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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2967899" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>For what I do I think that the 650 would be a better sized trap than the 550. I do like a little longer chain so that they can't get above a stake and get full strength pulling up on the stakes, but that's in my area with muddy, frozen, bone dry, sandy or gravely and every now and then clay soil types. I have only had a problem with the 16-18" length of chain I use if my springs get weak. One gray morning, we had 2-3" of new snow and more was still falling, I was out checking things when some strange tracks came onto the road from the direction on the neighboring ranch. They went down the middle of the road then cut off to the left heading toward the creek. I had a snare set in the fence in that direction. as I went toward where my set was so did the tracks. I pulled up to the cut bank got out and saw a coyote about 15 feet below me hung up in my snare still fighting it with fresh tracks leading right to the set. I shot the coyote went to my truck for the stuff to remake my set. when I took the coyote out of the snare it was wearing a nice #3 trap with a short chain on a dee ring in the center of the trap frame, the stake still in the end chain swivel. That was the strange tracks in the snow, trap chain and stake. I back tracked him and just over the fence was the catch circle by a dead horse. So, after I finished my run, I took him over to the guy's house that was trapping over there and gave him his coyote trap and my snare that he had been caught with. The guy used add on base plates for a center swiveled dee ring, a swivel 8" of chain a swivel with a large lock washer welded closed at the end of the chain with a 3/8 rebar 20" stake pounded straight down in the center of the trap bed. The ground was frozen but with the coyote standing above the stake pounding pulling and jumping the washer would bind on the side of the rebar on the upward motion then slide down when the coyote relaxed its pressure but would bind as it lunged again, working like a steel post jack A 1/2 dog knot steak with dirt filled in on top of the dog knot would have stayed in place. Or even wrapping some tie wire around a 1/2" rebar stake and doing the same thing with filling in on top of the wrapped wire, but a 3/8 rebar stake is just too small and the ribs on the rebar let the anchor point bind just enough to jack the steak out of the ground. there are many ways to get the job done a little thought and experience helps. this guy knew better then to do it that way, but he got in a hurry and tried to go with cheaper stakes. He wouldn't admit that it was his trap but said he would take it if I didn't want it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2967899, member: 91783"] For what I do I think that the 650 would be a better sized trap than the 550. I do like a little longer chain so that they can't get above a stake and get full strength pulling up on the stakes, but that's in my area with muddy, frozen, bone dry, sandy or gravely and every now and then clay soil types. I have only had a problem with the 16-18" length of chain I use if my springs get weak. One gray morning, we had 2-3" of new snow and more was still falling, I was out checking things when some strange tracks came onto the road from the direction on the neighboring ranch. They went down the middle of the road then cut off to the left heading toward the creek. I had a snare set in the fence in that direction. as I went toward where my set was so did the tracks. I pulled up to the cut bank got out and saw a coyote about 15 feet below me hung up in my snare still fighting it with fresh tracks leading right to the set. I shot the coyote went to my truck for the stuff to remake my set. when I took the coyote out of the snare it was wearing a nice #3 trap with a short chain on a dee ring in the center of the trap frame, the stake still in the end chain swivel. That was the strange tracks in the snow, trap chain and stake. I back tracked him and just over the fence was the catch circle by a dead horse. So, after I finished my run, I took him over to the guy's house that was trapping over there and gave him his coyote trap and my snare that he had been caught with. The guy used add on base plates for a center swiveled dee ring, a swivel 8" of chain a swivel with a large lock washer welded closed at the end of the chain with a 3/8 rebar 20" stake pounded straight down in the center of the trap bed. The ground was frozen but with the coyote standing above the stake pounding pulling and jumping the washer would bind on the side of the rebar on the upward motion then slide down when the coyote relaxed its pressure but would bind as it lunged again, working like a steel post jack A 1/2 dog knot steak with dirt filled in on top of the dog knot would have stayed in place. Or even wrapping some tie wire around a 1/2" rebar stake and doing the same thing with filling in on top of the wrapped wire, but a 3/8 rebar stake is just too small and the ribs on the rebar let the anchor point bind just enough to jack the steak out of the ground. there are many ways to get the job done a little thought and experience helps. this guy knew better then to do it that way, but he got in a hurry and tried to go with cheaper stakes. He wouldn't admit that it was his trap but said he would take it if I didn't want it. [/QUOTE]
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