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Major Sights

Major Sights

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So I showed up at work this morning and saw my co-worker first thing.

"I/my parents have a job for you!" was how I was greeted.

Apparently, they are having a problem with coyotes over at their small cattle farm. Already lost 2 calves. Since I am the only one they know with the tools and "know-how" they would like me to come over and sort this issue out. The little b@stards are even starting to come up to the house and chase after their dog. Best part is, that its only 15 minute drive from where I live! :D

So I have a .223 with a scope on it, .22WMR with irons as a back up or closer range, and a scatter gun. It sounds like I may be able to get a friend permission to join me as well as he has done this once or twice in his younger years (to protect his folks Sheep farm). He has a foxpro call, and a quiver critter.


Other then that, I have zip, zero, nada experience in Coyote hunting (other then sitting inside the warm deer camp and shooting one that happened to walk by, from the dining room table out the window. FYI 7.62x54R makes a mess of Coyote.

Any hints and or tips?
 
actually, you start in a steep dive, level off at 50ft, give em a 5 second burst, and miss the wires at the end of the field- everything else is collateral damage
 
If they know you are there, they will not come

Coyotes that get called and not shot are educated. Educated coyotes are very hard to call again. What is the hunting pressure? Have they heard calls before? If so, you will have to come up with something they haven't experienced.

You are going to make sounds to attract them. Don't make any sounds to warn them. NO TALKING! No slammed doors. No swishing sounds of clothing on bush. Be vewwy vewwy quiet.

Exposure will mean detection. Walk around edges, not across clearings. Keep ridges between you and their area. Do not skyline yourself. Approach upwind, or across wind. Don't bother with scent control products; control where your scent goes. Cammo is not nearly as important as being still once you are set up. We use mouth blown calls. I know guys that use electronic calls with success; we just don't want to carry them.

If they know you are there, they will not come. If you think you are ready to move, look around VERY carefully. We have spotted MANY coyotes when we got up to leave that had come to have a look, but which we did not see.

If they know you are there, they will not come.
 
When he sees you he lifts his lip and lets a flash of his teeth out, and then turns a little out of the course he was pursuing, depressses his head a bit, and strikes a long, soft-footed trot through the sagebrush, glancing over his shoulder at you, from time to time, till he is about out of easy pistol range, and then he stops and takes a deliberate survey of you; he will trot fifty yards and stop again- another fifty and stop again; and finally the gray of his gliding body blends with the gray of the sagebrush, and he disappears. All this is when you make no demonstration against him; but if you do, he develops a livelier interest in his journey, and instantly electrifies his heels and puts such a deal of real estate between himself and your weapon that by the time you have raised the hammer you see that you need a Minie rifle, and by the time you have got him in line you need a rifled cannon, and by the time you have "drawn a bead" on him you see well enough that nothing but an unusually long-winded streak of lightning could reach him where he is now.
- Mark Twain
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More of it here:
http://www.coyotetale.net/roughing.php
 
rral22 said:
If they know you are there, they will not come

Coyotes that get called and not shot are educated. Educated coyotes are very hard to call again. What is the hunting pressure? Have they heard calls before? If so, you will have to come up with something they haven't experienced.

You are going to make sounds to attract them. Don't make any sounds to warn them. NO TALKING! No slammed doors. No swishing sounds of clothing on bush. Be vewwy vewwy quiet.

Exposure will mean detection. Walk around edges, not across clearings. Keep ridges between you and their area. Do not skyline yourself. Approach upwind, or across wind. Don't bother with scent control products; control where your scent goes. Cammo is not nearly as important as being still once you are set up. We use mouth blown calls. I know guys that use electronic calls with success; we just don't want to carry them.

If they know you are there, they will not come. If you think you are ready to move, look around VERY carefully. We have spotted MANY coyotes when we got up to leave that had come to have a look, but which we did not see.

If they know you are there, they will not come.
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I'll also add that if they are already hanging around and have taken a calf or two that I wouldn't set up and call right off. Don't educate them to a call unless you have to call them. Set up quiet where you can see over the area that they've been coming to and try to take a few that way first. You can always call a few days later. And don't hunt them every day.
When you do get to calling, patience is key. Too many people can't sit still for 15-20 mins, min. I'll often stay on stand for half an hour, even if I'm not calling.
 
I just shoot them from the tractor. If I walk or take the quad back to check on the cows they are long gone. A diesel engine and they sit down and watch you from 50 feet away. Built a rack for the .222 and have managed to get several. They have now learned to run when the tractor stops.
 
7Sagebrush7 said:
I just shoot them from the tractor. If I walk or take the quad back to check on the cows they are long gone. A diesel engine and they sit down and watch you from 50 feet away. Built a rack for the .222 and have managed to get several. They have now learned to run when the tractor stops.
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That actually made me laugh haha. They're getting smart! ;)
 
caper587 said:
I'll also add that if they are already hanging around and have taken a calf or two that I wouldn't set up and call right off. Don't educate them to a call unless you have to call them. Set up quiet where you can see over the area that they've been coming to and try to take a few that way first. You can always call a few days later. And don't hunt them every day.
When you do get to calling, patience is key. Too many people can't sit still for 15-20 mins, min. I'll often stay on stand for half an hour, even if I'm not calling.
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^This, and staying quiet usually means being dressed with hunting clothing that is right for the weather and find a spot with a great view of possible apporaches. If I were you I'd recce your possible waiting areas beforehand and perhaps put up white tape landscaping marker tape so that early in the morning you can more easily find your hide without artificial light.
Getting there earlier before a morning visit of them following the fenceline to the barnyard, could mean you and your partner ambushing the hungry beast at thier breakfast-time.

maybe....
 
7Sagebrush7 said:
I just shoot them from the tractor. If I walk or take the quad back to check on the cows they are long gone. A diesel engine and they sit down and watch you from 50 feet away. Built a rack for the .222 and have managed to get several. They have now learned to run when the tractor stops.
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Not legal to hunt from a motorized vehicle in Ontario :( Not sure how it applies to predator control as a farmer though.
 
Major Sights said:
So I showed up at work this morning and saw my co-worker first thing.

"I/my parents have a job for you!" was how I was greeted.

Apparently, they are having a problem with coyotes over at their small cattle farm. Already lost 2 calves. Since I am the only one they know with the tools and "know-how" they would like me to come over and sort this issue out. The little b@stards are even starting to come up to the house and chase after their dog. Best part is, that its only 15 minute drive from where I live! :D

So I have a .223 with a scope on it, .22WMR with irons as a back up or closer range, and a scatter gun. It sounds like I may be able to get a friend permission to join me as well as he has done this once or twice in his younger years (to protect his folks Sheep farm). He has a foxpro call, and a quiver critter.




Other then that, I have zip, zero, nada experience in Coyote hunting (other then sitting inside the warm deer camp and shooting one that happened to walk by, from the dining room table out the window. FYI 7.62x54R makes a mess of Coyote.

Any hints and or tips?
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Watch the wind as you walk in and set up. If one gets anywhere close to downwind of you it's over. Here in southern Ontario, it averages about 10-12 sets /yote taken.

If they have killed there @ that farm they will continue to do so at their leisure until they are killed or die.

Hope you do well.
 
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