snaring problems

[tschoen]

hey everybody i just started coyote snaring this year behind our house. Iset a half dozen in the last two days. The firt day was nothin but yesterday i got to one of my trail sets and noticed it was pulled tight to the deer stop with a little hair in the washer......AND NO COYOTE!!!! I couldn't really see if there was a struggle because it rained like heck the day before. I didn't really know anything about the situation so i just reset the snare. Well today i check and another one of em was the same exact way as yesterday. I have no idea what i'm doing wrong so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx

[justwannano]

Kinda hard to guess.
What are you using to support the snare.
Could be a smaller animal went through and knocked the snare down. I'm thinking a cat whose tail caught the snare???
Somebodys coon hound?
Could a person have done it ? Maybe without knowing ? Maybe a conservation officer?
There are just too many possibilities without seeing the set and surroundings.

[justwannano]

Remind me to re read your post before posting myself.

Assuming it was coyote hair you probably don't have the loop in the right place.
Try to picture a coyote walking through your snare. What is he doing there? whats he looking at?Nose up sniffing the air? nose down tracking a rabbit?Just passing through?
hope this helps
just

[tschoen]

well I have the snares set about 5'' above the ground. I think that a rabbit would have to be jumping to get in it but it looks like the only thing it could be. There's no way it was a person that did it. The ground was soft so i would have saw their tracks. And the cats......well we don't like cats around here so every body shoots em when they see one. For support i've got 10gauge wire either holding it up from the ground or it'll be wrapped around a tree. There are alot of rabbit hunter's around but the fur in it was grey and i don't know of anybody around here that has a grey dog. Your probably right with the thought of it being in the wrong place. I think at both of the sets he'd probably have his nose to the ground. I'll try situating the trap and lettin u know what the out come is. Thanx

[catmando]

for a trail snare set the snare 10 inchs off the ground with a 10 inch loop.

[joe shmoe]

You should be care ful with deer stops, one time I caught a cyotoe and it was a young one. his neck was small and the snare stopped at the deer lock and didnt kill the cyote. he almost got away, and it cut his neck devaluing the pelt. I recomend brake away jay hooks.also if your snare lock is at a bad angle it can close shut.