Dang HH!!!! Sounds like my kind of luck!!!!! They'll be back! One of them will be waiting on you when they do.

Gilley, I sometimes wonder if they don't come through RIGHT after we've made a set, and it spooks them off that trail for a while, and after a couple weeks of being elsewhere, they forget about it and go through………

I have had several 'old time" snare men tell me on a trail set, you should walk completely through for a ways the trail on which you set the snare. They say if the coyote comes in the same way you do to the set, and you've "stopped" and make the set, the coyote will hang up right there looking for why YOU stopped, and back out or hang up. If you pass on through after making the set, it doesn't tip them off that you stopped right there for some reason. I can't tell you that I know if thats right or not. I have a lot of respect for their ability to figure us out, but I don't know about that one…..After watching the Documentary Chevy posted…..maybe they are even smarter than I give them credit for. I do know we only catch the "dumb" ones, so maybe we are creating a SUPER coyote!!!! I do know I check all my traps and snares from as far away as I possibly can using binoculars if I have to. After making the set, I try to eliminate all other scent as I check daily.