So far this trip has not disappointed. For me catching a few critters is a bonus. The scenery is spectacular and the local people are the salt of the earth. Conditions are a little different than back home but nothing we can't overcome. Seeing the amount of sign and the amount of traps we have out make me realize how lucky I am to be here enjoying this counrty.

I sure like living here

Some of the nicest people I have ever met...... I want to go back to KS sometime..

Come see us…..but don’t stay if your a progressive. They get shot on site! lol. Gettum Mark and Joe!

Had a fun day on the line today but it was frigid! 3 degrees and the wind chill make it difficult. We had to get many warm-ups in the truck.

Made a couple of Coyote catches and set some more fire hot sign today.

Cayote #1 was caught at the entrance of a badger hole. I made a stepdown set in frontnof the hole and added bait though the coyotes were already visiting the site.

Coyote #2 came in a blind trail set with a sprinklenof coyote urine on a log they had been stepping over.

We found another active badger hole at a differnt farm and set it with a step down for coyotes. The badger is likely to get caught if he is still in the neighborhood.

Nice,did the one get caught in a cat set hollow log flat set thats in the burn circle?

That’s a great observation and question. It was actually a blind trail set. The coyotes had been running the dry creek bed and all stepped over a rotten log with their prints in the same spot. I bedded a trap there and blended it in. I put a few drops of bobcat urine on the log.

I did use the newly exposed hollow log as a backing. It is now perpendicular to the new walk thru set I made there. i added some coyote frenzy in the log along with some sheep's wool. (The property is a sheep farm)

Love the ride along guys!

Blessings,
Mark

I would love to trap kansas looks amazing.

keep going guy the weather well gets better by spring

Stay there if you can, it has done nothing but snow here since you left. -6 here this morning, Great pictures and beautiful country !

Does Kansas have unlimited coyotes? A breeding ground for all the other states? We ALWAYS saw and called up coyotes turkey hunting out there….using turkey calls to call in turkeys, lol.
Just about every landowner we’d stop and ask permission would always throw in shoot every coyote you see and you can hunt.
Even went to one landowners house that gave us permission except for one field you could see from his back deck. He would throw whatever died in that field and sit out at night and shoot coyotes with thermal. It was May and said he was already over 300 coyotes killed.
Just seems with all the trapping and shooting there wouldn’t be any left by now, lol. At least not in the numbers everyone seems to take every year out there.

Had a good run today even though the movement was down last night. Joe picked up a nice coyote and I got a badger.

At one location I had to walk in to do a remake with an Angus Bull 40 yards away! 😮

I reworked a set after the trail camera showed the coyote working from the back side! 🤷‍♂️

I was able to get some great barn shots today which was the icingnon the cake!

We set a lot more good sign today and are ready to hit the skinning barn.

How many sets do you guys have out

Great barn pictures the sky is very detailed,nice looking coyote was that badger from that set you posted two days ago,it also looks like a well furred badger with decent color.Keep hammering away 6 more checks?

I have 77 footholds set and 3 snares. i believe Joe has 73 footholds set.

The area we are trapping is getting a lot of hunting pressure. There is a coyote calling competition in this area this weekend and there are people calling all night with many on thr same properties we are trapping.

The badger was caught in the set I posted earlier this week. I will post below the initial set and the remake.

We have 5 more full checks. Thursday we will check everything but will be starting to pull sets that day. We will leave the farms that wr have the most confidence in and pull marginal locations. Friday will be a check day too but only half of the sets will be checked. Once we pull sets on Friday we will pack up camp, say our good byes and head for home.

that night calling is getting to be popular

Here is the initial setup on the active badger den. I was hoping to catch a coyote here but knew therenwas a chance to catch the badger.






Here is the remake. I remade the walk through style set at the opening and I added a second trap at the bottom of the dirt mound

Yesterday saw things picking up with the warmer temps the night before. The 13 degrees when wen started made it chilly but the coons are starting to move. It is now only a 6 hour run in the truck and over 7 hours if I include the for local coffee time and such. We are mostly checking and resetting now which has sped us up. We did set a line of DP’s yesterday in likely spots in a attempt to intercept coons and possums before they get to our K9 sets.

Of the three coyotes we caught yesterday, 2 had mange and the other was rubbed terribly. We are hoping to get some nicer ones today.