Coyote Hunting

[HAV2FISH]

Re: Coyote Hunting

The horse pasture has a 5-strain electric fence around it but they still get in with a yelp. This might be part of the reason they don?t bother the horses. The other reason is they get chased when they do enter. The gun I?m using is an AR-15 with hollow points and a 32-power scope sighted in at 150 yards.

Last night they were heard behind the house but not seen. I think I?m going to try a bait pile at the edge of the field. We have a local deer processor who said he would save the leftovers for me. Ill pick it up tonight and put it out first thing in the AM.

 

[lckstckn2smknbrls]

Re: Coyote Hunting

If you can freeze the guts in a 5 gallon bucket with some rebar that has one end with a loop going through it. Then chain the frozen gut bucket to a tree. This will make the coyotes stay longer at the bait giving you more time to kill them.

 

[tx1961whaler]

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Donkey.

 

[avenger79]

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ok that donkey answer has come up twice. how is it that a donkey keeps them away? I thought donkeys were for the most part very friendly and somewhat timid. we do have a few guys here who have them for company for a horse or two.

 

[eclark53520]

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The horse pasture has a 5-strain electric fence around it but they still get in with a yelp. This might be part of the reason they don?t bother the horses. The other reason is they get chased when they do enter. The gun I?m using is an AR-15 with hollow points and a 32-power scope sighted in at 150 yards.

Last night they were heard behind the house but not seen. I think I?m going to try a bait pile at the edge of the field. We have a local deer processor who said he would save the leftovers for me. Ill pick it up tonight and put it out first thing in the AM.

Not sure why you would need a 32x scope....thats a massive hindrance when shooting animals that are as fast as coyotes...you need fast target accuisition and a field of view as narrow as that 32x scope is going to make that pretty much impossible.

Plus, the distance in which you need a 32x scope, the 5.56 cartridge that AR is shooting would be worthless at that range.

Get a better optic. Spend some money on it, you get what you pay for when it comes to glass.

 

[xxxflhrci]

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I agree that 32x is overkill for 150 yard shots on a coyote. Max power on my .22-250's scope is 16x. It is plenty for groundhogs out waaay past 300 yards.

As far as glass money goes, I'm on the fence. I don't buy 39 buck scopes, but also don't buy 500 buck scopes. Somewhere in the middle has served me well for years. The rifle in the pic is wearing a Tasco World Class. I haven't re-zeroed in over a decade and it is still dead on. That gun is no safe queen, either. She gets bounced around in a farm truck all summer long..........Not trying to sell a Tasco , or Trashco as scope snobs like to call 'em, but I have World Class models on several guns and have had no issues.

 

[HAV2FISH]

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The scope im using came with the gun. It's a Simmons ProHunter 2-7-32 w/ Illumination.

 

[xxxflhrci]

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2-7 x 32 is not a 32x scope. It is magnification range is 2 to 7. 32 is the diameter of the front bell on the scope in millimeters.

 

[eclark53520]

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2-7 x 32 is not a 32x scope. It is magnification range is 2 to 7. 32 is the diameter of the front bell on the scope in millimeters.

+1

I run mid grade scopes like the higher end simmons or mid grade nikons on my .22's and plinker guns...

But once you look through a night force, or swarovski, etc, especially at dusk/dawn you realize why they cost so much.

I run those on my precision guns

 

[HAV2FISH]

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2-7 x 32 is not a 32x scope. It is magnification range is 2 to 7. 32 is the diameter of the front bell on the scope in millimeters.

Sorry for the bad info. So is this a good scope for what im doing?

 

[eclark53520]

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Sorry for the bad info. So is this a good scope for what im doing?

It will work fine.

Much more useful than an actual 32x scope.

 

[avenger79]

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as far as scopes go I have a Gander Mtn brand , a Nikon and a Leupold. I do prefer the loopy but the others work as well. I have had some fog issues with the Nikon and surprisingly the Gander has been great.

 

[tx1961whaler]

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ok that donkey answer has come up twice. how is it that a donkey keeps them away? I thought donkeys were for the most part very friendly and somewhat timid. we do have a few guys here who have them for company for a horse or two.

