Jackpot Nevada Hunt 12-25-11=1 coyote Kill

Originally Posted By: Jack19592011Originally Posted By: H82MissFor the record, I have no clue where Worcestershire county is and I've NEVER played cricket.

Sorry man I just didn't know what that meant. lol
I'm not much into competition with coyotes unless they temp probe the coyotes or at least have lie detectors available. Had some bad experiences with coyote calling contests. Maybe this one is different but decided I would never enter another one again.

Yes they do temp check yotes in this one and the have a professional come in to do the lie detector. If you place in the top 3 you will get the lie detector. And then from there if more is neded it is at the judges discretion. There is big money on the line in this contest. I will be there next year.
 
Originally Posted By: Brendan43I took the Big Dog in the Idaho Classic back in January in the Three Creek area. I found out at the weigh in what's wrong with the area. I was talking to a guy whose dad runs cattle in the area. He said they aerial gun that area hard. I've hunted that area HARD at least 3 times in the past year making better than a dozen stands per day. Doing everything right, we pull on average 1 dog a day out of the area. I do better than that close to town. Not worth the drive.

They used to do that a lot down there in the 70's as well brendan but back then they hardly made a dent in the coyote population and I was still pulling 30 to 50 coyotes a week out of that area trapping. I had over 500 leg-holds not counting snares spread all the way from Salmon Dam to Jarbidge Nevada. We had a house trailer that we kept at Three Creek Ranch back then. I trapped south in the mountains there as well. I think also because of the big fire several years ago it hurt the coyote population. That all used to be tall sagebrush and excellent coyote hunting down there. I spotlighted down there when it was legal and I had a ball. You never seen so many coyotes in your whole life.
 
There used to be some great spots to shoot rock chucks also around salmon falls. I have been there for quite sometime though.
 
Originally Posted By: BOBTAILSOriginally Posted By: Jack19592011Originally Posted By: H82MissFor the record, I have no clue where Worcestershire county is and I've NEVER played cricket.

Sorry man I just didn't know what that meant. lol
I'm not much into competition with coyotes unless they temp probe the coyotes or at least have lie detectors available. Had some bad experiences with coyote calling contests. Maybe this one is different but decided I would never enter another one again.

Yes they do temp check yotes in this one and the have a professional come in to do the lie detector. If you place in the top 3 you will get the lie detector. And then from there if more is neded it is at the judges discretion. There is big money on the line in this contest. I will be there next year.

Well that is cool. Anytime you have contests where winning money or prizes you have cheaters and I got spoiled on contests years back. I would enter everyone that was around until I seen how some were winning the contests running them down on snow machines and some came in with definate trap marks on the legs. I said thats it for me. It was supposed to be strictly calling and shooting not running them down. I am glad to hear that they are doing this and stick by probing them. Most of the others had some of this in place but would still do nothing. I have hunted coyotes all my life but when people come in now days with 10 to 12 coyotes in one day a person has to scratch his head and you see them unloading the coyotes from a trailer loaded with snow machines...you just go hmmmmmm.
 
That is one [beeep] of a day and a half. Dam good calling or they knew all the hot areas. That doesn't happen very often. What was second place?
 
wow...I guess I am still in the little league then. I have called in a lot but never shot 17 coyotes in a day and half. Most I ever got in one day was 5 calling. Never another day where I got more then that.
 
Originally Posted By: Jack19592011wow...I guess I am still in the little league then. I have called in a lot but never shot 17 coyotes in a day and half. Most I ever got in one day was 5 calling. Never another day where I got more then that.

I'm in that same league with you. I guess I just like to run with the big dogs sometimes. I have got 7 once before and felt like I was on fire. And that was from when I could barely see til I could barely see after the sun went down.
 
Yes I know that feeling. Calling and killing coyotes is a fun game but my ultimate thing is also being in the wild and seeing new places and just being free to do whatever you want to do out there without someone bugging you. I love the outdoors and this is only one more excuse for me to be out there doing what I like until they take our freedom away from us.
 
Going home with more than a few dogs in the truck is a rarity for me. If I get 1, I'm happy- as long as I didn't hunt dawn to dusk. I think this place gets hammered no matter where you go. I was 25 miles southeast of Grasmere the other day, and I think we were actually in Nevada- all on a dirt road. We saw a coyote while driving at about 300-350 yards. When I slowed down, he hauled a$$ and kept going until he reached some creek willows. All the way out there a dog acting like that. I think it all gets hammered out here.
 
I think it is that way all over Brendan. I have never seen so many callers out working the areas where I never saw callers before. You wouldn't think Grasmere and that area would get hit that hard but I think people are not doing as good closer to their home turf so they are ranging out farther and farther to get dogs.
 
2 in one day is our record. We're not quite in the same league with the guys that get 10/day. Doesn't matter to us, we're just out having fun.
I agree with Brendan, all the areas around here get hammered. No matter where you go, the coyotes are educated. There are so many people out calling these days. Its a big state, but it doesn't take much to educate a coyote. This year we have made much longer drives and finally got in some areas that have given us a little success.
 
How would you like to be a coyote? lol You know used to the Fish & Game would never take control of the coyote population and would never devastate the coyotes into extinction and I believe they never will but with the amount of hunters out there they have to be putting a dent in the population compared what it used to be. Then you put the Parvo, mange and other factors into the equation I would hate to be a coyote.
 
Yep I have some spots in northern Nevada that are honey holes, at least to me. Places in the past I have called over 20 coyotes in 2.5 days and this October we killed 11 in three days ( and that was with 2 different groups of guys ) and some of those were amongst the wariest coyotes I have ever seen . And its like grasmere. It is in literally nowhere.
 
I have gone to very remote areas in search of coyote hunting paradise thinking nobody in their right mind would venture out this far, only to find spent .223 casings on the ground. Unbelievable! Coyote hunters are a weird bunch and truly know no bounds. Its a powerful addiction for sure.
 
Yes for sure. I have moved on down into Nevada from where I live and I keep moving farther south into Nevada every time I go. I have shot many from these new spots but man it is getting farther and farther away from home. I was out about a month ago and I made about 7 calls and killed two coyotes. I was 9 and half miles from my pickup with the Polaris ranger and it was 5 pm when I went back to my ranger. I climbed in and hit the starter switch which did nothing. The battery was dead. I looked at the GPS and as the crow flies was what I said above. I didn't have cell phone coverage so I knew If I took the trails and roads I had been on it was farther so I started walking cross country in the dark. I have a survival pack I carry with me all the time and had a couple of flashlights one on my head and another hand held one. I made it a few miles over the mountains and at about 1 am I decided to stay there until morning. I found a rock pile and built me a fire with flint and steel as my matches were damp and didn't work, and wrapped up in my survival blanket. It was one cold a ss night and I had to keep going to get more firewood. One of the longest nights in my life. Next morning when I could hardly see I walked more and finally got on a mountain where I had cell phone coverage. Had a friend bring me up a battery with his four wheeler. He took me back in where we put the battery in.
 
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