Sitting in the tree and seen a nice buck. Grunted and got him to change direction. He is working twards me with 5 minutes left of shooting time when a doe and fawn came crashing through the woods from the other way.

The dang coyotes were chasing them![:@][:@]

This is the second time in less then a week that the yotes have messed up my hunting. WAR has been officaly declared![>:]

Anyone know if you can use buckshot on them in wisconsin?

Stork,
You do any trapping? Buy a furtakers license, and get A ribcage of a deer or other big deer part with a little meat on it (If its legal ) that you could get from a butcher and hang it about 4 ft off the ground in a tree with about 6 to 10 #3 leghold traps bedded around ....that should do the trick. You could just lay it on the ground, but you will only catch one at most as they just drag the carcass away, plus you have the chance to catch skunks, possums etc that you wouldn' t catch if it' s off the ground.
If you have that many Yotes around catching them would be a pice of cake.
Stagger the traps so that you don' t catch the same animal in 2 or more of the traps and waste the sets. As they jump to get at the meat they will pay no attention to where there feet are landing.
You could also end up with an entire pack waiting for you when you check them.
Make sure you have at least a .22 mag to tack each one from a distance.

Check your regulations and see if you can catch them in this manner.........trapping is really addicting! And Coyotes are bringing about $25-30 I think. It' ll pay for your traps.

I live in Wisconsin and I' m sure buchshot IS legal for yotes. Unfortunately though in WI; unless you' ve had a trapping license in the past couple of years you need to take a certification class now to get one. Also, it' s illegal to animal parts for an attractant for trapping or any other kind of baiting in WI; HOWEVER, if/when you get a deer, if at all possible gut it in an open alfalfa field of picked soy bean field so you can wait for the yotes to show up. Doing this will allow you to stay farther away as the yotes have as good or better sense of smell than deer and when I' ve been out calling them; they always circle trying to wind any danger before coming in. Good luck and have fun!

Yotes make good coats

I love that line cardeer![8D] Do you mind if I use that when I post here?

Thanks for the info Snake! I will be taking a trapper course now. I have also asked my dad to get ready to start traping them again as he has a trapping liscense. He will have to wait untill most of the bird hunting is over with so the dogs dont get trapped. I had that happen once and dont want it to happen again.