Question about baiting coyotes!

[David Milisock]

Also, wear a ghillie…. Those guys are weird.

I only hunted them once with two fellows who hunted them regularly, preparation and patience.

 

[D Coots]

Wiley coyote....set up the rock snare/trap in sunrise pic out my back door. He was warming up one frosty morning on the east side of that tree. Blasted him with one of my pd rifles at 30 yards. If it would have been a red fox I would have let it walk. Several years ago a coyote killed my friends sheltie....

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Monday I put out a roadkill deer and a beaver carcass, 3 smashed pumpkin(wondering how coyote will react). Feeling better today(neg home COVID test) and we had snow yesterday, will check today. Didn't put out a camera. Will sit tonight if had a visitor. I put the bait in last winters spot, 125 yards from a permanent deer blind( ground). 125 yards is the middle of a slight bowl in the hayfield, straight south of the blind.

 

[markT]

Also, wear a ghillie…. Those guys are weird.

"Those guys?" O'Neill are the bomb.. IMO..

 

[Clancy]

I only hunted them once with two fellows who hunted them regularly, preparation and patience.

I was kidding about the ghillie. Been hunting them in blue jeans and t shirts my whole life. Not uncommon to kill 15 a day…. Got some buddies who have killed upwards of 60 in 24 hours. Just watch the wind and try to hunt dumb ones.

Texas is different though, lots of big ranch country and lots of cattle.

 

[David Milisock]

I was kidding about the ghillie. Been hunting them in blue jeans and t shirts my whole life. Not uncommon to kill 15 a day…. Got some buddies who have killed upwards of 60 in 24 hours. Just watch the wind and try to hunt dumb ones.

Texas is different though, lots of big ranch country and lots of cattle.

I was working with 2 guys in rural upstate PA in winter years ago. Keeping away from livestock. I introunced the guys to the 6MM Remington, they were coming up short with their 223's.

They were very wary and they got them in and took the short shots, they topography present two shots, short and 500+ yards. I took the long shots, they bought some 6MM rifles and problem solved.

I personally thought the coyotes were very cautious because they were regularly shot at in close.

 

[Clancy]

@David Milisock 6mms are by far the most popular here. I shoot a BR but of course there are lots of creedmoors and some 6-284.

I have a GT barrel for my fur gun as well, but I’ve just been using it for deer.

I have some good buddies that shoot 257 wby and 26 Nosler with light bullets as well. They’re just looking for max point blank range.

I’ve shot a bunch of coyotes with 223, but it’ll never be my favorite. It’s very difficult to put a perfect vital shot on multiple coyotes moving around in the same set. 6mm just works better.

 

[5spd]

Just talked to a pal that has 3 bulls in a dead pile for 3 weeks. Never touched. Snowed 6" 2 days back, temps -5 to 20, 1 bull was almost destroyed last night by coyotes
I'm headed out tomorrow to check on the 6 carcasses on ranches to see if those were hit one.
Temps here -3 to 30s, snow also.

 

[David Milisock]

@David Milisock 6mms are by far the most popular here. I shoot a BR but of course there are lots of creedmoors and some 6-284.

I have a GT barrel for my fur gun as well, but I’ve just been using it for deer.

I have some good buddies that shoot 257 wby and 26 Nosler with light bullets as well. They’re just looking for max point blank range.

I’ve shot a bunch of coyotes with 223, but it’ll never be my favorite. It’s very difficult to put a perfect vital shot on multiple coyotes moving around in the same set. 6mm just works better.

These fellows weren't hunters just farmers looking to solve a multi-faceted problem. Damn critters at their livestock and a terrain that you either needed multiple shooters all the time or greater reach than a 223 in wind. Once I showed up with the 6MM they saw the value and bought one. I put them on to a load that allowed them to cover the area. Gusty winds and rolling land are just not 223 friendly out past 250.

 

[markT]

Parent baits coyote with full diaper.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Parent baits coyote with full diaper.

I don’t know where that is, but there must be some ignorant SOB’s running that town.

 

[D Coots]

Parent baits coyote with full diaper.

Time for a nice quiet pellet gun.

 

[Scalloper]

I don’t know where that is, but there must be some ignorant SOB’s running that town.

Where else but Los Angeles CA

 

[markT]

Probably spend more time in jail for pellet rifle kill than car jacking...

 

[17cal Fan]

I put out a road kill deer and it was gone in a week. All of it on a trail cam, no shots fired. Didn't really plan it that way. Initially the deer was staked at the edge of a field in camera view. Caretaker came by on a tractor unaware of my conversation with the land owner, he pushed it away from the field into a brushy fence row.

After adjusting the camera to watch the days pass, it was interesting to say the least. Vultures, crows, a doe, a raccoon, opossum and coyotes. Got some great pictures. Day and night pictures were captured. The carcass was drug out of camera view and no where to be found when I retrieved the camera.

The caretaker lets me know when they lose a cow and where he puts it then I've watched the cows lay there and rot. Another property I hunt lost a cow to a broken leg. It was gone in a week or so and I saw coyotes on it at night but in too much brush for a clear shot or even a good approach. Death from illness may deter coyotes and location is critical to make it work right IMO.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

All I can say is it must suck to live there, and dumb___ is spreading.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Eagles/crows have been working the bait, I have shot 2 coyote off it. One night I could see 6 coyote on it with thermal scanner. Snow slowed enough to shoot one with night vision. Last night I sat with the new thermal scope , on my 204R TC, one big male showed up and is now headed to a skinning session.
40 gr BIB 27 gr 8208, suppressed.

 

[Webster]

This may seem odd, but I assure you it's true! I've been baiting coyotes with deer and calf carcasses for a couple of years now in Central Kansas. I place them 210 yards from my front door in my creek and have a driveway alarm nearby to wake me up for the action! I use an ATN Thermal Scope on an AR or a .243 Gen II DPMS.
After I place them, they come to the buffet after a couple of days. I suppose they wait to get the human scent off??? The strange question I have is why do they come in for several days and then quit!? I've had deer and calves laying out for over a month and not been touched! I've removed or left dead varmints, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
Anyone have any ideas!?
Steve McGee

Do you think a coyote can small gun oil or bore cleaning solvents? I have hunted rabbits a little with a friends beagle. Amazing I swear a beagle can follow a rabbit scent at full run. Always huntd on snow. I don't think the beagle followed tracks. A tracking dog can smell a foot print odor is hard to believe. People say a bear can smell blood a mile away?

 

[Doug Casner]

I had a uncle who trapped furbears for years. Dam good trapper. He said coyotes come to old rotten bait. The more rotten the better. He used old rotten fish oil really smelled bad. Set those fish guts out in the sun. Let em rot, boiled his traps, wore rubber gloves. If the coyote smelled any human scent sometimes he would dig the trap up. Coyotes like rotten bait. Mink like fresh. Coons either one. Doug

 

[David Milisock]

Do you think a coyote can small gun oil or bore cleaning solvents? I have hunted rabbits a little with a friends beagle. Amazing I swear a beagle can follow a rabbit scent at full run. Always huntd on snow. I don't think the beagle followed tracks. A tracking dog can smell a foot print odor is hard to believe. People say a bear can smell blood a mile away?

My boy Murphy who is a Pug, Stafordshire Terrier mix (purebred PITA) can track other dogs over macaddam.