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    #92
    hollowpoint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭hollowpoint


    Woodcock shot wrote: »
    Fair play to you lad, nice vid too

    Cheers lad, more to follow. Workn on a better quality vid at the minute... should be up next week


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    #93
    idnkph
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭idnkph


    jungleman wrote: »
    Brilliant video!! That silver fella was a quare one. Where are mink most common in Ireland? Anyone know if Meath has many?
    meath is alive with them. The boyne is plagued. Thinking of investing in a couple of traps myself.


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    #94
    hollowpoint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭hollowpoint


    idnkph wrote: »
    meath is alive with them. The boyne is plagued. Thinking of investing in a couple of traps myself.

    Everywhere seems to be full of them, mk 6 fenns and 116 bodygrips are proving very effective for me so far...


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    #95
    idnkph
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭idnkph


    hollowpoint wrote: »
    Everywhere seems to be full of them, mk 6 fenns and 116 bodygrips are proving very effective for me so far...

    where did you buy them from HP? Is mcleoids the only place in the country stocking them? I was having a look and There and the UK seem to be the only places to buy them....
    there is more types on the US sites and do much better deals on them but not sure about importing them.. any advice?


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    #96
    hollowpoint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭hollowpoint


    idnkph wrote: »
    where did you buy them from HP? Is mcleoids the only place in the country stocking them? I was having a look and There and the UK seem to be the only places to buy them....
    there is more types on the US sites and do much better deals on them but not sure about importing them.. any advice?

    I get my mk 6 fenns from maceoin, they seem to be the cheapest to get them from that i have found in ireland. There are gun shops that sell them but from i have seen they are more expensive. Maceoin are quick delivering too. The 116 body grip i buy from soloway feeders in Scotland, they are sound to deal with!! Ur right bout the US having better deal but i have never got any from there and if u did you could be liable to pay tax on them by customs and you would be waiting up to 2 weeks for them to arrive!


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    #97
    idnkph
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭idnkph


    hollowpoint wrote: »
    I get my mk 6 fenns from maceoin, they seem to be the cheapest to get them from that i have found in ireland. There are gun shops that sell them but from i have seen they are more expensive. Maceoin are quick delivering too. The 116 body grip i buy from soloway feeders in Scotland, they are sound to deal with!! Ur right bout the US having better deal but i have never got any from there and if u did you could be liable to pay tax on them by customs and you would be waiting up to 2 weeks for them to arrive!
    Bit the bullet this morning and ordered half dozen duke magnum 110 body grips this morning off a US site. €20.50 and free shipping!! Might take a couple of weeks but for that price its worth a try.
    I will keep you posted on what they are like when they arrive. Think they are under the cut off for tax through customs.
    Now the waiting begins :eek:


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    #98
    minktrapper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭minktrapper


    Where did you order them from idnkph.


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    #99
    idnkph
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭idnkph


    minktrapper wrote: »
    Where did you order them from idnkph.

    pm inbound


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    #100
    minktrapper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭minktrapper


    If I put mackerel in a can and drill holes in it and place at the back of a pocket set how long should it be good for.


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    #101
    rookman
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭rookman


    I used to trap a lot of mink a few years ago just inside Carlow/Wicklow border on the river derreen.Then i used to find the cage sprung with nothing in it.While fishing one evening i found the reason why-an otter had moved in.I have not seen a mink on our banks of the river since.I think the otter used to set off trap while trying to get at the bait-all he had to do was back out when the cage door came down on his back.


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    #102
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    minktrapper wrote: »
    If I put mackerel in a can and drill holes in it and place at the back of a pocket set how long should it be good for.

    Depends on the weather lad! Fish will rot quickly in warm weather even if you can keep the flies out! Even at that, tiny flies can get into the can and spoil the fish!

    Smoked fish is meant to last longer in warm weather, and attract less flies! (Never tried it myself). You could always put a few feathers in the back of a pocket and a couple scattered outside! I use this method with a squirt of fish oil, and it works well!

    As it is, I'd say change the bait at least once a week!


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    #103
    hollowpoint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭hollowpoint


    New vid up on youtube, set up a trail cam on 1 of most productive locations and got a silver mink on video getting caught in mk 6 fenn and another mink coming along that night to investigate. Type in mink trapping hollowpoint and go to my page and you will see the latest upload .enjoy.


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    #104
    idnkph
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    hollowpoint wrote: »
    New vid up on youtube, set up a trail cam on 1 of most productive locations and got a silver mink on video getting caught in mk 6 fenn and another mink coming along that night to investigate. Type in mink trapping hollowpoint and go to my page and you will see the latest upload .enjoy.

    Was looking at it last night. The silver mink is a lovely looking animal.
    Just wondering do you treat your traps? If so with what and how often?


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    #105
    dodderangler
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    Don't suppose if any of yas got a young mink you'd keep it alive would yas?


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    #106
    hollowpoint
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    idnkph wrote: »
    Was looking at it last night. The silver mink is a lovely looking animal.
    Just wondering do you treat your traps? If so with what and how often?

    I spray some of them black with tetresol all surface paint, it's cheap and dries fast and lasts bout a year. Once I spray them I don't use them for bout 2 weeks and leave them hanging outside in d shed or barn somewhere air can circulate round them. The mark 6 fenn I spray only 2 or 3. I only spray half d traps at a time so obviously the rest are still operating and swap them over when the rest are dry. To clean them before spraying, a bucket with bout a litre of white vinegar left steeping over night, quick rinse next day then dry and spray, the vinegar will remove any rust and flaking paint...

