How long till the coyotes get hungry?

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This weekend mark the last of the deer season here in Manitoba. I thought I'd like to try my hand at calling predators. With gut piles all over the place I just wondered how hungry the coyotes would be, and how effective calling would be?

I'm sure a gut pile would make an attractive bait, and calling over it would be good as well. But, if the yotes are eating at night and their bellies are full, would they come running in to a rabbit in distress?

I'm a first time predator hunter, so be kind with your answers. I have read a lot about predator hunting, but there is nothing pertaining to this question.(maybe because it doesn't matter?)
 
Gut piles do not last very long with ravens, magpies, and coyotes around. In my experience a gut pile lasts a few hours at best. They'll run out of that food very soon. So if it does make a difference it won't be long before they are hungry again. Especially if it gets cold.
 
Get yourself a good dog calling learining CD, some call and have at her my friend. It's a blast. It may take you a bit to learn. I'm now in my third year, but on my first year, I did shoot a double. Tons of fun. :)
 
I shot my first coyote in deer season, I was bored in a stand and decided to try my luck at a rabbit distress call. I had a coyote running in at full tilt - it literally scared the crap out my hunting bud. I would hazard a guess that when opportunity is available a coyote will come in.
 
I had just heard it one time on a predator hunting DVD that coyotes aren't as interested in distress calls during big game hunting season.

All the replies have proved that wrong. I'll need to get out, and I have an electronic call that I'll be using.
 
When it gets cold and snow hits the ground coyotes seem to change. They get frantic for anything that sounds like food. I hunt in a lot of farmers fields and at the begining of the winter they tend to come storming in across fields to my prey calls. When the snow has been down for a month or two and they have adapted a bit they tend to hang up on the treeline or fenceline for a minute, watch for the visual cue or circle down wind. Thats when my rabbit dog toy on a coat hanger comes in to play.
 
I was thinking about getting one of those rabbits. My daughter got a real nice stuffed rabbit toy that she rejected and I pounced on. A few weeks later she wanted the rabbit back. I wouldn't have given it to her, but my wife told me to give it up. It came from her friend in France.

So, a dog toy works, does it?? The neighbors all have dogs around here. How about a real wounded dog?!? Just joking. The toys are everywhere though, along with all the other dog goodies.
 
Shot a yote Friday morning while hunting whitetails. Spotted him poking along toward me carrying something in his mouth...thought it was a ruffed grouse. I was amoung some bales and he never knew I was there. Shot him dead at 150 yards-ish with my 25-06. He was carrying half a bush rabbit in his mouth. Guess he went out with a full belly!
 
I think I will try my luck for the first time also. We got about 5in. of snow yesterday, and today while black powder hunting all I could see were coyote tracks. And every place I walked in the snow yesterday, had a coyote track on or beside it today.
 
hmr-hound said:
When it gets cold and snow hits the ground coyotes seem to change. They get frantic for anything that sounds like food. QUOTE]

Figures I would get the one that didn't understand that rule! I saw one lying down @ 400+yds yesterday so I pulled out the distress call and started a nice sequence thinking I would pop him pretty quick. I could see he could hear me but he just lay there for about 15 min and then got up and slowly walked away. I was shocked:eek:, we just went through a few days of real cold and I figured he would be starving but I guess not. Hopefully he gets the memo for next time. I was busy watching a huge WT on the neighboring property at the same time and he actually came part ways to me from the calling.
Kim
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A gut pile lasts a short time in their memory bank, specialy out in the praries, but can still work for a good location to call from.

A deer kill site will last a lot longer. Try calling in an area you know they have killed a deer in(or livestock). for some reason they remember...

Coyotes seem to have a better memory after a prolonged good feed, and will eagerly come back to the site, even a month later... I have tried the rabbit in distress call in an area that has never had rabbits, but has had a few gut piles in it.... In winter, they come running.:D
 
I really need to learn more about this coyote hunting. Is there any good DVD's out there that do a good job in explaining some tips, and how to call them in ???

Also, once you call one in, and you shoot it, whats the chance of calling another one right after?? or does the shot scared them out of the area?
 
Now that the leaves are down, and most of the hay coils has been taken out of the fields, the yotes are easier to see. Their usually not to close to the roads and seem to prefer being out in the 200 plus range. Trotting along, and do not always run away when one is driving along side them (on the road)... Eventually they will seek cover so it's possible to get off maybe three shots. While they have their place on the land they can also affect the hunting of rabbits, grouse, turkeys, and deer. Sometimes it seems that there are more yotes visible to the eye then deer. Given that there is a bounty on them, it's worth the effort to reduce their numbers, and get a tank fulll of fuel for the effort... Good luck.
 
You could always make some coyotesicles. Put bones and trim in a pail, fill it with water and freeze it. Take it out in the country where you want to bait and set it out. They have to gnaw at it for a while.

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