Coyotes and trucks

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Are coyote spooky with trucks, it would be really easy for me to setup in my pickup truck bed to hunt out of... just wondering?
 
Heck yeah they are. Especially after deer season when every Tom, [beeep], and Harry has been taking potshots at them for the last 2-3 months. We saw a yote that was easily 500-600 away saturday and when we stopped to glass it that bad boy hauled ARS to the next county without a hesitation. Spooky to say the least.
 
Heck no they ain't spooky of trucks.....not really, it all depends.
I've hunted from trucks for years day and night where it's legal. Killed tons of coyotes and other predators doing it that way.
Yes, some places coyotes run at the sight of a truck, other places they do not.
One thing for sure in this sport, there are no set rules and NOTHING holds true all the time. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
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I set up in a small creek bed I couldnt see the truck from my loacation, I set the call out about 50 yards on my side up wind of my location a coyote showed up and started toward the call he suddenly turned to leave but made the mistake of stopping for one last look. when I went to pick up the yote from where I killed it I could see the truck plain as day, it freaked him out.
 
YEAH thats an huge understatement around here

If they are still alive this time of year they have probably been shot at from the pickup by big game hunters deer,elk,antelope.

Up here nobody likes coyotes and most everybody is packing a rifle when they go to the hills
 
Some are spooked at a moving truck or one that stops.
However I have been calling them to the truck for some time. Just stop in a strategic place and let things settle. Don't overcall and keep your eyes peeled. I posted here Friday with pictures of one I called to within 167 yards then dropped it.
Often we will locate from the truck then drive closer for the set.
Is it as effective as walking, No, but for some it works. The closest call is 50 feet with kill and pics posted here. If it is legal try it. Good Luck
 
Usually yes,I was driving to my deer stand this year and spoted one about 300yds out in the field my stand is in,I stoped on the road pulled up my field glasses and watched it mousing for a while,it looked up and I swear the thing looked me right in the eye and bolted like its tail was on fire.
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Right now they aren't to spooky around here. But after the first snow every @#$%head from town will be out looking for them and after that when they see a truck they will be putting it into mach one. Last weekend the four wheelers were out in the fields big time. It's probably just a matter of time before the state has some free four wheelers. I heard the other day where some kids had gotten 15 all ready this year off them. Also heard that they have been spotted chasing deer. Friend of mine that deer hunts near there home turf said that when the deer hear any four wheeler they are out of there asap. But on the positive side, I thought that after the weekends activities that they would be in the cover and took one of my sons out . I posted the results monday with a pic.
 
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Some are spooked at a moving truck or one that stops.
However I have been calling them to the truck for some time. Just stop in a strategic place and let things settle. Don't overcall and keep your eyes peeled. I posted here Friday with pictures of one I called to within 167 yards then dropped it.
Often we will locate from the truck then drive closer for the set.
Is it as effective as walking, No, but for some it works. The closest call is 50 feet with kill and pics posted here. If it is legal try it. Good Luck



Tripod, Are you allowed to shoot from the truck?
I have a handicapped friend (double amputee Vietnam vet) that I take hunting and he has a permit from Game and Fish to shoot from the vehicle and he has great success!
Deer, elk, and coyotes have all been taken every year doing this.
 
Yes I have a permit to shoot from the vehicle too. Since I can't walk it really helps. Certainly doesn't give me full swing with the barrel but when the cold wind picks up I can roll the window up.
 
We get "drive bys" in the truck fairly often. Some yotes are smart and don't stop. Some never take off and just stare. Some run a ways and turn around to see what you are doing. You just never know.

Up until a few weeks ago, we probably would have never called from the truck, but it was raining. We successfully called in 4 coyotes from the truck. The first call we parked the truck in this little dig out and the coyotes came right on in to the call about 75 yards away. We got two of the three we called in.

The next one I hit with my AR, but he ran off after a pretty decent shot.

The next call we parked next to a tank and some corrals and this yote ran right up in between the call and the truck. I shot him about 30 yards away if that.
 
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Friend of mine that deer hunts near there home turf said that when the deer hear any four wheeler they are out of there asap.



+1 on 4-wheeler's. The (D)Beer Hunters in Texas all have these and I have sat on my hills and watched the deer moving away from the roads when the guys on neighboring ranches drive them around. 9 months a year these deer see 2 or 3 trucks and in November thousands are driving around in some kind of vehicle, ya think the deer notice? We talk about educating the predators, I do not know if most deer hunters in Texas get that correlation. It has not always been like this but it seems to be getting worse.
 
I think it does depend on where you are an if the yote has been shot at from a truck before. But even if they haven't they are naturally spooked by unatural things in their living space IMO. If they see your truck they know it is not part of the natural setting and will most likely boogie.
 
I have shot a lot of them from a Pick up with a tape deck blarring with a squeel of some kind. I like to stop in an area where I have visiblilty. there is not telling what kind of reaction you may have, whether close or far, running full speed or stopped looking over the top of a bush.

I do believe that a truck that is painted in an earth tone color vs a white is at a great advantage and if the chrome is muted in some way, things may go even better.

You will usually shoot yotes on the other side of 150 yards during the day when called into a pick up when hunting in the USA vs Mexico.

Only shoot out of a truck where it is legal or where you will not get caught.
 
in kansas you can shoot coyotes from a vehicle, i dont think it is a good idea myself, but the game warden says they are not classified as a game animal, so it is legal
 
If you're talking about hunting at night then no. Like Billy said, when it was legal to call from the bed of the truck I called and killed a few hundred cats, coyotes, foxes and badgers.

Daytime is a different story. This morning my wife and I were driving back from Portland and caught a coyote mousing in a field. We stopped and watched him for a good ten minutes and he paid us no attention. At other times I've seen a coyote like that and as soon as we slowed down he kicked it into afterburner. It just depends.
 
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