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Predator Hunting => Predator Hunting => Topic started by: skookhunter on March 10, 2014, 05:04:55 PM
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So tonight I have like 2 hrs while the daughter is at practice. What would be some good calls to use and maybe some other ideas on how to lure an old yote out at dusk tonight? with the weather we have been having and I don't know what life cycle or period on their lives they are at right now I'm not really sure what they will be doing. Thanks everyone.
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Just read this.
How did you do?
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Just read this.
How did you do?
No luck. No howls and nothing coming in to the e caller. I started with cottontail distress for like 10 min then stopped for like a minute and did a howl, no answer. Then went with fawn distress for another 10. I was out last Sunday and came upon a day old maybe 2 turkey kill. Feathers and blood. Tracks all around in the snow. But couldn't get them howling or anything that day either. Any advice?
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Rule #1: They have to be there in order to call them. Just because they were there a couple days ago, they may not be there today. Chances are, they have been pressured all year with callers. Try some sounds that are a little unconventional that most people may not think of trying. Instead of using a cottontail...try a snow shoe hare or bird sounds.
Play on their curiosity verses their hunger...... Less is more. Call for only a minute then wait for a longer period of time....Patience. Give it an hours on each set.
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Ruke #1: They have to be there in order to call them. Just because they were there a couple days ago, they may not be there today. Chances are, they have been pressured all year with callers. Try some sounds that are a little unconventional that most people may not think of trying. Instead of using a cottontail...try a snow shoe hare or bird sounds.
Play on their curiosity verses their hunger...... Less is more. Call for only a minute then wait for a longer period of time....Patience. Give it an hours on each set.
Thank you. As for being pressured that consists of me and a handful of my buddy's. But after rifle season I'm pretty much the only one there. We have a spot that most won't drive to because of the road and the only other way to get where we are would be to park 3 miles away and walk in. Couple of dozers, haul trucks and triaxles are out that way daily so all of the game is used to that noise.
How often will they make rounds on their territory?
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Depends on food supply, and even mateing season can affect the frequency.
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I'd get back out there every chance you got.
Id bring some turkey decoys too, set them out where they can see them. Hopefully you e caller has turkey yelps and purs.
If they frequent that area, its only a matter of time before they show up.
Do you think they bed up there or hunt?
If they killed that turkey, Id say they were there during daylight hours
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I'd get back out there every chance you got.
Id bring some turkey decoys too, set them out where they can see them. Hopefully you e caller has turkey yelps and purs.
If they frequent that area, its only a matter of time before they show up.
Do you think they bed up there or hunt?
If they killed that turkey, Id say they were there during daylight hours
I'm going back out tomarrow night. I have a turkey decoy but my caller does not have any turkey calls. I suck at the mouth diaphragms so i dunno. I think I will be able to make it out before dusk but if not I'll be out in the dark. Do U start right off with a howl? What if it's still light out?
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I usually only howel if they are howeling. Then I try to mimic the sounds that they are making or just a few female whimpers.
I like the Turkey decoy idea. many Yotes are called in during turkey season soming in to turkey hunters calling trukeys.
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I always start with prey sounds.
Imo its less likely to scare or intimidate a coyote with a prey sound verses coyote vocals. they would be less cautious Also, I would think.
I really dont know if coyotes know that turkeys dont "come out" at night, so after dark calling sounds would be up to you.
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Well tonight I'm gonna try again in a diff area. Hopefully they know that tomarrow temp is gonna be in the 20's and some ice and snow. Maybe they will move. I hope they will move.
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Best of luck to you ;)
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Don't worry about not being good on a diaphragm, that coyote won't know you aren't ;D
I agree with Bob on the day/night thing too. Plus with the amount of fisher and bobcats we have nowadays, they have probably heard a turkey distress at night by now.
they like to move around, hit'm hard while they're there
Good luck
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Well the weather got the best of me and I didn't go out. I am feining to drop one of these pricks. I just want to see one. Lol. Anything. Even if one hangs up at 300 yards just to see some predator movement.
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just to see some predator movement.
AAAHHHH predator hunting.............
Those coyotes always make me leave my ego at the truck
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;) Sometimes you are the student and they are the teacher ??? But it is nice when you can reverse roles ;D
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Went out again last night around 10:30 to new spot I was curious about. Large section of PPL pole line 50yrds wide 500-600yrds to the other end where it drops off over a hill. Got myself backed into a small group of tight pines right in the middle. Woods on one side and thick scrub oaks on the other. Had the e caller about 50 yards out infront on me to the right a little. Got set up and waited about 10 min before calling just scanning around. Started with jack rabbit distress for about 5 min. Then I sat there for about 15 min silent. Then I went grey fox distress for like 3 min. Sat quiet for 10-15 min. Played cottontail distress for 30 sec and sat quiet for 5 min then again for 30 sec and sat for 10 min and packed it up and headed to the next spot. Ended up walkin like 2 miles on a dirt road to a dead end. So it was a straight road except the last 30 yards which dog legged to the left to a dead end. I sat at the turn put the caller 50 yards back the way I came in the bush a little off to the side. Pretty much same scenario as the first set but at the end I did a howl and waited 15 sec and did another and nothing. It was now it's now like 1 so I packed it up and made the long haul back to the jeep. All in all I saw 9 deer, some **** on a rock and what looked to me to be a couple frozen tracks in the mud. I was on state forest land. Tonight I'm going back to where I usually go. A lot more sign.
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How was your wind?
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Wind was left to right for most part but it was gustin and would swirl.
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I was out tonight and actually stumbled upon a coyote in a field below me and my buddy. It saw us i think a second before we got the lights on it so when the light hit it's eye it was looking right at us and it turned and started to walk away. He lip squeaked it and it stopped turned broadside and looked right at us again. Id say 100yrds. I lost it for a second while it was turning away and when he squeaked I caught the eyes. Scopes on it safety's off. Click. WTF. And it took 3 steps and disappeared down an old road. Ejected the shell and the primer is dented in but never went off. FML. We tried to cut it off incase it was going to break up but we never saw it again.
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Welcome to my world of Predator hunting. That's exactly the same kind of luck I have! If it can go wrong, it will...and it always happens to me.
But a bad day of hunting is still better than a good day of working!!!
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I removed the action from the gun and have it liberally soaking in penetrating oil. I want to rule the gun out and assume it was a bad round. Last Thursday I went down to the local dirt bank and sent 9 rounds through it making sure it was still dialed in. And then the next shot to come out of it 2 days later never came out. Mother f'in misfire. Now it's gonna be another 5 weeks before I see another one.
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Well the weather got the best of me and I didn't go out. I am feining to drop one of these pricks. I just want to see one. Lol. Anything. Even if one hangs up at 300 yards just to see some predator movement.
ahhaha i agree...this year,i called my first one in...it howled and stood near an edge of a woodlot....i was so excited...that i let my hand off the pressure switch and by the time..the light came back on...all i seen was tail..but it kept me going...it was awsome...my day will come...but i learned alot that night and will always remeber that..ahaha...Rusty
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Well the weather got the best of me and I didn't go out. I am feining to drop one of these pricks. I just want to see one. Lol. Anything. Even if one hangs up at 300 yards just to see some predator movement.
ahhaha i agree...this year,i called my first one in...it howled and stood near an edge of a woodlot....i was so excited...that i let my hand off the pressure switch and by the time..the light came back on...all i seen was tail..but it kept me going...it was awsome...my day will come...but i learned alot that night and will always remeber that..ahaha...Rusty
Aghhh that sucks. I'm hooked now that I finally saw one close. I want to call one in in the worst way.