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What is your 'Yote Huntin' Setup?

MrTumnus

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We have too many coyotes on the property we hunt. I was curious about what tips you guys had for targeting these critters and the gear you used/ setup you have?
  • saddle setup/location?
  • method of take? (firearm you use?)
  • calling tips/gear?
  • time of day?
Help a rookie out! thanks
 
I don't use a saddle for coyotes so I can move quickly. We have snow so I can see their trails in areas like: corners of fields, deer trails and the path of least resistance while still in cover. I use an AR-15 I put together chambered in 5.56, FoxPro Fusion and mouth calls, MOJO critter decoy, I like the Cabelas predator vest for chair and pack. I hunt mainly dawn and dusk and some at night. Once they get smart I'll start snaring them or call my buddy with his infrared scope. A cheap set up is a few mouth calls, treestand seat pad to sit on, some sort of visual for them to lock onto instead of you and maybe a bi-pod and your deer rifle. Set up down wind of where you think they'll be coming in (they like to circle you anyways). Look up Randy Anderson on youtube and watch a few of his videos. Good luck!
 
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I sit on the ground. I also use an AR-15 in 5.56, the most fun predator gun to use IMO. I have an electronic call that I'll use on windy days sometimes, but really prefer mouth calling. Nothing beats a Tally Ho!
 
was going to try and get some yotes out of my back woods, but didnt know if setting traps or hunting with a call would be more effective. Guess the trap is out there all the time, but hunting you could actively call?
 
was going to try and get some yotes out of my back woods, but didnt know if setting traps or hunting with a call would be more effective. Guess the trap is out there all the time, but hunting you could actively call?
Either or both works. I call until they get weary of me calling then I usually set snares or footholds. I've had success pre-setting a stand where I'd be calling with snares or footholds on known coyote trails too. Seems like they know you're there sometimes and won't come in to check out the noise until you're gone. That's where the pre-set snares/footholds can nab em. And...for whatever reason I've had really good luck bringing my dogs with me when setting and checking the snares (just make sure they're on a leash).
 
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I hunt and snare yotes year round at a farm. I like hunting elevated as I can see further but you have to be very still as coyotes have very good vision and of course wicked good smell. And they're stupid smart, my hunting partner calls them dogs with bachelors degrees. I'll set up along a fence line with some trees behind me if I can. If not I'll pick a group of trees. But I'm hunting a farm so YMMV. I use a primos turbo Dogg and sit and spin with some of the stock calls and I'll throw in some stuff like piglets, kids and lambs. Sometimes I'll use babies crying, anything that'll get their attention as they acclimate pretty quick. To help bring them in I'll make a yotecicle out of guts and chicken parts which I freeze before hand. Obviously this works better during the summer. I alternate between a 12ga and a 308 depending on where I'm set up. No bow as I'm contracted to knock down the population, no messing about. Yotes tend to hunt early mornings and evenings and especially during the night. I have a big red lens spotlight I can mount to my scope which is great for hunting at night. I've switched to night hunting as the yotes have been getting smarter.
For snares I use a basic snare trap. Some guys dye them but I don't. I leave them outside for awhile to get the human scent off. After that handle with gloves on. I usually snare at fence corners or low spots, I run about 15 snares along fences at the farm. The farmer walks his fence about every other day and dispatches any yotes he finds, then I'll go back out and reset my snare. Works pretty good that way. I would use footholds but I can't due to sheep and goats.
 
I hunt and snare yotes year round at a farm. I like hunting elevated as I can see further but you have to be very still as coyotes have very good vision and of course wicked good smell. And they're stupid smart, my hunting partner calls them dogs with bachelors degrees. I'll set up along a fence line with some trees behind me if I can. If not I'll pick a group of trees. But I'm hunting a farm so YMMV. I use a primos turbo Dogg and sit and spin with some of the stock calls and I'll throw in some stuff like piglets, kids and lambs. Sometimes I'll use babies crying, anything that'll get their attention as they acclimate pretty quick. To help bring them in I'll make a yotecicle out of guts and chicken parts which I freeze before hand. Obviously this works better during the summer. I alternate between a 12ga and a 308 depending on where I'm set up. No bow as I'm contracted to knock down the population, no messing about. Yotes tend to hunt early mornings and evenings and especially during the night. I have a big red lens spotlight I can mount to my scope which is great for hunting at night. I've switched to night hunting as the yotes have been getting smarter.
For snares I use a basic snare trap. Some guys dye them but I don't. I leave them outside for awhile to get the human scent off. After that handle with gloves on. I usually snare at fence corners or low spots, I run about 15 snares along fences at the farm. The farmer walks his fence about every other day and dispatches any yotes he finds, then I'll go back out and reset my snare. Works pretty good that way. I would use footholds but I can't due to sheep and goats.

Tons of great stuff in here that had my gears turning! Like the thought of a “yotecicle”
What kind of load to you use in your 12gq?
I came so close to sticking one with my bow but right when I went to full draw my elbow grazed the back of the blind and he bolted!


