Like DMP25-06 said earlier in this thread DSheetz. You guys need to get together and publish a book. I'm so fascinated by these stories of yours, Reemty, DMP25-06, and everyone else that has contributed to this thread.
Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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Dsheetz and others, love the stories, sure would be nice to get together, call some coyotes, drink some 
I bet we could tell stories late into the night.......and make a few new ones. Just got the rings for my CZ 527 .204, got everything mounted up last night with wheeler level gauge. Going to sight her in and test 2 loads to see what she likes!! Just turning green here, gonna grab a buddy soon and locate a den or two and test that 39 SBK on a coyote!!
I bet we could tell stories late into the night.......and make a few new ones. Just got the rings for my CZ 527 .204, got everything mounted up last night with wheeler level gauge. Going to sight her in and test 2 loads to see what she likes!! Just turning green here, gonna grab a buddy soon and locate a den or two and test that 39 SBK on a coyote!!
I prefer both, frequently!!!!! 
I used to make up a small tool kit for the new guys when they got licensed to use M44's . I would take a 50 cal. ammo box cut a slot in the latch and weld hasp on so you could lock it paint one royal blue and one red the blue for the tools and the red for the cartridges . I would take a piece od. 3/4" cold rolled 2" long and drill a hole with 27/32 bit then silver solder the bit in to make a tee handle for it to clean out the cast tops . I included a 9/16 fine thread bottom tap and die to clean the threads on the unit and the tops . Then I would drill a 5/32 hole in the top jaw of the setting tool and silver solder a hardened pointed tool steel rod in it sticking out a small amount to keep it from slipping off of the plunger when you were depressing it , to set it . I gave Eric a kit he looked at me ask what's that for so I explained it's usage he laughed and said Mine are all new I don't need that stuff yet . I told him it's when they are new that you do need to use these things so they work smoothly . After he transferred out I had to go to a recertification class and setting there on the instructors table was the tools , box's and it was recommended that people make these up for their use and how to use them . I'm not sure if they are still doing this or if they went with Crag when he retired .
Interesting!!!!!!..............
I remembered one from the 80's lived on the highline and usually headed to the Marias river to call/hunt coyotes. Well right south of town a couple miles a friend told me he was seeing this coyote most times he drove by and it would run into this reservoir area and then he couldn't find it. So I drove by there one day and sure enough this coyote jumps up and takes off running to that reservoir, I had no shot, so I drove in the stubble to get on top as normal behavior would be for that coyote to run up the drainage and get the heck out of there. There was no snow and it was flat as a pancake and I could not see that coyote anywhere, I was wondering where the heck did it go. A week or so later we had a little snow, the wind was blowing so I knew I could drive into the wind and be right on that coyote and get a running shot, it wouldn't hear me and wouldn't see me until I was within 200 yards. It was a small area and I felt it wasn't worth making a call. Sure enough up jumps that coyote and I draw a bead on him and hit it running a little too far back, it gets up and runs over the reservoir dam, heading up the drainage......well this time I had snow, so I get out and follow up on the track, pretty soon there was good blood and I didn't go 50 yards and the tracks went right in a hole......this is fox behavior.....that coyote died just inside that hole. I reach down and pull it out, its a male, guess what??? It had no testicles.........no kidding, he had an empty scotum....I guess there was my answer for why this coyote had been running in a hole anytime someone drove by, no wonder no one could figure out where it went..........like I said before, that is what red fox do, not usually coyotes. Could have been a deal where his testicles stayed in his body and didn't drop, I don't remember cutting him open to look when I skinned him. You remember the odd ones, same as in people! Back in the 80's and early 90's, we would lay prone a lot when calling out on the flat prairie (different than the river breaks) as cover was limited and you were usually over looking some shallow draws. Those coyotes at times were visible a mile off and when you set up for the wind, they gave you lots of time to shift your position if you needed. Always enjoyed watching them come and learning to read their body language, as far as how far they would come, when they are about to stop or when just a squeak or 2 would bring them dam near into your lap....heart thumping fun times, still is.....
Back in the 80's and early 90's, we would lay prone a lot when calling out on the flat prairie (different than the river breaks) as cover was limited and you were usually over looking some shallow draws. Those coyotes at times were visible a mile off and when you set up for the wind, they gave you lots of time to shift your position if you needed. Always enjoyed watching them come and learning to read their body language, as far as how far they would come, when they are about to stop or when just a squeak or 2 would bring them dam near into your lap....heart thumping fun times, still is.....Steve and I were flying a ranch one day we jumped up this coyote and flew it down . I shot it then asked Steve what was different about that coyote . We circled around landed the chopper and went over to look at the coyote . It's ears had been cut off . You got paid by the predator board per coyote by turning in the ears after having a bounty slip signed by a field inspector who was supposed to see the coyote carcass . The trapper was cutting the ears off and turning them loose when the fur wasn't good and the inspector wasn't looking at the carcass just the ears . Steve said he got a few more like it latter on in the same trappers area . They stopped paying him and talked to the inspector .
nicholasjohn
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DSheetz,
I think they should have cut that guy's ear off !!! He was taking the bounty and turning them loose, when the only thing they were good for ( to him, anyway ) was breeding more pups with ears for next year's paycheck. I fully understand about not killing the golden goose, but that is just rotten. Ranchers have a tough enough time eking out a living, and tax-payers are paying this trapper to propagate the problem. Not good. There's always somebody out there who finds a way to milk the system. Shifty b----rd.
Nick
Thank you all for the incredible stories. Fascinating. Never tried hunting coyotes here in Alabama. We now have plenty, but woods are thick. You'd do well to see one at 25 yds.
Please keep it coming.
Please keep it coming.
GLTaylor.........shotgun, full choke, Dead coyote load T's, Hornady 1 1/2 oz BB either will get it done. Two guys calling, one down wind 80-100 yards, but look at the cover, will not take you long to see how a coyote likes to circle and what they prefer to use as cover. Predict where they may show up. This is the challenge and fun of the sport, using what GOD gave you for thinking/planning against an animal that is gifted with senses well beyond yours....
GLTaylor, you would be surprised how many you can get just by hunting from a treestand. We have several stand sites in the thick for deer and when the conditions are right for that spot ie wind that's where I go. Coyotes run the same turf as the deer. It works
