Coyotes are coming to the call at most sets. I don't know if it is the cold bone chilling temps, the deep snow or other reason but hunting has been great this year. I say 10 times better than last years nearly snow less warm temp hunting.

Al

Put them down while You have the chance.....it's been lousy Predator Hunting here in Missouri!

calving season is coming up, so things should get good soon.

The cold weather helps to keep them moving later in the morning.


Good luck to all of you !!!

Your report motivates me Allieoop.

I'm crossing my fingers for mid-March, my next trek out to Alabam. I've the new .17Winchester Super Mag to try out as a short range coyote bush (primarily groundhog) rifle! It'll be my 1st bonified coyote hunt. I've watched a bunch of coyote youtube and TV predator shows, but rarely do they show hunting in the thick brush. All I've seen has been field edges or high plains sage desert.

I'll slip up some chilly morning and lop a few basic openings along the animal paths. Plan to set up a salt block and trail cam where some deer bed down as well. Gotta try field/forest edge, deep forest, and a high tree blind along the creek. Mojo decoy, JohnStewart & Foxpro callers, plus some baiting. Gotta trick some doggies.

Last October I was sighting in my small pcp air rifle and some yotes came trotting along 60 yds across the creek. Caught the faintest of a few glimpses of moving wild dog or yote. Leaves are off the tree now and have 60yds visiability in a few places.

Keep the stories of calling coyotes from in the brush a comin'!

Good luck. Shoot a pile of them.

nice. hope you keep on shooting them down

I received a call from my friend John. He said he had got a call from a farmer who wanted us to hunt coyotes on his farm as they were getting bold and coming right in his feed lot. The farmer said they didn’t run very far when the farmer entered the feed lot too. 4 of us went to the farm to look it over for ideal set ups. We used a siren sound to locate the bedding area of the coyotes that were in the area. And then the farmer loaded us in a wagon and drove around the edges of his farm so we would know the property lines. Next he said he would take us to look at different locations we though might be a good place to set up. We decided the top of a hill in a fence line that ran almost east and west with some Russian Olive Bushes and round hay bales along side. Two mornings latter We drove in the farmers drive and parked out of his way where he had suggested. There were four of us for this first time hunt as the farmer had said there were 6 coyotes in the pack. I had my Rugar 77-220 Swift, My friend John had his fairly new 223 H&R he had won at a wild game dinner raffle at the sportsman club, His brother had a Remington model 788. 22- 250 and his friend had his custom Remington 700 22 Cheata. We walked back down the lane to the turn off and start climbing the hill. Once up on the hill top we decide to set the E caller down on the ground between a couple of hay bales. We got up on the bales to watch to the north and south as we start the call going. The field on both sides of the fence line are hay fields with a swale with deep grasses at the bottom of the hill in the north field. There was a shallow drainage ditch going from it across the edge of the south field and a big culvert that was a driveway to another hay field. We didn’t think any coyotes could sneak thru the culvert with out us seeing it. About 10 minutes into the calling two coyotes came out of the grassy swale. With hand signals it was john and his brother who were to get the first shots. They worked out who was going to shoot which coyote . Expected shots rang out but still made me jump from them. Two coyotes lay mid way across the hay field. Another 10 minutes of calling produced nothing more. A week later we got two more.

Al

Went today with good fishin buddy and "best" hunter he has known. Well 20 minutes into first stand dead dog. 150yd shot. All I can say is the "best" hunter proved to be accurate. I learned more in two stands here in Ohio than any show from Nevada. Called my buddy whose dog was killed by yote two years ago and all I know is hes grateful. Dear killer down. First yote and learned that with limited fence rows location is key like real estate. Now if only I could learn a faster way to skin em. Two hours at 10 degrees in front tree I believe there has to be faster method. ***teach a man to hunt and his kids won't know their daddy"..

Skinning coyotes. seems the pictures are gone but you might get them to come up by right clicking on the X.

http://www.nodakoutdoors.com/forums/...p?f=11&t=65281

Pictures are still on this one.

http://www.nodakoutdoors.com/forums/...p?f=94&t=44635





Al

ive seen quite a few here in mo, but them tricky little bugers just don't like the idea of getting shot.