Mist bottle of peroxide will take care of the blood smell.

Sweet post andy, keep um coming, u have the walk through perfected

Thanks SULLDOG, they work pretty good for me and I like the step down dirt holes also. Thanks for the tip sparkyd, never knew that. If I don't catch the female tonight i'll go call her in and finish the job with the rifle.

Haven't been on here in a while. I sure appreciate this thread. I have been lurking a bit now and then. I especially enjoy the photo's of the different sets that are being used.

My early summer coyote project is going good. I have been playing heck keeping black bear out of my sets this spring. My son and I set 25 traps along a long canyon road last month. By the time we got the last sets in and headed out, the first three sets we made that morning had been set off by bear lol. Between the bear and the torrential rains we had last month we still managed to take out some mature pup rearing yotes.

We are pretty much done on the lower property's and like Andy are kind of following the cow herd as they move higher up the mountain. Have been doing a great deal of scouting the last week. It seems the coyotes right now are patterning the fawn crops. Anywhere we find newborn fawns we are finding good yote sign.

Funny story about the bear issue. I tried some spiked urine/dropping sets hoping this would keep my traps working longer. NOPE, seems the bear just can't get enough of the stuff lol. The bear are now also moving up and out of the creek bottoms as the green is newer up high and they won't be so concentrated along the creeks down lower.

I am going to try to post some pics of some of my sets and maybe contribute some. I kind of came up with an idea I have been messing with and am having better than average results. Probably something most of you guys already do, but I haven't seen it mentioned before.

Wally, the fawns around here have been on the ground for a few weeks now...do your deer drop later? Keep hammering' those yotes!

Yes. Hitting the ground as we speak.

wally you should have had Lt come out. seems that was in the works at one point was it not?

The pups are out moving now...

It was the plan. I got shut down on snaring on the property except for winter. I sent LT a pm, thanks.

Cute little suckers! Caught one in a cage trap set for 'coon one Summer. Coon were raiding a guy's garden, set some baited cages up and had a coyote pup the next day...my kids wanted to keep it as the little guy was so cute. Mean Old Daddy said, "NO!"

andy i envy your country

Andy does have some awesome looking country but, I'm sure many feel that way about New Mexico, TravC.

At times in the summer trap seem to set there for weeks on end...

I miss new Mexico for shure!

Great thread...

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I just finished my 12 month / 365 coyote trapping quest. I wanted to learn all I could about coyote trapping and snaring and figured that doing this would help me become a better fur trapper. I only skinned coyotes 3 of those 12 months, the other 9 end up feeding flies. This was done on a private farm for predator control.

I brought this thread up, after searching forever, this morning so I could read it in its entirety. There is alot of good info here. Folks keep starting coyote threads, but this ones a good one. I'me reading it for the second time,lol.

Congrats...do you have any pics to post?