railway rabbits

[micky 3,325]

I set some fenn traps along a railway embankment on tuesday morning,the embankment is a mixture of stone and clinker,no soil,my usual method is to rub the trap down till it sits firmly ,place a piece of tissue on the treadle, then a handfull of cheap garden peat,i then tie the chain to a root ,brambles, fencing ,etc,as no peg would hold in this ground.When i checked the traps this morning i found 9 dead rabbits 7 stiff 2 warm, all well caught,and all outside the holes,the last trap had been tied to a metal bar that went over the top of the hole,the rabbit in this trap had jumped from the hole whilst in the trap and gone around the bar five times,much the same as a rabbit in fence snare.Further down the line there is a large patch of nettles thats covered in runs,rearlly padded down,the runs were just mud roads cutting through the moss under the stingers,on these i had set 10 bodygrips,in these 10 i had caught five more rabbits and two magpies,the maggies must have seen the rabbits belly up ,come down for breakfast ,and WALLOP.

[ferret110 27]

well done

[OldTrapCollector 377]

Any moles around there Micky? Use the mole hill spoil to cover your traps - it will do you better

 

OTC

[moley 115]

Any moles around there Micky? Use the mole hill spoil to cover your traps - it will do you better

 

OTC

 

no it will not otc, peat is the best covering for fenn traps , trust me , i have tried everything over the years and peat is the best , i used to cover traps with sieved soil for years , but you always seemed to get sum run under the plate and when rabbits hit the treadle plate , they wouldn,t set the trap off and you were left with a clean plate and no catch, with peat being so light it bridges the gap between plate and frame leaving a hollow under the plate and nothing to impead the firing

[Guest jbswildlife]

Any moles around there Micky? Use the mole hill spoil to cover your traps - it will do you better

 

OTC

 

no it will not otc, peat is the best covering for fenn traps , trust me , i have tried everything over the years and peat is the best , i used to cover traps with sieved soil for years , but you always seemed to get sum run under the plate and when rabbits hit the treadle plate , they wouldn,t set the trap off and you were left with a clean plate and no catch, with peat being so light it bridges the gap between plate and frame leaving a hollow under the plate and nothing to impead the firing

 

agreed have had mant sieved covered traps jammed. now only use soil that i've dried overnight

[Netter 0]

Any moles around there Micky? Use the mole hill spoil to cover your traps - it will do you better

 

OTC

 

no it will not otc, peat is the best covering for fenn traps , trust me , i have tried everything over the years and peat is the best , i used to cover traps with sieved soil for years , but you always seemed to get sum run under the plate and when rabbits hit the treadle plate , they wouldn,t set the trap off and you were left with a clean plate and no catch, with peat being so light it bridges the gap between plate and frame leaving a hollow under the plate and nothing to impead the firing

 

Is this the stuff from garden centres?

[OldTrapCollector 377]

Any moles around there Micky? Use the mole hill spoil to cover your traps - it will do you better

 

OTC

 

no it will not otc, peat is the best covering for fenn traps , trust me , i have tried everything over the years and peat is the best , i used to cover traps with sieved soil for years , but you always seemed to get sum run under the plate and when rabbits hit the treadle plate , they wouldn,t set the trap off and you were left with a clean plate and no catch, with peat being so light it bridges the gap between plate and frame leaving a hollow under the plate and nothing to impead the firing

 

Then I must have been doing it wrong all this time then . . . . I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one

 

OTC

[micky 3,325]

Any moles around there Micky? Use the mole hill spoil to cover your traps - it will do you better

 

OTC

 

no it will not otc, peat is the best covering for fenn traps , trust me , i have tried everything over the years and peat is the best , i used to cover traps with sieved soil for years , but you always seemed to get sum run under the plate and when rabbits hit the treadle plate , they wouldn,t set the trap off and you were left with a clean plate and no catch, with peat being so light it bridges the gap between plate and frame leaving a hollow under the plate and nothing to impead the firing

 

Then I must have been doing it wrong all this time then . . . . I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one

 

OTC , You might not have been doing things wrong , but perhaps , you could be doing things better.

Old , trap user.

[victor 10]

awsome stuff mate, any pics? if not please take a camera next time..

[moley 115]

Then I must have been doing it wrong all this time then . . . . I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one

 

OTC

 

you should try it , i trapped over 1500 rabbits this last summer using peat as a covering

[ellir0305 9]

I set some fenn traps along a railway embankment on tuesday morning,the embankment is a mixture of stone and clinker,no soil,my usual method is to rub the trap down till it sits firmly ,place a piece of tissue on the treadle, then a handfull of cheap garden peat,i then tie the chain to a root ,brambles, fencing ,etc,as no peg would hold in this ground.When i checked the traps this morning i found 9 dead rabbits 7 stiff 2 warm, all well caught,and all outside the holes,the last trap had been tied to a metal bar that went over the top of the hole,the rabbit in this trap had jumped from the hole whilst in the trap and gone around the bar five times,much the same as a rabbit in fence snare.Further down the line there is a large patch of nettles thats covered in runs,rearlly padded down,the runs were just mud roads cutting through the moss under the stingers,on these i had set 10 bodygrips,in these 10 i had caught five more rabbits and two magpies,the maggies must have seen the rabbits belly up ,come down for breakfast ,and WALLOP.

 

how exactly did the magies get trapped if the traps were in tunnels "the maggies must have seen the rabbits belly up ,come down for breakfast ,and WALLOP." this makes it sound like they landed on the traps

[micky 3,325]

I set some fenn traps along a railway embankment on tuesday morning,the embankment is a mixture of stone and clinker,no soil,my usual method is to rub the trap down till it sits firmly ,place a piece of tissue on the treadle, then a handfull of cheap garden peat,i then tie the chain to a root ,brambles, fencing ,etc,as no peg would hold in this ground.When i checked the traps this morning i found 9 dead rabbits 7 stiff 2 warm, all well caught,and all outside the holes,the last trap had been tied to a metal bar that went over the top of the hole,the rabbit in this trap had jumped from the hole whilst in the trap and gone around the bar five times,much the same as a rabbit in fence snare.Further down the line there is a large patch of nettles thats covered in runs,rearlly padded down,the runs were just mud roads cutting through the moss under the stingers,on these i had set 10 bodygrips,in these 10 i had caught five more rabbits and two magpies,the maggies must have seen the rabbits belly up ,come down for breakfast ,and WALLOP.

 

how exactly did the magies get trapped if the traps were in tunnels "the maggies must have seen the rabbits belly up ,come down for breakfast ,and WALLOP." this makes it sound like they landed on the traps

They must of just walked in mate , have you never saw a maggi walking?

[jordshorty111 0]

well done mate good catch