Outdoor Edge has the best gut blade in the business. It cuts from the inside and NEVER gets plugged with hair like traditional gut hooks tend to do. Had one for a dozen or more years and would never use a tradional gut hook or mess around with cardboard...

I catch a Coyote Academy post fairly often on Facebook and am blown away by the numbers of coyotes he often has in one location. I've had 2 and 3 numerous times and even had once had 6 within sight of each other in trail snares on a big bait on the cusp of a huge winter storm front. Many times he'll have 6-10 or more often with in 5-10 feet of each other. I'm a proponent of gang setting but rarely set that close together. Sometimes at a gate opening or if I have a couple fresh badger holes close together. He must have staggering numbers of coyotes to make gang catches like he does.

In his videos it seems he is using dirt holes almost exclusively. It tempts me to carpet bomb some of those good travelway intersections on my line. Interested in your thoughts.

We have cold conditions and powdery snow. It’s going to get colder before our cat season kicks off, and my thought was to create a “fan” of sorts to blow the snow around without touching it.

I guess I’ll give an update after.

Since the effort is going to take money, let's start with just how much money are you willing to spend to do this? I would say the more your willing to spend, at least to some extent, the more likely you will be successful.

I've had the OnX app on my phone for several years. I started last year using it to mark my set locations and it has been very valuable for that. I make notes as to how many traps are at one spot and what bait/lure i used.

My questions are, is there a way to do a bulk delete of the waypoints. I have hidden them but it seems every few days they repopulate the screen. I trap some of the same ground at different times. Like one ranch I had set for coyotes and I pulled those, hid all the waypoints and last week set up some wold traps and will add some cat sets next week when the season opens. We were out this morning to check and when I pulled up the app there were all the old waypoints again. I did a restart on the phone and when I went to the app the old waypoints were there for a second then went away leaving just the current set locations.

If there isn't a bulk delete can a new map be started? Be gentle guys. I'm a bit of a technotard.

I have used perlite in the past for covering traps in the snow with good results.

It depends on your snow, the humidity in the snow, is the trap in the sun, it the trap black, is the trap in coal or frozen earth. Is it going to be cold tomorrow, windy, shady, sunny? All these make a difference.

Yes, a snow spoon can work great if the conditions warrant it. You can slide a thin layer over your waxed paper by SLIGHTLY moving it into and out of the pan or spoon. Don't move the snow around.

If you throw snow into the air and let it fall back on top of the trap it should freeze a layer over the wax paper or the trap covering. You will probably not like this. Looks good, works horrible. You have to have the right set of conditions to move snow and not have it lock up together like cement. Using your dirt screen with snow will get the same results, because you moved all the snow crystals and then they refreeze back together into one clump. While the snow you didn't move 3 feet away stays soft and fluffy.

Pick up the snow like it's fragile and set it down like it's going to break. That is the best you can do if you don't have good conditions.

If you have good conditions, swipe a broom full over the trap and walk away, using a broom to cover your tracks back to the snow go. If it's snowing, do not cover the trap, let nature do it for you, best there is.

A gentleman named Jim Hamilton used to take a wall gun like that to Martin's Station in May of every year in for "The Raid on Martin's Station" event. He would fire it several times during the battle scene. Unfortunately Jim passed a number of years ago.

Nothing works that I have tried. I just shovel a big bare spot. Scatter dirt on undisturbed snow. Set a trap. Coyotes will often stand back and not approach. Some do come in and get caught. Cats do the opposite. Attracts them. Works better than flagging. Snow means no guesswork for snares.

Snow cover on already set traps I leave alone for coyotes. I clear it off for cats. They often want to go have a look.

Read about a person using a waxed sifter

“Snow spoon” is what I’ve heard. I just asked about it in another thread

Anybody ever use/make one for blending in sets? -read about it on Leno lures. Worth making one? Pictures appreciated.