21-22 Predator Season

[JamieZ]

So it begins. Went out tonight, just got home and downloading the video.

Buddy and I called in 3 coyotes and shot 2 of them. Could of shot all 3, I ran out of ammo and his gun jammed. The 3rd coyote didnt even really take off. We were bitching and moaning and dropping ammo trying to load, all while this pup was just slowly walking, some times trotting away.

Have to go out there in the morning to find them, they were on the other side of a stinky ass shallow creek that was made from the vegetable canning factory, it was waste water that they use to wash the veggies.

Having issues getting it to download right now, give me a few.

 

[JamieZ]

Called in a fox, then 2 mins later 3 yotes came out, way to our left. Buddy was going to shoot the fox, thinking it was a yote,,, I said no its not a yote, its a fox. It was a fun fast night.

In the video you will see one of the yotes sort of taking off,,, that's when my buddy was shooting his off to the left, not in the picture

File was to large to put on here, so link is from my Vimeo account

 

[JamieZ]

Found 1 this morning fairly easy. It must of been 200yds plus. Didnt look that far last night, looked like a 100 yds in the dark.

2nd one crawled its way into the hedgerow and that hedgerow is to thick with burdocks, and thorny shit for me to walk through it.

I did spend about a half hour on the outside of the hedgerow, looking in for it. No dice.

All 3 were this years pups

 

[Tisto]

Went out Wednesday for a while. Hot in the woods at about 3:00. A slow stalk down through the hardwoods, stopping to sit and cool off every little while. Every time I sat, I would hit the injured rabbit mouth call lightly. After the third call, a small-ish coyote appeared from some pines about 65 yards out. It stood there staring at me for a minute. I didnt move at all. As soon as it turned its head, Itried to raise my gun, but it was too fast. Gone as quickly as it appeared. The walk continued. At the bottom of the hill, I hit the call again. Sure enough, here came the same animal. This time it was circling around me until it reached the place that I had just walked on. It sniffed, but didn't seem alarmed.
[ Side note: the spray called NOSE JAMMER for Predators apparently works. It is messy, though. It leaves a sticky texture on everything. ] It soon saw me move, or a reflection of my eyeglasses, and disappeared again. The walk continued along a creek then back up the hill following a fence line. A few more stops to call were made with no response ecxept the sound of an owl that was very close, but I never saw. As I reached the truck, the sun was setting. I traded in one rifle for another, and grabbed the Foxpro. A short walk to a treestand along a hayfield, set up the caller/deke and climbed up. About 20 minutes of resting and getting quiet, then started scanning with the thermal. I watched 5 or 6 deer graze contently at the edge of the field, maybe 200-250 yards away. I started the deke, and ever so quietly began a short sequence of rabbit distress. Less than 5 minutes in, I noticed something emerge from the hardwoods, right where the deer still were. I thought it was another deer, but it clearly was not, given the reaction of the deer. It ran away from the deer, toward my caller, and stopped to look. I could tell by it's gate and mannerisms that it was a coyote. It only stopped for a second, and ran further, not towards the caller, but trying to get to a better vantage point. Again it stopped briefly, then took off again. It ran across the field and was gone. No shots fired.

At least I got out for a while.

 

[2WheelGnnr]

As Les Says...DEER KILLER DOWN!!!!!!!!!

I hear em but never have much luck calling them in dammit!!!!!!

Gives me the itch to try again this year!!!!!

 

[JamieZ]

Went out Wednesday for a while. Hot in the woods at about 3:00. A slow stalk down through the hardwoods, stopping to sit and cool off every little while. Every time I sat, I would hit the injured rabbit mouth call lightly. After the third call, a small-ish coyote appeared from some pines about 65 yards out. It stood there staring at me for a minute. I didnt move at all. As soon as it turned its head, Itried to raise my gun, but it was too fast. Gone as quickly as it appeared. The walk continued. At the bottom of the hill, I hit the call again. Sure enough, here came the same animal. This time it was circling around me until it reached the place that I had just walked on. It sniffed, but didn't seem alarmed.
[ Side note: the spray called NOSE JAMMER for Predators apparently works. It is messy, though. It leaves a sticky texture on everything. ] It soon saw me move, or a reflection of my eyeglasses, and disappeared again. The walk continued along a creek then back up the hill following a fence line. A few more stops to call were made with no response ecxept the sound of an owl that was very close, but I never saw. As I reached the truck, the sun was setting. I traded in one rifle for another, and grabbed the Foxpro. A short walk to a treestand along a hayfield, set up the caller/deke and climbed up. About 20 minutes of resting and getting quiet, then started scanning with the thermal. I watched 5 or 6 deer graze contently at the edge of the field, maybe 200-250 yards away. I started the deke, and ever so quietly began a short sequence of rabbit distress. Less than 5 minutes in, I noticed something emerge from the hardwoods, right where the deer still were. I thought it was another deer, but it clearly was not, given the reaction of the deer. It ran away from the deer, toward my caller, and stopped to look. I could tell by it's gate and mannerisms that it was a coyote. It only stopped for a second, and ran further, not towards the caller, but trying to get to a better vantage point. Again it stopped briefly, then took off again. It ran across the field and was gone. No shots fired.

