It kinda depends on the size of crawl under but ideally 8"to10". As long as there nose goes through it most of the time they get caught. 90% of my catches end up with one front paw pined to the neck right behind ears. I also like to tie snare ends high on post or fence, often seems they will hang themselves on fence faster without tearing up as much stuff."Blown out" set is definately a fair term to use for a hip catch. When you say small loop, are you talking about 10" or how big?
Boone25/06,It kinda depends on the size of crawl under but ideally 8"to10". As long as there nose goes through it most of the time they get caught. 90% of my catches end up with one front paw pined to the neck right behind ears. I also like to tie snare ends high on post or fence, often seems they will hang themselves on fence faster without tearing up as much stuff.
Boil in Baking soda to clean off oils and smell then hang outside. Bought a few black ones and even tried dipping a few but plain old backing soda worked best.Boone25/06,
How do you treat your snares. boil,dip, paint?
Open trails are fine but not as productive because often deer will knock loop out of trail. Set snares low around 12"-16" high to center of loop for yotes. Try to use snares with deer stops on them in open sets to prevent leg catches on deer. Just keep checking and resetting until one day a coyote is in it. Just more resetting on trails but not too much risk on deer if set right.Also have the same question as above. I have a pot on the side burner on my grill full of very diluted old dye from the last traps I prepped. Have half a dozen unused snares that were given to me out in my shed. Know very little about using them. Have considered a few locations.
One question, would a ledge(12-16 inches wide) on a steep hillside be a bad game trail to try to snare on. I know other animals run it, but want to get rid of more yotes, biggest concern is winding up with non target animals in a snare. Plenty of trees along the trail to use to get a yote wrapped up. Or would down in gulleys be better.
Nice snag. Do you have many black coyotes in that area. I have trapped a bunch of coyotes over the last few years and always wanted a black yote but to no avail.Got another one today out of same hole as one earlier this week. Just about missed her. Had snare loop larger than normal due to hole being blown out and she must have felt it and pulled back before going through. Got both front paws only.
Out of the 79 only 2 have been black. I see them on camera pretty often but only got 2 snared. The snares that I use are the micro locks and the coyote eliminator snares from the snare shop. The eliminator snares have a spring that holds pressure down on lock often killing them faster. It doesn't back off pressure when they stop pulling like regular locks.Nice snag. Do you have many black coyotes in that area. I have trapped a bunch of coyotes over the last few years and always wanted a black yote but to no avail.
Are your snares cam lock snares?
Boone,