live decoys

True Story, I live in a no-shoot neighborhood......we were seeing a coyote daily...thinking " oh how cute"...until one day it had one of my cats in its mouth....1000 bucks later I got my cat back from the vet.

I found out from fish and game....this coyote was eating all of the cats in the neighborhood.
We had another cat "Rocky" one of those no fear cats that could tell you when the coyote was around. I set Rocky up on a stump out back, a willing participant, waiting for the coyote to make his rounds...Rocky went code red and sure enough here comes the coyote for the bait. I shot the coyote with a pellet rifle at @ 35 yards..and that was last we saw of that coyote. Rocky stayed on the stump without jumping off, I wish I had it on video.
 
I tried taking my sister-in-law, but she just scared the coyotes to death. She's a BMU graduate.

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Use a chicken - take a rope and tie it to its leg and the other end a block or metal stake and put it out in the open. Chicken will do its job ... at least in theory.



I prefer to use those blue chickens from Kansas. Some people call them Jayhawks! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Just kidding. I enjoyed the game Monday night, though the outcome will probably be different in Allen Fieldhouse.

My wife has too many laying hens. I keep threatening to make some chicken soup, but she will have none of it. This may be a good time to try the decoy route. I had a man tell me once that if you hang one by the leg from a tree limb and get it swinging on the end of a rope, the noise they make will wake the dead. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif I think I'll stick with the upright chicken tied to a rock.

Bob, that's just wrong!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Back in the 50's when I lived in Los Angeles we decided to buy 6 chickens to stock in the local foothills so we could hunt them with our bows and arrows. We bought the chickens and put out some chicken scratch for them to eat and on Saturday got up at the crack of dawn to go hunting, there where 4 chickens clucking and eating the scratch and 2 piles of feathers left by the coyotes that ate them. We ended our hunt early.
 
I think it would work. Problem is it is the hard way to do things.There is not any magic tricks that you are missing. Calling is the closest you get to making predators appear and disappear if you do your part right!
bbsnowman- I will give you a deal-10 cats for $1000 /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif I'll pay the shipping! Jeez thats almost a new AR! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif
 
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I mean you could call like normal, but instead of putting a decoy out, you could use the rabbit as your decoy.



I'm thinking of 4 serious problems that would make decoys more practical:

1. legality, illegal most places and murky many others it seems

2. ruling out bycatch/kill--bunny decoy is fine but an owl could swoop down and kill it on you just as easily then you have no decoy again

3. difficulty securing live animal decoys

4. live decoys only move when they want to; a frozen rabbit motionless is no decoy at all where you can make artificial decoys move......


lots of cons and I still don't see any actual pro in using a live one /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
How about to keep it moving just hook up a 12 volt battery to its nutz. LOL
Funny how some people make this coyote hunting harder then it really is.
 
Look, every time somebody brings this up there are those people that think omg this is terrible! Anyone who has ever put a worm or minnow on a fishing hook never thinks twice about that, and you kill that bait, so what is the big deal if you were to tie a rabbit or chicken to a stake and use it as bait? It doesn't harm the animal they are just not used to being leashed so they flail around and make attracting noises for predators. Same for fishing bait, it is not used to being stabbed completely through so they wriggle wildly attracting predatory fish. Perfectly legal and perfectly ethical IMO.
 
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Futuristic alien race...

“I don't see it as cruel. Humans by instinct flail about if tied or hindered in any way. Ever pick one up by the "feet"? They are not harmed if used as bait(tying their leg shouldn't hurt them), well if you can shoot the predator before they can get to them that is. You could theoretically bait with a human then take it home to the coop and do it as many times as you wanted.
I've never done this but I have thought about it.

Qualar from Planet P”

Just think about it!

TinT




Looks like some people have too much time on their hands. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
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Futuristic alien race...

“I don't see it as cruel. Humans by instinct flail about if tied or hindered in any way. Ever pick one up by the "feet"? They are not harmed if used as bait(tying their leg shouldn't hurt them), well if you can shoot the predator before they can get to them that is. You could theoretically bait with a human then take it home to the coop and do it as many times as you wanted.
I've never done this but I have thought about it.

Qualar from Planet P”

Just think about it!

TinT




Looks like some people have too much time on their hands. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif



http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humor

TinT
 
a normal functioning bodily semifluid or fluid (as the blood or lymph) b: a secretion (as a hormone) that is an excitant of activity??? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif




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a normal functioning bodily semifluid or fluid (as the blood or lymph) b: a secretion (as a hormone) that is an excitant of activity??? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif




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Umm... I think I ment this...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humor

TinT
 
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I prefer to use those blue chickens from Kansas. Some people call them Jayhawks! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Just kidding. I enjoyed the game Monday night, though the outcome will probably be different in Allen Fieldhouse.





gggeeerrrrrrruuuuummmmmpppppphhhhh

KU had been on a roll and I figured MU would knock them off. Good for them - keeps them humble. No matter what anyone says - MU/KU games are always good, generally no matter who wins.

As for the blue chicken ... you know there have been rumors of people coming to KS and wanting to go bird watching in hopes of seeing that blue bird.
 
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a normal functioning bodily semifluid or fluid (as the blood or lymph) b: a secretion (as a hormone) that is an excitant of activity??? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif




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Umm... I think I ment this...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humor

TinT




ha ha i know i was being a smart [beeep] /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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