Do coyotes use dens during the winter???

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MNpurple1

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I found what I think are a few coyotes dens during deer season and wanted to do some calling around them in hopes of bringing them out of their dens, but I just read somewhere that once the pups are old enough to leave the den, it is no longer used and coyotes just bed and sleep in brush like deer do. Is this true, will the dens be vacant and worthless to call to?
MNpurple
 
Very rarely will a coyote use a den in winter. They prefer clearcuts and brush piles. sometimes late winter and early spring you will see them venturing around hollow logs and dens.
 
MNpurple1...if the den seems active, its probibly a fox den and not a coyote....just check the den and see if the dirt is fresh, if it is, something is in there /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif .....if you call it, dont sit within sight of it...be a couple hundred yards away and give it a try....good luck

SHOOT STRAIGHT!!!!
 
I was told on a calling tape that they don't use the den after the pups are so old. I have found that they like to hide in the open culverts on the dredge ditches in Ia. The fox used to ,too but I think the coyotes stopped that when they took over. I was thinking a bracket attatched to the tube could keep the coyotes out and let the fox hide from them in the culvert.KY
 


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