Its under there some where We use to hunt from a hand dug 32x 46 4 foot deep pit, eventually it got up to 34x 78 the past three years we used a mini-x and put in a 40x 92 and put it slightly deeper than 54 inches It isnt on my property, so Im limited to what I can do. Before the lids are hidden its there somewhere A few years ago, soound asleep before I got in the pit View from a small pit 3 years ago
I was in charge of pit maintenance. You'd be surprised how word gets out. One day I'm sitting at a fire on the land some nuns own when the locals figured out "hey you're that guy from illinoiz...". I'd just scared the pants off them shooting a 357. They had 22s. One says "I heard u clean pits". Uh oh. They had a problem. Theirs was unfit for human use..deal was made. I charged $300. Should have charged $500. I show up generator and pump...cans of paint and their pit was completely filled with mud , crap, dead animals, snakes. Live cottonmouths. Twas ugly and stinky. When I was done it was black again.
when I lived in northern Utah there was a defunct city club that had small pits on state land. There was one family that used the pits but never cleaned them. The pits thye used would have inches of shotgun hulls in the bottom. One of the pits had a litter of skunks in it. I grabbed waders, and long trapping gloves, and shoveled it all out,.. put a layer of corn fodder in the bottom and changed it with straw each hunt. The worst I saw was a pit of mine along the Bear river,.. Full of snakes and stinky snake pee and every spider and bug seemed to find that pit.
Yeah you learn very fast to assume that there's something alive in them that needs Killin. Pretty common for ppl to leave trash and bits of food that attract small game into the trap. Then it rains and ...there's a wild cat in there or worse.
Nothing like a pit for hunting out of. Get out of the wind and we can wait them out all day!. Now if I can just find it under all of this snow.
