Muzzleloader yote
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j-bird
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You hunting for yotes.....or just a target of opportunity? I tend to shoot one nearly every year while deer hunting. I can be hunting anything and it will turn into a yote hunt should one present itself. I have gotten up from the dinner table to shoot at them as they cross the fields if I see them.
j-bird
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My son wants to hunt them this year and seems to be buying every sort of noise maker he can get his hands on.....mouth calls and electronic ones. I am not sure if he will have much luck, but I'm not going to stop him. I just have to get my 308 bought so he can use it...because I am not letting him take my real nice 22-250 out and beat the crap out of it. I don't think we can bait them here. But we can hunt them with lights.
Telemark
5 year old buck +
By bait, I really mean dinner scraps and leftovers from deer hunts. A gut pile makes great yote bait. As does a rib cage tied to a tree.
Sometimes I boil dinner scraps (bones, skin, fat, etc.) with a chopped up apple and/or carrot and a pinch of salt. Then I add plain gelatin to make sweet/savory jello. I serve it to them in ceramic bowls. It's almost free, and I try to have some to give them every night. If I have decent meat scraps, especially from deer, I scatter them around the target area so the coyotes have to search around for the morsels.
I put it all in the same spot every time, and they get used to coming in. It's a spot that is convenient for me to shoot to from a concealed position. I've shot about ten doing that. And of course the trailcam photos are fun in the mean time. I usually save dinner scraps up over the summer and fall, and start baiting when the weather gets nasty and the yotes start running out of food. I can usually tell it's the right time to start baiting because i find apples and crabapples in their poo. Full moons are good for hunting, but snow makes a huge difference for night visibility. Almost got another last night, but he was really skittery.
This time of year is good to use calls because it's mating season. Spring is awesome too if you have a fawn decoy and an electronic call with a fawn in distress.
You can often pattern them by the photos. So if you don't have a spot that's convenient to get to from your house, you can usually get them to a one or two hour time window when you can slip into a blind. If you are close enough to your house you can use a motion alarm which costs $10 at Harbor Freight.
I have only been doing this about 6 or seven years, and not really consistently, but it's a hoot, and a great winter distraction.
Sometimes I boil dinner scraps (bones, skin, fat, etc.) with a chopped up apple and/or carrot and a pinch of salt. Then I add plain gelatin to make sweet/savory jello. I serve it to them in ceramic bowls. It's almost free, and I try to have some to give them every night. If I have decent meat scraps, especially from deer, I scatter them around the target area so the coyotes have to search around for the morsels.
I put it all in the same spot every time, and they get used to coming in. It's a spot that is convenient for me to shoot to from a concealed position. I've shot about ten doing that. And of course the trailcam photos are fun in the mean time. I usually save dinner scraps up over the summer and fall, and start baiting when the weather gets nasty and the yotes start running out of food. I can usually tell it's the right time to start baiting because i find apples and crabapples in their poo. Full moons are good for hunting, but snow makes a huge difference for night visibility. Almost got another last night, but he was really skittery.
This time of year is good to use calls because it's mating season. Spring is awesome too if you have a fawn decoy and an electronic call with a fawn in distress.
You can often pattern them by the photos. So if you don't have a spot that's convenient to get to from your house, you can usually get them to a one or two hour time window when you can slip into a blind. If you are close enough to your house you can use a motion alarm which costs $10 at Harbor Freight.
I have only been doing this about 6 or seven years, and not really consistently, but it's a hoot, and a great winter distraction.
Mista Paacha
5 year old buck +
What rifle/load?
Suburbhunter
5 year old buck +
Nice!!!
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Nice job and congratulations.
Did you get him in Ohio, Ontario or Norway?
Did you get him in Ohio, Ontario or Norway?
Telemark
5 year old buck +
Montgomery County, Ohio. We have about two inches of snow on the ground, which makes night hunting super easy. The motion alarm started going crazy, and I snuck out and dropped him in his tracks.
FYI, we don't have coyotes in Norway. There are similar animals called jackals (not like African jackals) in the Balkans, but mostly it's wolves or nothing in Europe.
FYI, we don't have coyotes in Norway. There are similar animals called jackals (not like African jackals) in the Balkans, but mostly it's wolves or nothing in Europe.
