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Coyote Hunting in Upstate New York: Instant Dog

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2. What are you hunting for? If your elk hunting you don’t want to be using a .22-.250 you’ll want more of a 7mm ultra mag or something with big time knock down power and long range for big game.

3. For using scents or calls you’ll need to know what time of season it is. If it’s late in deer season you won’t really need to be focusing on rut scents or rattlers.

4. Shop around and look online first. In a lot of cases looking around online can save you tons of time and money. Some good places to start is Basspro.com, DicksSportingGoods.com, and even Amazon.com.

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Coyote Hunting in Upstate New York: Gaugler Strikes Again at the Horse Farm

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Having rules give the coyote hunting experience fun for all participants. I am looking into a competition for this coming weekend. My partner and I need to get out and get some of the cob webs cleaned out since we have not been in a competition for awhile. During the mule deer hunting season we checked out many new areas where it looked like good habitat for the coyote to live in. There are a few areas we found skat in the road around ever turn. This is a good sign that there are  many coyotes in that area.

The weather looks like it will be good this weekend and my anticipation to get out and learn some new areas is almost palitable. I like seeing the wonders that God has given us to enjoy. I need to purchase a new camera to take some pictures of these interesting areas so you can see what I mean.

My favorite time to do coyote calling is first thing in the morning when the dawn is breaking and you can just start to see. My second favorite time is the last call of the day. Then there is the rush to check in and the hopes that you can get into the prize money. This is always nice to get reimbursed for all the money spent on gas. The contest this weekend has a first place prize of $500 dollars. I will let you know how I we do.

I was looking forward to getting the cobwebs out and see how I would handle the first competition. But as it happens sometime not one coyote came into the call in this area. So we drove down the road to the next area and the ranch hand said the coyotes had be few and far between on this part of the ranch this year. He told us to go try this area about 10 miles away so we said out good buys and headed down the road. We had not gone 200 yards and here are 2 coyotes strolling across the field towards the cows. If we had not stopped to talk with the rancher they would have been right on the side of the road with time to get the draw on them. But now they saw us and headed for the sage brush. So we decided to let them go.

As we worked out way down this large valley we found some fields with some willows which is a great hide out for coyotes. We called in 4 separate dogs and found that our shooting skills were a little rusty. My partner hit one that ran off on one call. Then on the next stand a coyote came running from about a thousand yards out across this field. It came up to with in 100 yards and stopped. He shot and it ran off into the obis while we threw bullets at it. Talk about out of practice.

Then comes the next coyote calling extavaganza and a coyote comes in to my left in heavy cover. I pull up with my 12 gauge all ready to bag him and the sling of my shotgun is all bunched up on my barrel and I can’t see the bead at the end of the barrel to make a clean shot. There goes that easy shot!

The rest of the day kind of went the same. I did knock down a large coyote the next call when my buddy dropped me off for a one man stand. I had this old dog come in at about 10 minutes looping across a large yellow grass covered field. He was trying to wind me but I let him come up to around 125 yards when I stopped him with a squeaker. There he was facing me when I dropped the hammer and there was no sound of impact. I had pulled instead of squeezed the trigger and her toke off like crazy. He was headed out of dodge when he bolted to the right and I let him have it at about 250 yards on the dead run. So that dog was our first one of the hunt.

Then at the day moved on we made us our specialized good luck hunting bagel with cream cheese, Velveeta and ham. That in itself was great until I let my partner talk me into eating while making the next call. Yes you guessed it. It wasn’t 30 seconds into the call when this big old coyote came a busting over this ridge right behind my partner headed to eat me for lunch. He spun around for a one knee shot while dropping his bagel in the dirt. Bang goes the 223 and off runs the coyote over hill and dale. I got one shot off as it went up the second ridge just barely missing the mark. He was gone and so was a peaceful lunch. Should have eaten in the truck as we usually do. We just we set on making all the rooky mistakes. You would have thought that we were out for the first time.

The next call the coyote came busting around the corner in less than 10 seconds from when I blew the call. It must have been sleeping behind this rock out cropping just 80 yards away. I squeaked to get it to stop 39 yards below me and touched one off. It ran about 30 yards and on the way my partner dropped another round in it for good measure. So now we have 2 coyotes tagged for the contest. I failed to mention one other road dog we missed but some where along the way we figured we should have had 8 coyotes in the back of the truck.

Then as the day drew to a close we hauled butt to check in. We were a couple hours drive to get back to the fairgrounds where check in was. We were running short on time but we only had a few miles to go with about 20 minutes to spare. Then the truck started to vibrate like a tire out off balance and we heard a large boom and the truck went all squirrelly. We had a blow out on the left rear of the truck with 5 miles to go and very little time.

We ripped the back of the truck apart in the dark to find all the tools to get back on the road. Yes we we got it changed and to check in on time but to find that we were in 4th place just out of the money with 2 coyotes. Second and third were tied with 3 coyotes and 1st place team had a total of 5 coyote. What a bite that was to the ego when we should have had 8. Even if we would have missed 2 we still would have taken 1st place so this goes to show that even some of very experienced coyote callers can have a bad day. But my partner did win a nice new hand held coyote call on the raffle prizes.

I hope you can pick out a couple of coyote hunting tips in this story. I like people to read between the lines to get the tips. I hope you don’t mind.

Good luck coyote hunting.

Then there are those who hunt from the air in helecopters, powered parachutes and airplanes. There is a learning curve when using an aircraft. Probably the most important is where to shoot to make a clean kill. When coming up on a running coyote in an aircraft most hunters have a tendency to shot right at the animal when in reality the speed of the aircraft has a lot of influence to the momentum of the bullet. You would want to shoot at the tail of the coyote to make the clean shot. This way you hit the target.

Safety is another important factor. When I was in grade school I remember one of my buddies dad and his friends were killed in an airplane crash while hunting coyotes. Just a good reminder that safety comes first as the top coyote hunting tip of the day.

My father taught me how to shoot long distances as a boy and the techniques come in handy. The only disadvantage to a long shot is the walk out to retrieve the coyote.

When in heavy cover the gun of choice is the 12 Gauge 3 inch magnum. In heavy cover the reaction time is short and you need something with knock down power out to 100 yards. The load I prefer is the Double 0 Buck or the BB to get the desired response.