Coyote hunting tips

No, I haven't heard the Dingoes serenade. The little calling I've heard is generally dogs calling others over a distance. I haven't spent as much time out as I would like. I've mostly shot them from a vehicle through the day while traveling

It's interesting about the snow, ice and stuff. I don't like the cold and I haven't seen the snow.
 
Here in the desert, coyotes will move freely unless it's raining really hard and/or the wind is blowing very hard.
What snow we get doesn't deter them at all.
The roads here are either sand or caliche, which is a limestone based material that becomes extremely slick when wet, so travel when it's raining is always a challenge.
With only a few inches of rainfall per year, we don't have much to worry about. ;)
As DSheetz noted before, fog, mist, or rain deaden the sound so you have to adjust your volume accordingly.
One thing I have noted in subdued conditions is that the coyotes move more slowly than in dryer, calmer conditions. Much as we should be. 😁

Ed
 
Since I try to keep the coyote population down I am seeing a lot more foxes. A pair have a den within a rocks throw of the house. From watching their reaction to precip I think they just do not like getting wet. A real light mist or very light snow is ok. Anything more than that and they are laid up.
 

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Since I try to keep the coyote population down I am seeing a lot more foxes. A pair have a den within a rocks throw of the house. From watching their reaction to precip I think they just do not like getting wet. A real light mist or very light snow is ok. Anything more than that and they are laid up.
Fox are not the problem for deer, sure they take their share of what ever they can eat. I had a pair living in my back yard for (5) years. Loved seeing them and throwing some scrapes to them. I still had a lot of turkeys -they are not going after fawns, The biggest problem with birds are: Skunks, Possums, Racoons. They eat all the eggs of ground nesting birds.
When the coyotes moved into the back of my property because of a reservoir dam being built displacing game . The foxes disappeared, most likely killed by the coyotes.
I know we are Predator Hunters, but like to have them foxes around our house, just like having a pet BobCat, Coon, Possum.
 
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Pet Foxes, www, they stink.

You can shoot the foxes after you have shot the coyotes. That works as they are both vermin.

I know my domestic dog didn't like foxes when I was living on a National park.

I also know Dingo es kill foxes. An observation by the landholder. He said the cats fair better with Dingoes than Foxes. The Dingoes lay off the cats as they have to many pouty bits and fight back.
 
Pet Foxes, www, they stink.

You can shoot the foxes after you have shot the coyotes. That works as they are both vermin.

I know my domestic dog didn't like foxes when I was living on a National park.

I also know Dingo es kill foxes. An observation by the landholder. He said the cats fair better with Dingoes than Foxes. The Dingoes lay off the cats as they have to many pouty bits and fight back.
While Coyotes will kill and eat foxes here, by far they prefer Bobcats.
Bobcat meat is a favorite trapping bait and Bobcat urine really sets them off if you put it on one of their scent posts.
I have seen some pretty scarred up Coyote heads that looked like they weren't fast learners when it came to killing Bobcats.

Ed
 
Around my part of the world the red fox eats lamb and fawns till they get larger . The little swift fox will take eggs and birds as well as mice , ground squirrels ect. . They all eat rodents , snakes and insects as well as what ever they can catch and kill . I'm not sure the coyote eat fox but they do kill them as they are competing with each other for food . Feral dogs are a real problem with both wildlife and livestock . Feral cats are real hard on birds and other small animals here . We have raccoons skunks ect. as well that are problems for small animals but the badgers are a problem for things up to and including lambs and fawns . Now that the wolf is back around here they kill animals as large as cattle as well as dogs and coyote . We don't have the grey fox where I live at this time . Years back a guy up in Montana did a lot of study on coyote and baits that were used in their control and came up with the bobcat based baits as well as the horse meat based baits for coyote from the old timers that did it for the Gov. . They still work to this day . Calling fox isn't what I'm real good at as I don't really have a large population of them where I'm at and I use mostly coyote vocalizations as they are my primary target but when I do need to call fox I use higher pitched calls of wounded prey animals , rodent squeaks , birds and small cotton tail rabbit sounds . I to have noticed that when I get the coyote thinned out that the red fox as well as the swift fox will move in to replace them . I like C B H have never met a fox that didn't have a bad smell and lots of fleas .
 
Swim AND climb! They are cat-like in many ways.

Ed
I have watched Greys climb trees after squirrels. Our Greys are not that big never heard of them getting live stock/deer. They will eat a lot of turkey polts and Quail given the chance. I have goats and only have to worry about coyotes.
This was a female in my back yard. She was here for 5+ years with a male and had several litters. They tend to be companions and raise litters together, not like coyotes in a pack.
 

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Here the coyote don't often run in packs . They will with the pups of the year when they are training them to hunt and kill . For the most part they run by them selves or in pairs here , but then we don't have the brush and tree cover that a lot of people have
 
Same here, but during calving season they will loosely pack up such as; a group of adults will hang around the area and follow the herd without a problem.
Later in the year, up until breeding season, the entire family group will hunt together, so you may get four or five coyotes show up to a call.
That's where having more than one shooter and/or a suppressed rifle and shooting from a distance comes in handy.
Right now, I'm seeing more coyotes traveling long distances searching for food, but not many pup tracks in with the adults.
Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHD) has really taken a toll here and there is much less food available, so they are having to search for other food sources.

Ed
 
We also had the rabbit hemorrhagic disease as well as chronic wasting disease in the deer and elk also had a hemorrhagic disease in the deer and antelope . It's hard out there for the predators at this time they may not have had a lot of pups if they don't have a good food base . Here they will bred but not carry pups if they don't eat well or have bad health . So then the coyote are going to be cautious and harder to call if their numbers are lower . A survival mechanism built into them .
 
Sorry geo4061 , I got off the subject of calling methods and techniques but it's still about coyote and calling them just not how to . You can't call them if you don't have them and they are harder to call when they are low in numbers and being more cautious .
 

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