Coyote Hunting in Pouring rain?

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KC Coyote Hunter

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I want to hunt Saturday evening....(tomorrow)

It's looking like heavy rain is in the forecast here south of KC. I don't mind getting wet, but I think the coyotes will be holed up and doing their best to stay dry.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on Coyote hunting during rain....... I think it's common sense, but I could be wrong!! I am a noob, please give me every break possible. LOL

penny for your thoughts...
 
im staying home and loading some ammo. its gonna rain for the next 4-5 days here. i have all winter to hunt. good luck if you do get out.
 
I might just be getting old, but cold and wet isn't as much fun as it used to be. I'd stay home and clean guns or maybe go knocking on some doors in an attempt to get more hunting ground. Or do some scouting from the truck and Google Earth. All kinds of options of things to do that are coyote hunting related without getting wet.
 
I love to call coyotes, but I can think of several things I would rather do indoors while it's raining out.
Drinking with buddies or sex with my wife top the list.
 
I live in the PNW you hunt in the rain or you don't hunt, we get 77+" from Oct to June. I hunt ducks in the rain and wait for light drizzle to hunt preds.
 
Originally Posted By: AWSI live in the PNW you hunt in the rain or you don't hunt, we get 77+" from Oct to June. I hunt ducks in the rain and wait for light drizzle to hunt preds.

Well duck hunting, that's different. I actually prefer to hunt in the rain then. But here in the midwest, coyotes can wait. Light drizzle maybe, but not a pouring rain.
 
If you go you'll smell them if they're in the area. When I walk to my stand bow hunting after it rains I almost gag comming accross where one was bedded on my path.
 
If you think it will make a memory go for it. some of my favourite spots are where the getting there was rough and the weather was less than comfortable.
 
I do rain......... pretty sure tomorrow is a wash out.....if it's raining BULLETS.........probably isn't good.

My land owner is harvesting...
 
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I find that the only thing out getting wet is ME. So the older I get the more I like to stay dry. Light snow is a different story.
 
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Never killed a coyote calling in the rain. That doesn't mean you can't or won't , it could happen. I've called abit in the rain and never had success, haven't done it in years.
Like was said by Bear, snow is a different story. Light snow or a blizzard is great!
 
Many years ago, I had the stereo in the truck hooked up with a set of speakers under the hood. Since hunting on the leading edge of a low pressure system and during a low pressure system is the absolute best time to hunt coyotes, rain can become an issue.

So, the 100 amp Cassette tape deck in the truck had a toggle switch from inside speakers to two 8" outdoor speakers. We would sit in the truck, turn put a varmint calling cassette in the tape deck, sit with the windows cracked where we could see. Rolled down the windows to shoot.

Our favorite stand locations were in farming areas, and driving out on the beach shooting back towards the dunes. The areas in the State of Baja Norte were extremely remote. We never hunted like this in the States.

We were hunting in Mexico, 12 hours below the USA border, 1980's.

Another guy I hunted with in Mexico had a large van with a sliding door. He would put the caller under the truck, open the sliding door, and sit in the van with the sliding door open.

A guy in a wheel chair or disabled in states were legal could have good success with this method today.

We had good luck hunting in the rain and while it was snowing in particular, but we were in areas with very High numbers of coyotes.

If the barometric pressure is dropping, coyotes are going to move.

Walking out to make stands in light rain, I can handle, pouring down rain is another issue.

No where in the USA would it be legal to shoot from a vehicle, unless you have a handicap sticker...check state laws.

Too bad that Mexico has gone to the Cartels, it is a heck of a place to bass fish and call predators. Duck and quail hunting is fantastic also.
 
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Its been pouring in TX about every weekend and we have been getting some during the week. I work near the OK border and drive up on Sundays. So much water in the low ground hogs were out in plowed fields in broad daylight today driving up.
Shot a yote this AM bedded in the county road by the house, water had him on high ground. I don't mind the rain, but the mud is different. And your land owners are not going to like ruts in their roads either. All of which is hard on your gear.
I just tell the "lil lady" to get a good look at the carpet and the curtains on rain days.
 
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