I wondered why twice one or both coyotes went and looked into this culvert. I set a #3 in some grass on the ice to catch the coyote, this nice dark female came out and got caught. Coyotes wanted to eat her I bet, I hope they come back through tonight, they have been too lucky too long!

T20 I grew up in Dunnell and was wondering about the shale bedding you mentioned never heard of it. Still run around with Danny J from Dunnell.

it is found in se MT and e central WY, it comes to the surface in places, black or grey in color, or red.

this tall, big dog missed this snare,

but, he didn't miss this one 50yds further down the trail, LOL

He was my 2nd or 3rd biggest this yr, stretched 2" longer than my stretcher

Looks like you are having a good season. Good work

thanks, many days I had to be back to work by 12 or 2pm. next fall I'm going to have things set up better, already got more permission. If we had normal number of pups I would be over 100 I think. I think I got 8-10 pups out of the 72, that would seem low to me.

I know how that is. I have been so busy at work this year I only got to run a dozen traps. Normally I would have 50 to 80 out. Hopefully next year will be slower at work during trapping season. That is quite a low number of pups but 72 dogs is doing pretty dang good if you ask me. Really like seeing the pictures.

I figured a normal year, not with distemper a yr before, I should have seen half of my catch as pups? maybe the big adults would have avoided sets seeing pups in them? i was suprised to see so many really big, big adults. I think I got 5 of my biggest 7-10 just this yr, and thats out of hundreds of coyotes in my career.

shot a pair today, story and pics on Hunting section

will a dog ruin your cat sets?

no, as long as you dont need to worry about things like keeping the grass up on a snare set. Cats are oblivious to traps, any added odor like coyote stuff wont matter. I have only seen cats in WY.