely event that anyone should come onto this land and find one? Well ..... wood is cheap!

 

 

Thanks!

[strixaluco 0]

Hey! I've just read your original post, JohnB ~ including the comments by 'FoxDropper'! Great!

 

So These work well for mink, eh? Fantastic!!!

 

Right; I'm into town within the next few days. I'll pick up some timber and get to work! Let you all know how I get on

 

Wood I can always afford and time's free. Mk 6's are prohibitive and need tunnels anyway! I think this could be the answer to a Lot of my problems here. They're heavy to hump around, yes. But I'll just take one at a time out. Once set, they're there for good and - in the Very unlikely event that anyone should come onto this land and find one? Well ..... wood is cheap!

 

 

Thanks!

 

ive used the see saw traps and have had a good catch rate on rats ,one small thing ive found to work well is the addition of an elastic band and a small stick.As soon as the seesaw is tilted the elastic helps it on its way and makes for a faster and more smoother trap

[john b 38]

I get the elastic band strixaluco - snaps the seesaw down. I tend to weight mind a bit so that it's just about to tip.

 

What does the bit of stick do ?

[strixaluco 0]

the stick travels up and down the piece of wire so when it is set it has hardly any leverage on the wire but as it tips up it the leverage gets greater

[john b 38]

the stick travels up and down the piece of wire so when it is set it has hardly any leverage on the wire but as it tips up it the leverage gets greater

 

 

Gotcha Thanks

[Guest ferreting king]

is it illegal to trap or kill stoats?

 

 

 

Y.I.S

FK

[john b 38]

is it illegal to trap or kill stoats?

 

 

 

Y.I.S

FK

 

 

Nope. Have a look at the species listed on this link

 

defra - approved-traps.htm

 

 

John

[Guest ferreting king]

thanks john

 

Y.I.S

FK

[Guest ruraltrapper]

Caught while trapping mink.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was released.

RT

Edited July 15, 2006 by ruraltrapper