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Post by Alan on Mar 26, 2007 23:12:57 GMT -5
Anybody here ever do any coyote hunting? Here in southern indiana they are severly overpopulated because of the deer being equally overpopulated and providing a great food source for them, sometimes at night we hear thousands of them out there in the surrounding woodlands, anytime we ever see one it gets shot, but seeing them and hearing them are two different things.
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Post by kimikat on Mar 27, 2007 7:46:22 GMT -5
Yeah, like that night when we were in the back of the truck, and you could here them running up and down the hill just beyond the tree line...SCARY!
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Post by houseodessey on Mar 27, 2007 12:59:30 GMT -5
We don't have many coyotes in my immediate area anymore. There were a few packs who lived in the easement running behind my house but they developed some land adjacent to it and shot all but one. This last coyote is seen in my neighborhood from time to time. It's a sad site as it has mange or something and has been injured somehow along the way. I wish someone would shoot the poor thing.
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Post by kimikat on Mar 27, 2007 13:22:43 GMT -5
Alan shot a thing this past fall. We're not sure whether it was a wild pig, or a coyote, but whatever it was had been attacking dogs in the area. So one night Alan's cousin that lives at the bottom of the hill called up to the house and asked whether all the dogs were inside cause something was gettin' torn up outside. Alan went out, kneeled on the hill right behind the greenhouse, and three of whatever it was came out of the woods and started walking towards him...He shot, twice I think. Hit the first one, and it let out a noise like I have never heard and went running up the hill, Alan came back to the house quickly white as a ghost saying "I don't know what makes that noise" It was a scary night.lol.
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Post by johno on Mar 27, 2007 20:34:57 GMT -5
Maybe it was a chupacabra?
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Post by kimikat on Mar 27, 2007 20:53:20 GMT -5
LOL... I said that that night...and he said and I quote "Not funny...F**k a buncha chupacabra."
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Post by johno on Mar 27, 2007 22:24:01 GMT -5
ROFLMAO! I laugh, but I totally know the feeling! I try to repress memories of freaky animals at night.
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Post by Alan on Mar 27, 2007 23:06:51 GMT -5
I would kick chupacabra in the face! Raaar! That just freaks me out, it reminds me of that movie "critters". I just can't take that.
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Post by kimikat on Mar 28, 2007 15:00:44 GMT -5
And of course about a week later Alan had been on a cryptozoology kick and we were standing outside at night and he was telling me all about all the creepy critter's he'd read about that day. When all of a sudden he sees his cousin's dog at a distance away, out of the corner of his eye and his face turned sheet white...I think we both about peed on ourselves that night, till we realized it was Luke (a huge Collie dog).
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Post by shadowwalker on Mar 31, 2007 12:40:05 GMT -5
The best way to hunt coyote, if it's legal to use. Is one of those callers that has a wiggle arm on it. It will electronically call and has a apparatus that wiggles. Usually a furry "thing" with a tail on it. It will make the sounds you program and wiggle fur "thing". This is a killer if set up by a fence. It makes the coyote think something is caught in the fence. Next one is a mouse squeeker. It makes a sound like a mouse.
The mouse or rabbit sound is best, as they are the prime prey of coyotes. But when hunting, you will find many preditors coming to the sounds. I have had grizzly bear, black bear, mountain lion, bobcat, fox, eagles, hawks,pronghorn antelope, deer, moose, cattle, dogs. Come to the sound of my rabbit squeal. Using it in wyoming. You just remain alert when calling.
Also you might try trapping, snareing. To curb your coyote problem. Doing so in winter, with the proper licenses. You can sell the pelts for extra money. And it is fun!
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Post by brook on Apr 5, 2007 18:07:56 GMT -5
I personally don't care for electronic callers because I believe they call too loud and too often. But gimme a manual call and a headlight and I'm good to go.
The most fun is to hunt 'em with muzzleloaders. I could tell you stories, I could.
Unfortunately, the use of lights for predators is illegal here in the Bluegrass. So we have to hunt them in the daytime. Talk about a challenge.
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Post by johno on Apr 6, 2007 23:51:19 GMT -5
The last time I actually saw a coyote was two falls ago, though I frequently hear them at night. I was on my way to a job site in the middle of 1 or 2 thousand acres. It's a goat and cattle ranch, and I was building a log hunting cabin. Anyway, I'm driving along and across the dirt road runs a coyote. Actually, I don't know what you'd call what it was doing, as it was a lot faster than running. It's back legs were hitting the ground in front of it's head... It bound off over the hill, and then came the cavalry, Joe and Major, the Anatolian Shepherds. These dogs are amazing livestock guardians! I wish I could have seen the capture, but they disappeared from sight. Then came th Great Pyrinese trotting along behind. I tell you, I don't think that coyote could have run any faster if a chupacabra were chasing him!
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Post by downinmyback on Apr 12, 2007 0:03:06 GMT -5
How we hunt coyotes in Tennessee is three people go to a woodlot where you usually find most of the coyote stay. One person who is called the blocker go the opposite end of the woodlot and find a spoit that he can get a good shot from. The other two enter the other end making as much noise as possible to scare the coyote past the blocker. Unless you use dogs that is the easiest way we have found. The county i live in had a 25 $ bounty on coyote but with so many coyotes around they dropped the bounty
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Post by hoosierheightsfarm on Jul 29, 2007 19:57:37 GMT -5
You can kill coyotes in Indiana anytime without a license as long as you call a CO in 72 hours. (Which the CO might tell you to quit calling if you do so frequently)
I have trapped (had a business for 5 years) but never caught (or had the need to catch) coyote.
Alan-you give me a time and maybe we can gang up on them and thin them out.
Patrick
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Post by kimikat on Aug 29, 2007 19:39:52 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure whatever was out in that woods that one night was probably bigger than a coyote...To hear it run up out of the valley and through the woods...And scream...It was a wimper or a howl...It was an all out gutteral scream...Like a demonic pig. On top of all that we found a cedar thicket that had been timbered, and the left over trees that were considered was had been shredded by something. Me thinks boar......Specially considering that Alan saw it a few weeks later. We haven't seen or heard from it since. HOPEFULLY they stay down by the river this fall since its so dry right now.
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