Baiting

Good luck everybody. There has been a coyote on the farm three times lately but only once at the bait- night before last, assuming it’s the same coyote. I hunted last night but he didn’t return to the bait, but my son’s cell camera got him (or another one) last night on the other side of the farm maybe 250-300 yards away from the bait. I plan to try again tonight. Got the 25-06 and Infiray Bolt sighted coyote deadly.
 
so I’ve never really purposely baited before and certainly not at night. I just acquired sole access to a 1500 acre farm. There’s only a limited amount of guys deer hunting it and pheasant hunting but they wrap up before January.

Some of the areas on this property look like prime spots to set up bait and sneak into shooting position at night and day time. They gave me the go ahead to put some baiting sites up.

So I’ve got about 60lbs of deer and elk scraps now but it’s all loose. How do you guys go about keeping all your scrap together? I was thinking about wrapping the frozen ball of scrap in a net or chicken wire and tying it to a tree.

Any advice?
 
I don't use scrap, too hard to keep them from grabbing some and taking off. I use road kill carcasses and I'll hang them from a stout tree branch high enough so the hind feet just touch the ground. Takes them a week or so to get comfortable that it's not a trap then they'll come and start gnawing on them. Makes them spend more time there so I can get the shot I want. If you wrap scraps in chicken wire that might make it so they have to spend some time trying to get a meal out of it. Never tried it myself but it's worth a try. See what works and doesn't, then adapt.
 
Lol, I was just thinking before I read your last post. With 1500 acres you don't have to worry much but I was going to add, keep in mind after a few weeks, even in sub freezing temps, unless it constantly stays below freezing, those carcasses will get pretty ripe. They'll have no problem at all smelling them, neither will you :ROFLMAO:.
 
Baitsickle (I throw in freezer clean outs from neighbors, muskrat and small beaver chunked up). You can stake down large beaver carcass. I will use roadkill deer and dead hogs. Deer/hogs that are frozen I open up a rear ham about the size of a softball. Or the coyote may wait for a warm spell(especially with a hog). 30+ years ago I could get butcher scraps, those all went into 5 gallon buckets with water, 1 to a location add 2 more when getting hit.
 
Been a long dry spell at my place. Can't remember the last time I got a shot here. As luck would have it, I didn't put bait out this evening cause I was busy digging out a water leak. I got in the tub to soak my aching back. Just before getting out my wife comes in said the coyote alarm went off three times. Before I could get out, dry off, get upstairs he was gone. One lucky coyote.

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