If you guys want to bait them it here's a way that works and last a long time. Save your trimming from deer season, some fish guts ect..mix them with water and freeze them in ice cream pails. Cut the plastic pail off and put these blocks out. Put them out in area you know coyotes are and a place you can sneak into. They will be attracted to the smell and chew this stuff for days but can't drag it away. It works great.
Coyote hunting tips and tricks
- Thread starter sawatzky
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Put meat scraps and road kill bunnys or whatever loosely in a 5 gallon bucket and fill with water.
Wait till it freezes and knock em out . Just set them where you want for baiting.
Meat popcicle . They can't carry them away and it makes them work at it exposing new meat as it melts or when they chew on it.
You can throw some cheap dog food in it also for smell.
Good luck
Wait till it freezes and knock em out . Just set them where you want for baiting.
Meat popcicle . They can't carry them away and it makes them work at it exposing new meat as it melts or when they chew on it.
You can throw some cheap dog food in it also for smell.
Good luck
Hey Matt
There was two adds up at TNT now. I got a email for the second guy, but its out in the truck right now. If you want it I can post it up for yeah.
Also Im gonna phone that other guy in HB. Dont know if you still want to get rid of some.
There was two adds up at TNT now. I got a email for the second guy, but its out in the truck right now. If you want it I can post it up for yeah.
Also Im gonna phone that other guy in HB. Dont know if you still want to get rid of some.
- Location
- Tumbler Ridge, BC
How are you guys getting into your areas? I have an ideal spot, 2 dens and dozens of dogs on a large slough/lake/low ground area. 2 dens are on east side of the lake, they seem to be traveling west to hunt (almost always west winds unless its about to get very cold then its north). Problem is the snow is very deep this year, and I'm not into carrying a very heavy long range 223 over a mile in 3ft of snow. I do have a snowmobile, its quiet as they get. We ride them in the area lots because the snow is sheltered there. I know yotes are there (hear them calling lots during night rides) and can see obvious use of dens and heavy use of their paths on the edge of the lake. The sled is new too (smells pretty strong). Do they get used to that noise and recognize it as no threat? Was thinking of digging in a blind with a board for shooting rest on the lake edge that will blind me and the sled both. Is this a good idea or will it ruin the huntability of the area? I'm the only one who hunts there, for sure.
back40sniper
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- Location
- South east Sask.
Flyingpig, can you make a good trail with sled to walk in on? Park a ways back and then walk in on trail after trail has set up.
- Location
- Tumbler Ridge, BC
Yes I could definitely do that as well. My logic with the question was that snowmobiles are normal to them, they never see man on foot back there in the winter. I might ride in and use the set up once and if it doesn't work I'll try walking in next time
How many guys on sleds are carrying guns so they can shoot every coyote they see? How many guys on sleds deliberately chase, harass, run over, every coyote they see? How many guys are using sleds to make it easy to get into an area and then try calling so the animals are educated about the fact the sounds mean danger?
If you think coyotes don't know sleds are to be avoided, you are very inexperienced indeed. I think you should spend the rest of the winter riding your sled into places, then just sit on the seat and try calling. It will leave lots of coyotes for the real hunters.
If you think coyotes don't know sleds are to be avoided, you are very inexperienced indeed. I think you should spend the rest of the winter riding your sled into places, then just sit on the seat and try calling. It will leave lots of coyotes for the real hunters.
Does anyone have any advice on hunting yotes in high wind. My buddy and I did 5 sits last sunday and didn't see a thing, it was very windy the weather channel said gusts to 90 kph. I know there are coyotes there because there are tracks everywhere but we couldn't get a look at one. Any ideas would be appreciated.
In wind like that, my advice is to do something else.
The calls can be heard in only one direction, and not very far at that. The sounds themselves get "blown away" and the noises from trees swaying, creaking, and banging around just smother the calls. I have a theory too that when the wind is making so much noise and random movement in their environment, coyotes get very "nervous" and do not like to expose themselves or move around much. We have just had so many unproductive days like you describe in big winds, that we consider it futile to try calling if the wind is "too much". We haven't decided exactly how much is too much, but .........
