Coyote hunting in Newfoundland
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Where are you located? If in central or northern peninsula, you'll have lots more chances than me, stuck here on the Avalon! I'm pretty much a newbie myself. Electronic call is the way to go if you can afford it. When I can afford it I'm going to pick up the new Foxpro Caller that Redfrog on this board stocks. They're just out this month!
I started out buying a couple of books on coyote hunting and reading them a few times. Check out Predatormasters forum. The guys there can answer a lot of questions you might have. Its good to carry a back up mouth call as well in case batteries die, technical difficulties, etc...
I started out with a .223 Rem, but now use a .22-250 and a Stoney Point "Polecat" extendable walking stick/bi-pod for those long range shots on big "mashes" and/or on the barrens.
I haven't racked up the kill numbers some of the guys have out west, but I'm still having lots of fun. Only draw back is the increased Coyote numbers is having an impact on our Caribou herds and moose calf mortality!
Best of luck!
I started out buying a couple of books on coyote hunting and reading them a few times. Check out Predatormasters forum. The guys there can answer a lot of questions you might have. Its good to carry a back up mouth call as well in case batteries die, technical difficulties, etc...
I started out with a .223 Rem, but now use a .22-250 and a Stoney Point "Polecat" extendable walking stick/bi-pod for those long range shots on big "mashes" and/or on the barrens.
I haven't racked up the kill numbers some of the guys have out west, but I'm still having lots of fun. Only draw back is the increased Coyote numbers is having an impact on our Caribou herds and moose calf mortality!
Best of luck!
- Location
- Hillbilly shack in the boonies
I gotta Agree , you find a farm that dumps fallen young calves in the back 40. Have a look for tracks around the bone piles. Set back a few hundred yards and watch.....
Ask around , you may hear of framers talking of problems that these critters are causing.
Also if your near a fishing village , scrap fish and guts hauled back in some open country may produce a few furry critters.
X-Man , they sure are mean little buggers, I hope to dump a few this Winter.
I read you can take 70 % of them out and have little or no effect on the numbers. It would have to be at the perfect time of year , right before the spring litter, and even then they would bounce right back :shock:
Frank
Ask around , you may hear of framers talking of problems that these critters are causing.
Also if your near a fishing village , scrap fish and guts hauled back in some open country may produce a few furry critters.
X-Man , they sure are mean little buggers, I hope to dump a few this Winter.
I read you can take 70 % of them out and have little or no effect on the numbers. It would have to be at the perfect time of year , right before the spring litter, and even then they would bounce right back :shock:
Frank
Theres no doubt I'm not the most succesful coyte hunter around here but I put in a lot of time trying. I get more fox and coons than anything. 
One thing I do when I'm hunting at home is to drive the concession roads around the areas I have permission to hunt at about 2-3hrs before sun-up. I count the amount of coyote tracks in and subtract the amount of coyote tracks out. That gives you a good indication of how many coyotes you are dealing with in an area. It cost gas money and getting up at around 3:30 but its better than doing a bunch of stands in the best looking spots with zero coyotes there to hear your dying rabbit serinade. ( I dont know what the road structure is like on the Rock but if you have a way to drive completely around yor area at pre-dawn its never a bad idea.)
Learning to call is the ticket. One of my best hunts was when I spotted a coyote about 600m across a cut corn field. I gave him a rabbit distress call and he did a 180 and ran full steam ahead right at me until he got to about 80yds where he died.
One of my worst hunts was when I spotted a coyote about 500 yards down a row of apple orchard. I gave him a rabbit distress call and then he tucked his tail and left a vapour trail in the snow as I watched him head for the next county.
Knowing what to do and when will only come with much practice.
One thing I do when I'm hunting at home is to drive the concession roads around the areas I have permission to hunt at about 2-3hrs before sun-up. I count the amount of coyote tracks in and subtract the amount of coyote tracks out. That gives you a good indication of how many coyotes you are dealing with in an area. It cost gas money and getting up at around 3:30 but its better than doing a bunch of stands in the best looking spots with zero coyotes there to hear your dying rabbit serinade. ( I dont know what the road structure is like on the Rock but if you have a way to drive completely around yor area at pre-dawn its never a bad idea.)
Learning to call is the ticket. One of my best hunts was when I spotted a coyote about 600m across a cut corn field. I gave him a rabbit distress call and he did a 180 and ran full steam ahead right at me until he got to about 80yds where he died.
One of my worst hunts was when I spotted a coyote about 500 yards down a row of apple orchard. I gave him a rabbit distress call and then he tucked his tail and left a vapour trail in the snow as I watched him head for the next county.
Knowing what to do and when will only come with much practice.
I'll be shooting on the norrthern penninsula as of October 2nd. The old man saw lots of them up around St.Anthony last year. I got a great spot overlooking a huge bog. But first things first, Got to get me moose bye!!!!
X-man said:
Hehe, I'm stuck on the Avalon too, but I'm mobile. :wink: I've bought an electronic caller but not one of those fancy Foxpro's just yet. Got a mouth caller too, just in case.
