I vaguely remember someone posting that there was someone around who claimed they could catch adult coyotes regulary in cage traps......ring a bell?

was it Kirk Dekalb?

I have a picture of one caught in a Thompson dog trap...the coyote, a young female nearly destroyed it....I need to post that picture.

Steve, Kirk does sell a dog/coyote sized trap. You can see it a www.advancedtrap.com

Whether or not you can consistently catch coyotes with one is the question.

I have never claimed that I could catch adult coyotes regularly in cage traps. You must be referring to Dan Gates. Even Dan hasn,t made that claim. I do have, however, a customer that says he catches many in cage traps and he was the first to catch one in mine over a year and a half ago. He must not want his name mentioned or he would have given me permission a year ago.

Had a customer buy one of my double doored coyote-dog traps about two weeks ago cause he said he had caught 4 coyotes in cage traps after his chickens and had one that was regularly stealing the bait and beating the door( getting out before the door came down).He said he had video and was going to set a camera on my trap to get video of my trap. He wanted a trap with bait options and a fast door that was more open.I have not heard from him.

I get very little feedback from the customers, except that we get a lot of re-orders from customers for the same trap or a new model they want to try.

Maybe you could post a picture of a more open trap that is big enough for coyotes and dogs, than the one I sell. Maybe one with faster doors? Surely there is another, or maybe they are like myself and have other proto-types to be tested, by experienced coyote trappers before they are offered for sale.

Most of the inquiry is for a trap to catch them in residential areas where they are not afraid of humans. Many have had the same worry with the coyote beating the door. That is why the double - door trap I sell is designed and has the animal approach the way it does.

You can have the best trap in the world, but without the right bait-lure, area trapped, weather, and experience, your trap may stay empty.

kirk ,thanks for the clarification,I could be wrong about someone making that claim.however I would like to see if there is someone with continued succes using cages.

Boy, ritrapper, you're not the only one!

Called customer today. He said he hasn,t had a chance to use it. He actually answered his phone while in the doctors office getting his hand sewed up.

I guess if there was someone who has "perfected" it,they would be screaming from the mountain tops

I saw his presentation at the NTA National in Mo. last fall, His man hours catching those coyotes (admittedly) was very high... and they only got those using a small dog in the process... even he says it was not consistant

Here is a design that shows great promise. I have two more that are along the same lines I will not show.
I have no cages out now.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNEseoBWNuc

I would have to make a run of 150 to 200 to be able to sell them cheap enough. Until I do more testing and untill the economy gets better, I don,t plan to sell.

The traps I do sell for coyotes were the most productive of all my traps I used this past winter, if you could call our 80 degree days a winter. They were by far the easiest to get an animal to enter.

It just takes a cage built for the size animal your trying to catch.

Looking good as always kirk!!!!!!,,,,,,

I too used a dog to teach me how they approach. Here is one of the videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxIXv1l034c