Triple in a Draw.

[trappincoyotes39]

Here is a triple on 3 large males taken yesterday, great spot to pick up coyotes for sure.

[trappnman]

looks like a heck of a good location-

are those redidsh backs typical? the coyotes I see around the hills and coming across, look lighter colored.

[claythomas]

Would you explain the scene a bit. Especially those two up on that steep bank. Where were the snares?

[Stef]

The one in the middle= hip catch?

[trappincoyotes39]

Tman colors run the gambit for sure and the red backs are fairly common in this area.

This is a deep draw like 60 ft and half way down is a deer/sheep trail I had 2 snares on this trail with extensions they drop over the edge you can see in the pic. I have 10ft extensions on those snares what is nice any other coyotes that come down that trail don't even know these 2 are dead keeping the area ctive longer with less issues, I love these type of areas! To the right of this pic about 120 yrds is a bait station in the bottom of this draw. I have 3 more snares hanging in brush comming from the south and have caught 3 coyotes in them as well.

This side draw comes of a major drainage that runs east and west and runs for 20 miles or so and brings plenty of coyotes up and down. The sheep rancher runs sheep in this area come spring and winters them 3 miles south of this area closer to his ranch home.

Yes Stef the one hip catch is the one in the very bottom, draw back to the bottom is the mule deer use it as well thinking loop got bumped down some and that coyote tried to hop through and the end result is a hip catch.

[trappincoyotes39]

Here is a pciture of another I caught on the south end of the bait station I'm on top of the draw looking down.




This is a rare butt sitter as I call them, very few like this over all but this one never hardly faught the snare so he is alive on arrival, maybe 1 out of 60 or so that don't fight hard enough to set the spring in open areas. With 1x19 5/64ths very tough and chew resistant though. 3 strands broken on the cable is all.

[Noel]

Good stuff, thanks for posting

[scott kimball]

Great pics.it always gets the heart pumping when you walk up on a catch of that caliber. no matter how many times one has do it. Congats



Scott

[trappincoyotes39]

thanks, as long as I can keep getting back into this area it will keep producing right up to denning time.

[Hornhunter]

Just these pictures gets my heart pumping!-Just loved snaring coyotes. The open areas would be a new chalenge for me, as I was mostly in softwood, or mixed hard and soft. Great pictures, thanks!

[Woodswalker]

Fastening with stakes? Ground not frozen much?

Sure is open country there.

I picked up a triple Sunday on a roadkill dump site. Two big males and a small one.

[trappincoyotes39]

ground is frozen hard as a rock but 1/2" rebar with a point and a 4lb hammer makes fairly quick work. With these long of set ups a 24" stake is plenty. If I can wrap around solid brush or trees I will as well, this is more common down in my cedar breaks country where the trails go in and out of cedar draws, making the trees a fast and solid anchor.

What you can't see is the tree lined creek bottom to the north that adds protection and really keeps the wind off of wildlife in the winter or the active p dog town to the south which most every passing coyote will work up to, I'm dropping my baits on a natural travel way , makes for a good location.

[garbage collector]

Thanks for the pics. If anybody knows how to drop them yotes, you're sure one of them.

[crichards]

Camlocks with the stinger springs???

[BadDog]

Just wait til them ignorant ravens make it your way in mass, that'll fix ya!!!!



...and you thot eagles were bad...


[glow=red,2,300]BEWARE THE RAVENS ARE COMING!![[/glow]

(you have now been dutifully warned!)
(you seen it first on coyotesr'us)

[trappincoyotes39]

yes cams with stinger type springs.

Raven Bad dog? They have plenty in western WY hard on sheep but have tey to be a problem here in SD. We have magpies boy can they clean up a carcass in a hurray but limited in area outside of the cedar breaks not many of those pies around, one thing here I don;t think we have near the tree canopy to support ravens.

[trappnman]

aren't ravens a lattitude/alltitude speices?

that is, always seems like they are way north, or high up.

northern Mn has lots of ravens, but not south of the TCs. here, we have lots of buzzards, tons of bald eagles and quite a few goldens- and plenty of crows but no ravens.

[garman]

Crows cleaned my bait within days, including whole beaver carcasses etc., then heavy snow came, I need to get back out again, just hard with the kids, snow, and work.