So today I was checking my few CRs. I can see fresh coyote tracks heading down the fence line head right for my CR. I don't know how that coyote did it but It got out of that CR. I see where he laid down and the CR Is laying there fully closed. There was no tear up just It's tracks a lay down spot and then a single set of tracks leading away. I don't know If It pawed the loop off It's neck or It was jaw caught or maybe foot caught. But It wasn't there.
Then to make matters worse my next CR was approached and the track stopped 5" away from the loop and then the coyote backed up and left. Maybe It was the same coyote or It's running mate there were at least 2 coyotes working that field.

Then I go to the next farm and see fresh coyote tracks heading right down the fence line. The farmer had dumped a dead sheep along the fence line. The coyote went right by It never broke stride and went across the field and turned down the trail where I had caught a coyote last Tuesday . Of coarse I didn't have a snare there . But there Is one there know. LOL
Fresh snow sure does tell the tale.

Frustrated In Oregon WI.

Ive had 3 closed loops on lethal snares this year .pulled tight and no yote ..its mind boggling really ..wonder if maybe they are getting a foot in it ?

liberty bibberty.

Lol, Liberty Buchimo!

The coyote is probably seeing or sensing the Magnetic field. Probably Both. Same as they would dig up a projected field of a foot hold. It will be more prevalent 5 days before to 5 days after a full moon. The field may not be of high enough intensity for him to sense, until the moon is closest to the earth in its cycle depending on materials used and how the set was made using those materials. If the snare has a high intensity he could feel it, see it, and back out. A projection of low intensity he may just see the outline of the snare more clearly and just paw it.

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So today I was checking my few CRs. I can see fresh coyote tracks heading down the fence line head right for my CR. I don't know how that coyote did it but It got out of that CR. I see where he laid down and the CR Is laying there fully closed. There was no tear up just It's tracks a lay down spot and then a single set of tracks leading away. I don't know If It pawed the loop off It's neck or It was jaw caught or maybe foot caught. But It wasn't there.
Then to make matters worse my next CR was approached and the track stopped 5" away from the loop and then the coyote backed up and left. Maybe It was the same coyote or It's running mate there were at least 2 coyotes working that field.

Then I go to the next farm and see fresh coyote tracks heading right down the fence line. The farmer had dumped a dead sheep along the fence line. The coyote went right by It never broke stride and went across the field and turned down the trail where I had caught a coyote last Tuesday . Of coarse I didn't have a snare there . But there Is one there know. LOL
Fresh snow sure does tell the tale.

Frustrated In Oregon WI.


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Ive had 3 closed loops on lethal snares this year .pulled tight and no yote ..its mind boggling really ..wonder if maybe they are getting a foot in it ?


The coyote is probably seeing or sensing the Magnetic field. Probably Both. Same as they would dig up a projected field of a foot hold. It will be more prevalent 5 days before to 5 days after a full moon. The field may not be of high enough intensity for him to sense, until the moon is closest to the earth in its cycle depending on materials used and how the set was made using those materials. If the snare has a high intensity he could feel it, see it, and back out. A projection of low intensity he may just see the outline of the snare more clearly and just paw it.

This makes a lot more sense than people saying full moon catch rates drop off because animals "can see better". Animals see just fine without the moon too, which is why the world comes alive at night.

So this magnetic field thing must not effect the catching of 1000s and 1000s of coyotes that are killed on a annual basis. Just think If Robert would have de magnetized all his foot holds he might have caught 2000 coyotes on the Quest.

Could of swore I read a study that said the moon had more to do with prey movement rather than predator movement. If the prey holes up do to the brightness of the moon the predators don’t move as much...no sense in wasting energy hunting when the prey just isn’t out like they are on a darker night.

No It's all about work ethics.
Getting out before the season and gaining permission and pre scouting. Then getting out of the sack at 3:30 In the morning and working till dark. Then doing It every day for months In 3 different states. And running 160 some sets and keeping them operational In all kinds of weather.
It sure as heck has nothing to do with how a critter senses some magnetic hockis pockis.

I'm not buying It.

I figure a foot caught coyote Is just walking right through the snare with It's head up. WI rules tell us the loop can be no bigger then 12" and can't be more then 12" off any packed surface. So In a non entanglement situation and the coyote Isn't hunting just traveling from point A to point B it's head is probably up and above the 24" height. But It's feet are In the zone.

So this magnetic field thing must not effect the catching of 1000s and 1000s of coyotes that are killed on a annual basis. Just think If Robert would have de magnetized all his foot holds he might have caught 2000 coyotes on the Quest.

The other thing Is a coyote lives by It's wits and when you go stomping around driving stakes and hanging cable In that trail that animal knows something Is a miss.

No It's all about work ethics.
Getting out before the season and gaining permission and pre scouting. Then getting out of the sack at 3:30 In the morning and working till dark. Then doing It every day for months In 3 different states. And running 160 some sets and keeping them operational In all kinds of weather.
It sure as heck has nothing to do with how a critter senses some magnetic hockis pockis.