Deer Trapping

The Effective Ways to Trap and Capture Deer

We’re about to share some deer trapping tips with you. But these tips are best applied when there’s a community work involvement. And you do need to take permission from the concerned authority – especially if you’re putting these deer trapping ideas on someone’s private property.

Establishing the Bait Sites

While selecting potential sites for deer baiting, biologists will make contact with landowners to get permission for catching or trapping deer. Doing camera surveys can also help. There are different kinds of things that you can use here. Most common ones are whole apples and apple mash. And your trap site would be then baited before trap set up. This is to ensure that, the deer become used to seeing apples at that target site. The best sites for capturing deer are the areas where there is high density of deer. And this can easily maximize the captures for each setup. In addition, areas featuring cover blocks with lots of wood can also provide the deer with the feel of security. So focus on those travel lanes most deer herds pass through.

Capturing Deer

Once you have selected the bait sites and you see the deer visiting those sites every so often, you need to set up special netted cages, which are also known as clover traps. Also consider using drop nets or rocket nets. Some people feel that it works best if dart rifles are used. However, as more and more deer come to experience the Clover traps, they will tend to get more reluctant about going into the traps. But you need to be a little bit tricky will applying deer trapping.

The drop nets and rocket nets provide a far less threatening trap set, as all of its sides remain open so that escape is easy if necessary. The best approach is to have at least 3 trap options. Actually, you are in to a better position to capture the unmarked females this way. But trapping by nature is a more lengthy process and chances are high that a lot of previously tagged or sterilized animals are using these bait piles still. And if you’re trapping deer for scientific expedition, you’re less likely to recapture any previously-tagged deer. That’s because, you usually end up losing the ear tags and the recapture might cause an extra stress on the animal.

Clover Traps

These are netted cages and can be set up without difficulty in the landowners’ backyards. These traps used to work pretty well for grabbing deer. Here’s the idea… traps are tied open in the daytime to ensure that the deer are able to enter and leave at large. In the late afternoon however, traps are set to ensure that the deer are captured in the night. Soon after first light every morning, traps are checked so that the deer captured are removed ASAP. Deer won’t be caught or handled in the daytime.

Deer actually are hardy type animals and have the capability to spend the nighttime hours outdoors inside a trap even when it snows or the temperature is very chilly. It isn’t odd for deer if they moan and fight back inside the cage when they’re captured for the first time. However, after a while, the deer generally become tranquil and will sometimes bed down inside the trap. It’s important that people as well as pets are kept away from these cages. Otherwise, there are chances that the deer would get agitated and get injured in the trap. Generally the local authorities handle the deer from around 7 am during the morning till 9 pm in the night. Deer trapping surely is a tiring job that takes hard work and patience!!

Drop Nets

They’re used differently. Rigging drop nets calls for two heavy trees which are around 50 feet away from each other. The trees should have strong limbs which are around 30 feet high above the land level. You also need a good support rope which will be stretched tightly on the limbs. Also have a pulley centered on your bait pile. Your drop net will then be suspended by another rope which will go through that pulley, in a sight hole within the blind. It’ll then be tied to a strong post or a stout tree at the back of the blind. The net’s all corners are pulled wide apart from the central point and will be secured nicely with a special release connection.

As your net is dropped on a deer, all the corners get freed. That way, the net moves with the deer by wrapping it up. Bait should be added on a daily basis to ensure that the deer are going beneath that suspended net. Drop nets are suitable for catching groups of deer. Like other techniques, this deer trapping technique as well takes hard work and patience.