The calls can be heard in only one direction, and not very far at that. The sounds themselves get "blown away" and the noises from trees swaying, creaking, and banging around just smother the calls. I have a theory too that when the wind is making so much noise and random movement in their environment, coyotes get very "nervous" and do not like to expose themselves or move around much. We have just had so many unproductive days like you describe in big winds, that we consider it futile to try calling if the wind is "too much". We haven't decided exactly how much is too much, but .........
- Location
- Brant County, Ontario
Sorry didn't get through the whole thread (on cell phone right now). To the guys that bait, do you also call as well while sitting on the bait? I want to try baiting this year and am heading up north I'm two weeks.
- Location
- Tumbler Ridge, BC
sounds like a sledder has
in your cornflakes there! If you want to walk over a mile in thigh deep snow to hunt coyotes be my guest, I've got the perfect spot. Its a tool I happen to have, I plan on using it. How many guys on foot are carrying guns so they can shoot every coyote they see? A: every single time a person is back there on foot it is for this reason
How many guys on foot deliberately stalk, harass, shoot at, every coyote they see? A: every single person who goes back there on foot
How many guys use their feet to get into areas so they can hunt coyotes: Do I need to answer that?
If you are going to be arrogant just keep your comments to yourself there real hunter. If you dont like sledders then good for you. I guarantee you don't hunt in the area I hunt. My family has lived on that property for 15 years, the dogs are getting too brave and have had no pressure on them. They will follow you around weather you are on a quad or on foot, horseback, doesnt matter. Remember this is varmint hunting, they carry that name for a reason. And whats better, me hunting them with a 223 to give them to my trapper friend or my Dad blowing them in half with a 7mm mag and leaving them for the birds? Not all sledders are
s just like not all hunters are braindead hillbillies or gun owners psycho killersThe old saying goes if you dont have anything nice to say dont say anything at all.
Furthermore if you were a real hunter, you would want to help out a new guy with a helpful response rather than a n arrogant one. Respond in a positive way instead of telling me I'm clueless and not a 'real hunter'. I filled all my tags this year, in one weekend, did you?
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Woah - me thinks he dost protest too much. Hit a nerve there, didn't I. While you are right that sledders have, in fact, spoiled quite a few set ups over the years, I was not so much dissing sledders as I was trying to make you see your sled as a bad tool for calling coyotes.
Well, my real point is
Oooooo..... a whole mile? Wow! I bet I would never get that far from my truck ....... unless I used my snow shoes. Put them on; go for a walk - a quiet, stealthy, hunting walk. Have you ever tried that for a "tool" you could use?
I don't even know what your point is with this. So hunters on foot are often hunting? That is a bad thing?
Obviously you can't answer that, so I will do it for you: Good coyote hunters, that's who.
Then turn around and shoot them!
What on earth are you talking about? Really?!? They follow you around, and you need advice about how to hunt them? Really?
Did you get out of the truck for that?
Look, go ride your stuff around all you want. I will stick with my original thought that riding sleds is not a very good way to set up to call coyotes because coyotes are not as stupid as you seem to think they are, and they do understand that the noise means trouble for them. Who knows, if you try long enough you may actually get the odd one. Go for it. But your sled is a hindrance to your calling success unless you get far enough away from it that the animals don't associate you with the sound. That will be "quite a distance" for you (using what you have posted here as a sign of how far you have ever walked). Get some snowshoes.
Maybe you need to be a bit less defensive about sledding ( ask yourself what you are doing that makes you so defensive) and think more about hunting than about riding around with a big motor between your legs. And here is the real advice from an old hunter: hunting is an absolutely marvelous activity. Sledding is a lot of fun too. But I think, if you really tried hunting, you would enjoy it.
Well, my real point is
Oooooo..... a whole mile? Wow! I bet I would never get that far from my truck ....... unless I used my snow shoes. Put them on; go for a walk - a quiet, stealthy, hunting walk. Have you ever tried that for a "tool" you could use?
