I am starting Coyote Hunting and was wandering if you guys thought or had good thoughts about Driving them if you have do they work.

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Well hunter 2006. I assume you're talking about trying to drive or push the coyotes from cover such as some people do for deer.If so, then all I could say is, good luck.I think it can be done, but I don't think that success would be very good.For one thing, I think that nearly all your shots would be at moving targets, and coyotes are hard to hit when on the run and I also think that getting them to come out of the cover right where you want them to would be of great challenge.I believe your time would be better spent learning to call them in with the predator calls.I chased, called, and even hunted them from planes,(used to be legal in Ks.) and making them go where you want them is, well, lets say, nearly impossible.

i have heard of people doing it with some degree of seccess but have never tryed it myself.i would have to agree with howler that the degree of succes would be minamal

One time when a friend and I were driving deer, we jumped a couple of coyoties. We couldn't get a shot off because theyran into thick cover and we lost them. I don't think that we would be very successful if we meant to do it.

you guy's are all wrong we drive coyote's all the time here in southern In. we usualy have about 5 guy's and 2 dogs. we have a lot of patches of woods so it makes it alot easyer.you do it pretty much like deer. after you flush a few spots you kind of get the knack of where to sit. lile aloung a ditch coming out the back side of the woods you are flushing. the dogs make it a lot more easy .they kind of push them strait out. they don't have the time to try and circe aroud quite so much' it's alot of fun just like calling its something you can do in the middle of the day . we got about 50 last yr. and 20 this year so far.

We have a little 800 or 900 acre patch of woods next to us that has all kind of coyotes ,I would really like to see someone drive it . Its all fir trees, hawthorne and blackberrys . You might drive a small place but not all situations are the same .

Edited by - halcon on 01/24/2002 01:59:22

let me get this straight,"a LITTLE 800 or 900 acre woods.WOW!!what the hell is big to you?LOL.i think the origanal posts question was intending to ask if any body drives them with people,not dogs.i know driving them with dogs is very effective.

we have done it without the dogs it' just not quite as productive .I think the best part is trying to guess where he is going to go and be there waiting for him. the more you do this the better you get at it. I would't call 800 acre's a patch most of the places are from 1 to 50 acre's

Yotieslayer The place I hunt is actually a lot bigger than 900 acres .we just don't have roads in it and no open fields , It would be impossible to drive . we either have to call them in or trap them . We also have a lot of hawthorne bushes that you can't even walk through .Just pointing out that everyone don't have the same playing field .