Coyote attacks my decoys.
 

Well, Saturday morning in Mo was quite wet, with flooding type rains for the last few days there was water everywhere, Since I can't hunt anymore until Monday I took a buddy that has been wanting to go, he was carrying the gun and I was carrying the video camera, We did'nt do much good except get several hens on video, then just before we was leaving our set-up which was in an old run-down barn, we spotted a coyote about 150 yards away in the field eyeing my decoys, I grabbed the camera and started calling, It was a blast to see him slipping up on the decoys, It took him about 10 minutes to cover the 150 yards, them in stealth mode from about 20 yards he busted a jake decoy at full speed, as soon as he got a mouth full of rubber decoy instead of feathers I guess he knew something was'nt right and he left there like a scalded cat. My buddy never did get a shot at him but that was one great experience. I wish I could put the video on here for you all to see.

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lol....neat story. I've seen it happen on video before but never in real life.

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Yeah I have saw it on the hunting shows before but never first hand, Man I just bust out laughing everytime I watch it. My buddy said he was not able to get a shot, but I think he was just struck with awe or something, I wonder if there is anything like coyote fever LOL.

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..Happen to me and my-ex once strut,she blasted it with a 20 gauge,most have over shot
the yote...but it was exciting..but the bad thing,the yote shut the gobbler up that was trotting to my calling..but it was fun...:eek:

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Yeah I have called one or 2 in before while turkey hunting but I've never had one to jump my deeks, It was fun watching .

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Thats always pretty neat watching em slip in on ya,,,,,,,Except when you dont see em-
I had set up on a bird once and didnt have time to set the decs out and was concentrating on seeing this bird because he was so close, he stopped gobblin after about 3-4 minutes and I went into that 1000yd stare trying to check for movement when all of a sudden I hear the sound of feet behind me in the leaves,,,, I'm thinking its the turkey about 5-10 ft behind me and to the right so I'm tryng to figure out how I'm gonna swing on em, I start catching movement out of the corner of my eye and I knew it wasnt a bird,, startled me so much I jerked my head to see, the yote(A VERY LARGE MALE) jumped about 8ft straight up-I know it was 8 ft cause I was up their with em,,,we both made funny noises on the way up and down,,,, anyway he got a load of hevishot in his backside as he was running away and it slowed em down enough for the kill,,
Took me about 15 minutes to get my wits about me again,

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Last year, I had a red fox ruin what what likely have resulted in a kill when he charged my decoy. It startled me and when I flinched, he saw me and took off right in the direction of the gobbler that was just strutting into shotgun range. Didn't seem quite as funny at the time.

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I hunt in MO and this week i had a coytoe come within 10 feet of me and my decoy they are out of season right know so i just poped up a little and gave him a boo and he ran away .....Friend that owen's that farm sad i should have shot him they try to get the calf's what would you do lisen to the MO con or land owener?

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we have had trouble on our farm w/ yotes attacking the cows when giving birth, and also the new borns, so i say shoot them all.

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I had one attack my decoy this morning. He was about 30 yards past my decoy and hadn't seen it yet because of a hill. I barely saw him before he slipped back over the hill, and then I hit the slate call and saw him move along the treeline. About 3-4 minutes later he appeared about 15 feet from my decoy and attacked it. In a split second he knew it wasn't real and proceded to run straigh at me. He moved so fast at the decoy that I barely got a shot off and I think I missed him clean, even though he was only about 6 yds. away. I shot my other two shells and proceded to miss. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen though.

I think this was the same coyote I called in 2 times the day before. He definitely has a taste for turkey.

CJW

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I never ever seen it happen ever so that must of been weird to see. But if it ever happened to me I'd shoot that coyote and take its hide and tan it. For you could have it forever and then go out the next day for that turkey because coyote hidew you keep forever but the turkey you have to eat. But at least you keep the tail, feet, and beard but not the whole hide. So why don't you shoot and put the picture on the web.;)

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I've killed a coyote at about 10 steps turkey hunting and what was really awesome was a bobcat stalking a hen that was coming to my call. She was about 25 yards from me and the bobcat was about 20 yards behind her, belly to the ground and sneakin'! The hen caught movement, wheeled around and the bobcat took off and I shot, but missed. The hen flew up and landed and went back to picking about 15 yards from me. I had to run her off to get to class!

