If you spend much time out in the spring of the year calling coyote with vocalizations, you will get to see the coyotes trying to decoy you away from their den with pups in it or trying to draw you away from the heavy female. It's interesting they get out in plain view bark, short howl, yodel, do kickbacks ect.. I have spent time watching them doing that to try and get me, or other coyotes, to move away from their den when I would howl, and I have watched them come to the edge of their area and do the same things just to warn me not to come any closer to their territory. after they did a lot of displaying, they like to set down a lot of times and just watch if I didn't continue to talk to them. Good for the long-range shooters, I just hope that they go and take the pups too to put them out of their misery and not let them starve to death if they are young. When they are older pups often another pair of coyotes will adopt them maybe even moving them closer to their own pups, they are survivors. I have had a pair with pups adopt younger pups and carry them to their own pups and the female nurse them a couple of times, I think that the pups get to making a lot of noise when they get hungry, and mom and dad aren't there to come to them thus one of the reasons that people really get results from the puppy calls. Being a control guy, you should use that call sparingly just like you do your siren so you can have a way of killing coyotes that have been giving you a run for your money and causing a ton of trouble they are my go-to last resort I need to kill these in a hurry calls my tricks of the craft kept in reserve for those special occasions! No you don't get to see all of my cards face up on the table kind of thing.
Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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Bucklowery
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windypants
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Bring your coyote rifle!
windypants
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I made one last trip to that ranch north of here that had the coyotes so thick around their calving pen. I got another pregnant female. That makes a dozen taken there, and they are really appreciative. Calving season is winding down and there aren't many sheep in this area, so there shouldn't be any more predation from now on. I don't want to leave any starving pups, so I'll call it a season and leave the survivors in peace until next fall. It's been a lot of fun and I learned a lot, and I got 42 coyotes off of five different ranches. I'll stay enrolled in Coyote U and keep watching, listening and learning!
I keep my rounds tip up and the and they stay home. When hunting for the day I keep my rounds in a AI mag.
Shot 3 more today and non of them were the typical bang flop and one actually got away and it was a well placed shot.
Thanks for the tip on the small drill tip. Got one on order.
Bucklowery
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I shoot some 308 and 300 BO subsonic these bullets I load will expand down to 600fps but they need to be cleaned out occasionally too. They have big and deep hollow cavity but as is with manufacturing anything things are always just right. There will be a bur in the cavity or a chip of metal and they don't always perform perfectly. I figured this out when I was working up and testing the loads to see how they expanded at low velocity
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Bucklowery
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Don't tempt me you may look out that that window and see a different Buck one day. LOL
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M1A1ABRAMS
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Sure is a big temptation for sure, with a view like he has. And the hunting has to be just as lovely. Whether you harvest something or not.
windypants; figure out finding the dens you will enjoy that as well. Were the pups near being born on the last female? I enjoy the tracking of them in the trails and draws too. but then I enjoy watching them when they don't know I am around. They will be teaching a lot now as it nears the pups being born and here where I am they are getting territorial they have a quiet period where they don't say much just a howl to let each other know when they are coming home. Mom will be with the pups after they are born during the night for the first week or so.
I can tell you about mistakes and give advice on what to or not do because I have made all of these mistakes and learned not to repeat them, just because it's not right for me doesn't mean that it's not right for you, in your area things are probably not the same as in my area there will be similarities in the way things are and how coyotes behave. When I started learning about coyotes, I didn't have the social media to go to, it took more time to find people that would share their experiences, a lot of the old timers didn't want to share their knowledge, they didn't want any new guys taking over their jobs. Or to find books written on the subject. But the best thing for me to do was to go out and do it make mistakes and learn from them as well as to study the living coyotes before killing them so they themselves could tell me what to or not to do. Time spent looking at coyote, badger, fox and other animal tracks reading books and talking to older trappers and coyote hunters that would help me, taught me how to interoperate what I was seeing and what I wanted to know from them. Time spent looking for them and listening to them as I watched them taught me to make a connection with what they were doing and what they were saying at the time. It is as interesting today for me to hear about other's findings about what the coyotes in your areas are doing and saying under different circumstances, and conditions as it always has been. When you are out and about and see them or hear them let us know what they said, or did, and the conditions they were in, it will help all of us in the end. Coyotes still fascinate me they are survivors they do some amazing things yet at times they do some things that I shake my head and say how could a smart animal do something like that.
windypants
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I haven't been opening them up, except when the bullet does it, but this one looked like a young one and a little ways to go. Just didn't look as full, but I really don't know from experience. I haven't heard much for vocalizations lately.
windypants; from what I have noticed here the younger females tend to cycle later then the older females and pup later so then the weather is better when they do pup so that follows along with those observations of mine from here. They also tend to not have as large of litters. For me it's good to compare notes like that so it tends to reaffirm my findings for me. They get quiet here when it's time to have pups except for talking to each other in the pair or to challenge another coyote invading their area, till the pups are old enough to start trying their new voices. Then is when you start hearing the sunrise serenades and again in the evenings when the sun has nearly or just set. That is just a short time before the pups start to leave the den holes here and start to sagebrush camp. Starting in May here they will be group howling and then around the middle of June they will be moving out of the den holes. I have called in and shot the young of the year in mid to late June after I killed the adults before they were adopted by other adults. Then I have put the remaining pups down a hole.
Airedale56
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Hey, Dave.
We are still seeing some waddling females up here, but some have delivered.
How about you?
Calving is in process for about a week up here.
John
We are still seeing some waddling females up here, but some have delivered.
How about you?
Calving is in process for about a week up here.
John
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A few of them have dropped the pups now. There are quite a few that haven't yet. I'm going to do some denning this spring and will start around the end of April. I have taken a few young females that hadn't pupped by the end of May but here it seems like the older females have pretty much pupped by early May. Lambing should be starting around May 12th or 15th calving is nearly finished now here.