Donkeys do not like strange dog-like creatures. It really pisses them off. My buddy breeds donkeys and sells them pretty strictly for this purpose. He showed me a video of one just running past (they are fast) a coyote and just kicking the **** out of it with it's hind legs. Pretty funny when I saw it.

 

[marlboro180]

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^^^ Yup, Donkeys are like the perfect alarm system, with security built in.

Have2Fish--- As for the scope discussion, 7x is fine for your purpose. I have used both of these to dispatch 'yotes, but there were chickens tied to trees involved...at 250 yds

xxx- nice Ruger VT! Mine is .223 700 is .243....

eclark- I hear ya- check the pic...

 

[wlas]

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This is good reading and I thought I had a problem here in Alaska with bears, I've had to shoot a few that were tearing up my cabin, now and for the last three years I keep an electric fence around the place and it works great. I still see them walking by but they don't like the fence so they keep their distance. I don't like shooting Bears if I don't have to. They seem to think it's their job to wreck everything they get their hands on. Too bad that roadrunner thing wouldn't work for bears

 

[floatingwoody2006]

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I hear that there is a company called "ACME" that sells these huge anvils that you can place in a high spot. Seem to attract them, and they end up taking themselves out. i know .. not funny. My old landlord used to place antifreeze out in open containers and they would drink it and die, but when the neighborhood started loosing cats..They caught hell for it.

 

[HAV2FISH]

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I hear that there is a company called "ACME" that sells these huge anvils that you can place in a high spot. Seem to attract them, and they end up taking themselves out. i know .. not funny. My old landlord used to place antifreeze out in open containers and they would drink it and die, but when the neighborhood started loosing cats..They caught hell for it.

I could do the antifreeze thing being im out in the country and wouldn?t have to worry about neighborhood pets. However I think I will use poison as a last resort.

The ?ACME? company would be a good idea if I were a coyote hunting a roadrunner. BEEP BEEP

 

[LippCJ7]

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I used to take care of the coyotes at my sisters house where they were hammering her barn cat population and like others have said I always shook things up a bit 22-250 or an AR on bait at closer range and I like my bigger 7mm mag for further (I know but I love my 7mm Mag) but this one time it was getting close to Bow season and I couldn't resist I set up a cool blind with favorable wind from bait, and my sister was watching me with some binoculars from her barn about an hour after sunrise and I drilled one, but I didn't realize how close it was to the tree behind it well I pinned it to the tree, good ethical shot but my sister never watched again. I was really happy with the shot to ranged at 56 yards! Love my Mathews Drenalin!

 

[HAV2FISH]

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I used to take care of the coyotes at my sisters house where they were hammering her barn cat population and like others have said I always shook things up a bit 22-250 or an AR on bait at closer range and I like my bigger 7mm mag for further (I know but I love my 7mm Mag) but this one time it was getting close to Bow season and I couldn't resist I set up a cool blind with favorable wind from bait, and my sister was watching me with some binoculars from her barn about an hour after sunrise and I drilled one, but I didn't realize how close it was to the tree behind it well I pinned it to the tree, good ethical shot but my sister never watched again. I was really happy with the shot to ranged at 56 yards! Love my Mathews Drenalin!

We have a condemned house on the property (grandparent?s old homestead) with a field on both sided and woods behind. I have my bait pile about 10 yards into the field and about 90 yards from the house. I?m then sitting in the bushes next to the house. I also have a remote caller at the edge of the field near the bait. The coyotes are in the woods behind the field but they just wont step out into the field. I?m replacing the bait every evening and sitting all night. The buzzards are having a feast every morning. Thanks to the local deer hunter?s im getting lots of bait. Iv took the last two nights off to give them a break from the call. I?m not sure but they might be getting use to it even though i was using it very sparingly. I?m also not a night owl so I needed the recuperation time but I will be out again tonight weather permitting.

 

[LippCJ7]

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I wonder, is it hunting season where your at now? could be that they are pretty fat and happy right now being pretty picky, it might be that you just need to wait until the dead of winter when food is sparse and try it again. I am a coyote hobby hunter at best so I'm not sure but makes sense to me?