Posted: 2/20/2013 1:16:01 PM EDT
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I've shot several coyotes while I lived in TX but most were either at night, from my back porch or while hunting something else. Now I'm back in TN and we can't hunt at night, I don't have any off my back porch and I rarely hunt anything anymore.
I've gone out a few times now with my caller and decoy. I've studied the land and set up down wind. I start off at a low volume and work it up between calls. I've brought friends and we try to set up to cover the ones that try to wind us but we haven't been able to call one in yet. I know they are there. The land owners see them and they are killing chickens. I can play a siren after dark and the mountain wakes up with what sounds like hundreds of them. I'm hunting fields that go up to the mountain, trying to get them to come down mostly. I've been hunting in the mornings. I think I will try an afternoon/evening hunt next to see if that helps. So far all I've shot is a opossum. Any advise would be appreciated. Edit to add I'm using a Primos Turbo Dogg caller |
| Try a softer approach. What I mean is, get a mouth caller and get up in this mountain you're talking about. Get up there and call soft, not quiet but not screaming if that makes any sense. They're smart animals, if they're not hungry (eating the chickens) they're not going to come down off the safe haven just for one wounded rabbit. Move to them, don't try and make them come to you, as it doesn't work in every ao. if the mountain terrain is thick take a shotgun with #1 or #4 buck instead of a rifle |
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Thanks for the tips guys. I will try some of them next time out. One of the land owners sent me a picture of one he busted at 300 yards one day at about 9am. Shot from his house.
I hesitated to go up in the mountains because it would be very hard to watch the wind direction (it changes often) and they could sneak up behind me easier. At this point I have nothing to lose though. When I have hunting partners with me there is always at least 1 shotgun as well. I've got a full choke and #4 buck for it. My mouth callers are still in a box that has yet to be located since the move. May have to break down and buy more. My electronic caller doesn't have any chicken sounds but I found some that I can download. I thought about that already just haven't done it yet. There really isn't much coyote hunting pressure where I'm hunting. All the guys around here just hunt game animals and are done till next season now. Coyotes are shot by land owners mostly when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time (for the yote anyway). |
| What about road kill for bait? Is that legal where you are? I'm in AL and night hunting is taboo here too. I free range about 50 chickens and after I spotted a "yote in the back yard one day(too bad for her I was just going to work(I was a State LEO) and had my 45 on, 85 yds (ranged and practiced to back fence with duty weapon-1911A1) she didn't make it home. Land owner behind me has 2 sq.miles he manages for deer as a tax dodge for clients and coyotes howl all the time. I started putting my occasional dead chickens in a perfect area for a shot from the house and using a chicken fight call on a Burnham Bros. caller. Never fails, dead chicken/ call= dead coyote. AL Fish & Game are hell on game baiting, but coyotes are not game and the more removed the better in their response. |
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What about road kill for bait? Is that legal where you are? I'm in AL and night hunting is taboo here too. I free range about 50 chickens and after I spotted a "yote in the back yard one day(too bad for her I was just going to work(I was a State LEO) and had my 45 on, 85 yds (ranged and practiced to back fence with duty weapon-1911A1) she didn't make it home. Land owner behind me has 2 sq.miles he manages for deer as a tax dodge for clients and coyotes howl all the time. I started putting my occasional dead chickens in a perfect area for a shot from the house and using a chicken fight call on a Burnham Bros. caller. Never fails, dead chicken/ call= dead coyote. AL Fish & Game are hell on game baiting, but coyotes are not game and the more removed the better in their response. I don't know the legality of baiting them here but I have tried to hunt over afterbirth and if there happened to be a random dead opossum or rabbit or something in an area I would try to use it to my advantage. 
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