I have a nice pic for you! Oh yeah- trapping! Had 9 sets same creek, just set day before, and here is what I got the next day.
I was a longline Muskrat Trapper (400 sets) in Massholechusetts until the "Animal Worshippers" had a ballot question and NO MORE TRAPPING,, I moved to New Hampshire screw them.
Now on to the business of my user name...
Ok the coyotes and I have a thing going on for the past 18 years. And it is so rediculous that I seem to have a "coyote free zone" surrounding me. Go 10 miles in any direction and you find coyotes. One or 2 venture through the zone now and then, but they refuse to get caught in any of my traps, and have never even eaten a red fox out of one of my traps. I just have red foxes, red foxes, and red foxes.
18 years ago I was into American Indian stuff, and am about 6% myself. 18 years ago I looked to be a much higher %. My interest was big. I had 3 of what would be called " spirit dreams". One showed me I was not a wolf. The 2nd showed me red cedar is my friend. The 3rd had werecoyotes saying crap to me LOL. It was dream #3 that I got obsessed with. Coyote is one of my totems.
The XD40 is because it was my first semi auto, plus I carry it. I even dressed in a full coyote skin last Halloween, and OC'd the XD40 in public in PA. On june 18th this year ( 15th anniversary of the death of my beloved "Baltimore open carry" dog) this guy I know who I taught to do some trapping, shot a coyote. The darned thing was barking in the woods for a good while, so the guy got his .22 mag rifle and a dying rabbit mouth call, and called the stupid thing right in to just behind his house, and dropped it. I went over the next day and cut the feet off of it. I cleaned the tarsal bones and have made a necklace with them, along with both old and modern beads, and the pendant on the end is an antler slice with 2 of the coyote claws embedded and the bottom of a fired .40 Speer gold dot steel or nickle case between the claws. I am hoping to trap a coyote at that location this fall (if
they let me).
stupid coyote( that's the hunter in the pic, not me LOL):