I don't even know what your point is with this. So hunters on foot are often hunting? That is a bad thing?
Obviously you can't answer that, so I will do it for you: Good coyote hunters, that's who.
Then turn around and shoot them!
What on earth are you talking about? Really?!? They follow you around, and you need advice about how to hunt them? Really?
Did you get out of the truck for that?
Look, go ride your stuff around all you want. I will stick with my original thought that riding sleds is not a very good way to set up to call coyotes because coyotes are not as stupid as you seem to think they are, and they do understand that the noise means trouble for them. Who knows, if you try long enough you may actually get the odd one. Go for it. But your sled is a hindrance to your calling success unless you get far enough away from it that the animals don't associate you with the sound. That will be "quite a distance" for you (using what you have posted here as a sign of how far you have ever walked). Get some snowshoes.
Maybe you need to be a bit less defensive about sledding ( ask yourself what you are doing that makes you so defensive) and think more about hunting than about riding around with a big motor between your legs. And here is the real advice from an old hunter: hunting is an absolutely marvelous activity. Sledding is a lot of fun too. But I think, if you really tried hunting, you would enjoy it.
- Location
- Tumbler Ridge, BC
Yes you did. Just so happens that I have to defend both sports I enjoy.
My point was that I've tried walking in, setting up, calling, everything except baiting or riding in. Walking without snowshoes is not an option this winter. Unless I sled in and pack a trail or go buy snowshoes. We've had a long cold run with tons of snow and it got hot for a couple days, like plus 7. So now we have faceted sugar snow with a hard crust that isn't strong enough to support my weight let alone me, rifle, ammo and winter gear with calls etc.
My point was that when I walk in they know the gig is up instantly. I hunt there in the summer on foot and the more stealthy I try to be the worse it gets. Snownmobiles don't seenm to bother these guys here as much as a man on foot. I think its a 'man on foot has gun, man on sled minds his own business'.
I'm going to try it and if I'm not successful I'm not successful.
And yes, I did leave my truck on the elk hunt this fall, and all of us in our group filled our elk tags in two days. Trucks never left camp, and the quads only did to retrieve animals.if you don't know someone's experiences you should not comment on it. And if a hunter is new you should be helping hinm not making him feel unwelcome.
My point was that I've tried walking in, setting up, calling, everything except baiting or riding in. Walking without snowshoes is not an option this winter. Unless I sled in and pack a trail or go buy snowshoes. We've had a long cold run with tons of snow and it got hot for a couple days, like plus 7. So now we have faceted sugar snow with a hard crust that isn't strong enough to support my weight let alone me, rifle, ammo and winter gear with calls etc.
My point was that when I walk in they know the gig is up instantly. I hunt there in the summer on foot and the more stealthy I try to be the worse it gets. Snownmobiles don't seenm to bother these guys here as much as a man on foot. I think its a 'man on foot has gun, man on sled minds his own business'.
I'm going to try it and if I'm not successful I'm not successful.
And yes, I did leave my truck on the elk hunt this fall, and all of us in our group filled our elk tags in two days. Trucks never left camp, and the quads only did to retrieve animals.if you don't know someone's experiences you should not comment on it. And if a hunter is new you should be helping hinm not making him feel unwelcome.
My advice to you is: If you need your sled to get alot closer....no problem. Head on in to your made up blind that you made days or even weeks earlier, shut the sled off, crawl into your blind (hope you dressed really warm) and sit there quiet and motionless for at least 20-30 minutes. This way the yotes will disregard the sound of the sled they heard earlier and go about their business again.
Now, if you try calling within minutes of shutting your sled off....they become accustomed to sled + dead rabbit sound = Danger for sure.
Now, if you try calling within minutes of shutting your sled off....they become accustomed to sled + dead rabbit sound = Danger for sure.
- Location
- Tumbler Ridge, BC
Ok perfect thanks for the advice. I will give it a go in the next couple weeks and hopefully have some success. If not I will chalk it up as experience. I usually only get time to go coyote hunting once every six months or so, so I'm sure they won't learn a whole bunch if its a mistake.
