Here is a new twist on Coyote hunting. The ambush!

Pack_Wolf

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I'm relaying a story told by a true friend and straight shooter.( no BS)
The coyotes are thick where he is doing this, and they are hard to call and hunt. Out in the country with the 5-20 acre spreads begining to pop up. Mostly closed to hunting.
He took a week of this month and just carved out a couple of yuccas, and using his Gillie suit, tucked himself in along a well used trail. No calling. Sat all day and killed 11 yotes by ambush.
I've thought about that style of hunting before, but was never eager to try it because I didn't think it would work well. I'm not an all day sitter either. But come to think about it, most of the yotes I called last year were already in the area, and may have shown up if I would have just looked for them with out calling.
So what does the camp feel about this? Has anyone used this method?
I know a few spots that I could leave some fish oil and get them crusing by on their way to hunt the farm fields. It could be ambush heaven! Har!

Pack
 
What's the fun of that? The thrill is in choosing a correct stand site, fooling them with calls, then making a well placed shot as they come to the call with that hungry look in their eye. To me personally, what you're proposing would be like ground shooting quail, or shooting a gobbler off the roost. I mean if your friend is happy with it, that's well and fine, good for him and his success. I'd be happier calling them in... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
GC,
There comes a time when thse predators need to be removed. They have been problems for their dogs and livestock in that area. They have not been able to call them in.
It was just a novel approach. I am not proposing anything, just wanted to have a discussion. I thought it was effecient however.

There must be some reason we bust them when we see them calling or not, and you know we do.

Pack
 
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What's the fun of that? The thrill is in choosing a correct stand site, fooling them with calls, then making a well placed shot as they come to the call with that hungry look in their eye. To me personally, what you're proposing would be like ground shooting quail, or shooting a gobbler off the roost. I mean if your friend is happy with it, that's well and fine, good for him and his success. I'd be happier calling them in... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif



That logic is flawed.....Hardly compares to shooting a covey on the ground or a gobbler on the roost.....
 
If these problem coyotes are so thick and troublesome then I would make some serious traplines (if legal), Those work 24/7.

Snares too.

I don't see it as efficient ast traps, but it does sound novel.
 
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Eleven coyotes in one day by sitting in bushes and whackin em as they walk by?? WOW. I know you say he's your friend and a straight shooter and all, BUT man that is one heck of a feat if it's indeed true. Speaking only for myself, that's one of those things I'd have to see to believe.
 
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Eleven coyotes in one day by sitting in bushes and whackin em as they walk by?? WOW. I know you say he's your friend and a straight shooter and all, BUT man that is one heck of a feat if it's indeed true. Speaking only for myself, that's one of those things I'd have to see to believe.



+1

I say one of three things:

1) An amazing stroke of luck
2) A big fish story
3) The highest concentration of coyotes I've ever seen.
 
Not one day,..A week. I'm beginning to think I should not have posted this. It wasn't meant to be something from Ripley's.

I have witnessed lots of coyotes hunting in the fields around there, and there is no hunting in most of the areas.
Lots of coyotes there.

Lets just go calling.

Pack
 
That's a lot of coyotes alright.

The more interesting slant of this thread is that there are apparently coyote hunters and coyote callers, kind of like fishermen and then folks who fly fish only.

For me, calling is just a tool to use in hunting. Though I use it on every kind of critter I hunt, and it has become my most fun way to hunt anything, it is still only one of the ways to get it done.

I started hunting coyotes by still hunting, walking slow and hunting them like deer, sometimes jump shooting them from a clump of brush in the head of a draw, etc. Also spot and stalk and did some successful drives on coyotes. I did some early morning ambushes by just sitting in a good place like your friend says, but I never stayed more than an hour at most. Also did some impromptu ambushes when I'd see a travelling yote, get ahead of him and set up an ambush where he was heading.

We were selling the fur and weren't particular about how we got the shot. Oh, shot some over dead beef and horses also. Discovered calling by the end of my teens and have killed way more calling than all the other ways combined but I enjoy them all.

In the small cut up land parcels, calling them off a posted property to where you can shoot still makes sense as well.
 
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If your friend had the dedication to sit in a bush, wearing a ghillie suit for a week, to kill 11 coyotes, I say he's a dedicated hunter. Anybody hating on him for his tactics should try it sometime and see how long before they give up and pack it in. In my opinion, there's a difference between calling a coyote into maximum rifle range and busting him at 250 yards just before he bolts on you and keeping alert on an ambush site and killing him point-blank as he wanders by. The skill required (other than calling skill) ain't even in the same ballpark.

But that's just my own personal opinion, keep running the guy down. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Personally, I would rather spot/stalk them. Rather than waiting for them to come by. I could see that tactic working well, if you know the local's & their routines/behaviors.

I know a coyote hunter, who often hunts with his Son or friend. He sometimes use's the tactic, of pushing the coyote towards the shooter. He knows his terrain & coyote's behavior very well. Not to mention, he's a very good shot.

Coyotes, that are very reluctant to be called. I hear ya.
 
I don't see anything wrong with his tactic. If it works for him, then go for it. Just another style of hunting. Do you think the coyote passes up an ambush opportunity when he is out hunting, or does he only eat if he can make a spot/stalk for his kill?

This is a predator hunting site, not just for predator calling. We all get more thrill by calling one in and killing it at close range, but there are more than one way to skin a cat. I see plenty of videos where guys are calling out west and "call them in" to 200 yards and shoot them. I would say ambushing one at 20 yards is a lot more exciting than shooting one from 200 yards that you called in. But to each his own as they are fun to hunt/kill no matter how you go about it.
 
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I don't see anything wrong with his tactic. If it works for him, then go for it. Just another style of hunting. Do you think the coyote passes up an ambush opportunity when he is out hunting, or does he only eat if he can make a spot/stalk for his kill?

This is a predator hunting site, not just for predator calling. We all get more thrill by calling one in and killing it at close range, but there are more than one way to skin a cat. I see plenty of videos where guys are calling out west and "call them in" to 200 yards and shoot them. I would say ambushing one at 20 yards is a lot more exciting than shooting one from 200 yards that you called in. But to each his own as they are fun to hunt/kill no matter how you go about it.




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Very well said. I was going to post a response but this is better than what I would have said. A 20 yard ambush would be pretty intense in my book.


CalCoyote
 
Having moved back to this new location, and talking with local coyote hunters, they are almost 95% Roadhunters. Driving back roads, around dairy's, chasing down dogs, then jump out and pop them at all sorts of distances. I'm not into that myself, as I prefer calling and my low success ratio proves it, but still to each his own.
 
I don't see anything wrong with that tactic either. I use to sit in a treestand all day long to basically ambush a buck. It takes dedication to sit that long, wish I still could sit all day in one place but can't now.
 
I don't think that I have the patience to sit all day waiting for a coyote to wander by. However, if I did, I am sure that I would learn a lot more about yotes than I do now, especially if I wasn't in a hurry to shoot them at the first chance.

I know that sitting in my treestands (never more than 2-3 hours at a time), watching whitetails up close and personal, has taught me more than chasing them around the woods on foot.
 
ditto what Okanagan said. Calling is the best but I've done most of them all. If you've got snow and a few friends, a drive(push) is a nice change and will get the blood pumping too. You'll find dumb,smart, and genius coyotes that way.
 
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