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Post by oldshotty on Jan 28, 2018 10:50:23 GMT -5
I have been out half a dozen times since my first hunt and haven't got one since. I hear them yipping and running off/making noise when I'm walking in and a couple times they have started barking when I turn on the call but no luck getting one to come in. I know I just need to get better at making stands but I would think I would at least see some that are curious off in the distance but them guys are checking the hell out as soon as I walk in the woods.
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Post by darinfry on Jan 29, 2018 9:02:50 GMT -5
I have been out half a dozen times since my first hunt and haven't got one since. I hear them yipping and running off/making noise when I'm walking in and a couple times they have started barking when I turn on the call but no luck getting one to come in. I know I just need to get better at making stands but I would think I would at least see some that are curious off in the distance but them guys are checking the hell out as soon as I walk in the woods. I've yet to call one in this year. I hunt a lot at night. Hear plenty so know they're in the area but will not commit to the call |
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Post by bullseye69 on Jan 29, 2018 12:09:26 GMT -5
They maybe call shy ,educated, or they are scenting you.
May need to bait the area for a few days then hunt the baited area with no calling.
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Post by esshup on Jan 30, 2018 9:54:11 GMT -5
I had one run across the road in front of the truck last night. It looked like it was going 40 mph. It was hauling butt!!!!!!!
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Post by coyote6974 on Feb 6, 2018 20:03:22 GMT -5
If coyotes are barking as you enter the woods they've busted you. Don't even bother calling there your just educating them even more.
When setting up to call coyotes be sure to always set up where you can see and shoot to your downwind side. Coyotes will circle to get downwind of your calling location so be sure to make them expose themselves before they can get downwind of you. Once they scent you they will become call shy very quickly. Call into the wind or with a crosswind, but be sure you don't leave them cover where they can circle in behind you. I like to set up in fence rows with an open field to my downwind so to get downwind a coyote will have to leave cover.
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Post by psearcher on Feb 9, 2018 10:44:12 GMT -5
seeing a lot of them lately during day time, typically when I have no rifles with me of course
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Post by oldshotty on Feb 23, 2018 23:45:46 GMT -5
Still no luck bagging another coyote. My stands have been pretty darn good, I know they are there tracks and poop every way they just hang up and don't come inn to the calls.
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Post by oldshotty on Jun 28, 2018 11:15:20 GMT -5
I am in Georgia on vacation sitting on the back porch when I see movement in the woods, the family already thinks I always have coyote on the brain so I ask if they ever see coyote around here and my sister hugs her little Yorkie and says no and everybody laughs and pokes fun at me and we go on about the night. This morning we are heading up to the store to pick up some groceries and all of a sudden a coyote pops out of the woods right in front of us on the road right behind their house. My sisters husband is own his way to the hardware store to build a gate on to their deck lol.
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Post by oldshotty on Oct 18, 2018 21:49:43 GMT -5
I have had my dads .22 magnum out over the last few days and got it cleaned up and put a scope on it. I am going to give it a try on coyote's this year. I took a box of ammo to the range today to site it in and it wasn't enough as it was so far off it was not until the last three rounds that I put a nice group on the target. First time it had been fired in almost 30 years but it was a blast to shoot the old lever action. I will get it fine tuned the next couple day's and hopefully put some fur down. I hunted with a shotgun last year and got lucky on my first time out but never got close to one again so I figured I would try to change things up a bit. I am going to change up my call strategies and try some different terrain, I also picked up a rabbit decoy to see if that will help draw them out in the open. Federal makes a 50 grain round that I have heard good things about and figure if I keep my shoots under the 150 yard mark this combination could be pretty effective.
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Post by moose1am on Oct 20, 2018 10:39:17 GMT -5
I had one run across the road in front of the truck last night. It looked like it was going 40 mph. It was hauling butt!!!!!!! Is anyone out hunting coyotes this year? It's been pretty quiet in this forum lately. I was hoping that things would pick up on Oct 15 with the opening of the coyote hunting season. I have been fighting cancer these past two years and the chemo ever 4 months has me too tired to go hunting. I'm hoping that after the chemo shots are over in the next 9 months that my strength will come back and not the cancer and I will be able to hunt again. Until that I'd enjoy reading about other's hunting experiences. This is a good web site to tell our stories IMHO. It's well run and has good people in here that help each other and don't mock others like on some other web sites/forums. That's a compliment guys. Although the web sites spell checker was not found when I tried to use the spell checker here. I will have to fire up Grammarly and get it working. Until then just ignore any spelling errors and poor grammar that you find.   I had one big coyote run across the road and up a hill and disappear when I was driving around up near Patoka Lake. I was going home after driving up around the Patoka Damn area. The road I was on goes South from the Damn area to State road 64. I think. I was also driving up to Patoka Lake one other time and say a lone coyote standing by the side of the road on Highway 37. It was near a overpass that went over a road or rail road track below. Or maybe it was a stream. I do remember that on the left side of the road as I was going North I saw a lot of cattle out in the field. And it was spring time. So maybe the coyote was feeding on the afterbirth of the cattle that spring. You normally don't see a wild coyote that close to the roadway and in broad daylight. He was just standing there next to the road near the overpass. They can run pretty fast. The first one that cross in front of my truck ran across the road and then into a field and up a hill side and was gone out of sight in just a few seconds. He ran at least 200 yards up that hillside before he went over the top of the hill and vanished from my sight. They are very active up by Patoka Lake in Orange and Dubois Counties. |
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Post by esshup on Oct 30, 2018 8:25:41 GMT -5
I checked the trail cam behind the house and had a number of 'yote pics. I have some snares, and will set them up on bait. I'll save the deer carcasses and make a bait pile.
