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Coyote hunting tips
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give them the ol Ka-Pow
geo4061
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Don't get lazy.
geo4061
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Do your homework, scouting, and locating. Take the time to talk to locals, ranchers, and the land owner. Walk in over a mile. Studies have shown most will not walk in farther than a mile. Being lazy will only get you lazy results.
geo4061
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How did the grain bin story end?
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Ongoing. I didn't get a shot that day, but I'm headed back there this afternoon
geo4061
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It is colder than heck. What do you guys do to keep warm. Especially extremities.
camo wool pants over heavy long johns, 800 milligram insulated leather boots, wool socks, wicking shirt, heavy extreme cold cabelas shirt over that, then a snow camo wool pullover with wind shear in it. Have a snow camo skirt sewed on it also, just the front that goes to my ankles, for stalking and calling, then a whit face cover, white skull cap and over it all a white balavaca and snow camo gloves. I have always lived in northern tier environment and blessed with the ability to with stand some conditions most would find unbearable...only killer at times is I shoot bare handed, that day on the wolf I could not reload my clip with my right hand, had to do it left handed as the cold had my hand numb. When I am stationary coyotes cannot pick me out, movement they may. Up here in the far north, some of us say we are "tougher than Whale manure" and no one knows how tuff that is as it is on the bottom of the ocean!!!!! 
On a serious note, we all feel the cold, some of us are just more acclimatized to it or know how to resist it as long as possible...………….I have hunted lions/coyotes as low as 30-38 below zero....but we never turned hounds out lower than -20 below, too easy to freeze their lungs. A good hound is like a good horse, they will kill themselves trying to please you, our job is to make sure they don't have too.
On a serious note, we all feel the cold, some of us are just more acclimatized to it or know how to resist it as long as possible...………….I have hunted lions/coyotes as low as 30-38 below zero....but we never turned hounds out lower than -20 below, too easy to freeze their lungs. A good hound is like a good horse, they will kill themselves trying to please you, our job is to make sure they don't have too.
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I was out this morning, but had to force myself to stop and go home. I drove about 90 minutes to the place where I was at earlier in the week with the dead calfs, and they had gotten an ice storm. I tried walking out to a few spots to make stands, but no matter where I went, I would run into grass that had a thick layer of ice on it, and it sounded like walking on broken glass. It was a long morning, and a lot of driving for a man who did no hunting. Oh well I guess..
It's still a good day
geo4061
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I agree still a good day.
So are you just wearing a ski glove? No liner, etc? How about the heat pads?
Are the dogs holed up like us?
So are you just wearing a ski glove? No liner, etc? How about the heat pads?
Are the dogs holed up like us?
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No, just a thin camo glove. It was about 28°, 20° with the wind chill, so not that bad. I don't even take out handwarmers unless it's real real cold.
I saw 3 on the calf pile before daylight. I was on a paved road more than a half mile away across a big cut corn field, and I stopped in the middle of a paved road for 10 seconds, they keyed in on me instantly and took off. I think they know my truck, and they know that when they see it, the safe thing to do is go a few feet into the treeline and get their buddies so they can make fun of me as a group..
I saw 3 on the calf pile before daylight. I was on a paved road more than a half mile away across a big cut corn field, and I stopped in the middle of a paved road for 10 seconds, they keyed in on me instantly and took off. I think they know my truck, and they know that when they see it, the safe thing to do is go a few feet into the treeline and get their buddies so they can make fun of me as a group..
geo4061
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Yep, they got you pegged. Probably having a good laugh. Were not falling for that again.
