Summer Coyote Tactics

[TXNinVA]

The woods are thick here in VA, only been out a couple of nights and I can't even get them close enough to see.

I am still hunting field edges where I can get a cross wind or blowing out into the field so they have to get in the open to smell me, but it ain't working.

Not looking for a book, but what other tactics should I try?

PS: I have never found tracks or scat, I only hear their howls and here them yipping as they close, but not close enough. Did I mention the woods are thick?

[keithcandler]

mom and pups are in the den, dad is out hunting. Mid July is a good time.

[yotebuster]

Or???? wait until fall when the furs get good!!! THat way you can sell those pretty furs, and there is more to hunt that time of YR!!!

[Coyote Duster]

Get a trail cam so you can find out when they are active at the location you want to hunt. I have found that they are only in "my area" after 10 PM and before 5 AM, makes for a tough job of trying to shoot them, in the Spring and Summer anyway. I plan on trying to get them at first light in case they may be hunting late like they do after a storm over night.

[Sonny Pruitt]

Not looking for a book, but what other tactics should I try?



In another week or so, shift to a fawn distress bleat. From now until the end of July, if they are in the area and hear it, they should come. If not, they ain't there.

[WDSWIFT]

If there is a cut or recently cut hay field, clipped wheat or oats field, or bean field, go to the center of it or preferrably the highest point in it the first 3-4 hours of daylight or the last 3 hours or so of daylight, set up there and call. 'Round here any time between now and first of October are the most productive times. The field mice and rabbits in those fields are attractive as would be the sound of a lost pup. Be ready for doubles and triples to come in too. If a single comes in and you get it, wait about 15-30 seconds and start calling again..... your shot may have awakend another one and it may come busting in too.

Right about now till the end of August those pups will be constantly eating any and everything that the rest of the family unit will bring in, as fast as they can bring it in, road kills included. If you've ever raised a litter of (dog) pups you surely remember that after they are weaned they can go through a LOT of groceries in a hurry. I don't think 'yote pups are much different. Just my experience with 'em. Good luck and let us know how it turns out. :)WD

[john benetti]

Unless a coyote is causing a problem [ I know, some think any live coyote is a problem ] I leave them alone till fall, they are feeding pups now and they need their mommas.You wouldn't pick your tomatoes till they ripened would you??Maybe I'm getting soft as I age, but starving pups doesn't appeal to me!

[DDgofer]

I think what John is saying, is if you shoot the wet bitch you are killing the whole litter. This is a case where escapement might be a good idea. Let the pups grow and get weaned and then you will have more game to hunt. Make sense?

[cpttango30]

Sit on freshly cut fields and use a pup in distress call. That should bring dad to you real quick.

[TXNinVA]

Thank you everyone for the tips and advise.

I have been trying to get them before they got to my buddies baby geese(wild in a pond/creek), too late now(last three got ate last week :( ), so I may as well just wait til it cools off again anyway.

As soon as my "honey do" list is complete I'll be back at it. :D

PS; we don't hunt the geese, we just like watching them grow, and not a single clutch has ever made it, you would think the geese would learn, but no... they keep coming back. :confused:

[mwatson]

Good luck with yuor yote hunt. Let us know what works for you. I am sure you know to be careful when calling, keep a shotgun handy because they can get close as well as bobcats in my area of Northwest Arkansas.
Mike

[Catfish]

Around here there is 1 fur buyer that will even buy coyotes and he pays $6 ea. for them. With fuel prices what they are now it cost me alittle over $6 for fuel there and back. Since he pays the same for them skinned or unskinned AND since I woundn`t skin a coyote for $6, and there is no way my wife would let me put them in the freezer coyotes are considered worthless here. That, plus I am one who believes the only good coyote is a dead coyote I shoot at every one that I can get a safe shot at and I tend to use guns that blow big holes. If there where no coyotes around here at all there is no doubt in my mind that there would be alot more game to shoot at.