Coyote Hunters Info
Ive hunted coyote every since they have been in this area and tried every approach that Ive read of watched on video. I think I have found the perfect lure. I have a Goat and he has a small house built like a barn, but it would only shelter 8 or so at the most. Anyway I put an old T shirt in his house and left it for 2 days. I then took it put it in a plastic bag. I always use rubber bottom boots and tie a rag around my shoe and drag it behind me to help eliminate my scent.(The store bought scent eliminator doesnt work) I use fox urine and skunk scent and hang them on the little scent wicks in a circle around me to cover my scent. Also I never use detergent on my hunting clothes. The coyote seem to go crazy over the goat scent, Ive had them come in and kill one and 10 minutes later come back again. They must really prefer goat because it exposes their main weakness, and thats hunger. Hope this helps someone out, if you can get goat scent try it, it works I dont know how many Ive killed this yr. Plus Ive killed several that has had the mange really bad. Has anyone else encountered this?
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why not just tie the goat up out in a field. I've wanted to do that for a long time.
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Interesting! I don't know anyone with goats. I wonder if it would would work with calves? Probably a bad idea in dairy farms country though.
Thanks for the tip. I tried calling them last year with no results and I know they are all around here.0 -
quote:Originally posted by fishermanben
why not just tie the goat up out in a field. I've wanted to do that for a long time.
Ben
...or Select-fire's cat![}:)]0 -
had a goat for about a month. it was a male. it smelled to high heaven.. we had to get rid of it. or we were going to shoot it. 0 -
Darren shot ours - a female.
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Take for a walk the morning before with a female dog in heat if possible,let her pee all over the area aroung a tree stand, next evening bang! 0 -
Always wanted to try somthing with a cat like that to see if it would work. 0 -
I have seen raised bunnies used before i won't go into details but they work really good from what i saw/heard.
I have called and shot "@" more coyotes than i care to say, never had a problem bringing them in just got buck fever and couldn't seal the deal.[}:)][:(!]0 -
I always use an old Doe Bow target painted with a little red here and there to make the coyote think its injured and bleeding. Now what I use to attract the males to a female in heat is a secret. I only share with a few.[;)] 0 -
Ill[8D] keep this in mind 0 -
The T-Rex in Jurassic Park liked Goats also. 0 -
i'm just curious. why hunt coyotes? 0 -
Rabies, fear for stock lives, Pelts, thats about all. Captureing the spirt of a critter damn near as intelligent as you. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by slackmason
i'm just curious. why hunt coyotes?
they are PREDATORS, they are not flocking birds that you shoot out of the air as they mindlessly circle ponds of decoy filled water. Or elk that herd up into groups that can be seen 500-1000yds away and then shot. They are one of the slyest and tuffest animals on earth to hunt succesfully. with their hide is off you will see they are about as big around as 2 liter of pop with legs and a head the size of a softball. they will show up 500yds away disapear and next thing you know they are in your face.
it is hunter vs hunter, not hunter vs hunted.0 -
On my part I hunt for 3 reasons!
1. They devastate the whitetail fawns, bust up turkey and grouse nest. Or catch them when there small. They really hurt all wild life by killing or taking food from the wildlife thats here.
2. They also devastate our farmers small calves and other livestock.
3. There a very challenging varmint to hunt, you have to put a good bit of time in on hunting them, and getting them into an area where you can see to shoot them.0 -
When I was young there was an older gentleman that carried a live chicken with him when he hunted coyotes/fox. The chicken had a string tied to its leg. The guy would tie the other end to a post/tree and sit about 50 yards away and wait. Worked out well, said he never lost a chicken. 0 -
Coyotes are extremely smart, we are overpopulated with them and just can't get the number down.
Round here though they push 40+ lbs some into the 50's.0 -
aahhh, as a non-hunter(avid fisherman though) i tend to think about hunting as The Quest for Flesh. but i definitely understand the idea of keeping the coyote population down. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by slackmason
aahhh, as a non-hunter(avid fisherman though) i tend to think about hunting as The Quest for Flesh. but i definitely understand the idea of keeping the coyote population down.
It's tough to find pheasants or a covey of quail around here. The rabbit population has dwindled in certain places as well.0 -
quote:Originally posted by slackmason
aahhh, as a non-hunter(avid fisherman though) i tend to think about hunting as The Quest for Flesh.
A weekend sitting on prairie dog towns will erase that notion.
They're another favored target around here.0 -
quote:It's tough to find pheasants or a covey of quail around here. The rabbit population has dwindled in certain places as well.
i take it thats due to the coyotes.
i'm from the O.C. in So Cal. so if i where to go hunting id really have to get way out to even find a place i could0 -
quote:Originally posted by Colonel Plink
quote:Originally posted by slackmason
aahhh, as a non-hunter(avid fisherman though) i tend to think about hunting as The Quest for Flesh.
A weekend sitting on prairie dog towns will erase that notion.
They're another favored target around here.
Ya, P-dawg shooting. this could soon end. with the current proposal to list them as endangered spieces.
I was also told by the local director of fish and wildlife here, that if they don't get listed that a ban on all "Live target Shooting" is being kicked around and could possible be printed into the small game regulation brochure. making the take of these pest on private property out of season illegal.0 -
Coyotes have a wide variety of food preference. Yes when the fawn corp come in they do get a few but fawns are evolutionaly desined to out whit the coyote by size. Education in nature is a pretty steep curve. The fawns that coyotes get are the dumb ones or lesser genetics thus improving the deer herd. O and I mentioned coyotes eat just about everything they do not concentrate on one thing long enough to really devestate a population. As for stock animals that is a habituated response that is put in an animal. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by slackmason
i'm just curious. why hunt coyotes?
Because, I love to KILL!
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Haven't hunted them for a few years. Tried both ways, on a stand, calling them in which didn't work for me. Or driving the back roads early (around dawn). The guy I used to hunt with says he's seen more coyotes in his rear view mirror than thru the windshield.
We would carry a shrill whistle and the coyote would run out a few hundred yards, at which time we would blow the whistle. Coyote's mistake, he would hear the whistle, stop and look back. One day a strange looking canine creature loped out across the pasture, he looked like a wolfhound but loped like a coyote. He heard the whistle and stopped. My hunting partner slammed a load into the chamber, I told him, "Jack you better not shoot, that may be a farmer's dog." He took my advice and about a mile down the road we came to a farmhouse, I went up and knocked on the door and asked him if he had a dog that loped like a coyote. He said, "My Gawd boys, I hope you shot it, I've lost a lot of lambs to that SOB." Only he didn't say SOB.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Odawgp
quote:Originally posted by Colonel Plink
quote:Originally posted by slackmason
aahhh, as a non-hunter(avid fisherman though) i tend to think about hunting as The Quest for Flesh.
A weekend sitting on prairie dog towns will erase that notion.
They're another favored target around here.
Ya, P-dawg shooting. this could soon end. with the current proposal to list them as endangered spieces.
I was also told by the local director of fish and wildlife here, that if they don't get listed that a ban on all "Live target Shooting" is being kicked around and could possible be printed into the small game regulation brochure. making the take of these pest on private property out of season illegal.
They've tried it before. It doesn't wash. Besides, landowners will still want them eradicated as nuisances, and there's not a freekin' thing the bunny huggers can do about that.
Out scouting for my vacation, I see that one of my favorite and biggest prairie dog towns is empty now. And do you know what killed thatm? Not poison. Not hunting for damn sure...
It was Good Ol' Bubonic Plague. It sweeps in when prairie dog towns get over populated.0
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