Coyotes

[catmaster1557]

Anyone being seeing any coyotes around lately? Friend of mine shot one the other night while bow hunting. I heard that they are supposed to be pretty plentiful this year. Also anyone have any spots around the new ulm area where i could hunt them?

[The Grebe]

Coyotes? Coyotes are everywhere? You don't see them but they are there!

Go do some scouting in your area, check for tracks in fields, edges, sand, damp areas, anything loose that will hold a track.

Check for scat around outstanding landmarks, not a silo, or anything like that, but a larger rock, a lone stump, a fence opening, something different in the terrain.

They are there, just about any place you can find to hunt, a Coyote can carve out a living!

Some fellas can make hunting Coyotes easy, I was never one of those guys! I've trapped a number of them and predator called for them on a number of occassions, but I have never shot one.

[Stratosman]

The Grebe is right, they are everywhere! I gre up hunting fox in the winters with grandpa and for about the first 5 years, I'd say the early nineties, it was rare to see a coyote, but as time progressed, we saw more coyotes than fox, pretty soon that was all we shot. Every once in a while I hear them calling to each other while bowhinting and have seen one on many occasions, I hear them by my house all the time also. As a matter of fact on my way bowhunting Tuesday I saw a road kill deer (fresh) in the ditch of a persons yard, and when I drove by tonight to go, the coyotes had dragged it halfway into the persons yard and all that was left was a ribcage. I would guarantee you that New Ulm area is loaded with them. Get permission from a bunch of farmers, drive around after a fresh snow and bring your spottong scope and you will find one before too long.

[Mr Special]

Haven't hunted coyotes or fox's to much but would sure love to do more. Those winter months are long. If anyone would like to show me the ropes, I'll supply the vehicle. I have a Remi 700 .243, ported barrel with Harris Bipod and loaded with 70gr Nosler Ballistics hand loads waiting. I would sure like to try and help those farmers.

Thanks

[echotrail]

About 10 days ago I saw one on the side of the road about 5:45 a.m. near the zoo in Apple Valley. There have been some sightings in Eagan, MN. and few folks in Eagan have also reported pet cats misssing.

[The Grebe]

Coyotes have been in the city for a long time! They use the waterways and railroad tracks as travelways. They find good pickins around town!

Before they changed the development ruling on the area above 85th Ave. N. in Brooklyn Park, that area was the 1st. leg of the trapline that I ran for alot of years!

I knew most of the Farmers out there and had permission to trap their farms. I got Coyotes out there all the time and I was'nt even trying to catch them, they got tangled up in my fox sets.

Osseo, around the sand pits? I used to know a guy that would hunt them out their and do quite well. I trapped a number of Coyotes out there also.

Once I seen one taking garbage out of an over filled dumpster, right on the U of M campus in S.E. Mpls. and with it's mouth full of food, trot right by unsuspecting people on the sidewalk and out onto the railroad tracks! I'm sure they thought it was a dog.

They are here and have been for a very long time!

[Fish- N- Hunt]

I have never hunted coyotes either, but I think it would be a blast. It seems like the population keeps going up with more yelping every evening. I was bowhunting last night and was kind of chuckling to myself. I hunt near railroad tracks, everytime a train will go by and blow its horn the yotes would call back to it everytime. It was kind of cool, but a little erie at the same time.

Fish- N- Hunt

[buzzsaw]

Coyotes and Fox generally don't live (or atleast get along too well)in the same area's as I understand. I see Fox everywhere where we hunt near Itasca State park and Coyotes are everywhere just south of my place in Lakeville... and in Murphy Hanrehan park.

[The Grebe]

I don't know? My experience has been that they coexist like anything else?

I only had a couple of fox killed in traps by coyotes and had several killed by dogs. The tracks and the manner of the kill, would usually tell you which it was that did the deed.

I would get fox and coyote in the same sets...never got a fox in a remake, after I got a Coyote, but I would get other coyotes...sometimes the little #1 1/2 coils would hold them, sometimes they would dismantle them.

Maybe it depends on the area and the food supply? Where it is tough to make a living, I would suspect that the Coyote would win out, driving the fox away.

Where pickins is good, they coexist. I'm sure a yote would eat a fox pup and probably vise versa, even in the best of times, but I don't believe they are sworn enemies, where the Coyote will intentionally go on the hunt for the fox..unless he is hungry and then the fox is on the menu!

[buzzsaw]

Good info!! Thanks Grebe that all makes good sense.

[catchnmall]

My boss loves to run coyotes with dogs. When harvest is over and we get some snow you can drive around and look for tracks by the side of the road. When you spot some let the dogs go. Its kinda neat how they work.

[Dockter]

I like to use calls and decoys, makes stuff interesting!

[The Grebe]

We tried calling on several occassions, without much luck? We were hunting up near Little Falls.

We tried both mouth calls and electronics, neither of which worked very good for us. I did bring in fox a couple of times, but they always disappeared before they got into range of my little .22 mag.

There is alot to that calling game and it is not an easy deal when you first start out...you have to do it for awhile to make your bones!

One moon lit, winter night, my nephew and I went out calling, he had a .243, I had a 12 gauge pump, with #4 shot.

In one area, he gets on the howler and gets them going and we decided to make a stand....we stashed the truck, done the sneak, found a good spot and settled in...back to back.

I started the dying rabbit blues on a mouth squeeker and the the yotes started comming in...only thing, we could hear them, but we could'nt spot them. They were sticking to the brush and not comming out in the openings, for a shot.

Pretty soon they are right behind us, yipping, yapping and sounding like a really large pack? After a time, it unnerved my nephew and he said, "Let's get the hell out of here!" I had no problem with that!

We'er walking down this little dirt road and my neph has to whizz...he lays down his heater, turns away and answers natures call.

I found a good sized rock laying on the road, quietly picked it up and in the still of the night, shot putted it over nephs head and into the brush, right in front of him!

"Crash" and neph just about pee's in his own eye! He thought that one of those Coyotes we had irritated, was making a play on Johnson! I laughed until I could barely walk! When we tell our stories, that one always comes up.