Coyote Hound Fight

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jwalle1

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I know i didnt call him in...But thought it was a good story anyway

Well we were deer hunting this past weekend. The dogs jumped, turned and started coming straight to us. They were getting pretty close, I'm looking for the big buck to pop out of the oaks then i hear shots down below me. Wasn't two seconds before i hear "big coyote" come over my handheld radio. There was only two dogs on him then, but after an hour and a fifteen minutes all the dogs had gotten onto the trail and sounded like an engine roaring still running the yote...After pulling several circles and coming back close enough to get me excited (never close enough to shoot) they turned and went out of hearing. A little while later my brother says he hears the dogs baying something. He took off to see what was going on, when He gets there and they have finally caught up to the yote, six dogs circled around him in a big ditch...After finally getting all the dogs away he finished off the coyote (and said that was one mean looking animal)...Several of the dogs were bloody with bites and cuts but thankfully they should all be alright.

Hope they dont run anymore coyotes for a while [beeep]. Have a few pics when i figure out how to post them..
 
Are you saying you were actually using the dogs to hopefully run deer out of the woods? Yeah, I think that's the way I read it.

I didn't have any idea that was legal to do anywhere. I'm sure that is legal in Virginia or you wouldn't be doing it or posting about doing it. Is that a pretty common way of hunting deer there? Sounds interesting. Tell us more.
 
Back when I used to have my Walker deer/fox hounds we used to take them to different "pens" that had coyotes in them. That was alot of fun listening to the dogs run the coyotes. Good conditioning for the dogs during the off season too.

I miss the days when I dog hunted in Eastern NC. Never did kill any big deer though, mostly scrub bucks and does. One thing I don't miss is looking for dogs the next day or weeks afterwards.
 
Doggin, yea we run deer with dogs a lot, some of the funnest hunting i've ever been a part of.. Most of virginia allows it although there are a few sections where it is not legal..Its a very popular and very exciting way of hunting..Your heart really starts pounding when you hear the dogs sound like there gonna run right over ya then you see a big buck comin through the woods...In the past few years we have ended up runnin lots of yotes (there were none hear 10 years ago)..

Houser, it is a beautiful sound when they all get together, luckily over the past few years we have invested in tracking collars so we always have them back by dark or shortly after..
 
It is legal here in Florida.I would say 90% of the deer hunting I do is with dogs. I don't know how we ever hunted without tracking collars. I wouldn't dump a dog out with out one.

Sparky13
 
We killed two more in front of the dogs this passed weekend. I really need to get down there and call, they were howlin everywhere right after dark...
 
Here in Pamlico County there's still alot of dog hunting. Last weekend we ran three yotes out of a VERY small block of pines. Sounded like a war goin' on when they broke into the field! Three (or FOUR)clips later the yotes are STILL BOOKIN' across the fields a hundred yds away! I do love to hear a good race in the morning though, yote or deer! But that race and those three yotes got me to this site! Now I'm already hooked and haven't even fired a shot!!!



Pick a spot... a LITTLE spot...squeeze....
 
There is nothing better than hearing and seeing the dogs barking with every breath as they are running a deer or coyote. There are those people that say hunting with dogs isn't sporting. Most of them have never hunted with dogs. It's easy to shoot a deer while still hunting as the deer stands on the edge of a field or walks slowly past your stand. Try shooting a deer that's running as fast as he can with a pack of dogs not far behind him. You better be able to shoulder that gun and shoot fast, you will only see him for a second. I don't want to start up the dog/no dog arguement but don't knock it till ya try it!!!
 
One of my best friends back in michigan runs coyotes with hounds and has pretty good luck doing it, I went once its alot like cat or bear hunting you cut a fresh track drop your jump dog on the track and when the coyote gets tired you drop the kill dogs at least thats the way he does it and you cant argue with the results.


heres jerry with a good days results.



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Orson
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Originally Posted By: Va_Coyote_KillerThere is nothing better than hearing and seeing the dogs barking with every breath as they are running a deer or coyote. There are those people that say hunting with dogs isn't sporting. Most of them have never hunted with dogs. It's easy to shoot a deer while still hunting as the deer stands on the edge of a field or walks slowly past your stand. Try shooting a deer that's running as fast as he can with a pack of dogs not far behind him. You better be able to shoulder that gun and shoot fast, you will only see him for a second. I don't want to start up the dog/no dog arguement but don't knock it till ya try it!!!

Ive ran hounds all my life..and i agree with your post...somewhat..
ive judged small pack and large pack spo...and i was always on the hounds...i seen who made the check..and the dog that picked it up..like i said i was on them..at the end of the day my face and ears were tore up as much as the winning hounds tail..and my winners pack always pushed a rabbit...

ran coon hounds for 12 years with my grandfather,and his friends from here in PA.and wv. nearly every other night or so..and ran my beagles up to 10pm..before going coon hunting..he passed away and i just ran beagles for the next 29 years until i contracted lyme disease...which made it kinda haed to keep up with the hounds...

when i was a kid 9 years old the hounds hit there first bobcat..we sewed some hounds up that night...lol

we would turn out fox hounds build a big fire ...wait..then go head off the hounds...that was before the day of tracking collars..like the one gentleman said..you were days sometimes getting back a dog..




BUT..I also know 2 different guys who tryed calling for 2 to 5 years and never seen a PA.coyote..bought hounds...and kill 10 to 20 a year here in Pa....And if there dogs hit trash..if not for the collars would be gone because neither could run through the woods to head them off..and give them a good lumpin..

And they didnt make there hounds they have money...thats the only way..because there not smart enough to make and break a good yote hound..

but many guys buy them because they couldnt call in a coyote..or make a yote hound..so for years they dont kill any yotes then kill 10 to 20 a year...Is it easier..yes..the numbers prove it..

a caller goes from stand to stand sits in the cold..walks miles some nights calling...and probably has to go out every night in 3 years to call and kill 10 PA...coyote..

you put some good hounds on a track that you find riding around in a nice warm truck...you got a 75 percent chance of killing it...with electronics..and even a spare set of hounds..

So if youve ran hounds for 30 years and called for 10 the answer is clear....look at the numbers..

Thats just my opinion..i no many see it different..but when i keep seeing post saying it is harder...when ive put miles upon miles chaceing and breaking hounds for 30 years..and calling for 10..i think i can give hunters a clear answer..
 


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