I'm using a .223 Tikka T3. The ammo is cheaper, and compatible with other toys. :wink: The Polecat sounds worthwhile.
Have you had any luck at all on the Avalon ? I know they're out there, but the population must be significantly lower than elsewhere.
Yup. The caribou are having a hard time of it. Oh well, keep up the pressure on em with some high speed lead poisoning. :lol:
dangertree
Business Rep
- Location
- NL/ON/FL/PL
I'll be half-way up the Northern Pensula in October. Looking forward to it. They're new and kill big game calves. It's your patriotic duty to take 'em down.
Yeah, I've managed to shoot 'yotes on the Avalon, with a lot of hard work and many days of hunting. Lots in Central/West Coast and Northern Peninsula.
It seems like the Caribou populations are being harder hit by Coyotes than the Moose. Reliable individuals have observed coyotes acting in concert, i.e., pack to bring down healthy, adult caribou on numerous occasions. One incidient on the Burin Peninsula, saw 5-6 caribou slaughtered at one time!
Black Bears have always been the main large predator in Newfoundland, and they have a pretty good impact on both Caribou and Moose calf mortality, however, now in some areas there is almost 100% calf mortality rates with the addition of the coyotes! That's why we're seeing reductions in the number of licenses issued is some of the more popular hunting areas in Central Newfoundland.
The Newfoundland Government is doing NOTHING to counter this growing threat and local hunters and outfitters are both getting very worried about the future health of big game hunting in these areas. Some believe that the government of the day actually imported coyotes in the mid-80s and/or turned a blind eye to the accidental introduction of three coyotes which crossed the pack ice from N.S. in Spring 1986. Since then, they've done nothing. No funding for biologists to study this intruder and the population explosion we've seen.
If it wasn't for a select group of hunters and the guys at Newfoundland Sportsman Magazine constantly lobbying the government to open a true Coyote Hunting season we still wouldn't have one! The only way we can hope to at least slow their population growth is via hunting. We'll never get rid of them now. Yet the government hasn't incorporated anything concerning coyote hunting in their hunter education program, and the various government depts have issued differing advice. They should be holding seminars to educate hunters as to how to hunt them and make it easier to get into the sport. I'm not holding my breath though!
It seems like the Caribou populations are being harder hit by Coyotes than the Moose. Reliable individuals have observed coyotes acting in concert, i.e., pack to bring down healthy, adult caribou on numerous occasions. One incidient on the Burin Peninsula, saw 5-6 caribou slaughtered at one time!
Black Bears have always been the main large predator in Newfoundland, and they have a pretty good impact on both Caribou and Moose calf mortality, however, now in some areas there is almost 100% calf mortality rates with the addition of the coyotes! That's why we're seeing reductions in the number of licenses issued is some of the more popular hunting areas in Central Newfoundland.
The Newfoundland Government is doing NOTHING to counter this growing threat and local hunters and outfitters are both getting very worried about the future health of big game hunting in these areas. Some believe that the government of the day actually imported coyotes in the mid-80s and/or turned a blind eye to the accidental introduction of three coyotes which crossed the pack ice from N.S. in Spring 1986. Since then, they've done nothing. No funding for biologists to study this intruder and the population explosion we've seen.
If it wasn't for a select group of hunters and the guys at Newfoundland Sportsman Magazine constantly lobbying the government to open a true Coyote Hunting season we still wouldn't have one! The only way we can hope to at least slow their population growth is via hunting. We'll never get rid of them now. Yet the government hasn't incorporated anything concerning coyote hunting in their hunter education program, and the various government depts have issued differing advice. They should be holding seminars to educate hunters as to how to hunt them and make it easier to get into the sport. I'm not holding my breath though!
dangertree
Business Rep
- Location
- NL/ON/FL/PL
See the pic at complete gunsmithing of 17 yotes piled up after a hunt on the Burin Peninsula? That's what I like to see.
Navy Gunner
Regular
- Location
- Eastern Passage NS
Yotes
Yeah, how many of those yotes were run down with bikes and skidoos and then shot?
Navy Gunner
dangertree said:
Yeah, how many of those yotes were run down with bikes and skidoos and then shot?
Navy Gunner
dangertree
Business Rep
- Location
- NL/ON/FL/PL
Re: Yotes
Who knows? I just saw the pic. Were they?
I just heard it was a bunch of guys and the hunt took place over a few days.
Navy Gunner said:
Who knows? I just saw the pic. Were they?
I just heard it was a bunch of guys and the hunt took place over a few days.
It was in the Gisborne Lake area, in the same area where the Middle Ridge caribou herd was congregating. So, pile em up, I say.
What kind of gear are hunters here using to get the yotes ? Any different behaviour noted in these "island" yotes as compared to the regular Eastern types ?
What kind of gear are hunters here using to get the yotes ? Any different behaviour noted in these "island" yotes as compared to the regular Eastern types ?
