Coyote hunting tips

I'll stay out of there for a month this time, maybe longer. I don't want to lose the properties there, and the farmers want to know that I'm hunting them, so I may set snares for a few nights first, just to get a few more before I stay away for a month or more. I have to go Saturday to meet a man in a different area that is allowing me access on another big chunk of land
 
Straight Shooter said:
I like elevation, no wind, and no sun
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No wind doesn't seem to work well for me. First off, you've got nothing to cover your approach sound, and then you're bound to have some swirling winds, even if they are small, and they are unpredictable. The other thing is that if there is no wind, I'd imagine that your scent would just radiate out in every direction, getting worse the longer you sit. They can probably pick it up from a few hundred yards out in every direction. I like a little wind. Maybe 5mph or so..
 
My current stand is 20' up in a muddy tower blind. Last night I watched a half dozen dogs walk within 50y of it, but they were our of my reasonable range. I never turned my call on, just sat there till dark, then made my way into this stand about 3 hours before dark this evening.
 

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And I'll never do that again. 🤣

I was busted opening a window, and had one stand there a couple of hundred yards away out of sight and warning bark at me until dark. Well, it's out of my system. If I had sat on the ground I would have likely had opportunities at a dozen of them. Too noisy getting in and out, and opening windows is a no go with coyotes.
 
More years ago then a lot of people on this site have been alive , A kid was thrown head long through the gates of h!@l . On the backside of the gates were a few older hard nosed guys , maybe 3 or 4 years older but with a life time of knowledge and experience , that at first glance seemed to just make life miserable for the young guys . They took this young man under their wings but yet they would be standoffish to others . So after a few days the young guy ask why are you teaching me but not that guy over there you don't even seem to hardly talk to him . The reply was he doesn't want to listen and learn and it's going to get him killed and that's ok but we don't want him to take anybody else with him . Sure enough a few days latter he was sent home in an aluminum box . That lesson has stayed with that guy his whole life . Every last one of us makes mistakes in our life times but when you make a mistake that you have been told about before hand and chose not to listen about it what does that say to you . will you then remember it and try not to repeat it . Live but learn don't just live and stumble through life pay attention observe don't just look at things see the details that are offered for you to see . Yes you are no longer in high school but every day in life is a school day with some lesson to be gleaned from it . If you don't want to learn from some thing that's your option to do just that but after 36 plus years of killing coyote I know that they still have things to teach me and haven't quit paying attention to them . I respect them and let them tell me what they will share with me .
 
DSheetz said:
More years ago then a lot of people on this site have been alive , A kid was thrown head long through the gates of h!@l . On the backside of the gates were a few older hard nosed guys , maybe 3 or 4 years older but with a life time of knowledge and experience , that at first glance seemed to just make life miserable for the young guys . They took this young man under their wings but yet they would be standoffish to others . So after a few days the young guy ask why are you teaching me but not that guy over there you don't even seem to hardly talk to him . The reply was he doesn't want to listen and learn and it's going to get him killed and that's ok but we don't want him to take anybody else with him . Sure enough a few days latter he was sent home in an aluminum box . That lesson has stayed with that guy his whole life . Every last one of us makes mistakes in our life times but when you make a mistake that you have been told about before hand and chose not to listen about it what does that say to you . will you then remember it and try not to repeat it . Live but learn don't just live and stumble through life pay attention observe don't just look at things see the details that are offered for you to see . Yes you are no longer in high school but every day in life is a school day with some lesson to be gleaned from it . If you don't want to learn from some thing that's your option to do just that but after 36 plus years of killing coyote I know that they still have things to teach me and haven't quit paying attention to them . I respect them and let them tell me what they will share with me .
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I'm really not sure why you keep comparing coyote hunting to such dire circumstances. I spent a month and a few days shy of 12 years in the Army, in the infantry as a sniper. I am a civilian now, and I hunt coyotes for fun. Guess what happens when I make a mistake?

I don't kill a coyote.

That's it. Nobody shoots me, and nobody ever shot at you for not killing a coyote. This is what we do for fun. This isn't life and death. When I screw up I get a lesson. Your prophetic condescension following every situation I describe is juvenile. I was willing to ignore it mostly the first few times, but it is getting annoying. Do me a favor, stop thinking of coyote hunting as a life and death pursuit, because it isn't. You sound like the guys who sit in a bar talking about seeing ghosts with a tear in your eye, and when the truth comes out, they were never even in the military, or folded sheets or something. Life isn't a Steven Segal movie. I appreciate the actual helpful tips and wisdom, but stop with the judgemental b.s.
 
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Not being judgmental giving an example of lessons learned in life and why some of us think the way we do . You screw up and don't kill a coyote that's fine for you . I screw up and don't kill a coyote that's a lot more hard work for me and a lot of livestock lost that is a large difference in the out come . Glad you spent that amount of time in the service and yes I spent time in the service also and yes I left South East Asia on April 25 th 1975 . and no I don't set around in the bar drinking and crying in my beer I don't drink and I don't see ghosts in my sleep but I do know how to stop and listen to what has been taught to me by others and even the coyote this wasn't all about you it was for the benefit of others so they might look at what they have done and then stop to reflect on it to possibly learn from it . Not every thing here revolves around you . Not every one reading this just wants to go out and simply kill coyote for fun some of them might just want to try to do it as work so then if they make their lives harder then that is what happens to them and there isn't much need for them to do that if they can be forewarned of what can be changed to help them not to make that mistake in the first place . Go on with your life and don't get butt hurt about what I am trying to teach others you won't have to worry about reading any of my stuff again .
 
Alright, Let's play a game called "rate my stand".

I'll start. I'll post pics and map data for my most recent unsuccessful stand, and you guys tell me what you'd have done differently. I'm sitting in my second stand of the evening now, and waiting for things to get quiet before I start calling, so I have a minute. I took pics at the last one with this in mind. Dsheetz, I welcome your advice too if you don't mind giving it.
 

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