Coyotes For Grabs
Landowner Relationships
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.
Forty-eight-year-old Randy Watson of Midland, Texas,
has a million acres of land to coyote hunt, and he primarily
hunts at night. “When I’m hunting coyotes,
I become the landowner’s night patrol,”
Watson explains. “Most ranchers who grant me permission
to hunt their properties don’t let anyone else
hunt there. I not only help the ranchers get rid of
their predator problems, I also keep them informed about
what’s happening on their property at night and
during the days when I hunt their lands.
“Any time I hunt on a rancher’s land, after
the hunt, I show him the coyotes I’ve
taken from his property. If, for some reason, I can’t
find him, I’ll call him at night and either e-mail
him pictures of the coyotes we’ve taken or send
him photos. If I see a broken gate, a fence that needs
fixing, unauthorized hunters on his land, a sick cow
or anything
that doesn’t look just right, I always carry a
cell phone with me and notify the rancher. I try to
treat the landowner’s property as though it’s
my own. What I’ve found is that the landowner
whose property I coyote hunt on tells other ranchers
in my area about me and what I do for him. I’ve
actually had landowners call me and ask me to hunt their
lands.”
Millions of coyotes all over the country need someone
to harvest them. Thousands of landowners want to invite
coyote hunters onto their properties after deer season.
If you use Watson’s approach to hunting coyotes
and dealing with landowners, you’ll have all the
property you’ve ever dreamed of for hunting coyotes
this season.
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