Has anyone ever try a tire set?
What I mean by this is leave a vehicle tire out and about for awhile, come back once they are kinda use to it, maybe a mouse or pack rat made it home then make a set out of it. either a trap inside the tire in the middle or outside somewhere around it. Can also make the tire into a drag. But put the normal bait & lure in or around it.
Just a thought. I have many tires of different sizes and see chipmunks and house cats around them all the time.

Anchor your tire or the coons will move it.

I think "The Beav" experimented with it a year or two ago,with no luck.I always meant to try but just never did.

Have you,Mousey?

I caught a coyote in one this year. I might have been premature in using it as the warden may view it as an entanglement issue. I'll get that clarified before I use it again. I don't think it is but you never know.

I tried some last year, and i never had any luck with them. Coyotes came into them about 10 feet away and circled and left.

I tried that set one year in a pasture that had cattle in it. The cattle played soccer with my tires. Never tried it again. There are much better sets IMO.

Think it works best if an old tire has been there a while...preferably a tractor tire. Don’t know of any critter moving those, including cattle. Had one on the place I just pulled from and should have set it just for the fun of it. I will next year or maybe later this season.

I caught a coon In the one tire set I made. Then this year I ha done out and I had the trap sprung once and the next time I came the farmer had moved the tire to the edge of the field and plowed up my trap. I still have no Idea why they plowed up that bean field.

No luck when it tried it.

Open the tire and stick the bait inside, that keeps them working for it. Lure high.

Neat.That is the first picture I have seen of one,with a catch.Do you put them out ahead of time,Posco?

Nope, I put the tire out at the same time I placed the set. I liked the idea as soon as I heard of it and tried it for the first time this year. I made two other catches in it before the coyote came along. Two non-targets.

I saw a demo of it last fall at Minktoberfest. Major Bodicker put it on. It looked pretty easy. He dumped dirt in the center then bedded and covered his trap in that dirt.

I figured you could screw a peace of plywood to the bottom of the tire fill it with dirt bed and anchor the trap and bait and lure the tire and load up about 10 of them In the back of the truck and have your buddy push them out as you drive along. Kind of like dropping depth charges. LOL

That's not a bad idea.

I can't image spending that much time making a set. That said, I did one time place a trap in an old tire I found in the woods; caught one fox, nothing more.

It didn't take long. The only added work was getting the tire into position and that was just off the edge of a field. Other than that, same as most any other set.

Beav's idea might be a little more labor intensive but he is on to something. Having a guy hanging off the tailgate dropping scent-free sets as you go ain't a bad idea.

You don’t ever make a set just for fun?
I made a 2 dirt hole set with the holes as eyes, trap as the nose, a put sticks in the shape of a smile...and caught a coyote, lol. The manager saw the set riding around because I had a turkey feather tied above it blowing in the breeze and called me laughing. He was also the one laughing at the coyote when I caught it.

I made a tire set where people like to dump a bunch of garbage. A couple sheriffs were driving by when I grabbed a tire to move it 10 yards and they stopped and asked me if I was littering. I told them I was just trapping and using it for a set. They thought it was cool I was out trapping coyotes and it brought back some memories of coon trapping for the older sheriff. All I caught was a raccoon. I might try it again but I won't be carrying tires around with me just for a tire set.

With snow on the ground place a tire about 10 feet or so out In the field I bet you would be surprised how many critters will check It out.

Sorry to drag this one to the top, but I figured I would throw .my 2 cents in.. I did this with the plywood on a really wet year and it was a great way to keep the trap operational. Keep the moisture from the ground beneath out of my dry dirt I had in the tire. I had a couple sert up this way, but switched to a small plastic bag as my "floor" . I wasn't targeting Coyotes as I was using these in a farm yard on coons and skunks(they loved it), but I did pick up one yote in it. This year I plan to use it on yote more and have a bucket of dry grass that I have a bunch of dead mice in that i am going to use inside the tires and "bait"

it works in some places and situations and taught at our classes...and the tire is used as a drag.

I have used it for years with a few twists different than Boddicker's. Here in livestock areas it is a winter set when the cows are out of the pastures. Tires are used for mineral block holders here and the cows will investigate each one. Trap - drag - bait all in one container makes it an easy (pasture) set but wonder about its use in your other areas (woods roads, river edges, non livestock travel routes, etc.). Its OK for a winter set where the weather is harsh but better fall sets are available to us as stated. The tire still makes a great drag though !...........................My take................. the mike

I show it in one of my DVDs, and I learned it back in the 1980's from Major B. It's not a routine set, but it has caught some coyotes for me I might not otherwise have caught in pastures. There's a bit of a knack in setting it up, to keep the moo-moos off it (or sheep) and the coyotes investigating.

I also use the tire as a drag.

I'll have to remember that if I ever get caught dumping old tires in the bush.