At least I got out for a while.

3 in the morning or afternoon?


We went out, I think on Tuesday night? No coyote, seriously foggy which made using the thermals suck, but we did call a fox in.

I think we are going out tonight to. If we do, I hope I have enough in me to get up early and bow hunt in the morning.

 

[Tisto]

3 in the morning or afternoon?


We went out, I think on Tuesday night? No coyote, seriously foggy which made using the thermals suck, but we did call a fox in.

I think we are going out tonight to. If we do, I hope I have enough in me to get up early and bow hunt in the morning.

Afternoon.

I'm heading out now for the evening edition of Whack-A-Yote. Probably will stay out untilmidnight or so, depending on weather and luck.

 

[JamieZ]

As Les Says...DEER KILLER DOWN!!!!!!!!!

I hear em but never have much luck calling them in dammit!!!!!!

Gives me the itch to try again this year!!!!!

Just an FYI,,, Pup distress works the best for me, whether it be for fox or coyote. Normally I start off with coyote howls and barks, wait 2 mins and then play prey distress, wait 2 mins and then play pup distress. They usually come in during pup distress.

The post that I started this thread with, I only played Pup Distress to get those 3 pups to come in and to get the fox to come in.

 

[Tisto]

Yesterday afternoon was a bust. At the first location I no sooner got set up and the neighbor's free range dogs decided to come visit and wouldn't leave. One of them stood at the bottom of the stack of haybales I was on singing "treed". Do I look like a damn raccoon ? Apparently. The other one just barked at my Foxpro because the wind was making the deke move. They just wouldn't go away. They even escorted me back to the truck. The next place I went to had two trucks parked a mile down the road. Both had kennels. I didn't even bother to stop. I knew they were out running hounds. The third spot looked promising, but after I got all set up and let things settle, I started calling and got nothing. No response, no interest from anything. I called and scanned for almost 90 minutes and nothing. Finally I went to one more setup. As I pulled up to the tractor trail a Statie drove by and slammed on the brakes. He started to back up, so I stopped. ( Yes, I did in fact consider continuing down the tractor trail....knowing damn well his Crown Vic wouldn't make it.......but a PISSED OFF Statie is never any fun ) He insisted on me showing him my license. I thought he meant hunting license, so I handed it to him..."What's this ?! You think I'm fooling around here ?!" Oh, boy....at this point, I realize that I should have continued down the tractor trail. So, DRIVERS license, registration, and insurance with a simple question WHY he wanted to see it....(wrong thing to ask to an asshole with perceived authority ) He ran my info for no apparent reason. It came back clean of course. He brought it all back to me and said "Here." and drove away. I managed to get his name and car number, so I'll be calling the troop office. By then I was fed up with the whole night, so I headed home.

 

[JamieZ]

As I pulled up to the tractor trail a Statie drove by and slammed on the brakes. He started to back up, so I stopped. ( Yes, I did in fact consider continuing down the tractor trail....knowing damn well his Crown Vic wouldn't make it.......but a PISSED OFF Statie is never any fun ) He insisted on me showing him my license. I thought he meant hunting license, so I handed it to him..."What's this ?! You think I'm fooling around here ?!" Oh, boy....at this point, I realize that I should have continued down the tractor trail. So, DRIVERS license, registration, and insurance with a simple question WHY he wanted to see it....(wrong thing to ask to an asshole with perceived authority ) He ran my info for no apparent reason. It came back clean of course. He brought it all back to me and said "Here." and drove away. I managed to get his name and car number, so I'll be calling the troop office. By then I was fed up with the whole night, so I headed home.

What an asshole boss hog, those are the dicks that ruin it for the rest of them. File a written complaint.

