Yes I know what the post was about we are full swing in are nuisance beaver program but we don't post pictures
That will hurt all traping some day if you don't. Think so keep posting your pictures

this is a trapping forum..........AH!

This big male was heading into a calving pasture on March 17th of this year.


This coyote was denning in a hay stack at a calving pasture.

Calves were just starting to be born. March 1st 2014.

Andy,
I for one, and I hope I speak for a good many trappers, appreciate your contributions to any thread on trapping, coyotes in particular.
What you write comes from experience.
That said, this is as one pointed out a thread on coyote control.
Not meant to be a fur trapping thread, per say.
Year round control work may not be the best loved part of trapping, yet it is a part.
It isn't for everyone.
I never hide the fact that I am an ADC trapper and that means I am a "hired gun" ,if you will.
You catch and at times kill whatever someone 'hires' you to do.
And that's young, old, pregnant females, etc.
It isn't some romantic notion of 'mountain man fur trapping in the wilderness...'
It's an all out elimination, any way possible.
But coyotes, like weeds, aren't eliminated...they're managed.
And managed to numbers that ranchers, farmers and hunters can live with.
Until next time...

Looking forward to your contribution, Andy.

LT

Well put buddy

Well put buddy [/quote] X 2

I just got all my gear loaded up for the trip, one thing of importance I might mention about warm weather coyote trapping is the use of urine. There is never a more important time than hot weather to add glycerine oil to your urine. I seldom use it as antifreeze because it dilutes the odor but when its hot it will help stay at your set longer than straight urine will. I use the darkest, blackest aged urine I have and mix it 50/50. Have a good one.

(...and Andy fails to mention, due to modesty, that he produces some of the best coyote urine in the country !)


If you didn't know, now you know!


LT

remember this pile? 2 more gut piles from cows, 7 pigs, 1 deformned calf!


Even the skulls are 50 yards away!


Slapped in Another liquid draw station and got a camera on it.

While i was trimming out a path to view the station i heard that awesome spring singing...close! REAL CLOSE! walked to where i found one of the pig skulls, bout 100 or so yards away over a bank. Seen where large junks of stomach was dragged, followed trail down to edge of the bank and singing stopped, followed trail to this!





could hear growling, whining and whimpers....a wet pig hoof was lodged under a root. I collected enough scat to last the season. If they dont disperse too far i should have this family group if i catch momma or poppa first.........then its PACK WHACKEN as BIG O calls it!

Thats great news sulldog. By the way I had an idea about a post while cuttin grass today. It was for the tman guys and gals to guess what if any tats you had. Forget it now. My guess was correct barb wire. Love it. My fishin buddy has the same and a fu man chew. Priceless. Keep those yotes comin to your properties and youll pile em up.

Buddy called the other day. Lives in a large western city known for its lavish nightlife and prolific gambling. Said something killed his chickens. I determined it was a coyote. Property owner had a hard time believing a coyote could scale the 6-7 foot fence that surrounded his property. I set some snares inside his property and this morning had this female.

Lovin' the long extension, Laz !

Thanks for all the good info! LT, Andy, Lazarus and all others giving information here!

For those of us starting out you guys are our best and sometimes only source of information!

Well the sign this spring has been pretty light. But they had the Game department helicopter out on the Wildlife area to the south and you could hear the faint sound of the shotgun. So there will be a few hogs and coyote move in over the next few days. In the morning I will bait the hog traps, and start looking hard along the roads for coyote sign. I just wonder how many the actually got?

Sulldog, looks like you and I shop at the same slaughter house, lol. Its work but well worth it, best thing I have found for handling beef gut piles is a pick axe. you can hook a pick axe in a cut pile and it drags them around pretty good. Nice catch Tracey, you knew that coyote was getting in there some how didn't you. lol I didn't find much for coyote sign where I have been, 3 coyote familys in a 10 mile stretch. I have hit that country hard in the past and probably someone else did too with the prices being paid on them it wouldn't be a surprise. That is a good thing, In the eyes of a rancher No coyote is a good coyote. I jammed in some good sets on some good travel ways, its a waiting game now.

I got a friend who got word I was taking deer scraps from local processers for bait piles. He stops at my place and asks me if I want guts and parts. I told him bring it on! Andy the fox here hit this pile harder then the coyotes do! Aggressive suckers! The pig livers go first then beef liver and hearts. Hooves are a hit too. You are so correct about the pick! First 4 piles I drug buy hand and thought, "there has got to be a easier way then this...whew!" That's some serious moving! lol

I have found dens of coyote and fox on this property and the funny thing is...they use hooves like chew toys and are found at every single den! This hoof stew melt down I hear is the nastiest smelling stuff out there!

I used LT's Liquid draw station last winter and they love wearing it like cologne , I poured half in a hole and set the cam on it, ill check it in 2 weeks and post pics.

either im becoming a wolf or my olfactory senses are dying because dead stuff don't bother me as much as it used too! I put a long day in yesterday loading up bait stations, I got home and stepped out of the truck and my wife was like "@#$% NO!" leave your clothes outside, don't even bring them in the garage, i'll bag um and get um! lol Shes a wolf too because she said she could still smell me after I showered, here it wasn't me...IT WAS MY CELL PHONE! LOL! I posted those pics from my cell phone and something stinky got on it, stank went through the gloves I spose ! she tracked it all the way down to the phone!! then wiped it down with Clorox wipes! now my phone smells like a @#$%$#@ swimming pool!

Good luck on the line A.W

ALWAYS enjoy your pix LAZ

Yes I know what the post was about we are full swing in are nuisance beaver program but we don't post pictures
That will hurt all traping some day if you don't. Think so keep posting your pictures [/quote]
Don't you have to be a member to see pics?

LOL Sulldog

I think it's only fitting to post the next series of pics on this thread.

One week from heading to summer pasture

Killed and fed on by a pair of adults with pups.

Good trail leading to the calf. I put one deep step down set baited with cat here in the bottom left of pic and another step down 40 feet off the calf at the other end of this trail using horse for bait there. 78 degrees out and dry. No gland lure of urine here because of the cattle. Bait with skunk mixed in only.


Crowding the calvs out and the coyotes in.

A look at the other set from the backside.

#2 Victor/Monty off set 4 coiled, small jaw spread in calving pastures only for me. Bedded closer to the hole than normal for obvious reasons.

Completed set, rougher the better if pups are involved.

Trail they used to come in to the kill site, we are about 200 yards from the dead calf here. I picked that rabbit brush for my backing at this set.


Finished set with foot guides in place, the large clawed of dirt that is in front of the hole has a small smooth spot behind it, if I make a catch here it will be by the left foot I would about bet. In the next week or so we will see what happens. Maybe I posted these picks for nothing and then again it might get interesting.