I was finishing up with my last bucket of wax dirt for the upcoming season when the then current issue of The Trapper arrived. As usual I was anxious to get into it. I was happy to see Tom Miranda’s article about the old days and how his trapping expertise developed, and his mention of some of the mentors of the day. I was also starting out back then and remember his videos, and some of the other trapper and writers that helped me move along in developing my own style of trapping.
My first two sets were the dirt hole and the scent post and I set those exclusively for many years with great success. The dirt hole was a run of the mill with an area for the trap in a funnel of dirt supposedly pushed out by the critter that made the hole. The coyote would be funneled to the hole by the dirt and in the time he worked the
