Who here only hunts coyotes?

In my younger days it was deer, bear, small game, as I have "matured" :) I have limited it to coyotes & turkeys, and occasionally ducks and pheasants. But turkeys are my main focus. Love the rush of an approaching gobbler.
 
Yotarunner said:
I hunt elk, whitetail, mule deer, moose, and waterfowl but coyote hunting is the only one that really holds any passion anymore.
American outfitters and hunters have really begun to wreck the bird hunting here in Alberta. Mule deer have had a few really poor winters. My boss polices the elk hunting harder than his own cattle and moose are only one every 4 years tag.
The one constant that almost nobody but me cares about is coyotes.
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I’m an Albertan i completely feel your pain, I was a heavy bird hunter for years but yes the outfitters took over almost any field around my home town that are worth a damn paying farmers to have exclusive rights to fields. I’ve always been a big predator hunter but the last couple years ya it’s all a guy can get out and do without being bothered anymore.
 
Sambobocel said:
I’m an Albertan i completely feel your pain, I was a heavy bird hunter for years but yes the outfitters took over almost any field around my home town that are worth a damn paying farmers to have exclusive rights to fields. I’ve always been a big predator hunter but the last couple years ya it’s all a guy can get out and do without being bothered anymore.
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Yep the out of country outfitters don't care who they make mad and there's hardly any fish cops to stop em anymore from paying for access. Had one friend going around trying to fight them for fields and permissions but he ran himself ragged keeping up.
 
Pretty much just coyotes, don’t have room in the freezer for much being apartment life. My knees can’t handle the abuse of over hill and dale either.
 
I apply to hunt pretty much everything in the state. With stiff competition for big game tags, what that usually means is I only hunt coyotes. :(
 
Yotarunner said:
Yep the out of country outfitters don't care who they make mad and there's hardly any fish cops to stop em anymore from paying for access. Had one friend going around trying to fight them for fields and permissions but he ran himself ragged keeping up.
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It’s illegal to pay for access in Canada?
 
I primarily hunt coyotes, anything else is just incidental. Here's the last coyote I smoked, 65 yards running quartering away. Used my BFR in 45/70, 365 grain hard cast ranchdog mold over 32 grains of 4759. One shot dead right there!
 

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I'm primarily a mule deer hunter. They have been my main hunting passion since I was a teenager 30 years ago. Some years I'll have a mule deer tag in 3 to 4 states. I hunt elk most years as well but don't always get a tag. Probably get a pronghorn tag every 2 to 3 years. I have a Barbary sheep tag in NM this winter and have also hunt Oryx in NM when I can get a tag or a friend gets a tag. When I lived in Idaho I would tag along with friends that chased lions with their hounds but I've only shot one lion. I'm not much of a bird hunter the last 20 years but used to do a lot of waterfowl hunting. Now it is doves a handful of times per year and quail when I come across them coyote hunting.

I did some coyote hunting as a teenager but didn't put any serious effort into coyote hunting until after I moved to El Paso 11 years ago. In the last 5 years I've hunted coyotes in NM, AZ, UT, CO, WY, ID and MT. Coyotes provide such great opportunity and are a great challenge.
 
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