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Thank you. I always wonder why coyotes and other predators do exactly step into the trap although Texas is such a big and vast country. Did you bait him?

EK,

I have been hanging snares, where Coyotes are crossing fence lines threw holes they and pigs have dug under the fence, this Coyote would walk up to a hole with a snare look close and leave and go to the next hole and walk up and look to see if there was a snare, no snare he would cross under the fence, he would keep checking holes till he found a open hole, Smart old S.O.B. so i set 3 blind foot hold traps on both side of the fence at two open holes, Got Him !! Rio7

GREAT! Thanky you for your explanations.

Some day's are better than others. Rio7

WOW! How many of them to you shoot each year in average?

My son put the carcass of a road kill on his buddy’s property, staked it into the ground with a rope around the carcass. We have hundreds of pictures of the coyotes walking around. Two bobcats jumped on the. Opportunity and chowed on the carcass until yotes showed up and they would leave, come back and eat more. The coyotes took a month before they started eating. We surmise they didn’t like the rope around the carcass. One night picture shows a possum on the carcass and the bobcat sitting at the ass end waiting for it to finish.
Even had a bald eagle fly in for a meal.

If a feather fell from the sky
a Eagle would see it
a Bear would smell it
a Deer would hear it
a Coyote would do all three.
Rio7

RIO7, ok. Now you may share you secret. There are just five or six of them you put into a freezer and every day you take them out of it and arrange them in different locations. .

To be seriously, on how many acres do you take that number of predators? And did you make any observations if coyotes sometimes tend to hunt in packs?

I've had a number of trail cam pics that showed possums with coyotes and foxes, two animals that I thought might eat a possum, but apparently they left the possum alone. I've always heard that the possum had few enemies because of it's teeth. My grandfather, who did a lot of hunting back in his day, told me that if a possum and a coon met on the same trail, that the coon would always get out of the way and leave the possum alone.

EK, If we won't or can't eat it, it does not go in the freezer.

I normally hunt about 25000 acres, but i can hunt more if i want to. Rio7

JamesJr, Possums are rare a chicken lips here. Rio7

Lord, you have nearly as many coyotes around your place as Mackay Sagebrush has jackrabbits.

A story my Dad told me growing up during the depression.

When still at home he killed opossum, brought home cleaned it and gave it to his dog. The dog would not eat it. So he got my grandmother to parboil it and gave it to the dog again. The dog still would not eat it. Made a mental note, anything the dog won't eat he was not going to eat it either.

Deans, Try feeding a bear to a dog, nothing i know will eat a bear but chickens -- birds and people. Rio7

That is interesting. I'll have to remember that, not that I will ever kill a bear. Not on my bucket list.

Possums are extremely plentiful here. Possum on a half shell, the armadillo, is also starting to show up here. I have several on trail cam.

Back when I was growing up in the 1950's and 60's, the local Blacks would take any possum they could get, along with rabbits and squirrels. I know because I supplied many of the.. My grandfather had hounds back in his day, and did a lot of coon and possum hunting. The coons he would sell for the hides, the possums would in a pen, and be fed straight corn for a week or two, then sold to the Blacks. I also knew a few White people who said they loved a baked possum, cooked with sweet potatoes. My daddy said that he'd seen too many possums feeding up in the belly of dead horse or cow for him to ever want to eat one. I agree.

He was in Close cover. Rio7

RIO7 I am sure he didn't even hear the bang.

Called in these two while checking water this morning, young pair. Rio7