Hound Hunters in Michigan

bryanstanley

Hey where are you from I live in Yale MI a little northwest of Port Huron I also have a cabin in Port Hope so I kinda have the Thumb area covered. I run Walkers I only have four of them for right now but will be getting more I have a few friends that live near by that I run with. We try to run every weekend. If you want to watch a real good run it would be better to wait for a little snow but would be glad to try and show you some hound work.
 
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bryanstanley

Hey where are you from I live in Yale MI a little northwest of Port Huron I also have a cabin in Port Hope so I kinda have the Thumb area covered. I run Walkers I only have four of them for right now but will be getting more I have a few friends that live near by that I run with. We try to run every weekend. If you want to watch a real good run it would be better to wait for a little snow but would be glad to try and show you some hound work.


Welcome to the PM forums! I saw this thread and had to hop in to ask what game are you using the hounds for down in the thumb. Are you primarily 'coon? Do you have bear in that area, too?
 
All we run is coyote. I used to have coon hounds but got into running yote's about a year and a half ago and fell in love with that. It is a lot faster paced and more challenging. You dont catch one every time out but hopefully you can hear a good race at least. We do not shoot the coyote in front of the dogs we let the dogs catch them like Vargy49 and Mo do. Where are you from perferator? We run up north alot also may be in your area sometime
 
redneckfireman
I live in Mussey just a few miles north from capac. I would love to come on a hunt and see what it is like. I have a few places around me to hunt, but not sure if the land owners would let me run dogs seeing as how most of the tracts of lands are 200 acres and less.
 
bryanstanley
You have a good point. it takes alot of home work to run hounds!! on days that i dont run like its blowing to hard or to cold alot of times i just drive and knock on doors.
There is always a few that say no but most let you in when you are hunting yotes. there is times the hounds get on unwanted land. I dont shoot so there is no law broken unless the hounds are bothering livstock.

Vargy
 
BryanStanley,

I hunt with some guys who run hounds for coyotes around Port Hope also but they only hunt on days that end in y's.

Seriously if there is snow on the ground once the muzzleloader season is over they are at it full time. They are about 5-6 groups of pretty serious hound hunters around here and most of them kind of have their own territories.
 
Here in MI the way the laws are setup dogs are not trespassing if they follow a coyote off of the original property you have permission to hunt. I understand that this could make a lot of land owners upset but unfortunately this day in age is something you have to deal with especially with everyone moving out from the city to the country. Just to prove this point where used to live I grew up on 80 ac. we used to shoot skeet just about every weekend and as of the time I moved to buy my own house we had the police out 13 times because the neighbors (that moved out there from detroit) were afraid for thier lives because of the gun shots. Now not to get off subject but I have run into a group of those guys in port hope son of rocky they were dropping dogs directly off the road onto my property this group thought that they owned every piece of property in the city and were not very pleasant to deal with at all and that is what give hound hunters a bad name. Most of the time I do not have a problem getting permission to hunt an area once you tell the land owners that you are coyote hunting. The main thing to watch out for is main roads I travel capac road every day and would not want to run dogs any where near there people on average travel 65-70 mph wicoyote if you go on vargy's site I am on there also with the same screen name you will see a bunch of us MI boys from time to time
sorry for the long post everyone but had to make my point
 
redneckfireman
I travel capac road every day myself, if your not going light speed your getting passed, even on armada center or north ave it is the same thing.
 
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All we run is coyote. I used to have coon hounds but got into running yote's about a year and a half ago and fell in love with that. It is a lot faster paced and more challenging. You dont catch one every time out but hopefully you can hear a good race at least. We do not shoot the coyote in front of the dogs we let the dogs catch them like Vargy49 and Mo do. Where are you from perferator? We run up north alot also may be in your area sometime


From up in charlevoix! I've seen a group of dog guys going over to beaver island one time so I know they hunt over there. We have a good sized group of guys that run dogs here....local guys that know most folk so they dont mind letting us run across their land. All is needed is a VHF tuned in to their channel. The only rules are dont let the dogs cross a road without someone stopping traffic and dont shoot the dog. We use .22LR's due to the number of houses that seem to just pop up when a coyote crosses your front. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

It's an exciting way to hunt and a blast when you get the buds together. Sometimes we dont get much and sometimes 4-6 in a morning. I'd like to be out there with them more but I'm not one of those that get laid off in the winter.
 
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same thing here basically we are all in it for the friends we make I have met a lot of good people running dogs we just enjoy letting the hounds work we dont get as many as the people that shoot the yotes but we did manage to get 47 last year. I have nothing against people who shoot in front of dogs but I love the sound of a good race. I have ran once with people who will jump a yote on the west side of a woodlot and 2 minutes later when it come out on the east side they shoot it to me I would rather let the dogs work but hey to each thier own.
And Bryan I know exactly what you mean about the traffic I grew up on Armada Center @ True Rd.
 
redneckfireman,

look me up some time, heck we are practically neighbors. If you run into the group I hunt with you should give them a chance. You will probably find guys with better dogs but you'll never find a friendler bunch of hunters.

let it snow.

Rocky
 
Son of Rocky
Where are you from? I am sure you guys are a great group as a matter of fact I have found most hound guys are. I just had a real bad experience with these other guys and it just soured me a little. If they would have been a little more civilized I would have not had a problem with them but their holier than thou attitude just burned me the wrong way. Let me know when you guys are running some time I would love to meet up and see some new country and meet some new people you can get a hold of me any time at 586-531-3568 just ask for Nick
 
Perferator
I believe I have actually run up in your area before out by walloon lake not sure I spelled that correctly over by boyne we caught a few up there last winter when the snow was about 3.5' deep If I know when I am going to be up there next I will try and give you a shout. Sometimes I am not sure where I will be until I get there.
 
redneckfireman,

I'm from Harbor Beach. Just south of Port Hope. The only thing that might turn some people off about our group is the size of it on weekends, But that is just because we won't exclude anyone who likes to hunt. I suppose it's just natural that there's going to be a certain amount of competition between groups but put them in the same room together and their all talking hounds and having a good time. The guy I hunt with has abut 3-4 shop parties a year and half the coyote hunters in the thumb are there every time.

Bryanstanley,

sorry to hyjack your thread. Somehow we got off track, my fault. If you would like to hunt with us you could come as my guest PM me.

Rocky
 
Bryan
I am not sure if we are going to go to the pen friday now or not they are calling for a 70 percent chance of thunderstorms and that aint no fun to hunt in. Also depending on how much rain we get Saturday may be up in the air because the area we hunt floods real fast and the coyotes seems to move out of the area until it dries out again.

Son of Rocky
I meant to ask you if you know Ken Craig he is from Port Austin he just bought a dog out of the same blood as mine. I figure that Port Hope area would be a good area for running yotes I could always hear em when I was deer hunting and gut piles dont stay around long either. Just curious do you guys shoot the yote's or do you run to catch? Doesn't matter just wondering though
see ya nick
 
Not a problem Nick. If all else fails I can try to go after a lame doe that needs to be taken care of. She has been at the backyard feeder for the last several nights with a bullet wound I think from ML season.
 


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