So Im wrapping up my line for the year. Ill be picking up tomorrow. Coincidentally, someone had swooped into my area. Im trapping a spot that is mostly just coyote and fox. Maybe some water trapping here and there. Close to town.

Well this guy started throwing bait piles all down the road. Let me premise I dont mind i suppose, its public and we can all play together. First I saw the wolf snares. Now mind you, ive never seen or heard of wolves this low. Thought it was weird, but the sets look legit. Big loops of 1/8” with cams and one side of the loop held up with a thin wire to make it drop quick. Then I saw a cat set. Real close to the road, sort of poorly made. He had a sifted covered coilspring guarding a 120 news paper box for marten. Weirder still there are definitely no marten down there and few if any cats. Ive be trapping there for 15 yrs and never saw any evidence. I guess the weirdest things was his snares. He had a snare by the cat set. A big droopy 1x19 1/16. No loading on the snare. Maybe 8-10” off the ground but a loop maybe 12” wide and 16” tall. ??? Then i saw some coyote snares i think by another bait pile. Never heard of anyone doing it like this. 1x19” with cams they were 8-10” of the ground. No loading. The first was 16”wide by 18-20” tall. Looked like I could jump through it. Then another nearby had an even bigger loop. Our wolf snares have to be 18” off the ground so I imagine these were for coyotes. The loops were just insanely big. I had the thought of leaving him one of my snares but at the same time I like being a ghost. He sort of looks like he knows what hes doing and at the same time it seems bizarre . And Im pretty sure he stole some scat off my flat set, lol. What say you?

The bottom almost looks a reused snare. You can go high and high easily with canine snares . As long as the snare hits the chest and drops fast enough, you'll have a coyote. Having a higher top of the snare gets the bulky part of the lock out of the animals vision


Bigger concern with that setup would be if you had deer in the area.

It's amazing what people come up with, all the utube videos and all trappers got it made this day and age.
I never had any of that, just demos at conventions and stuff.

Well that was my concern sniper. There are deer and currently elk in the area. Honestly, if a guy were to snare deer this would be my setup. I know everyone does it different, but this seemed odd from what ive seen out there before

For what its worth, he does have deer stops on them, but the height just seems perfect for a deer to nose through