Where would you setup? (coyotes)

[diemaco]

Where would you setup for coyotes? Land in red is GTG, neighbors haven't given a firm response but didn't really seem to care. Word is that they just sold the property. The blue Xs are deer stands, the "house" is an old cabin (unoccupied). Wind normally blows from left to right. Mostly hay fields that rarely get cut, small mixed bushlot, really small quarry, gets pretty swampy in the bottom right corner of the map.


I don't think the property is big enough to try and call from more than one place, so I want to make the best of it

 

[Superbrad]

near 3rd blue x from the bottom looks to me like best chance without actually seing the land first hand... open field type land with two cedar stands and a draw that they could come out of.....again, hard to see without knowing the land...

 

[roccoskeet]

2x ^ what Superbrad said suck em out into the field from the trees when the wind is from the tight direction.

Have fun !

 

[diemaco]

OK, thats more or less what I was thinking. I have a ground blind setup at the next little corner outcroping that I was probably going to sit in. It has pretty good coverage of that field.

I forgot to mention, I'll have someone else with me. Should we both setup in the blind with rifles? I was thinking of sitting on the other side of the tree line to cover the rear with a shotgun (some small hills and valleys really limit the range there).

 

[Adrian J Hare]

You need to play the wind, so until you know the wind it really is hard to tell.

Cross wind or one coming at you is going to work best....

 

[asphalt599]

near 3rd blue x from the bottom looks to me like best chance without actually seing the land first hand....

Thats what i would say aswell.

 

[keith mokry]

Right from the 3 bottom x up, there is a litle row of tree/shrubI would set at the bottom of this. Wind should not be a problem then as they should be out in the field and since they can come from all directions(with 2 people) you would be cover all angles.
Keith

 

[senior]

OK, thats more or less what I was thinking. I have a ground blind setup at the next little corner outcroping that I was probably going to sit in. It has pretty good coverage of that field.

I forgot to mention, I'll have someone else with me. Should we both setup in the blind with rifles? I was thinking of sitting on the other side of the tree line to cover the rear with a shotgun (some small hills and valleys really limit the range there).
Wind normally blows from left to right

Some will have a tendancy to sneak around behind & will likely use downwind to try to sniff you out, so I would suggest 2nd guy at about an inch above you on the map at the right hand edge of the woods watching for the odd one to circle the sound with the wind in his nose.

 

[IMagius]

Looks to me like a typical 100 acre plot ... more than enough room to set up a few small blinds to give you wind and weather options.

Without walking the land myself, and it does look like some very nice land, I'd be looking at these three placements first. The good thing is that your prevelant wind direction seem to be across the tract of land, so you are in pretty good shape there.

Assuming the plot runs North/South - with the blue square you marked as the house as being the North End of the property.

Red: This should give you a good view of the large bush, and a good range for calling then in.

Green: By sitting in this small bush, you willl stand a chance of catching the wary "lurkers" that don't want to enter the field, and the small bush is probably known to them as a refuge for the occasional small prey.

Yellow: By covering this smaller filed, it will let them get much closer and "braver", with the small tracts of bush acting as "funnels".

I think all three would be good calling locations, depending on wind each day.

If you are using a Bait Pail, I'd be settign up in the Green zone, with the pail about 3/4 of the way "due south" down that fence row, or towards the "south-west" near what looks like the small "cut" (driveway??) in the edge of the bush.

Or, again with a Bait Pail, Sit at Red, with the bait pail either at the corner of the bush (halfway between Red & Green), or further to the "west", maybe halfway between Red and the "western" border along the "southern" bush line.