Went out deer hunting this morning. Before daylight I could see through the thermal there was 4 deer bedded down about 30yds in front of the tree stand. They moved before daybreak. Sat in stand till 8am, got down, walked 50yds to laneway, looked left,,,, coyote standing in the middle of laneway staring at me for a minute before he realized something wasn't right. I would of shot an arrow at him if I had one mounted.

Didnt go out last night but Im for sure going out tonight.

 

[JamieZ]

I will have video in the next couple of days of the shot because we shot the last brother or sister of 3 from the other night. He/She was stupid!!!

Drove down the side of the railroad bed for a 100yds, took a left into the field and then quickly took a right and parked.

Setup our shit, put the caller out and started looking.

50yds right in front of us,,, buddy says there's a deer bedded down. I look at it and say that's no deer. He's like yeah it is and I'm like I bet you 50 million dollars that's a dog,,,, he says no way, you are going to be broke when it stands up.

So I played pup in distress,,, well it wasn't a deer that stood up and started running, it was a coyote.

Right before I pulled the trigger, he shot it. I said,,, I thought it was a fucking deer lol

Went out to look for it but will have to try again in the morning,,, grass was to damn tall, we couldn't see it

I took a small video how we were setup.

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[Tisto]

Friend of mine sent me a short video of a coyote. Video was taken tonight at 8:15 on a game camera. It's about 150 yards behind his house. I told him to turn on the lights in his chicken coop so they would make noise, then turn off every other light in the house and set up in his upstairs bedroom window. I haven't received an update, so I don't know what happened.

 

[JamieZ]

Last nights Yote

 

[nortatoga]

Sorry I just couldn't resist ......

 

[Tisto]

Sorry I just couldn't resist ......

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Dude, that's in California. Those are Western coyotes. Here we have Eastern coyotes. Very different.

 

[Shoots100]

Sorry I just couldn't resist ......

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A Coyote with dynamite would certainly make hunting them a bit more exciting !!!!

 

[Shoots100]

My fall predator season has been dismal at best.
I only heard one coyote Sat PM during a weekend of hard hunting, but never saw it.
11:00 - 4:30 am Fri, 6:30 - 3 am Sat, 6:30- 8:30pm doing cow herd over watch, as two calves were born last Thursday and stopped at one of my clubs pheasant preserves on the way home from 10:45 - 1 Am Sun Pm.
I guess I must've scared them into other areas, as the deer gut piles from recent bow kills hasn't shown anything but crow and eagles hitting them on the cameras we have set up.
I had a friend that had a buck scared off by two coyote and I hunted that spot too, but nada.
I'm glad someone is getting some action.

 

[JamieZ]

My fall predator season has been dismal at best.
I only heard one coyote Sat PM during a weekend of hard hunting, but never saw it.
11:00 - 4:30 am Fri, 6:30 - 3 am Sat, 6:30- 8:30pm doing cow herd over watch, as two calves were born last Thursday and stopped at one of my clubs pheasant preserves on the way home from 10:45 - 1 Am Sun Pm.
I guess I must've scared them into other areas, as the deer gut piles from recent bow kills hasn't shown anything but crow and eagles hitting them on the cameras we have set up.
I had a friend that had a buck scared off by two coyote and I hunted that spot too, but nada.
I'm glad someone is getting some action.

Action is actually all quiet. I have kills but Ive heard no howls at all.

Went out last night because my buddy said they were howling up a storm behind his house. I got over there and heard nothing, called nothing, saw nothing.

 

[Tisto]

I saw one trotting down the middle of the road right in my neighborhood at 4:30 this morning on my way to work. Hope my neighbors all let their cats in the house last night...

 

[FrankenCub]

I haven't gotten this seasons license yet. Been hearing packs around the property a couple times a week. Yesterday wife and I were checking a trail/security cam and she said look, a fox. I turned in time to see it trot into the brush, looked way to big to be a fox to me. But she insists it was pretty red, I'm color blind so I have a hard time with colors in certain situations.

 

[Tisto]

I haven't gotten this seasons license yet. Been hearing packs around the property a couple times a week. Yesterday wife and I were checking a trail/security cam and she said look, a fox. I turned in time to see it trot into the brush, looked way to big to be a fox to me. But she insists it was pretty red, I'm color blind so I have a hard time with colors in certain situations.

Coyotes come in red. Black, blonde, and mixed colors too.

