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Goin snaring

Gern186 said:
One of the legendary guys around here will take a ticking clock and bury it just below the surface at his trap set.....the yotes can hear the ticking underground and it sometimes is too much for their curiousity......that setup has caught him some really smart ones.
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Gern is right on this trick......I read about this one (I believe in Fur-Fish-Game Magazine) many years ago. I have never tried it though. I believe it said do not use a real loud ticking clock....battery is better than wind-up of course, and it needs to be in a ziploc bag. No dirt hole, no flat, no scent or urine. Just a natural set.
 
I've heard that trick too. My FIL swears he used to set traps upside down to catch fox that had gotten good at flipping his traps. :)
 
I've had my daughter helping learn to post pics on this site via this laptop... :)

Anyway, this is the "funnel" I snagged the last coyote in. Unfortunately, she mashed down the trail pretty bad after getting hung up so I'd say this spot is now a bust for another snare. This place just screamed at me that it would yield a yote! I wish I could find a bunch of these little places in that wide open country, unfortunately they are few and far between.
 

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I have no doubt there is another one there. They have a den started about 100 yards west of where this pic was taken, and I only caught the female. The problem is in finding a "funnel" where I know a coyote will stick it's head into a snare. I still have two snares set close to this spot, but I'm not holding out much hope for them. I may slip back there with the rifle and howler and see how that turns out. Mrex told me they are susceptible to howls when you kill their mate, so I may give that a whirl in the next few days.
 
good work brock....I dont know about you, but I am having a blast with this new found hobby. QUestion, how are you stabilizing your snare in these wide open areas? are you using like a coat hanger to support and stand it up?
 
Coat hangers aren't quite strong enough. I am using wire. Most say No. 9 wire, but I have been using No 12. It has been working alright, but I think I would be better off with No 9 as it would be a little stiffer. I had that snare staked with 40 inches of rebar...she hadn't moved it a lick. :) I had to use the winch on the four wheeler to get it out of the ground, but with the ground being wet and soft, I don't want to take a chance in one of them pulling free.
 
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You should try these out for anchoring your snares. They work awesome, and are easy to instal. Not to mention once in the ground, a yote isnt going to pull it out. I have not had to anchor a snare with one yet because I have had trees or fenced to hook to, but I do anchor my leg holds with these! But they will work just as good with a snare in a situation such as yours!
You drive it into the ground with a rebar stake and then take the rebar out and pull up on the cable until it wedges itself in the ground. They are cheap as hell too! THen when you are done with the trap you either leave it in the ground or take a shovel and dig it out!
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Kaiser878 said:
good work brock....I dont know about you, but I am having a blast with this new found hobby. QUestion, how are you stabilizing your snare in these wide open areas? are you using like a coat hanger to support and stand it up?
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Brock, Kaiser sounds like a pretty good canidate when you get done with the snaring book:smiley_chinrub:
 
I worked with a guy that got into coyote snarring several years ago. He was an absolute idiot in the woods, but managed to snare a bunch of yotes by setting snares by the hundreds. He killed as many deer as he did yotes...maybe more. Anyway, he used those ground anchors and liked them really well. I think he may have given me a couple of them and I may still have them out in the shop somewhere. I would have already ordered some, but honestly most of my sets are tied off on trees too.

Zach, Xbow has a book that is circulating around on snarring. I am next in line to receive it. I will be happy to fwd it to you afterwards if you would like to read it. I'll just need an address.
 
You can get them about any where you get traps. They are cheap..like 2 bucks a piece or so. just google trap anchors. they will pop up. there are many different kinds...I like these the best, but then again my trapping experience is limited. Although, my very experienced neighbor swears by them.
 
brock ratcliff said:
I worked with a guy that got into coyote snarring several years ago. He was an absolute idiot in the woods, but managed to snare a bunch of yotes by setting snares by the hundreds. He killed as many deer as he did yotes...maybe more. Anyway, he used those ground anchors and liked them really well. I think he may have given me a couple of them and I may still have them out in the shop somewhere. I would have already ordered some, but honestly most of my sets are tied off on trees too.

Zach, Xbow has a book that is circulating around on snarring. I am next in line to receive it. I will be happy to fwd it to you afterwards if you would like to read it. I'll just need an address.
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ya let me know brock when you are done with it and I will give you my addy
 
I set another snare today where I got the female the other day. I didn't have anything in my other snares, but someone or something took off with one. The cable that had it secured to a tree was even gone. I found a wire tire I had used in the set up that looks to have been cut. I sorta suspect a late season coon hunter may have found the snare...

Anyway, the deer seem to be getting used to me running around on the four wheeler. When I first started running snares on my quad a month or so ago, they would run as soon as I got within a half mile of them. Today, they just stood and watched me! The same six I have been seeing I assume. I couldn't get 'em all in the lens of my phone, but here's some of 'em.
 

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Hehe... We still have a few. I've been seeing this group of six does about every trip up there. I even saw seven bucks together one day on the property. Honestly, my little honey hole is probably on the rebound. Jay bought the neighboring land, and ran off all the guys that used to shoot the place up....that is gonna help me a good bit I'd say. I'm the only one hunting the farm(s) now, so that should help. Still have pressure on some of the other farms, but not like it used to be....they'll come back if I can kill off the yotes!
 
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