Coyotes For Grabs
Millions of Acres to Hunt
Editor’s
Note: If you’ll hunt coyotes and try to help the
landowner get rid of coyote nuisances, many times he’ll
invite you back to hunt deer or turkey on prime lands.
The more you get
to hunt with your black-powder rifle, the more value
you receive from the rifle, the better you’ll
shoot, and the more fun you can have. Looking for opportunities
to hunt after deer season ends makes sense. Coyote hunting
during the off-season enables you to build good relationships
with the landowners whose land you hunt.
If you’re looking for more opportunities to hunt
and landowners who will welcome you with open arms,
start hunting coyotes, one of the most under-utilized
resources in the woods. Each landowner I’ve ever
met wants a hunter to come onto his or her property
and hunt coyotes during the off-season.
Since I’ve started hunting coyotes, I’ve
hunted for free on some of the finest deer and turkey
leases in my state. When you coyote hunt during the
off-season, the landowner will tell you where he’s
seen coyotes most often, where
he has dead livestock, where he believes coyotes have
fed or bedded-down, and how he thinks you can approach
a calling site downwind of the coyotes. When you go
coyote hunting, you become the friend of the landowner
and the stockman. And, you also open up a whole new
sport for your black-powder rifle.
Coyote Hunting Made Easy
To take coyotes during daylight hours, plan to hunt
primarily early and late in the day. Realize that wind
direction determines success or failure. Always hunt
into the wind. Once you know where you want to hunt,
look for openings where you can see the coyotes coming
from 50-to 100-yards away. Also, search for a good blind
site where you can set up a portable blind, make sure
you have brush available to put over the front of the
blind to keep from having a solid one-dimensional wall
of camouflage. On the day you plan to hunt, sneak into
the place that you want to call from, set up your blind,
put brush around it, set out a decoy, turn on your caller,
and prepare to shoot.
Tomorrow: Decoys, Calls and Cover Scents
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