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Post by psearcher on Oct 31, 2018 12:19:55 GMT -5
not out specifically for them but for some unknown reason one abruptly crossed field towards my stand the other evening...his hunting trip ended quickly
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Post by moose1am on Oct 31, 2018 21:43:38 GMT -5
I am in Georgia on vacation sitting on the back porch when I see movement in the woods, the family already thinks I always have coyote on the brain so I ask if they ever see coyote around here and my sister hugs her little Yorkie and says no and everybody laughs and pokes fun at me and we go on about the night. This morning we are heading up to the store to pick up some groceries and all of a sudden a coyote pops out of the woods right in front of us on the road right behind their house. My sisters husband is own his way to the hardware store to build a gate on to their deck lol. I've seen videos of a coyote climbing up an getting over a 6 ft high fence at the corner of the fence. They can jump up over fences with ease and are very athletic. They run for a living and are very nible. Better build that fence about 10 ft high if you want to keep the coyotes out. |
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Post by bullseye69 on Nov 5, 2018 5:10:48 GMT -5
I had one run across the road in front of the truck last night. It looked like it was going 40 mph. It was hauling butt!!!!!!! Is anyone out hunting coyotes this year? It's been pretty quiet in this forum lately. I was hoping that things would pick up on Oct 15 with the opening of the coyote hunting season. I have been fighting cancer these past two years and the chemo ever 4 months has me too tired to go hunting. I'm hoping that after the chemo shots are over in the next 9 months that my strength will come back and not the cancer and I will be able to hunt again. Until that I'd enjoy reading about other's hunting experiences. This is a good web site to tell our stories IMHO. It's well run and has good people in here that help each other and don't mock others like on some other web sites/forums. That's a compliment guys. Although the web sites spell checker was not found when I tried to use the spell checker here. I will have to fire up Grammarly and get it working. Until then just ignore any spelling errors and poor grammar that you find. I had one big coyote run across the road and up a hill and disappear when I was driving around up near Patoka Lake. I was going home after driving up around the Patoka Damn area. The road I was on goes South from the Damn area to State road 64. I think. I was also driving up to Patoka Lake one other time and say a lone coyote standing by the side of the road on Highway 37. It was near a overpass that went over a road or rail road track below. Or maybe it was a stream. I do remember that on the left side of the road as I was going North I saw a lot of cattle out in the field. And it was spring time. So maybe the coyote was feeding on the afterbirth of the cattle that spring. You normally don't see a wild coyote that close to the roadway and in broad daylight. He was just standing there next to the road near the overpass. They can run pretty fast. The first one that cross in front of my truck ran across the road and then into a field and up a hill side and was gone out of sight in just a few seconds. He ran at least 200 yards up that hillside before he went over the top of the hill and vanished from my sight. They are very active up by Patoka Lake in Orange and Dubois Counties. I have been carrying a 22 mag rifle along when out bow hunting and haven't seen a yote yet. The other day I didn't take it along as its a pain in the arse to carry it and the x-bow. Well I get to the back field and what do I see? Deer at one end and a yote mousing on the other end ,closest to me, and no gun. My dad has taken to yotes from his house with the 243 last month, both females. |
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Post by bartiks on Nov 7, 2018 8:50:36 GMT -5
I about ran down one this morning heading into work, large one. It was the size of a full blown German Shepherd, one of the larger ones that I've see. I've heard some around the house but a ways off. However rest assured if I happen to see one while I'm out in the woods I'll take a shot.
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Post by brandon170 on Nov 8, 2018 20:12:02 GMT -5
I don’t hunt them but do trap a few. Caught 19 the first week of trapping season. If I can get the deer tags out of the way I’ll get back to it.
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Post by bullseye69 on Nov 19, 2018 4:28:02 GMT -5
I got another reddish blond Sat. of firearms with 22 mag. Seen 2 but only got a shot at the second one that came thru.  |
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Post by schall53 on Nov 19, 2018 12:36:46 GMT -5
I really like the color.
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Post by bullseye69 on Nov 19, 2018 20:13:56 GMT -5
Almost like a red fox. Just got done washing and fleshing him out, now on the stretcher drying for a day or so then flip fur side out. |
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Post by moose1am on Nov 20, 2018 21:57:19 GMT -5
Nice pelts Bullseye69. How much do you get for them if you sell them to a fur trader? I've not ever skinned a coyote but while at the gun shop one day I over heard a guy talking about how much money he got for the furs. That got me motivated to hunt coyotes.
When I was younger and still a Freshman in HS I read my dad's books on hunting predators. He had the Hurter's Guide Book (hardback edition around 1960s) and it was full of great advise on how professional guides hunt and fish.
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