I catch a Coyote Academy post fairly often on Facebook and am blown away by the numbers of coyotes he often has in one location. I've had 2 and 3 numerous times and even had once had 6 within sight of each other in trail snares on a big bait on the cusp of a huge winter storm front. Many times he'll have 6-10 or more often with in 5-10 feet of each other. I'm a proponent of gang setting but rarely set that close together. Sometimes at a gate opening or if I have a couple fresh badger holes close together. He must have staggering numbers of coyotes to make gang catches like he does.

In his videos it seems he is using dirt holes almost exclusively. It tempts me to carpet bomb some of those good travelway intersections on my line. Interested in your thoughts.

Someone will correct me if Im wrong, but I think he traps a lot of dead piles and travel ways near dead piles.

Tejas has posted pics of several caught withing a small area and I am sure others have done it as well

But the majority of large number catches in a small area that I have seen posted are near feedlots

I have one picture somewhere with a caught coyote and 7 more standing around looking at it.
On a game camera so you know they were bunched up.

Wish I had 10 more sets in that area that night.

Never a bad idea to have 2 or 3 in a location

I rarely ever set just one. It’s always two and sometimes six or eight if it’s a new carcass or a really hot travel way intersection.

Historical dump stations, carcass pits or bulled dozed over pits and such will certainly allow you to stack up the catches around those areas.

Those draw areas that have several years of age on them have developed a network of different family groups. Locals and down wind animals have become familiar with that location and others like it.

You can see how it can become the best bar in town so to speak. Lots of interest developed from the big odor, lots of marking scent locatons and multiple feces from different animals.

When you know how to read such locations you set accordingly. 7 is the most I have caught with 10 sets in a good draw area. You learn that when you have caught 3-4 each night for 4 days in a row you should have spent more time setting a few more traps on day one.

I think Dr. Bob had 12 coyotes caught at a dead pile. I don't know if that was a daily check or maybe a 2- or 3-day check.

Friend sent me a pic of 13 caught in one pic

Don’t try to compare KS feedlot country to anywhere else.

The coyote densities there are insane.

There was a thermal video 10-12 years ago when thermals really started to be a thing of something like 30-40 coyotes in a very short pan of the scope on the edge of a feedlot.

SW Kansas, Western OK, SE Colorado, NE New Mexico, the panhandle, something about that region.

It’s coyote central.