Articificial/Manmade Den Sites

I am going to go out on a limb here. I rarely post and generally lurk on here.

At the risk of sounding negative, I wish to offer an unsolicited opinion to Tactical20. I hope you realize KY that I am not trying to be mean, or to start a fight.

I have watched you post on forums over the past year or so. It is obvious that you think very highly of Craig OGorman, and are proud of the fact that you are one of his students. I like Craig's products, and have found he and his operation to be top notch. However it seems you feel obligated to drop his name all too often, in your posts.

Not trying to tell you how to live, but when Rich questions you on a pretty simple subject, you throw OGorman's name in the mix just for good measure. It may not matter to you, but I am far more interested in what you think, what you have experienced, and what the results of that experience has been. Throwing the OGorman name into your posts does not do anything for me, but make me feel sorry for you. It seems like you are not happy or comfortable just being yourself, so you try all too hard to identify yourself with OGorman.

No offense Tactical 20, but I would prefer to hear what you have to say, without you constantly qualifying it by throwing someone else's name into it.

Also just my two cents worth, but I would consider culverts to be a poor place to look for coyotes. I have seen hard pressed coyotes go into culverts. I have no doubt that in your area, you might have a culvert that coyote or foxes are using on a limited basis. However if I set out to kill a truckload of canines, culverts would not be my number one locations.

Hope I haven't offended you, didn't mean to if I did.
 
Well, I looked on this article and can't find where I mentioned anyone else's name in the way you stated. Everything in this culvert issue is my own making. They do use these culverts and often. The kills and tracks in the snow tell me this.
I don't believe I stated that culverts would be the only or best place to look, but one of the places most people don't look. Concidering the lack of daytime cover in our area, it is a logical place for them to hide.
As far as what you said to insult, I really could care less what you think. No matter what you say afterwards it was still insulting. T.20
 
This thread does get a bit heated now and then, but it is also educational. What Tact. 20 is seeing, is mostly normal hunting activity. Little critters that coyotes love to eat, often hole up in dry culverts. Coyotes see these culverts as a local diner and occasional hiding place. Nothing really surprising when you stop and think about it. Makes sense to me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Do coyotes use these culverts for whelping purposes? They probably do so in some area's more than others.
 
I have had a couple coyote cross a road at night and go straight to a culvert that is in the middle of a square mile section. Different family groups and different dredge ditches. I tracked them down because there were none to be found while spot stalking. Then I have had many more see my truck, with no provication, and walk, trot or run staight to a hole or culvert 1-4 miles away. Then I have had a couple run into a culvert after missing a shot or hunting one.
This Dec. I saw three on a dredge ditch, two were hanging around the uphill end of the open tube. I saw two of the three when I walked in to stalk them. I took the one in the tube the other did not offer a good shot, the third had disappeared. This tube has had three taken out of it in three years. The next tube had one taken and a mile and an 1/4 south of these two tubes there is a tube that had another 2-3 years ago. Two years ago on the way to sell some fur I saw a yote about an hour from home, she went 1.5 miles to a tube and I pulled her out, too. Just a few of my experiences where I live. I did notice it is usually a female in the tube.T.20
 
or learned it from people like O'Gorman.KY

It was just an observation on my part, and I draw my conclusion not only from this thread, but from others in the past both here and on Dobbins.
 
K9 I am not sure what you have against O'G. If I mention someones name it is more than likely to give them credit for what I have learned. I did not learn all I know on my own, and it would be wrong for me to say so. I feel it is a waste of time to argue on east-west trapping, instuctions, or hunting. It is like saying Fords are better than Chevys. For the most part I enjoy sharing the things that I have learned, on the trapperman there are a lot of beginners that can't afford to take professional instructions.
If I had taken instructions with someone else I probably would be mentioning them, also. If I had bought a Cronk call instead of a Bill Austin, I would be mentioning it also. There are some people I won't mention favorably, because I know something that prevents me from doing so.
Enough of wasting my time on this.T.20
 
T20 - I know of three fox dens in the spring time in culverts. Each one had pups living in them. I saw two of them a couple springs ago and one last spring. Maybe it's a central and northern Iowa thing?
 
PWKING, yes on fox I have been taking them out of tubes for 20 or more years. It has been an occasional thing on the coyotes, until about 5-6 years ago I started to find them using the tubes more and more. Ames, huh, I used to live in Webster City, hunted a lot of fox there. Are you seeing any fox, now?T.20
 
Actually when I registered here I was going to school in Ames. My hometown is in western Iowa. We have quite a few fox in our area, but we also have everybody out looking for them when a fresh snow falls.
 
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