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Post by hoosiernavy29 on Jan 6, 2010 16:42:34 GMT -5
Question for you seasoned yote hunters, just getting into this to help reduce the pack that around my area. Should the movement be better before or after this snow storm that is coming in. I am think headin out Friday morning to hopefully catch a couple on there feet searchen for a meal.
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Post by Decatur on Jan 6, 2010 17:07:37 GMT -5
Like most animals they will probably be on the move before the storm, and after it subsides. Good luck, I hope you whack a few!
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Post by vectrix on Jan 6, 2010 19:13:37 GMT -5
Went out tonight, just got back and nothing.I was banking on some movement before the snow.
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Post by swindianapaul on Jan 6, 2010 23:40:42 GMT -5
I was a bit surprsed when I pulled in driveway this afternoon (about 5-5:15 pm). A yote standing in the transition zone of my yard to pasture area. Hung around for a minute or so as I sat in truck watching him, them bounded off when I got out. I know what I'll be doing Saturday!
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Post by daworz on Jan 7, 2010 10:39:08 GMT -5
We called in two last night, but they Hung up, and the Gig was over, We think they were pretty active last night before the storm, They were responding to the calls well just hung up out of range, plus the shot would have been qustionable so we decided to wait, as the plan comes together.... On another Night.
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Post by hoosiernavy29 on Jan 7, 2010 12:06:16 GMT -5
Daworz, you guys start calling as the sun is going down or wait till later on in night. My set up currently I am doing the morning and evenings, don't have a light setup.
Went this morning and set up in 3 different areas and nothing, probably head back out on Saturday morning.
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Post by lonniephillips on Jan 10, 2010 19:17:43 GMT -5
Question for you seasoned yote hunters, just getting into this to help reduce the pack that around my area. Should the movement be better before or after this snow storm that is coming in. I am think headin out Friday morning to hopefully catch a couple on there feet searchen for a meal. coyotes run in packs now? I thought that was wolf? I have never ever seen a coyote pack around hear. I have seen "some' coyotes but never seen then hunt , kill or even feed like a pack coyotes are individuals and not wolf packs you might thin the coyote population but you will have to put them in packs and teach them to live in packs to be able to thin the pack  |
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Post by hoosiernavy29 on Jan 10, 2010 20:04:31 GMT -5
Lonnie, the used the word pack, instead of herd, because I normally see 2 or more on one particular farm I deer hunt.
The most I have seen this year together is 4, all adults play grab arse in just off a fence row 225yds away from in the middle of Oct.
I was asking an acutal question, looking for information.
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Post by Decatur on Jan 10, 2010 20:34:56 GMT -5
I've seen two and three coyotes hunting as a team before while deer hunting, and have heard 5-6 howls coming from what sounds like the same location.
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Post by huxbux on Jan 15, 2010 19:36:23 GMT -5
I've had several knowledgable, experienced hunters and biologists call BS when I've told them I've seen as many as six coyotes running together as a pack in the HNF. It's a mystery to me why they're so skeptical, since a simple Google search turns up plenty of evidence to support what I've witnessed including at least one college thesis. Some folks simply refuse to believe until they've seen it with their own eyes I suppose.
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Post by tobias on Jan 15, 2010 19:55:07 GMT -5
I saw 4 together in a field one time and that's the most I've ever seen together. Seen 3 together one other time when we drove into the field, but one was wearing a bracelet around his foot and couldn't run off w/ the other two! I don't know how many critters it takes to make a "pack" but I really wouldn't consider yotes as pack animals...........atleast not compared to wolf packs.
I guess some will consider 3 or 4 deer a "herd" and others will simply say they seen 3 or 4 deer.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 15, 2010 21:16:36 GMT -5
The most I have seen together is three.
That was in 2008 in Illinos. One was so big it looked like a wolf.
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Post by jkd on Jan 16, 2010 14:38:54 GMT -5
I read somewhere that the eastern coyote is a hybrid between true coyotes and eastern red wolf, so it would make sense that they might exhibit pack behaviour.
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Post by coyote6974 on Jan 16, 2010 21:18:00 GMT -5
It's not unusual at all for coyotes to run in groups of three to five individuals. If you want to call that a pack who cares. I usually refer to them as groups, since most often they are just that. A family group that has not dispersed completely. Several years ago I watched a group of five coyotes work a cornfield I was shelling. They all appeared in the field together and they stayed most of the afternoon. I took my first called double from that group in the same field two days latter.
On three occasions, I've had three coyotes come in together to calls. On several other occasions I've had doubles come in. Last week I tracked two separate groups of three coyotes that were traveling in single lines through deep snow. I've also found bedding areas where three to four individual coyotes have bedded together. Last February I spotted a group of five coyotes together. I obtained permission to hunt the area, but only called in singles. Yes coyotes are most often loners, but not always. During breeding season they pair up and there will often be a third or even fourth coyote tagging with the breeding pair.
Coyote 6974
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Post by duff on Jan 17, 2010 8:09:23 GMT -5
Yea who cares if you call them packs, herds , groups, coveys, flocks, population, ndividuals, or just dogs. Kill them all as far as I'm concerned. The intent of the question was pretty clear I thought.
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