Night Hunting Coyote Questions

When hunting coyotes at night how close to you let them come to you before you shoot them? Until you are confident in the shot. Farthest I have shot at night is 100 yds.

What type of light do you use. White with Red or Green Lens. Night Vision. or a Colored LED light? I use red led night eyes scan head lamp and night eyes kill light. Switch kill light between my 25-06 and my shotgun. My two primary partners love night vision.

Do you have a quick on/off or variable switch for your light? Kill light has pressure switch that I can velcro to weapin. Has two modes either hold for on release for off or standard on/off. Scan headlamp has on/off which has 2 modes full power and power setting for which mine is at 1/2 power.

Do you set up out in the open when hunting coyote at night or do you still try to hide like you would during the day light hours? It depends on situation how out in the open I stand. Yet I almost always stand and never allow myself to be skylined.

Do you wear camo at night? Actually the question should be, do you think it's necessary to wear camo cloths when hunting at night. I wear black or camo clothing. For young yotes its not necessary yet call shy older dogs are different ballgame.

What type of rifle do you use? 25-06 85 grain ballistic tip

What type of rifle scope do you use? Or do you use a red dot type of rifle sight? Open sites? Rifle 3x9x40 scope nothing less than 40 to allow sufficient light into sight. On shotgun open fiber optic sights.


What magnification would you use for night hunting if you had a variable power scope that went from 4x to 16x magnification. I leave mine at 3x and adjust as necessary.

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