Newb looking for advice

Thundercat710

Thundercat710

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Greetings all,

Made a post last year or so about my AR build, otherwise nothing has been happening with my hunting. Working 70hrs a week, bills, family, life, etc. I want to fix that and go on my first hunt by the end of this year.

I live at the footsteps of the Coastal range in Oregon, just NW of Portlandia. A lot of folks talk about doing their coyote hunting out in Eastern Oregon but I don't have the time to trek all the way out there.

Where I'm at it's all private land with crappy BLM patches here and there. Someone I know suggested I get a permit from Weyerhaeuser to hunt on their property, so I got that - it's on-foot only, the motorized were sold out. I don't know if this link will work, but here's the map of the permit grounds:


My questions for you all are the following:

- How far apart should stands be?
- Should I plan on traipsing around these hills with the rifle on my bog deathgrip tripod? It looks like that's how most folks in the videos on yt are moving around.
- If you were hunting on these permit grounds, what spots (if any) look best for stands? How would you go about it?

My gear so far is:

- 18" 223 Wylde AR, suppressed w tripod
- Foxpro X24 w decoy
- Sig Rangefinder

Was just going to head out there in my Duluth ripstop work pants and black danners and a zip up camo that i have laying around before the winter rains become permanent, and see if I can make anything happen or if I'll just make a fool out of myself. I don't have any rain weather gear or good boots yet. Still need to get binos, I was thinking about the Maven C.1 10x42.

Any guidance would be appreciated!
 
There is pretty decent coyote calling, bobcat and cougar along the coast. There is a bit of national forest between I-5 and the coast. Personally I'd lose the tripod, (you'll be hunting a lot of hillsides shooting sticks work better).and range finder in that country as you'll rarely have long shots.. When I hunted north of the Columbia in coastal WA, I lived near Aberdeen I'd hunt small drainages. Drop the caller near the bottom and make my stand on the down wind side up high enough to see into the bottom and the far side. If you know the country you can hunt one side of a ridge, pop over the top and hunt the other side. Everybody hunts clear cuts and it can be hard to call them out in the open. Hunting in the strips between the clear cuts and old fire roads work. Another thing light rain doesn't seem to bother anything on the coast much. I used to bike in behind locked gates where legal.

Good luck
 
I agree with AWS about the tripod.
Playing the wind and terrain will be the most important aspects of a successful hunt. Aside from the coyotes being there.
Terrain and wind can also dictate how far apart your stands should be.
High winds thick cover, can be closer together, little wind open areas, may want to space them out further.
 
Agreed on all counts. The tripod and rangefinder will just get in the way. Wind and terrain, stand setup/selection will be paramount. Just stick to the fundamentals, be stealthy moving around from stand to stand. In wide open country I usually (but not always) like to space my stands a mile or more apart. But in thicker cover with more topography, this can easily be reduced to a half mile, even a quarter mile.

Most important maybe, call where there are coyotes.

- DAA
 
If you can bike( timer saver) the non motorized areas on soft roads, you can watch for scat and tracks. Mark on map where you find them(especially pup tracks). Than you can figure out your setup/winds. And most importantly shooting opportunity lanes/openings.
I didn't see any livestock pens/yards or obvious water sources, those would be draw in areas.
 
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