Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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There used to be a guy named Tom Brown that taught tracking and had some books he had written on the subject . There are some good cd's on calling some of Randy Andersons are good entertainment and give some good knowledge . Mark Zepp also has some good cd's as do others . If you want to go to school for trapping and snaring Crag O'Gorman in Montana has a good course . There are some good people out there to teach you if you look for them just get some references as there are also some not so good out there as well just like any other field you want to study up on .
Went back to den area this morning, had to approach into the sun, because of the wind and the lay of the land (irrigation ditch to the north with no bridge) wind was light out of the south...rancher/farmer was just leaving the area. Sat in pickup and drank coffee while glassing the area, about 600-700 yards out I could see what I assumed was the female. She was looking around and mainly looking south, I could close the distance in some low ground, peel off about 300 yards or more and snipe her off, walked along fence as I could use it as a wall so she could not see me. Every now and then would stop and glass too the east and south, knowing she was waiting for the male to come back (just like Dsheetz says) I was almost to where I wanted to get when I picked up the male coming up a fence line from the south, heading north right to her. Ahead of him was a 3 corners of fence, I figured when he got there he would stop and look around. I sat down and put my shooting sticks up and range the 3 corners, it was 245, no way was I going to hold over with that .204 as I am right on at 200.....the ground in the 3 corners was a little higher and when he got there he stopped and looked around he was broadside and I put the crosshairs behind his shoulders and touch it off. the whop was unmistakable, he dropped on the spot, 39 grain SBK never came out, high lung shot..............he was a heavy male, full of food possibly 35 pounder, teeth looked like 3 year old, maybe 4. Tried getting a shot on the female, she was not liking it, will come back over the weekend from a different direction.
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You are addicted to the challenge of this hunting of them now . At this time of the year when they have pups they are the most predictable that they will ever be . By now her motherly instincts have kicked in and she will give her life for pups that she didn't give birth to . I am always amazed by them . They have taught me so much .
I sat out with my coffee this AM but never heard a peep although it's been rainy and crappy last couple days and not the best listening weather. I'll keep after it next AM or two and may try to strike a response as DSheetz recommended over the weekend if I don't hear anything first.
I have in the past seen where both male and female coyote weren't paired up and had no pups associated with them . When these coyote become stock killers they caused me to pull my hair out until I finally figured out that they acted alone . I had a pair one time that were killing lambs , in one pasture , like they had pups but they wouldn't talk or stay in one place every day . Finally I got up on a ridge sat up by a sheep herders monument and just watched . I spotted them out several hundred yards hunting . This time I had a call that I liked for fawn blats a tally ho . Starting kind of low I let out a few fawn blats and watched them , in a few seconds they stopped stood erect looking in my direction then started to trot my way . I let them come when they stopped I would let out a couple of low volume blats . I had already set up my rifle when I had first seen them so that I wouldn't have to move much after they knew where I was . I got them in closer then 100 yards and shot the bigger of the two . The smaller one bolted after the shot so I got on the call and did some injured coyote screams . She put on the brakes quartering away from me . I hit her just in front of her hips she just humped up and stood there . I got out to her and put her down . Then I looked at her uterus finding that she was dry . That explained why they weren't tied down to any spot and why they didn't want or need to talk .
Here in my part of Wyoming from mid May to mid June a lot of the years new are born ,lambs deer and antelope fawns . This is the time of year that I like to use open reed calls and make fawn blats . the young of these have similar vocalizations so if your hunting where lambs are born fawn blats seen to work well too . I don't make loud blats and not too many at the same time four or five then give it a few minutes break seems to work for me . After a few of these I will throw in a long quivering howl if I haven't seen any movement yet . wait a few to several minutes and start it all over again .
I like coyote and most other animals have two favorite times of the year spring and early fall . Spring is when the winter months are over the world turns green and food becomes easier to come by the young are born and have a better chance at living . Early fall the long hot days are done but the cold hard days aren't here yet food is easier to come by as the young of the spring are venturing forth and learning to be on their own the grass's are mature and not as soft but are still plentiful . Both of these times are very good times for the coyote hunter and I enjoy them to the best I can .
I have used a Tally Hoe call for 30+ years (wasn't it developed by Major Broddick?) , makes great deeper jack rabbit sounds...carries a long way also, the deep sound....we have a pile of antelope here, that fawn bleat would be the real ticket....no sign of that female this morning.....supposed to be wind for two days over the weekend.
I hunted a couple times with a retired government trapper, name was Gene, he liked to use a long quivering howl, real drawn out and high pitched, 1st time I had ever heard it used. back in the late 80's.............
I hunted a couple times with a retired government trapper, name was Gene, he liked to use a long quivering howl, real drawn out and high pitched, 1st time I had ever heard it used. back in the late 80's.............
If I remember right the tally ho was made by Tell Lockwood out of south Dakota . It takes a little more practice to make the quivering howl . The difference in the pitch says I'm female or a younger coyote if it's higher . Like you or I males seem to usually have a deeper voice
Correction it was Tal Lockwood not Tell that made them . I see that you can still buy them . When I bought mine it came in a prescription pill bottle . They are versatile as an open reed type call they can be cleaned and kept from freezing up in the cold weather , but then in the cold weather I keep my closed reed calls in my shirt pocket until I am ready to use them and I don't like a glove on my call hand as it changes the tone of the call . That way you don't over call as much either . She may not have gotten attached to the pups and just left them or maybe she moved them closer to where she came from . I have seen both happen .
the Tally Hoe call, the part the reed sat on, I like to file that a little more rounded, seemed to work better for me to make the sound, supposedly better...........
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I am a tinker and few of my calls haven't had some modifications made to them . Some were not so good and the call was scrapped some made it better for my use . I found that my ears didn't always hear what the coyote liked when they liked a sound if it works to get the coyote's attention enough to get them to come that's what I like too .
