It’s 6 am. I’m eating breakfast. Drinking coffee. And reading about = grass and screen in a Cold sheep camp. Thinking about WHERE I can find some coyotes?? What a life!!!! LoL! Interesting read Mark

I’ve gone out at night under a new and full moon to look at screen covered sets. Now my eyes probably aren’t as good as a coyotes, but all you see is the deck without a light. Nothing looks out of the ordinary and that’s with just black screen and no covering. With a little bit of grass it’s the same. What I’ve learned from night hunting is they don’t exactly have X-ray vision at night like folks think. I’m sure something obvious will stand out, as well as scent, but I’ve had them walk a trail directly to me while I’m dead center of a 2 track with my rifle on a tripod and shoot them at 25yds. He never knew I existed. I’ve also caught them on exposed pans after a rain…had to weigh the option of rebedding and adding human scent or letting it be.

Nother one. Got about a half inch of rain monday, another half inch tuesday, and overnight temps have been in the mid teens and low 20s. Haven't touched a thing, just a new shot of pee on the pipe and let her fish.

Seriously considering playing with a different version of this with a trench style deep step down set with the void beneath for rain, and just using the grass and screen to cover it with. Rain and freeze resistance, with extra additional foot guiding. We'll see.

Bamboo was part of my learning curve, along with Grab and Die sticks, Grubstakes, T-Bones. etc.

The pipe is more durable than all of them, can be used over and over and over (except for the T-Bones, the other items are largely only good for ONE catch......I still have pipes that are 10-12 years old OR older that are being used).......also, I can drive them in directly (even partially frozen ground) WITHOUT the need for a pilot hole.........not true for bamboo, wooden dowels etc.

T-Bones are remarkably tough and can be pounded into hard ground, but alas, they also have a shelf life and either get chewed up, carried away, eaten, or just break after X-amount of poundings...........

If someone wants to dig up all the old Pipe Dream posts, there's a TON of information in all of them......

Zagman