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I was hunting out side of Lawton Oklahoma about 3 weeks ago. I hadn't heard a single gobble so when I saw a cyote about 150 yards away I was ready for a show. He was very curious and I could tell he wanted my decoy but he was just a little cautious. After about 10 minutes of trying to make up his mind he came charging in. That was what I was wanting until I realized that I had 3 silent toms working their way across the feild about 80 yards away from me. When the cyote made it to my decoy I shooed him away with a few leg kicks. He took off across the field to the west. I continued calling and brought the birds within about 40 yards when all off a sudden another cyote shot out across in front of me from the east. He made it all the way to my decoy before I could shoo him away. I dont' know how I was able to get rid of the cyotes with out scaring the toms but I came home with a 21 pound gobbler with a 10 inch beard. With two cyotes I still got the birds in for a 7 yard shot. I was amazed at the excitement of that morning.

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I was hunting out side of Lawton Oklahoma about 3 weeks ago. I hadn't heard a single gobble so when I saw a cyote about 150 yards away I was ready for a show. He was very curious and I could tell he wanted my decoy but he was just a little cautious. After about 10 minutes of trying to make up his mind he came charging in. That was what I was wanting until I realized that I had 3 silent toms working their way across the feild about 80 yards away from me. When the cyote made it to my decoy I shooed him away with a few leg kicks. He took off across the field to the west. I continued calling and brought the birds within about 40 yards when all off a sudden another cyote shot out across in front of me from the east. He made it all the way to my decoy before I could shoo him away. I dont' know how I was able to get rid of the cyotes with out scaring the toms but I came home with a 21 pound gobbler with a 10 inch beard. With two cyotes I still got the birds in for a 7 yard shot. I was amazed at the excitement of that morning.

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About seven or eight years ago a friend and I were turkey hunting on Fort Knox Army base, we were in an area along the Salt River and we were down on the river bottoms. We were working two long beards at once, one was behind us and the other was to our left, we were facing the river. We had three hen decoys out. The bird to our left we could see in the distance. And out of the blue from our right came a coyote and got one of my decoys by it’s head, dropped it and ran off down the bottoms in the direction of the long beard to our left. Needless to say the turkeys ran off to. Less than a min later here came another coyote came from the same direction and grabbed the same decoy, but this time he off with my decoy in the same direction as the other coyote. Well we had to shoot him to get my decoy back. He made it about 60 yards before we had time to shoot and we both shot at the same time and he rolled about another 10 yards.

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I've never had one attack my decoy, but I did shoot one this season that spooked a tom that I had coming in hot. It was fun, but I wish I had gotten the turkey instead. BB

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Strut,

Last season I layed a coyote out after he busted a couple toms I was calling...everytime I softly yelped, they'd pound.....then I heard a putt and wings and wondered what the heck happened... I know one was around and they were coming fast and covered a lot of land....I softly called...nothing......called again....nothing....then I saw him slipping along the edge of the woods, coming in slow....so I beared down on the shotgun....yelped and he'd come...at 30 yards he finally wondered where that hen was and I rolled him.....I love'd it.

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i didn't have a decoy at the time but 2 years ago, i was calling under some powerlines where i had seen turkey in the fall. All of a sudden, a flock of crows starts going off, screaming and squawking and out runs a coyote. My instinct told me to shoot and i did but i am not sure if i hit him or not. He was on a full sprint for the opposite side of the powerlines where i was and it sounded like he couldn't quite stop and when into a bush. He regained himself and took off back up the powerlines. I had gotten up to go get him cause i though he was down but for some reason i just watched as ran up the powerline and totally forgot to shoot again. Next time, i don't think he will be so lucky[:@]

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We have a big problem with them coming into our setups out here.

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