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Tons of great stuff in here that had my gears turning! Like the thought of a “yotecicle”
What kind of load to you use in your 12gq?
I came so close to sticking one with my bow but right when I went to full draw my elbow grazed the back of the blind and he bolted!


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Full choke and 004 buckshot. Yeah they're rascals man. That's why I've had to change up my calls, they'll hang up 200 yards out and just stare for a good 30 minutes. It's like they know. Spooky.
 
Buddy of mine fills a 5 gallon bucket with water, leftover meat, chicken, squirrel, roadkill, etc and suspends an 8' or so chain out the top center of it. Leaves it outside until it freezes then removes from the ice block from the bucket and locks the chain to a tree in an area he can hunt 360 degrees around it. Wears disposable gloves when putting this all together. He waits a few days and then will start hunting down wind of it. So essentially a yotcicle bait pile that can last for weeks and they can't drag it away. On the other hand, I spent a bunch of money on the foxpro, calls, etc and have yet to fool one when I target them. The only two I've killed were while turkey hunting when I called them in unintentionally while yelping and purring with a mouth caller.

Sent from up in a tree
 
I use a 22 magnum and 12 gauge with 3.5” 4 buck. My brother carries a 222. I mostly hunt at night. I have a Predator Tactics coyote reaper headlamp with a red bulb for scanning and a flashlight with an amber lens taped to my rifle. I use a combination of a foxpro call, mouth calls and hand calls. Daytime hunting early morning is most effective but I work nights and can’t ever get out of bed early. I usually go after work on my way home. So far I’ve killed a bobcat and a black coyote since night season opener January 1. I’ve called in a few fox and 4 additional coyotes but didn’t get a shot. C3F0C1C8-678C-4C79-9986-78A5469835AF.jpeg243E62AA-B8DF-45AA-9527-FBD4F2F04BCF.jpeg
 
I use a 22 magnum and 12 gauge with 3.5” 4 buck. My brother carries a 222. I mostly hunt at night. I have a Predator Tactics coyote reaper headlamp with a red bulb for scanning and a flashlight with an amber lens taped to my rifle. I use a combination of a foxpro call, mouth calls and hand calls. Daytime hunting early morning is most effective but I work nights and can’t ever get out of bed early. I usually go after work on my way home. So far I’ve killed a bobcat and a black coyote since night season opener January 1. I’ve called in a few fox and 4 additional coyotes but didn’t get a shot. View attachment 24030View attachment 24031
Looks like a german shepherd beagle mix haha

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I use a 22 magnum and 12 gauge with 3.5” 4 buck. My brother carries a 222. I mostly hunt at night. I have a Predator Tactics coyote reaper headlamp with a red bulb for scanning and a flashlight with an amber lens taped to my rifle. I use a combination of a foxpro call, mouth calls and hand calls. Daytime hunting early morning is most effective but I work nights and can’t ever get out of bed early. I usually go after work on my way home. So far I’ve killed a bobcat and a black coyote since night season opener January 1. I’ve called in a few fox and 4 additional coyotes but didn’t get a shot. View attachment 24030View attachment 24031
YOWZA! Heck of a season already. Great work and info man
 
My setup is a first gen FoxPro with remote (8 sounds).
T/C Encore with 18” semi bull Bullberry custom .17 Ackley Bee barrel topped with Leupold VXIII 2.5-8x with heavy duplex.
13.0 grains of Reloder 7 pushing a 22 grain Berger MEF (no longer made). I have a near identical setup with a T/C Contender with a 16.5” heavy sporter barrel and a VXII 2x7, but my father in law kind of adopted that rig and it has lived at his house for about 10 years. I load about 50 rounds and give them to him for Christmas every year. He usually goes about 47/50 kill shots and he is 77 years old.
 
I use a 22 magnum and 12 gauge with 3.5” 4 buck. My brother carries a 222. I mostly hunt at night. I have a Predator Tactics coyote reaper headlamp with a red bulb for scanning and a flashlight with an amber lens taped to my rifle. I use a combination of a foxpro call, mouth calls and hand calls. Daytime hunting early morning is most effective but I work nights and can’t ever get out of bed early. I usually go after work on my way home. So far I’ve killed a bobcat and a black coyote since night season opener January 1. I’ve called in a few fox and 4 additional coyotes but didn’t get a shot. View attachment 24030View attachment 24031
Nice Cat!
 
I forgot to mention I use a turkey hunting vest. I carry my foxpro call in one pocket and my controller is girth hitched to a loop on a lanyard. A small headlamp is in one pocket. I keep gloves in a pouch attached to the vest. I keep it on all day or night so I’m not fiddling around before each stand. Extra batteries, ammo, lights clothes etc are in a bag in my car along with a charger for my batteries to my scan light. I also have a braided paracord drag rope which makes it easy to get them out (especially when dragging a double out).
 
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