I'm just curious to how fast you have to drive to get there by 800pm on the 28 th of Dec. when you wre going to leave on Dec 28th at 200am. thanks Larry

We were just never more than a couple mph over the posted speed limit, especially in the 75 mph areas.

We left at 1:50 AM Eastern time and arrived at the lodge at 4:55 PM Eastern time.
That is roughly a 15 hour trip.
We stopped in Des Moines for 1.5 hours to have breakfast with a friend there.
That brings travel time down to 13.5 hours.
We made 4 fuel stops that totaled around 30 minutes.
That drops our driving time to 13 hours.


852 miles in 13 hours is an average of 65.5 mph.

Thanks for the video. Good luck guys!

Hope y'all are stacking fur

Was too tired last night to make a post?

We had our first set day and are feeling good about our progress. Spent a lot of time talking to the local folks that have became friends of ours over the years. We always re-establish our permissions before going on any of the properties.

It may not sound like a lot but we each got in around 20 sets on the first day. Some years it was 12 and last year we had 23 each for reference.

We try to make our sets sparsely on the properties and want to get gear in the ground over a larger area. We think of our line like a net. We want a larger net at first and are not as concerned about how fine it is. As we start checking, we will fill in the net a little by adding additional sets to the properties. We feel this gives us a better chance at different target animals.

Cool, can’t wait for the updates

Stack em up guys.

Best of luck and safe travels !

Great approach for setting your line. People tend to way over saturate an area with sets, which I think is actually puts the coyotes on edge a bit. A couple quality locations in a 4 square mile is good enough for coyotes. I always set on cat sign.