Coyote hunting tips

Good deal for you and good luck with your new hunting area let us know how it works out for you . It will be interesting to see how it goes for you over time . I have hunted in Southern Indiana and it's close quarters there for sure and I have visited TN. a couple of times my sister lives in Murfreesboro I'm glad I live here too many people there for me but I'm sure glad that some people like it there . I only have 450,000 acers to hunt on and now maybe 35000 sheep running as well as cattle and the coyote here will kill calves as well as lambs .
 
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DSheetz said:
Good deal for you and good luck with your new hunting area let us know how it works out for you . It will be interesting to see how it goes for you over time . I have hunted in Southern Indiana and it's close quarters there for sure and I have visited TN. a couple of times my sister lives in Murfreesboro I'm glad I live here too many people there for me but I'm sure glad that some people like it there . I only have 450,000 acers to hunt on and now maybe 35000 sheep running as well as cattle and the coyote here will kill calves as well as lambs .
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450,000 acres? Jesus. I can't even imagine. I'm sure the density is much different though. I heard les Johnson talking about how while there are tons of coyotes out west, they are in very specific areas. The problem here is that they are literally everywhere, but finding somewhere that you can call them into the open is a real problem. Most of the terrain is tight timber and or rolling hills. I have heard of coyotes killing calves here, but I think 99% of the time they are just eating a carcass and are blamed for it. Their food supply here is really abundant. They aren't desperate for food, which may account for their size. I'm about 2.5 hours southwest of Murfreesboro, in the middle of nowhere on the TN River. It is a wonderful place, but I'd be in Idaho if my wife would move, or maybe Wyoming or Montana. Somewhere in the northern Rockies. My wife wears a sweatshirt when it's 80°, so it won't happen.
 
There is a difference in what I had to get done and what the TV guys do they aren't in the same place hunting all the time . They do hit and run hunting and you only see when they have success for the most part . They are there for a viewing audience and if they show how many failed stands they make they wouldn't have a very large following and their show would end . They do what works for them and it's ok if they educate coyote along the way they most likely won't be back ever to that same area . Where we hunt the same areas over and over and often the same coyote that we didn't get yesterday we will be after by at least next fall . Having done control work for so many years if I didn't do a good job I wouldn't have had a job at it for 36 years . We learn that if we educate our coyote it will come back to haunt us in the end just some of the things I have had the opportunity to observe over the years . You may find that it's totally different for you but I'm thinking not so much if you are not moving around the country hunting them .
 
It is just so easy to" Monday Morning Quarterback." Thanks for sticking your neck out and giving us all a chance to learn. Whether you shot one or not I enjoyed hearing about your hunt. What a thrill having four charging down the hill at you.
 
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"alltheway" what e caller are you using? Did you use a decoy? What kind of pelt damage did you have? What bullet? Did you glass them before you started working them?
 
geo4061 said:
"alltheway" what e caller are you using? Did you use a decoy? What kind of pelt damage did you have? What bullet? Did you glass them before you started working them?
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I've got a foxpro jackhammer 2 with the built in decoy. I didn't have the decoy on, because the field was probably 900y long, then a 5 strand barbwire fence, maybe 100y of waist tall crp, and finally about 200 acres of timber. So, I walked in to about 150y from the barbwire fence and set my call on top of a fence post. Then I walked in another 50y to a wooden fence post that had a pretty heavy vine cover and sat down facing the barbwire. The field was probably 100y wide at the back. My setup worked perfectly, but that may have been more luck than anything. The wind was in my face. I used a 108gr eldm and the shot hit a shoulder, and caused pretty serious pelt damage. It destroyed the shoulder. Our pelts down here are basically worthless anyways, but I do keep them. When ammo availability becomes a thing again, I will move to a much smaller bullet for my 6mm arc, maybe even a 55gr vmax if it will group, which I doubt with the 1-7.5 twist, but I'll go as small as I can. I didn't glass them, and that is almost impossible where I live. In this part of the world, you can see more than 200y in about .01% of the terrain. I knew they were in there though. I had called in this group a week earlier and never got a shot. There were at least 3 different groups that answered from that timber patch, which isn't abnormal here where they have an excellent food source.
 
geo4061 said:
Most of my work is done with a 12. However, I have been thinking about the 6 creedmoor for LR work.. Is it too big?
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I don't think so. You can get all the way down to those 55gr bullets in a 6mm. The difference in diameter between 5.56 and 6mm really isn't much. I think I'm going to go 6mm cm too in a bolt gun, just because you will have access, (eventually) to a plethora of superb factory ammo.
 
Reemty J said:
Should get a sling on a shotgun and take that too, once you use one, you will be hooked.....you can lay 2-3 down quick............pow-pow-pow....I like to put my ecaller on the bottom wire in a fence out of sight, just me though.
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I drug my shotgun and my rifle to... maybe the first 30 unsuccessful stands of 2021 before I got tired of hauling them both. In addition to the weight of carrying them, it is the noise. In carrying 2 guns it seems impossible to keep them from banging into stuff or each other. Again, I'm not out west where I have alot of open terrain, I'm walking through thick brush, blackberry bushes, briar patches, thick trees, through lots of shut gates and whatnot. I was thinking of some sort of rig to carry my shotgun on my pack, but I haven't settled on a method. I have killed them with a shotgun in the past through. In fact, I only carried my shotgun tonight into a piece of public land in a thick nasty swamp, but the wind was all wrong, so I walked in a few miles and could not find a way to set up that would have had any chance of success with the wind direction the way it was, so I bit my lip and walked back out without ever making a call.
 

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