I don't know about Asa and Wacky or you other guys but the coyotes I trapped in Montana were spooky.They got shot at year round by farmers and ranchers,had airplanes and helicopters gunning them,other trappers,big game hunters and me after them.At least the ones out on the plains where I lived.Most were circle shy.I kept records and they wouldn't go back into a catch circle for 21 to 23 days unless the was a good rain or snow.You needed to pull the trap and reset outside the circle.You had to be real clean,equipment and self.I sat on a ridge watching a coyote hunt along a washout one morning.All of a sudden he stopped and layed down flat,stretched out on the ground.I then heard the airplane coming in.It was the first week of October,I was Antelope hunting that morning.The Federal trapper was gunning that sage flat for "problem" coyotes.There was a big sheep operation just north of this flat,the Cornwell Ranch.After the plane left to fly another grid the coyote got up and left for parts unknown.I did trap coyotes one fall over north of Helena Montana in the mountains.Those mountain coyotes weren't anything like the prairie coyotes.They seemed kind of curious.The nice thing was as winter set in and it snowed up in the higher elevations it pushed new coyotes down the mountains.Terrible staking conditions,shallow soil then solid rock.I ended up chaining traps to the base on pine trees after I ran out of drags.These farmland coyotes I've seen here don't seen spooky.
