The muskrat long since enjoys deserved popularity at masters of fur trade. However to return from hunting with good production, it is necessary to spend a lot of time and forces.
Instruction
1. Study the order about terms of hunting of administration of the region in which you are going to be engaged in trade of a muskrat. Usually the season of hunting for a fur animal opens in October-November and lasts all winter. But, according to experts, the best time for catching of a muskrat – February. First, by then muskrat cubs already grow up, and, therefore, there is an opportunity to catch bigger number of individuals. Secondly, muskrat fur during this period of the best quality. Get necessary permission or sign the contract with Society of hunters and fishers in this region.
2. Use traps No. 1 and No. 0 for catching of a muskrat. They quite easy will also not drag away a wounded muskrat on a reservoir bottom. Pay attention that the small animal who got in a trap can otgryzt to himself a paw to get rid of a trap.
3. Establish a trap at an entrance to a mink of a muskrat or near a so-called fodder hatka (usually snags near the river bank). If you decided to catch a small animal in the winter, define subglacial tracks on which the muskrat most often moves. After – find a mink, cut through in her an entrance, put a trap and disguise an entrance snow. After the mink is chilled, the small animal will remain nothing else as to abandon her and … to get to a trap. Check installation sites of traps 2 times a day – early in the morning and late at night.
4. Establish in the fall during daylight hours a large number of traps where the considerable number of these small animals is found. Remember places in which you placed traps. Check their first time before approach of twilight, and then – every 2 hour up to dawn.
5. If features of the coast of a reservoir do not allow to be engaged in catching of a muskrat (for example, because of canes), make false fodder hatka of reed or the same cane. Establish traps. The muskrat – very curious small animal, will also surely want to take an interest what to be on the new island.
6. Try to be engaged in trade of a muskrat by means of a fish-trap. This way is suitable both for autumn, and for winter hunting. Make a fish-trap of a wire, branches or a close-meshed grid. Establish them along the coast or cut down an ice-hole in ice. Fish-traps are established usually near fodder a hatok, on tracks of a muskrat or directly in hatka.
7. Be engaged in trade of this small animal, using a hunting gun, but you remember that from your unsuccessful shot the muskrat skin can be spoiled. It is the best of all to use a small-bore gun. It is necessary to aim only in the head.