Rack Trap

[Fly Tier]

Anyone planing to do any shed hunting this year? I have got an Idea to try and make me a shed trap this year by taking two satelite dishes one for the top and one the bottom mounted to a tree with bungy cords attached from top to bottom with feed in the bottom dish,So when a buck comes to feed when they stick their heads through the bungy cords if their antlers are ready to fall off they should get caught in the bungy cords.What would you all think?:If I get any pic's on the trail camera I'll post them.

[Wizard]

Is it going to look anything like The Rack Trap?

[Kevin]

Could also just take some 2x4s and make a square box with tight openings on the top and sides. Stick some feed in there and it works pretty well.

[BowPassion]

Awesome!

[blindset61]

Talking about those shed made me think of one time about five years ago I was turkey hunting, had eased down to the bottom of a wooded ridge and made a stand at the edge of a creek bank overlooking a pasture.  I sat down against the base of a large tree and before I knew it I was laying mostly flat and when I woke I was looking at a white object sticking out of the leaves about 15 feet away from me.  I eased over there when I managed to get up and it was a tine from a ten points rack sticking up out of the leaves-the other tine was laying there too, both undamaged.  There was a cross fence there, height where the deer crawled under rather than jumped over or through.  He lost both of them right there, and some how, the rodents hadn't found them yet-real pretty matched pair.  Never saw the buck that lost them.  Might keep those fence crawl unders in mind.

[mpoor]

Wow I never thought of such a thing but I love it! Have any of you ever used one?

[Kevin]

I never have personally but I know a lot of people who have. First time I ever heard of these were some friends in Texas using them. Definitely always fun to walk fence lines and what not to see if they dropped them when they landed, but a rack trap is your best bet for sure.

There are all kinds of different variations in design. If you make a box, just make sure it is really tight. The idea is not for bucks to be able to get their head in there and get stuck or be walking around with it hanging around their neck. Instead, the goal is to make it tight enough where they will put pressure on their antlers trying to reach the pile of feed.

Another design is just to stick 3 poles in the ground at an angle in the shape of a triangle and put some kind of top on it.

This is one of the best designs I've seen: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/TNBkaEXQ0D0/0.jpg . It is pretty close to that rack trap wizard posted above.