nice. Another one bites the dust!!

Good job.

You aren't chitin'!!! I have one dirt hole on a high spot in some sod. It still looks good, and no water in the hole. The rest are scent post sets that I don't have to worry about the bare dirt covering washing off. It is TOUGH to canine trap in this crap. I only re-bait once a week regardless. If the holes and trap beds are full of water, and it freezes toward the end of the week, we are screwed again! ALl this rain washes out the calcium. Its do over time AGAIN!

Good catch! Keep after them. h.h.

Nice bright full moon last night yotes should have moved good. Hopefully ive got a couple today waiting on me. After a few cups of 8 O'Clock dark roast coffee Im heading out to check my snares. h.h.

hope you got a pile of em HH!

Bummer! All empty today but I found where they went and set 6 more today for a total of 14 snares. I would have set more but ran out of snares. I plan on making more tonight and setting at least 10 more. I bought the 100 snare kit last year so ive got plenty of makins'.

There was one track that was huge, maybe 3 - 3 1/2" wide. This is one big male, just hope its not a big neighborhood dog. h.h.

Had this fiesty female waiting for me today. I caught her in a big hole step down set. She gave me the whole show of barking and then howling. Totally awesome. This one catch made my season.
I pulled the trap and put a fresh trap in and made a re-make. Hope to catch her significant other soon.

Awesome catch there Yaz. Looks like a big ole thang.

That is awesome!! Cool pic!

Nice picture PB. Makes me wonder what the howl says to others and what goes through their mind when they hear it.

Good catch! h.h.

Nice on PB. I'm gonna try a few of those step downs hopefully tomorrow if I can get out there. Been battling the Flu for about 2 weeks. Dang I'm tired of this

Love the pics PB! I notice 3 things in the pic. One, you actually have semi-solid dirt! Its so friggin soggy around here, I can't run the 4 wheeler across the bean fields without cutting ruts! #2. you have a nice turd for your re-make! #3, you got a nice pad catch on her. MB trap?

Question…..on your re-makes. You set inside, or outside the catch circle?

I had two hours in re-making 5 sets today. The sun was shining, and a beautiful day. Then the clouds rolled in, opened up and washed it all away! I give up!!!!! :rolleyes:

I wondered where you been Gilley!!!! Sure hope you get to feeling better soon!!!

If I made a step down set right now, I'd have a swimming pool!!!!!! :rolleyes:

Great catches guys!

On this one I set inside the catch circle. Depends on how tore up the sets are as to where I re-set. I put in a clean trap since this one was mud caked. The trap was a 1 3/4 sleepy creek with modified outside laminations. Yes I actually cabbaged onto a few turds to put on the remake and on another set about 20 yards away. I cannot believe this hole was not full of water.

hey PB, how far out in field you make you sets? you right along field edge or you go out a few rows or you just setting where tracks are?

Thanks Yaz I am starting to feel better. Pulled all my traps before snowstorm hit then got sick and haven't got them back out. hopefully I can get some out tomorrow...running out of time.

Snared this young male today in a fence set. He was snare around the waist and still alive. A friend was with me and he wanted to shoot the yote with his new .17 HMR. He shot the dog in the head and it went down. we walked up and started to unhook the snare off the fence and my buddy bent down and one knee looking at dog. He started to take the snare off and I saw the dog's eye move. I told him the dog was still alive and hes no he aint i shot him between the eyes. All of the sudden the dog sits up and my buddy jumped back grab his gun and shot him again. Remade the set but the was a lot of blood with the head shot. I didnt know he was going to head shoot him or i would have stopped him.




Picture is not to good, wind was blowing hard. h.h.

Cool catch and congrats!!

Where do you shoot them then? I always thought that is where you did it...

Gilley,
You can see a T-post in the picture. This set was where the cornfied made a point next to a CRP field. It is about 10 rows out from the corner. i also have another set in the top of the picture where that stuff is laying.

Right behind the shoulder. Less bloody. They just lay down and die very quickly. I thought head shot too, but learned a lesson.

x2 h.h.

I shoot them square in the lungs. The last one was with a short hollow point, and he did not bleed one drop. Quick too.

BTW- Good catch HH. Stay after them!!!!!!

Here is the re-make of the hole I caught the last coyote in. The wood post to the right was chewed completely off!!!! There was a semi circle of dirt dug a foot deep on both sides of the fence. Not a stalk of weed or grass anywhere. It took me an hour, and a lot of bailing ware to get it back in shape!!!!! That's why I don't like hip snaring them! I made my loop a little smaller this time!




Had time to make a post set. When the snow was on, this spot was yellow from all the "passerby's". The ground up on this hill was about right for a set. Not too sloppy!

Yaz, That post looks like it has been there a year or two. Looks like an awesome spot.

Snares were empty today. Oh well, god willing there is always tomorrow. h.h.

My second coyote set I made yesterday was a walk through flat set, with bean chaff piles on each side. It was on the highest spot on the lane, where the coyotes have been gathering and locating. Well……this isn't a coyote…… ) 0 for 2 on the new coyote sets!!!!!

My 4'th catch of the day involved a call to my father and a catch pole, and the cable;e cutters……. :rolleyes:

Beautiful catch Yaz!

Nice Catch Yaz.

Sweet catch. I think I would have to let one go if I caught it or maybe have it mounted.

Good job yaz, love pics of fox with snow.

Good catch Yaz and I commend you for releasing it unharmed. h.h.

Nope……that one didn't get released. I usually do. Several different circumstances all combined worked against him. It just wasn't in the cards. I had to release a domestic canine from a snare tonight.

thats a beautiful fox. they are my favorite fur there is.

Im sure you made the right decision. Up here they are so scarce Im hoping I dont snare one. h.h.

I hated it. We don't have very many either. I did hear of a couple of litters in the neighborhood this spring.

22 short to the lungs, same shot placement as a deer

Nice catch Yaz on the fox, I haven't caught the first fox this yr yet. I did have this snare victim waiting for me today. I don't think she had been snared for just too long. She did not have the area tore up too much.

Nice one PB! My snares where empty today. I missed one at the bait pile. I thought the stick i pushed into the ground would freeze solid but it didnt and turned when the yote bumped it. Reset it and added one on a trail on the other side, where they have been coming in. h.h.