Coyote hunting

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Any of you guys have success hunting these things regularly down here? Where I grew up north all we had to do was drive around the cattle farms at night and listen for them and set up the next morning. Any farmer with a newborn calf was more than happy to let us whack as many as we could. I’m coming home from a deployment in a few weeks and missing all of deer season has me going crazy. No turkey will be safe this spring either. (Hopefully :wink:)I only have access to WMA land and was thinking of using the same technique with the forest roads. With spring around the corner taking some of these things out before the fawns show up isn’t a bad idea either. Just curious if anyone around Charleston is pursuing predator hunting and what techniques are doing well in the super thick woods that are all over SC.

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My steel leg holds are always hunting yotes, never bothered with all that nonsense of calls, lights, and some “waggler” decoy.I prefer shooting them between the eyes,as they struggle to get out of a catch pole.

Yotes have incredible range, and will travel to another county just for the hell of it, in only an evenings time. If you have an unlimited amount of idle time, and consistently hunt them after dark, it can be rewarding.

I prefer to sleep at night,helps maintain my good looks.

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Bolbie
How do you keep deer and dogs from getting in traps

Hunting, fishing, and poker are my sports. Work when necessary.

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partners-ship
I trap on 800 acres and have never caught a deer in a trap it’s where/how you set them that is important. The random cat or loose running dog is a different story I use the traps with rubber on the set so it hopefully doesn’t break a leg. It’s a hole in the ground with smelly stuff in it and yote piss on the surrounding branches any predator is going to check it out. I think I killed every raccoon and possum on the property before I caught my first yote.

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Originally posted by Partners-Ship

Bolbie
How do you keep deer and dogs from getting in traps

Hunting, fishing, and poker are my sports. Work when necessary.

collateral damage has happened with the use of snares, leg holds are simply that, they hold the vermin for a short time. Also, the shape of the deers hoof would allow him to simply pull out and continue on. Have caught dogs before, they usually limp away with only a broken soul. I despise rubber jaw traps.