Baiting

Parked the truck 8:45pm last night, walking into a light(under 5mph) east wind. About a 1/2 mile to blind, on the way in a coyote was close to the blind and we saw/ heard each other at the same time. It trotted a couple hundred yards and than walked out of the field. About 10 pm I heard a group vocal start up a mile+ to the SE. I grabbed my ecaller selected coyote group and started it a few seconds after the coyote stopped. 0 volume up to 10(mid range) about 10 seconds, 10 seconds steady and than volume reduction to zero in about 10 seconds. To me that's what a coyote group sounds like. Sat on the rifle for 20 minutes, didn't see anything. After an hour scanning out the window every 10 minutes, I had to pee. No bottle so going have to sneak outside. Scanned out several windows, nothing. Stepped out partially latched the door, scanned again. But can't see around blind corner to the bait. Took care of business behind blind. Stepped back to door and leaned/scanned around corner before door latch. Crap one on the bait(130 yards). Stood thinking what to do, there is a highway south about a mile, so I just waited until I heard a semi truck. When it lights were in view and tire noise was loudest I opened and stepped into blind. Waited about 10 minutes and another truck was passing, opened the window and placed rifle/tripod. Watched the coyote for several minutes until a broadside, still position. DRT. Skin able, just a couple cocklebur to comb out of the shoulder. Retrieve this morning.
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spotstalkshoot said:
Parked the truck 8:45pm last night, walking into a light(under 5mph) east wind. About a 1/2 mile to blind, on the way in a coyote was close to the blind and we saw/ heard each other at the same time. It trotted a couple hundred yards and than walked out of the field. About 10 pm I heard a group vocal start up a mile+ to the SE. I grabbed my ecaller selected coyote group and started it a few seconds after the coyote stopped. 0 volume up to 10(mid range) about 10 seconds, 10 seconds steady and than volume reduction to zero in about 10 seconds. To me that's what a coyote group sounds like. Sat on the rifle for 20 minutes, didn't see anything. After an hour scanning out the window every 10 minutes, I had to pee. No bottle so going have to sneak outside. Scanned out several windows, nothing. Stepped out partially latched the door, scanned again. But can't see around blind corner to the bait. Took care of business behind blind. Stepped back to door and leaned/scanned around corner before door latch. Crap one on the bait(130 yards). Stood thinking what to do, there is a highway south about a mile, so I just waited until I heard a semi truck. When it lights were in view and tire noise was loudest I opened and stepped into blind. Waited about 10 minutes and another truck was passing, opened the window and placed rifle/tripod. Watched the coyote for several minutes until a broadside, still position. DRT. Skin able, just a couple cocklebur to comb out of the shoulder. Retrieve this morning.View attachment 26742
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Didn't happen for me. Logged 6 hours in the blind. Sat Thursday night from 2200-0100 and Friday night from 0000-0300. I did hear some coyotes off to the west of me both nights. I have permission for a spot out that way I haven't called yet. Need to put that at the top of my list next time the wind is right. I'm still getting the occasional cam pic at night but the fog has been so bad lately I haven't been able to make out what's tripping the beam. Big warm up coming up here, we'll see what happens.....
 
Had a 9:45 pm pic Friday night at one of the pop-up blinds. Last night I walked in about 8pm. 9:31 a customer shows up. The coyote looked like it turned and looked directly at the blind, I took the chest shot. Down and up spinning? I took a quick follow up at the spinning coyote,miss. It ran off thru grass, snowdrifts and some brush. Stopping out in a plowed field about 225 yard away. Small gap to shoot thru right where the black heart spot image is. Bang down. Retrieve this morning, I see the coyote was facing straight away on the first shot, I hit where the crosshair was. I moved the camera to a new bait, my wife was riding with and wanted to see the new location.
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Congrats, Spot on your recent successes. A coyote has been visiting my site for the last two consecutive nights. Rain prevented me hunting last night ( he showed up early just before the rain set in), and it’s raining and fog tonight. Hoping to hunt the next two nights before another round of rain,
 
Last night I went to a deer blind near where I lost a coyote and trap in Oct. That night in Oct it rained late, I believe the coyote was caught early evening. The farmer across the property line had chisel plowed the field right up to where the set was. It looked like the tractor operator, dragged a cable or chain around my set(20') in from the property line and pulled the double staked trap and coyote loose. Than the coyote ran thru the plowed ground before crossing back onto the property I was trapping on. I searched the trees where I lost the track but could not find it. Thought I saw it 6 miles north a week later( coyote was limping) but only had a few seconds to look with binos at about 8/10 of a mile. Fog and rain kept me from hunting nearby that night. A couple weeks ago I cut a track that was an obvious peg leg coyote(right front which I knew was my catch foot) about 500 yards west of where the set was.
I got in the blind about 8pm, nice night NE breeze, switching to full east after midnight. Saw a couple skunk out cruising looking for girlfriends. Told myself sit until midnight. There are field lanes in and around the grassy field, easy traveling for a 3 legged coyote. I had packed up and taken down the rifle/tripod when I saw a coyote leave some trees and get on a field lane headed my way. About 20 minutes later it was working my way from the south and slightly west. The landowner has a mowed path to the deer blind from the south. I was concerned the coyote would end up downwind of the blind if the wind hadn't switched. I had walked in from the west a half mile. No worries about it cutting my track. As it crested a small roll in the field it stopped and lifted it head high, checking the wind. That's when I took the 175 yard frontal shot. Drt The teeth mostly broken from the trap removal.
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Glad you finally got him, Spot. They are indeed tough critters. A couple years ago I shot one that had a snare around his neck, embedded. The flesh had grown over it. That noose was tight around his neck yet he looked healthy otherwise. They are very tenacious.
 
Had an old hunter tell me would take a live chicken and hang it upside down on a fence. He might give it a bit of cut for some blood but that chicken would make a very loud racket and that is how he hunted/baited coyotes. Talk about a caller and decoy package...LOL. Have not tried it myself but it sounds like a sound strategy.
 
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Glad you finally got him, Spot. They are indeed tough critters. A couple years ago I shot one that had a snare around his neck, embedded. The flesh had grown over it. That noose was tight around his neck yet he looked healthy otherwise. They are very tenacious.
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I think I remember a pic of that critter.
 
My brother and I were calling in Ks years ago. Two coyotes came to the call at a fast run. One was 20 yards behind the first one. My brother dropped the first one and the other got in a gully and escaped. When we retrieved the dead one, it was missing the lower half of one of its rear legs. The wound where the leg was missing was all healed up and the coyote was in great condition.
 
I had an old school predator hunter tell me he used to take a live chicken and hang it upside down from a fence. Give it a little cut to add blood view/scent. A call with decoy all in one!
 
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