Coyote trappers!

[Brute Killer]

Have your equipment set up perfectly!
Otherwise, you might miss one.

So I shot this hog Wednesday afternoon.

And I set a coyote trap about 20 yards downwind of the carcass.
Just a little punch hole on a trail that I've seen coyote tracks on.(By good fortune, that is just where the hog fell.) I put some Locklear's Boss Dog on a cotton ball and shove it down in the punch hole.

Nothing yesterday, but today I check and see that something has scratched at the hole. Obviously no catch, but I think that possibly I got the trap too close-in to the hole. I take my little whisk broom and clean the pan off, thinking it is completely undisturbed, and I will just put another hole farther back.
What I found is, I was right on for distance and I am about 1/2 of a millimeter or 90 thousandths away from catching a coyote.



The coyote foot depressed the pan, but I guess it stopped on something underneath. Or he didn't mash hard enough. I don't know. I am now using peat moss instead of the foam "under pans".
I got my Leatherman out, and in the field filed down the length of my dog a little bit more than what was left to go to trip the trap. I remake the set, taking my cordless drill and auger and drill a deeper hole, using some Locklear's Coyote Claymore #2 on a cotton ball for bait , and putting the original cotton ball with Boss Dog down in the hole.

Wish me luck. The set can lay for up to two weeks, but I hope it doesn't take that long.

[Trapper76]

Good looking set! I had the same thing happen to me not long ago, on a small high fence place. I’ve caught the rest of the coyotes out of there, just 1 female left. She’s been tough to catch and her track was about as dead center on the pan as you could get.

[Brute Killer]

Good looking set! I had the same thing happen to me not long ago, on a small high fence place. I’ve caught the rest of the coyotes out of there, just 1 female left. She’s been tough to catch and her track was about as dead center on the pan as you could get.

Oh, wow!
Yeah, a God-awful weird thing about this trail, is like a lizard has been running up and down the thing and there are little squiggly lines all over the ground. I had a hard time even even finding a partial coyote track on the trail.

[RattlesnakeDan]

My last set was getting dug up, dang yotes. I assumed they smelled something so out of frustration I wiped down my traps with fresh prickly pear before setting, it worked!

[Johnny Dangerr]

cool..............

[Fredmorris]

Got coyotes in the area I need to trap or shoot. Their killing family pets and chickens. I have no experience hunting or trapping them. Open to ideas.....

[Brute Killer]

Got coyotes in the area I need to trap or shoot. Their killing family pets and chickens. I have no experience hunting or trapping them. Open to ideas.....

Youtube for both calling and trapping.
Randy Anderson is a good place to start, imo, for calling.
Management Advantage and Clint Locklear/Wolfer Nation for trapping.
You may have to sift through several videos to find the ones pertinent to "beginning coyote trapping " on the Locklear channel. He has good info, though.

[Brute Killer]

My last set was getting dug up, dang yotes. I assumed they smelled something so out of frustration I wiped down my traps with fresh prickly pear before setting, it worked!

I have a picture of a trap that was flipped out of the trap bed and is laying upside down, still set, on top of the bait hole. I resized the pic, but it is still too big to post.

[Brute Killer]

Had to crop the hell out of this picture to get it to load.

[RattlesnakeDan]

Haha....dang song dogs are slick.

[Anvilheadtexas]

Had to crop the hell out of this picture to get it to load.
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Sweet rig you got there! Old school doublelong-spring with with reinforced base-plate.

[Brute Killer]

Sweet rig you got there! Old school doublelong-spring with with reinforced base-plate.

Yeah, I got #4 long springs specifically to put big pans on them.

[Killer]

You got serious on them dogs!

[Anvilheadtexas]

Yeah, I got #4 long springs specifically to put big pans on them.
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An lamented jaws! What’s the dimensions on those custom pans?

[Brute Killer]

An lamented jaws! What’s the dimensions on those custom pans?

They are electrical box covers, from the hardware store. Look at 1 o'clock and 7 o'clock and you can see a hole and a notch, used for attaching the cover to the box.