need a partner for coyote hunting

[david]

am interested in going coyote hunting February 10th and 11th, Saturday and Sunday, 2001 for my birthday. problem is, I have not been very successful at hunting 'yotes. anybody with experience interested in going? don't know where to go, but am willing to drive to meet anyone. I know it's kind of early, but I like to make my plans early.

thanks,

david

david : come on down to ohio and hunt them with me. I will show you how easy it is. You can also buy a tape called the Coyote Gods that teaches you how also. It is a great tape and i have NO conections to them. it is about $40.00 http://www.coyotegods.com/
There tape shows you how easy it is to call and kill coyotes . I like to hunt coyotes with a partner also )
here is another good varmint hunting page
http://www.cctrap.com/~varmint/ahsto.htm

good luck

[WEEZER]

I bought a 243 with the plans of taking a few of the critters out of my small game land. I see them every year while deer hunting, pheasant hunting etc but when it comes time to hunt predators I can't find them no more!
Sportsmaster- How do you hunt them ? With calls? Close to heavy cover? At night?
I'd really like to smack a few of them and hopefully watch my rabbit/Pheasant populations go up a little. The mice populations will go waaaay up but I guess I could live with that.

[Mike English]

I've read several articles and listened to all sorts of advice but have yet to actually call in a coyote or fox. Any tricks of the trade you'd like to part with??

Weezer, maybe we can give it a go sometime.

Mike

1. Wear Complete Camo even face and hands and be quiet when you leave your vehicle till after the calling is stopped.

2. Use a Electronic caller with contail rabbit in Distress calls Play continuously.

3. Set in the Shade and back against a tree or bush if at all possible.

4. after 15 to 20 minutes of calling pick up and leave to a new spot at least 1/2 mile away

5. Do not CALL LOUD

6.
if you do this it will get you coyotes



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[Steve in MI]

Sure I hunt them here around port huron. I have shot a few 7 or 8 . I just huitn them for a day here and there I really like to hutn grond hogs though. I have a calling maching . I use a remington vs 223 . A 6-24 scope and a small tripod to steady the gun , Also made my own gillie suite works well on the fringes of cover . E-mail me We can talk get together and hunt the critters I have acess to many farm fields where they are in the area . Hope to talk to you soon, Steve G

[rrbuckmaster]

OK, I will ask the dumb question, what do you do with a coyote? Or is it to just get rid of them?I see it in the guide but have never thought about it before.Never see them anyways.just a "Q" thanks

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HAPPY AND SAFE HUNTING TO ALL.

[Steve in MI]

Well wher i hunt them we drag the carcass off to a spot where other varmits will eat at it and we shoot them. A 40 grn vmax bullet moving at 3750 makes a mess of a yote when it hits. The bullet explodes as it enters and turns most everything in its path to mush. The farm I hunt they kill the calves and kids(goats) so they become fair game them selves. I did load up some full metal jacketed bullets to get myself a nice pelt to tan. These small caliber bullets are great for this type of hunting if you dont plan on eating it. LOL that is varmit hunting.

[rrbuckmaster]

That sounds like a good thing to use my new M-1 Garand on, I have to look into this,thanks

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HAPPY AND SAFE HUNTING TO ALL.

[clattin]

Count me in on a coyote hunt...I'll be doing it in Dec and Jan as well, so maybe I'll have some spots lined up by Feb. I've done a lot of coyote hunting in Western Kansas and looking forward to shooting some here. Doesn't seem to be any shortage of them around, I had three of them come into my turkey setup last spring!

This is a picture i found on a web site some where . They said the picture was taken with a camtraker camera.

Does this picture of Coyotes need any more explanations ?







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[DuckMan]

First let me say, I am not against coyote hunting at all.....or any predator hunting for that matter. I realize they can become destructive in some areas and need to be culled. In fact, I have killed a coyote myself about 15 years ago.

But I am curious why anyone would be surprised (or upset for that matter) at the picture that sportsmaster posted showing the coyotes hunting the deer? I mean, isn't that what you would expect from a coyote? They are predators and will take any opportunity presented to them to kill and eat.

I have a hard time with hunting predators myself. There was a great article on the back page of Field & Stream this past summer about this very thing. It summed up my feelings to a tee. If I can find it online, I'll post it, but the gist of it was that a father shot a coyote and brought it home only to throw it on the garbage dump. His young daughter (less than 5yr I think) questioned why he shot it in the first place.....it started making the father think about it himself. I have that same dilemma when I am not after the nuisance predator and am presented the opportunity to harvest it. Many, many times I have passed on shooting a red fox.

I know, I know....they decimate the grouse/pheasant/rabbit/etc population, but isn't that part of why they are here in the first place? I am willing to share. Call me crazy.....just don't call me late for dinner.

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DuckMan

Duckman: quite a few years back i was in Montana and the rancher that allowed us toi hunt there told us to SHOOT every coyote we could. They were killing his sheep. mainly lambs but it was costing Jerry about $2500 a year in lost revenue. Since that time i have hunted them. In Ohio they will kill tame pets. This is one of my reasons for hunting the. I like to shoot crows also and i don't eat them either. I am not trying to flame you just give you feelings on this matter. There are some things on this earth that are worthless.

[DuckMan]

I agree with you about the sheep and the pets. I just don't agree that coyotes are worthless. Without coyotes/fox, our mouse population would be SKY HIGH and come winter, I imagine there would be a lot of wives that would have wished they had some coyotes/fox around to eat up those mice that are trying get into their homes.

To offense taken, nor given.


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DuckMan

[Banditto]

I do have a lot of experience with coyotes. We have had an explosion of coyotes on the Rose city property we hunt along with the neighboring cattle farms. The farmer next door claims that he has had at least 2 calves taken by coyotes this year. I have personally heard them take a deer down, finding the carcass the next day by way of following the crows. They have run through my stand numbering 3 to 4 at a time.

You won't realize how nasty they are and how much bird and deer damage they can do until you let it go for a couple years like we did.

Anybody familiar with Pheasants Forever? There motto is let the coyotes go because they believe that the coyotes primary prey is the red fox. I don't buy into that belief after seeing our bird numbers dwindle down to almost nothing.

As far as what to do with them, maybe SalmonStalker has a recipe???