 

[FrankenCub]

Coyotes come in red. Black, blonde, and mixed colors too.

Yeah, I've seen quite a few different colors. Haven't seen a black one yet. Want one bad lol.
I told my wife they come on many different colors. I still think it was a Yote, just too tall for a fox.

 

[Tisto]

Even predators don't like bad weather ! For some stupid reason, I decided to go to a friend's house not too far away from home last night. His neighbor has an old barn that I parked the truck in and then set up in the loft. It rained buckets at times, then stopped for a bit, then came down heavy again all night. I managed to see a couple deer walk past, and what I'm guessing was a raccoon, but I only saw it for a few seconds as it came out of and then returned to a ditch. No action. I doubt anything heard me calls over the rain. I should have stayed home.

 

[Shoots100]

Even predators don't like bad weather ! For some stupid reason, I decided to go to a friend's house not too far away from home last night. His neighbor has an old barn that I parked the truck in and then set up in the loft. It rained buckets at times, then stopped for a bit, then came down heavy again all night. I managed to see a couple deer walk past, and what I'm guessing was a raccoon, but I only saw it for a few seconds as it came out of and then returned to a ditch. No action. I doubt anything heard me calls over the rain. I should have stayed home.

It would've been stupid if you didn't go and coyote were running amok !
It's like the lottery, you gotta be in it to win it.
I've never shot a coyote while sitting on the couch.
How did your thermals image look in the rain and humidity ?

 

[Tisto]

It would've been stupid if you didn't go and coyote were running amok !
It's like the lottery, you gotta be in it to win it.
I've never shot a coyote while sitting on the couch.
How did your thermals image look in the rain and humidity ?

Actually, my friend has a couch on his back porch ( an outdoor all weather type )...and I 》HAVE 《 shot a coyote from there ! He also has a chicken coop 30 feet away, so.....

The thermal works well in light rain, but since it "sees" heat, when it's raining very hard, it doesn't work as well since it "sees" the temperature of the rain. It still worked, but not as well. It was raining extremely hard.

 

[JamieZ]

Ran 2 sets last night.

On the 1st set we were on the edge of a hedgerow over looking an open 600yd wide field with a woods on the right. 2 dogs came through the woods, one barked at us from 50yds in front of us and one barked at us 25yds away directly to my right. Thought it was going to jump on me and eat me lol. Saw many deer and 3 racoon.

2nd set,,,, foxes were calling to us from all around us,, it was kind of crazy! 75 yds to our left a yote or a fox popped out of the woods and ran like a bat out of hell for 15 yds and jumped back into the woods.

So it wasn't a shitty night, we had fun!! Could of went and did a few more sets but my buddy had been hunting all day at different times, once for turkey and once for deer,,, then night time for coyotes. He obviously has more energy than I do.

 

[Robin]

 

[Tisto]

I went out Saturday night, rather late. I got to the first spot around 1:00 in the morning. Got all set up and settled down for a while before starting to call. I could see a bunch of deer laying in the field. Started calling quietly with a rodent squeek. Immediately heard one quick yip from behind me and then heard something running through the woods. No sight of what I heard, but it made a ton of noise. The deer remained where they were. I got quiet for a while and then tried it again. Nothing. A slight increase in volume, and I heard one short howl from the bottom of the hill, maybe a half mile away. Three more squeeks received three more short responses, and then everything just went silent. I spent another hour there trying to illicit a response, but nothing.

Packed up and went to another location. Getting out of the truck I could hear a group of them singing from the next hill west of me. There was only a stand of pines and some scrub brush between them and me,the rest is open fields. The fields were corn, and have been cut short for silage. I thought it should be easy seeing them if they were coming toward me, so I set up in a climbing treestand, I got about 30' up, where I could see everything. Began the calling and they all started to sing. Every call I tried, they called back to, but they were definately not coming to investigate. After a while, I heard them making a ton of noise. It sounded like they were fighting. My guess is that they had a kill and were all eating when one tried to take more and another took exception to it.

Other than that, all I saw was a opossum on my way back to the truck.

 

[FrankenCub]

Got a couple new places to hunt and finally got around to getting my license today. And, promptly started getting flash flood alerts for tonight. WTF...??? So much for going out tonight.

 

[JamieZ]

Got a couple new places to hunt and finally got around to getting my license today. And, promptly started getting flash flood alerts for tonight. WTF...??? So much for going out tonight.

Did you ever get a monocular?