BX are cats turning up at same time each night????? if so
find possie 125ish yards away get spotlight and accurate .222 or .223 and you will be able to hand it its needings.

Mickey Duck, good thinking but 3 diff cats between 9-30 / 1-30 however nothing for 3 nights, gutting a rabbit by the stoat trap bought them around (not the intended result) and the skins on the fence all disappeared as well.... so gut away from stoat traps bury 3 or 4 leg holds, hang rabbit meat and skins above on the fence that night.....(tip if the feral you've caught has a flea collar shoot it then run it over then chuck it out on the road) BX

BillyXmas wrote on Jan 20^th, 2016 at 7:20pm:


Probably but they do like fresh. Fresher the better

Appreciate your thoughts Bon - a bit difficult with the pivoting lid but maybe able to put a spike on the cross frame down by the mesh - might hang a chicken leg as I have run out of rabbits
I have put ten back out - most in new positions around the perimeter so I can check on the quad bike
At this stage I have put a bit of possum paste on the foot plate and three pp balls on some grass by the mesh - my main target now is rats as I think some may have been missed with the rusty trap pivot pin
I have cleaned the rust off the pivot pin but in retrospect maybe I should have biffed them - if you invest time in trapping they have to work well - will see
Now I have switched ends for access - the 85mm entry hole might be a bit big - may have to restrict the sides with a U shaped piece of 2.5mm wire stapled on the front - will see if quail  and other birds get in
I still have about fifteen bait stations on the ground or on logs with Contrac and very little bait moving so hope rats will be minimal - but they keep coming up out of a neighbours gully and get Snapped - but were not getting caught in the Victors that were rusted

Had to search a bit to find this thread so thought I would give it a heads up - it is too good to loose
Not much to report on trapping - the odd rat, the odd possum, a few hogs but mainly cats that keep on coming - sometimes a challenge to cage them
I have taken on a new challenge to remove magpies from around our rural block - always wondered why we had very few Kereru - but a couple of months back I saw magpies hounding a Kereru - so that was a bad mistake - very few magpies left now and we see Kereru flying around peacefully every day - those magpies are a vicious bird that chase Tui and Kereru
I am getting too many bird strikes with open traps so will build more boxes - have also changed from GN possum paste to Connovation “Smoothe in a Tube” - blue stuff it seems to be working and less attractive to birds - Billy Xmas recommends it
Friends down in Halcombe near Merrett’s place got a family of five stoats last week - one each night in a Doc200 - a fantastic result
I see Billy Xmas on Facebook yesterday picked up five ferrets down the middle of the road that someone had run over - an even more fantastic result - you can see him and his results on - https://www.facebook.com/groups/SouthHeadPestControl/ - he is an amazing trapper with 416 critters killed recently - it is a closed group but just apply and they will let you in
After 10 months away to repair a knee injury - I am back doing volunteer trapping at the local Quarry Park - so hope to get a few possums and rats
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to all you pest controllers 

I have had this Doc250 for about two years - moved it all round the farm and never caught a mustilid in it - just hogs and rats - but never bothered to trap a small area down near the highway. I shifted it down there two weeks ago - beside a shelter belt with a nice clean dirt run sprayed out from the trunks to an adjacent electric fence - near 1km of easy travel for a mustilid or cat - with plenty of pheasant, quail and rabbits
First check last week showed a small hog - checked it yesterday - bingo - got a ferret - I run it with three pp balls and a leg of smelly rabbit
Nailed him on the post - maybe his mates or some stoats will check out the sweet ferret odour - I read that stoats are attracted to ferret scent

Great result XR,  you have to keep after the little mongrels.