Eastern Coyotes VS Western Coyotes

I didn't think you were trying to imply anything GC, and knew you were just being helpful. I had completely forgotten about Rich's video, as I bought it many moons ago. It's gotten buried in the pile.

The places I hunt the most are pretty wide open for Georgia. Big pastures and agricultural fields where a 100 yard shot is a close shot. I do have some brushy quail plantations to hunt where you really need a shotgun, but I usually reserve them for bobcat season. The main problem is our coyote #'s, which were never great, have been way down the last few years. Part of it is that I hunt spring and summer on the cattle places, so I can't complain to anybody but myself. The other parts are that we've been very wet those years and the heartworms are talking their toll.

Coyote heartworm thread

To top it off, we had a canine distemper and a parvo outbreak over there last spring. I used to call up gray fox on about every other stand, and I hardly ever shoot them since they're no threat to the cows. I saw two this past season and none the season before that. It may be coincidence, but the hogs began overrunning the place two years ago, to the point I've killed over 200 by just spot and stalk during daylight hours.
 
Speaking of heart worms. I got this nice male last october, while skinning it i could look into the exit wound and it looked like it was loaded with heart worms. No bueno.

it's not real common for us here in michigan to get shots past 100yds unless you hit the farm land. A lot of my properties are woods with small openings.
At night we will sit in open fields which works good except we are limited to rimfire and shotgun at night. Got to try to get them closer which is a challenge
 

Originally Posted By: Tbone-AZ I think your challenges are that you have limited ground, dense cover and Coyotes that don't want to leave that cover. Lastly you have other pressure.

Take all that into account, I hunted out in Virginia, and its harder, but like dating, you have to adjust your game and style to match the desires of the locals.

That pretty much says it. I'll add steep hillsides with laurel thickets that you can't walk through, too many houses even in the mountains, small parcels of land etc.

Coyote hunting in the east can be done. I've done it and killed a few, but it is really tough. Having "good property" to hunt is a real blessing back here. If a guy has access to it, he can do well enough. Otherwise he will more likely than not, be like me.

I am good friends with a PM member who lives in an ajoining state to me (in the east), and his area is full of coyotes. He has permission on some prime land, and has little to no hunting pressure. He takes several by calling as well as bait hunting. My area is totally different than his, about as opposite as you can get.

I enjoy hunting out west and would love to do another hunt sometime down the road. It's refreshing for me to see so many come to the call.
 
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