Do you enjoy watching thermal videos?

I got my start only hunting on snow under a bright moon for fox. Had a blast doing it, but it really limited the times you could hunt. My "mentor" was totally against using lights. I can't say as I blamed him for the lighting technology of the time. Anyway, I tried my hand at just calling at dawn and dusk when we didn't have snow and/or the moon. I called a total of two gray fox in daylight. As my passion grew and coyotes became my obsession I was bound and determined to figure out day calling for coyotes here in Central NY. A humbling experience to say the least! I have killed a handful of "called" daylight coyotes over the years. Like maybe 5 or 6. I have killed a few during daylight hours simply as targets of opportunity.

I have seen the most coyotes out hunting during the day during our spring turkey season in May when our season is closed. Feeding pups and nobody throwing constant calls out and boogering them up at every turn if I have to guess.

I've said it before, I hunt nights almost exclusively now. I feel like I'm just educating them and messing up my spots by calling during the daylight. I do have a couple spots that the landowner just isn't comfortable allowing access at night. I don't sweat trying in those spots, but success hasn't been great. One property has yielded exactly 3 of my 5 or 6 in over 25 years of calling that property. Maybe I just haven't put in the time to learn how to call them in the daylight? ;) I'll keep trying I guess. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally.

I should mention that many of my property owners want me to kill them by whatever means possible. As a caller, my best chance of keeping these property owners happy is at night. Most of them don't care about the videos either, but they want to know when I kill them.
 
YoteslayerWA said:
North, south, east, west, it makes no difference. Coyotes have to eat and breed no matter where you live.
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Reminds me of a guy out West telling me the same exact thing about turkeys. He was humbled in 3 States in the East. Guess after the first two humblings he thought the third would be the charm. Said he spent close to $1000 for licenses and tags and those tags didn’t taste anywhere as good as a turkey.
I’ve tried daytime coyotes unsuccessfully. Heck most of my nights are unsuccessful. The places I have access to just don’t have the numbers. It’s my fault for trapping and night hunting them so I have no one to blame but myself. We don’t have 365 public land to hunt like out West, so that’s out of the question. I do a few free predator removals (trapping) just to build trust with landowners in hopes of getting to call for coyotes. Now I’m not saying the places I have access to don’t have any coyotes, they just don’t make noises or leave tracks if they’re there.
 
Spurchaser said:
...... Said he spent close to $1000 for licenses and tags and those tags didn’t taste anywhere as good as a turkey.
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:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

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You guys are breaking my heart. I do it all for you...

But seriously, I myself don't care much for coyote videos, day or night, if it's just a kill shot. As a hunter, I want to know what the stand was actually like. What sounds were used? What's the wind doing? How did the coyotes react? That's why I take the time to edit and narrate my videos. I figure I'm not the only one that wants to experience the hunt and try to learn from it.
 
SupressYourself said:
You guys are breaking my heart. I do it all for you...

But seriously, I myself don't care much for coyote videos, day or night, if it's just a kill shot. As a hunter, I want to know what the stand was actually like. What sounds were used? What's the wind doing? How did the coyotes react? That's why I take the time to edit and narrate my videos. I figure I'm not the only one that wants to experience the hunt and try to learn from it.
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I thoroughly enjoy your posts!!
 
SupressYourself said:
You guys are breaking my heart. I do it all for you...

But seriously, I myself don't care much for coyote videos, day or night, if it's just a kill shot. As a hunter, I want to know what the stand was actually like. What sounds were used? What's the wind doing? How did the coyotes react? That's why I take the time to edit and narrate my videos. I figure I'm not the only one that wants to experience the hunt and try to learn from it.
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I enjoy your videos also, but not everyone lives out west where it takes 15 minutes for a coyote to come in after it's spotted and you have time to talk about the weather, wind direction and what you had for lunch.
SJC
 
I thought thermal hunting was going to be so fun and it can be, but it kinda feels like cheating in my opinion, so much more enjoyable and a challenge to call coyotes in , in the daytime, so after a while the thermal videos kinda seem like watching a video game unfold
 
Video game appearance comes up often, and I understand the reference. I enjoy thermal hunting. I do not enjoy video games.

With so many young kids (and even adults :rolleyes: ) addicted to video games these days, maybe we should embrace thermal technology and get these poor souls out of the house! Lets show all the gamers thermal hunting videos and invest in saving the future! :ROFLMAO:
 
Minority opinion I guess but I prefer the short thermal videos posted by our amateur videographers as opposed to the long daytime videos generally produced. In almost all other aspects I'm a long form content consumer.

As to recording my own, it's primarily about reviewing when the shot broke before recovery. If things didn't go as initially expected I like to have a clearer idea of what I might be dealing with. When things go wrong I'm following up in crotch deep slough brush and sorting things out at the close end of a shotgun barrel.
 
jamieMN said:
I thought thermal hunting was going to be so fun and it can be, but it kinda feels like cheating in my opinion, so much more enjoyable and a challenge to call coyotes in , in the daytime, so after a while the thermal videos kinda seem like watching a video game unfold
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When it works it is great but there are many stretches of NIGHTS that might add up to DOZENS of sets with no critters of any kind seen—so cheating, i dont think so.
 
jamieMN said:
I thought thermal hunting was going to be so fun and it can be, but it kinda feels like cheating in my opinion, so much more enjoyable and a challenge to call coyotes in , in the daytime, so after a while the thermal videos kinda seem like watching a video game unfold
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I'll agree that hunting in the daytime is more of a rush, but night hunting isn't nearly as easy as some make it out to be.
I was out last night in a target rich environment. We shot 7, but probably twice that many were spotted but didn't cooperate. If it was really like cheating, we would have killed 20+.
 
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