Hunting at Night!!

[realtreemike]

Does anybody else hunt at night for yotes???? Every post I read nobody seemed to have hunted at night....I mean its dang near impossible around here to see a coyote before the sun sets....they are very underpopulated...but anyways I just thought I would ask around and see what was up....oh yea feel free to give your opinion on this "approach" because I'm interested to see what some people will say.....Happy Hunting!!!

[jake smith09]

well depending on where you live, you might be able to spot light. I use a cottontail distress and it works very well.

[kshafer]

me and my buddy go out once and a while back in 2 big fields behind his house. we stand in the middle of the field and howl and if we locate some we head that way and sit down and start the distress calls and spotlighting. we went out one time with an SKS!!!! it was the only thing we had at the time. lol. we havent got any yet, only located em once. only been out a few times. just kinda experiment and see what happens thats usually what we do.

[Phil from Maine]

Here in the winter months by permit we can hunt at night around our frozen lakes. Shotgun only when night hunting so we set out bait on the ice and sit back in some brush on the shore and do our calling. No light needed as snow on the ice will allow you to see them when they head out onto it. The hardest trick is to get them into shotgun range, good luck.

[Rammer]

I call 'em quite a bit after dark once we get snow cover. Its almost impossible to see 'em coming without a lil white stuff on the ground here.

I usually setup on haystacks in the dark so I can see over the lil knolls and ravines easier. Also a lil more forgiving when one does sneak in on ya.

I use Tally Ho's with great success.

[countryboyfrompa]

We hunt in the evening here in north central Pennsylvania with red spot lights best time is 2hr before sun rise and 2 hrs after sunset

[bigfella]

live in east texas; more hogs than deer; hunting at night is a blast

[North Texan]

I usually just stand in the bed of my pickup. Someone does the shooting, someone else holds the light.

Moonlight is a problem. If there is a lot of moonlight, predators behave much like they do during daylight hours. The darker it is, the bolder they become.