Where is Wide Open Country... for Long Range Coyote Shots???

[daniel brothers]

Where is Wide Open Country... for Long Range Coyote Shots???



I know there is a lot of open country out West, but I'm wondering where I can go and hunt with the ability to get consistent shots at coyote that are 400 yds and further? I don't want the scrub brush country where i need to carry a shotgun. I'm only looking for longer than normal shots. I only want to call to them in order to make them shows themselves...NOT... to cause them to run to the call... only to make them show their whiskery faces. Got any ideas?

 

[TheOtherZilla]

Utah, Wyoming Western Colo, Eastern Colo... Nevada..

 

[10XSHOOTER]

NW Colorado. And you might get lucky to get a wolf! Now that President Trump has delisted the
Gray wolf. Don't want them - Don't need them in Colorado.

 

[RegionRat]

I'll just throw an opinion out there for what it is worth... which isn't much...

Coyotes, foxes, badgers, skunks, etc. all spend some fraction of their time in openings and meadows with short grass, but not much of it and for reasons that I think are easy to understand. Even most fish avoid open spaces for the most part, unless they run in schools (herds). Either they will become prey, or their prey knows better. Herd animals run a different risk strategy with open fields and meadows, so you can get opportunities in both ag lands and rough lands.

I think you would find that to get a shot over 200 yards on a coyote, you would just need a little ground with some water carved terrain or some rolling hills. I find that kind of shot in every state I have hunted in the last 40 years. I just have to sneak over the high ground and glass to catch coyotes out in the distance just about anywhere in the midwest, Rockies, or far west.

I have spent enough time in your part of the country to guess you don't need to go very far away from home. The size of the fields and pastures in SC should give you shots well beyond 400 yards once they are harvested. I would see where they have been working, and scout out for some elevation.

Otherwise, once you get past the Appalachians, things are fairly similar from the midwest to the Pacific for coyotes. I really like the Dakotas, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada for goofing off with prairie dogs and coyotes. Maybe you should consider a combined prairie dog coyote trip since that type of ground fits the bill most of the time. Hit the PDs and stick around at dusk to see if the coyotes come out to clean up the fields.

 

[std7mag]

I'm in PA.
Kept getting a family of 4 coyotes on camera out in a gas line every morning.
So i set up early about 200 yards downwind.
Got mom first, and 1 pup.
Other 2 ran up the hill, still in the open.
Got the second pup at 375 yards when they stopped to see what was going on.
Last one hightailled it into the woods.

Previous spring had setup under an apple tree in middle of big field. We started using fawn bleat, like it was screaming bloody murder! 3 coyotes poked out of the woods, staying towards the tall grass.
Then a black head poked out of the woods. Yup, black bear.
They all kinda looked at each other, then the race was on for the fawn. Meaning us!

Morale of the story is they do come out in the open. And can be coaxed into the open.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Saw at least a dozen up moving late in the morning traveling home from east Wyoming Tuesday morning. Even saw one next to a snowdrift in the east bound I90 right away(east of Rapid). It was tucked in watching some pd that had come out on the snow and ice covered mounds about 30 yards outside the fence. A couple were layed up, most up moving as the mousing would have been harder with the ice on everything.

 

[swd]

N western part of California and Nevada I’ve seen plenty of dogs out mousing at 400-1000 yards in the desert

 

[pdhntr]

Saw at least a dozen up moving late in the morning traveling home from east Wyoming Tuesday morning. Even saw one next to a snowdrift in the east bound I90 right away(east of Rapid). It was tucked in watching some pd that had come out on the snow and ice covered mounds about 30 yards outside the fence. A couple were layed up, most up moving as the mousing would have been harder with the ice on everything.

Yup. Mile marker 123 to 130. 7 miles of prairie dog towns. (and several coyotes).

Jim

 

[daniel brothers]

pdhntr.... your talking about that stretch of hwy west of The Minute Man Missile Center?

 

[pdhntr]

pdhntr.... your talking about that stretch of hwy west of The Minute Man Missile Center?

That would be it. It isn't one long town, but many small ones in close proximity to each other on the south side of the interstate.

I was just commenting on Coyotefurharvester's post. I am guessing there is a pile of coyotes in that area.

Jim

 

[pdhntr]

Where is Wide Open Country... for Long Range Coyote Shots???



I know there is a lot of open country out West, but I'm wondering where I can go and hunt with the ability to get consistent shots at coyote that are 400 yds and further? I don't want the scrub brush country where i need to carry a shotgun. I'm only looking for longer than normal shots. I only want to call to them in order to make them shows themselves...NOT... to cause them to run to the call... only to make them show their whiskery faces. Got any ideas?

Not sure if this will help or not, but member sscoyote has been doing long range coyote hunting for quite a long time.

I believe he uses good vantage points and glasses the area.

It might be worth a try to give him a pm and ask about his methods.

I know when I have been stranded out in Montana by snow, I have seen about as many glassing as I have calling.

Unfortunately, there is a fine line between "getting around" and getting in trouble in that situation. One is fun, and the other is no fun at all.

I would have alternate areas of interest to try if I got blasted out of an area. I use this method in shooting pds. If I get rained out in South Dakota, I head for other areas in Montana and vice versa.

Jim

 

[Nhardy]

I’ve taken coyotes out to 450 in Northern Michigan. I hunted over hay fields and they would come running to calls and hang up at the edge of the woods / hay field and just watch. You generally had plenty of time to set up shots.

 

[daniel brothers]

Thanks Jim for the tips. I will contact SSCoyote.... and glassing is my favorite way to spot them. I love to spot and stalk more than the calling... but the calling sure can make them expose themselves.

 

[xswanted]

I shot a pile in between 350-500 yards last year.
Gotten to the point around home here that’s about all the closer a guy gets.
Eastern ND.

 

[daniel brothers]

that's what I'm talking about

 

[AckleymanII]

As much as 60% of the coyotes you kill are 2 years old and younger. Howling will get the job done in spades, but you can not sound like a dominant male, it will scare them off. I hunted in Wyoming with Bill Austin for two weeks, all he did was drink hard liquor and howl for coyotes. I was the designated driver! Hee Hee!