Posted: 11/14/2006 3:07:14 PM EDT
I got permission the other day from a land owner next to a public area here in Ottawa to hunt for Coyotes. The other day a guy was "challenged" by two coyotes while walking his dog in the morning. I live near by and have been hearing them at night for quite some time out of our window. I put the FX3 and my Foxpro decoy in the middle of a hay field and hid in the woods about 60 yds. away with my RRA varmint rifle. I switched the remote on to play a jack rabbit in distress call and started the decoy into motion. About 5 minutes into the hunt I see two heads popping out of the woods. Its a man and a boy on a dead run for my decoy.  The as!@#%es aren't supposed to be here!! I figure the hunt is over so I pack everything up, unload and walk out to head them off. They tell me that they are from the city and have recently moved into the area and thought that someone had dropped a baby off in the field and that they were coming to rescue it!!!!! What a deal.
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I was looking at the stuff at Gander Mountain the other day, and it seems to my uneducated mind that if you got an electronic call with a remote and one of those furry decoy things, you'd be in pretty good shape. |
That sucks!
Gonna use one of the Garands? 
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That'd teach those furry little fuckers a lesson, wouldn't it? |
Yes I was carrying my rifle. They were still 20 yds. from the call when I came out and they saw me. They didn't seem intimidated by me carrying a firearm at all. |
What do you do with the carcasses? Do you skin them? I want to go coyote hunting, but I have no interest in doing anything with the dead ones. I'd rather just leave the mangee, pheasant eating bastards lay where they fall to become part of the food chain. Is that legal and ethical? I guess if someone wanted the skins I could throw them in the back of my truck and drop them off. |
The pelts are worth next to nothing, so most just leave them lay. It's legal and ethical to do so. |
Yep,Possums need to eat too |
brass-hog, I have the RRA A4 Varmint with the 24" barrel and 1:8 twist. I shoot Black Hills blue box with the Hornaday 60gr Vmax and it will shoot 1moa on average. What kind of groups are you getting with the 55gr.? I bought mine for Coyote hunting about 4 years ago and haven't gone yet. I was sitting in my deer stand this morning and saw 6 of them at different times. If I didn't know better, they seemed to be following the deer around |
I dont hunt deer, but me thinks this upcoming week would be good for coyoting. 
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maybe waiting on a gutpile?
Terry from RRA makes a special rifle that they do not offer through the company. I bought one last rear at the Princeton gun show from him. It is a 20" stainless barrel witha hogue float tube that has the varmint cut. Lighter to trek around in the woods with. He has made a few of these for different people and said they all like them for Coyote hunting. I would agree so far. I shot a five shot group at the buffalo range with mine right out of the box last year to zero the scope. I covered the last four rounds with a quarter. |
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Yep, you can. IIRC, no mag capacity rule either, not like it matters much anyways. I have a few spots where the yotes are in thick and I'm hoping I can finally get one this year. I've finally got them responding to howls and it's multiple coyotes from a couple directions, usually. I'm really looking forward to getting some snow on the ground so I can hit the spots I have lined up. WIZZO |
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BIG +1 on what Kalanikid is talking about. I was a newbie and still consider my self new to the field.  Some people will jump all over you for stupid shit, but we try to be as friendly as posible here since this is a Comunist State and all that... (Blogo, Daley, Crook County bastards...). We want all the Illinois shooters to stick together, please take some critisims for what it is worth and not personaly. back on topic! I would love to go Coyote hunting my self, but I never seem to line up my time off with the right weather or location. Anyone planing a large coyote hunt lets talk!  |
It will scare the deer if its right next to you, but that would not be likely when a yote is around. Guy I was hunting with last weekend shot one (deer) on a trail, then shot another 4 minutes afterward coming down the same trail, doesn't affect them much when all that other shooting is going on... |
I'll have to disagree with this. A good coyote hide, put up properly, without a large amount of sewing from a big hole blown into it can bring decent money. Depending on size and condition they can bring $20-$30 or more. It may be legal to let them lay, but that doesn't make it ethical. |
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+1 I used to do a fair amount of trappiing. As with any fur, the more work you do to it the more the fur buyer will pay you for it. I used to take Coyote in whole and get $20 for them. If you are doing this, time your hunts for around the time the buyer is coming to your area. One other piece of info. The belly fur on a purebred coyote with out any dog mixed in is as white as the driven snow. If it is yellowish it is worth less money. |