Southern Ontario Coyote

Calling is what my son and I do and it is a good fit for the farms we have permission on. Never been with a group running hounds before but it sounds awesome.
The thing I don't get is when I hear about guys driving through from concession to concession with their hounds and how that relates to permission from land owners. I understand that if you have permission you have permission and away you go. Past that point it's gotta be a challenge to set up a new hunt with hounds, getting all the permissions you need and so on and so forth.

After asking for permission to hunt, having talked with farmers who were puzzled when they figured out it was just my son and I who were looking to hunt, I always make it a point to tell them it's just us two and we will be calling not using hounds because many times they automatically figure we are just the tip of the iceberg and the hounds and hunting posse are gonna be showing up on their land if they give us permission to hunt.

Making this distinction between hound hunting with a group and just the two of us calling when seeking permission to hunt has made it possible to have the number of permissions to hunt that we have, otherwise I know we would have been told "sorry but no," many times.

I'm mentioning this because as I said, I can only assume setting up new group hound hunt, getting proper permission to hunt has to be challenging.
 
Depending on where you live and how many people you know it's no probs getting permission from everyone.Yotes are a big prob in most of Ontario and land owners are glad to have them taken out.I will say there are some people that don't like hounds running around but as long as there not running deer they seem to change their minds.You can end up with alot of property to hunt and have lots of fun !.I've run up to 9 hounds but like to stay with about 4 or 5 at the most and run with tracking collars so I never end up with them running around loose after the hunt.
 
hunting with call either mouth or electronic can be a blast . I had two come out this morning after about 30 seconds of calling on my foxpro wildfire . i had slipped into a spot for a quick hunt before work . that is one thing i like about calling , can go for quick one spot hunts . few times i have went with hound hunters , spent more time chasing dogs that yotes . but that is my opinion .
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88 man said:
Depending on where you live and how many people you know it's no probs getting permission from everyone.Yotes are a big prob in most of Ontario and land owners are glad to have them taken out.I will say there are some people that don't like hounds running around but as long as there not running deer they seem to change their minds.You can end up with a lot of property to hunt and have lots of fun !.I've run up to 9 hounds but like to stay with about 4 or 5 at the most and run with tracking collars so I never end up with them running around loose after the hunt.
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I see where you are at in Roseneath and I've heard your area is great country for hunting coyote. Except for one very large farm we have up north, all of our calling spots are west of Oakville, east of Woodstock and south of the 401 down into the Niagara peninsula and on the small side compared to further north where you are. Except for a couple of big side by side farms south of the 401 most of the farms we hunt are less than 300 acres. Some of the best calling we have are small 200 X 300 yard fields and smaller fields that border the bush where the coyote travel through on the smallest farms we call. It may be true that more northern areas with larger farms may be better suited for hound hunting and getting permission to hunt with hounds compared to an area that has lots of smaller farms where going after and landing those great calling spots is possible, at least generally speaking.
I have heard of hound hunting going on around Caistor Center, Nanticoke, Waterford areas but just have not been able to hook up with anyone who is into hunting with hounds so far.
 
When we ran hounds we contacted the land owners in the summer and got written permission. We ran most of 2 townships. We now push yotes by foot and one of the townships require written permission to hunt even when the land owner hunts with us on his land. You will always have a land owner that will say no and even a hunter that hunts a small parcel of land say no but yotes never stay in one bush and sooner or later we find them where we can hunt them. Most complaints about hunting comes from a passerby seeing guns and the land owner living in the country on a small house lot. If you run hounds or push yotes you will always get a complaint. Yotes do what they do best and thats eat a few pets. This gets us a lot of permission from the no's.
 
Tracker are you looking for someone else to hunt with??? I have about a hundred farm permissions,pm me and I will tell you the area I have!!
 
We have two days in, four on the boards,tough without snow but doable.Snow tonight hopefully and maybe a few days of chasing.The cream is still on the top making it a little easier but that only lasts for the first twenty then things get a little tougher! Haven't posted pictures thought everyone had seen enough dead Coyotes!
 
In our group we push yotes same as a dog would run a yote. But is a successful yote hunter the guy that pulls the trigger or the guy that pushes the yote in front of the trigger guy? We have shot yotes off bait but no fun compared to pushing.
 
This winter has brought me and my friends some great yote hunting. Between the pushes and our baiting and calling, the five of us have downed about 85-90 coyotes in Southern Ontario. The population is wild around where I live, and the chicken farms around here are crazy for attracting coyotes! We have had some awesome hunts, including one morning when we set up to dog our favourite push. 2 guys dogged and three of us were waiting, and we downed 4 coyotes in 4 great shots. I got into coyote hunting with my girlfriend's father and have been enjoying some terrific hunts and times together! The 70 or so coyotes that we shot with rifles were also exciting, especially the 4 or 5 blonde coyotes we downed. I shoot a .223 Savage Hunter with a Vortex Viper HS scope, and he shoots a Sako Riihimiki .222, which might be the most incredible gun I've ever shot. It certainly isn't a safe queen though, and has downed thousands of coyotes and groundhogs over it's career. I'm happy to hear that our fellow CGN Coyote Hunters in Southern Ontario are having luck as well, and thanks for posting all the awesome stories!
 
I've never hunted coyotes before. I have shot a couple over the years. After reading/seeing all your great posts this winter, I am FOR SURE going to get into it!! Guess I will be door knocking this summer for some permission. Thanks guys for sharing your hunts this season!

Dave.
 
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