    You can get the litre bottles of vinegar in the likes of an Asian food shop, makes a great job of cleaning the traps.


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    #107
    hollowpoint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭hollowpoint


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Don't suppose if any of yas got a young mink you'd keep it alive would yas?

    Can't say I do lad!


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    #108
    Capercaillie
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    Don't suppose if any of yas got a young mink you'd keep it alive would yas?

    You could try one of the mink farms.


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    #109
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Capercaillie wrote: »
    You could try one of the mink farms.

    Would they sell a kit though.
    I'm looking to train one.


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    #110
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Would they sell a kit though.
    I'm looking to train one.

    O.k, what you really want is a young mink, about 8 to 10 weeks old! Almost impossible to catch a wild mink at that age, and two late in the year anyway! This years young are well on now, so they'd be much harder handle!

    I recon they only breed once a year in the farms as well, so maybe ask for next year! In the meantime take a look at that carter guy's video's, especially the one where he talks about his setup for keeping his mink, and then make something similar as apposed to keeping it in a mink hutch!

    Or you could always combine the two, with a six inch pipe leading from a ferret hutch too an enclosed pool of water!


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    #111
    Capercaillie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Capercaillie


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Would they sell a kit though.
    I'm looking to train one.
    Don't know really. I doubt many people asking them for kits. I'm sure that some mink would not make the grade for fur quality and they might sell them. Then again fur farms are very secretive and they might not want to sell on such an invasive species to a member of the general public. Ask them they can only say no.


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    #112
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Capercaillie wrote: »
    Don't know really. I doubt many people asking them for kits. I'm sure that some mink would not make the grade for fur quality and they might sell them. Then again fur farms are very secretive and they might not want to sell on such an invasive species to a member of the general public. Ask them they can only say no.

    Yea thats probably the reality of it! Even if you did know someone in the business, they mightn't be allowd sell them by law!


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    #113
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Been searching online and there's no phone numbers or directions to one. I'd like to give it a try. Dealt with some nasty ferrets and tamed them though on I had couldn't be tamed at all.
    Just I watch the vids on YouTube and see that lad carter doing it and I wouldn't mind giving it ago.


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    #114
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Been searching online and there's no phone numbers or directions to one. I'd like to give it a try. Dealt with some nasty ferrets and tamed them though on I had couldn't be tamed at all.
    Just I watch the vids on YouTube and see that lad carter doing it and I wouldn't mind giving it ago.

    Yea but a wild mink would be outa your grasp in a second, and he wont be waiting around for you to grab him again like a ferret, tamed or untamed!

    Only other hope is to try find a mink den next summer and try catch a very young one! Something i've never came across myself!


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    #115
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Eddie B wrote: »
    Yea but a wild mink would be outa your grasp in a second, and he wont be waiting around for you to grab him again like a ferret, tamed or untamed!

    Only other hope is to try find a mink den next summer and try catch a very young one! Something i've never came across myself!
    Jaysus I wouldn't be putting my hand into a minks den anytime soon. Sure mammy wouldn't be happy bout that.


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    #116
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Jaysus I wouldn't be putting my hand into a minks den anytime soon. Sure mammy wouldn't be happy bout that.


    Lol! No, i meant if you knew where a Den was, then set a cage close to den without disturbing it! Catch the mother, and then you'd catch the kits!

    Done some voluntary work tracking Pine Maten in the Nephin Beg range, where a female was killed on the road, and kits were all caught with cages close to where the mother was killed,


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    #117
    Thedeerstalker
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭Thedeerstalker


    Eddie B wrote: »
    Lol! No, i meant if you knew where a Den was, then set a cage close to den without disturbing it! Catch the mother, and then you'd catch the kits!

    Done some voluntary work tracking Pine Maten in the Nephin Beg range, where a female was killed on the road, and kits were all caught with cages close to where the mother was killed,

    The oracle - Not worthy


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    #118
    Thedeerstalker
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭Thedeerstalker


    Eddie B wrote: »
    Lol! No, i meant if you knew where a Den was, then set a cage close to den without disturbing it! Catch the mother, and then you'd catch the kits!

    Done some voluntary work tracking Pine Maten in the Nephin Beg range, where a female was killed on the road, and kits were all caught with cages close to where the mother was killed,
    ............................


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    #119
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Thedeerstalker wrote: »
    The oracle - Not worthy

    Lol Dont know if that was meant to be an insult or a compliment!

    Probably an insult! Lol


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    #120
    hollowpoint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭hollowpoint


    How have people faired out numbers wise for the year? Caught my 70 th mink of the year on St. Stephens day. Lost only 1 trap when a bank eroded away in the floods. Mk6 fenn traps have really done the job this year for me. Be interesting to hear what lads have got....


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    #121
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    hollowpoint wrote: »
    How have people faired out numbers wise for the year? Caught my 70 th mink of the year on St. Stephens day. Lost only 1 trap when a bank eroded away in the floods. Mk6 fenn traps have really done the job this year for me. Be interesting to hear what lads have got....

    Well done lad! That's great going!👍


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