Several times while turkey hunting, I have called in coyotes real close.I have not shot any, I don't hunt big game.Shooting a coyote will ruin my hunt, but they kill a lot of turkeys.
I shoot every one I get a chance at. Shooting a coyote will not ruin your hunt. I've killed coyotes and shot deer or turkey right after.
I'd shoot ...
I have called in a few, once with a crow call. I shoot them.
SHOOT!!! :fud: :fud: :fud:
You shoot them...and you shoot them in the face, with a shotgun. They are not "big game", they are varmints.
Mark
There's no telling how many turkeys a coyote will kill in his lifetime....I shoot everyone I can.
Eliminate competition at every opportunity. I bring electronic callers for after the hunt to create opportunities :)
Special note to anyone hunting in Missouri: It's now legal to shoot coyotes during turkey season; however, it must be with a method allowed for taking turkeys, AND you must have an UNFILLED turkey tag AND a small game license (which isn't normally required for turkey).
Nothing ruins a hunt better than the bird you're after living in a coyotes gut. Couple years ago I was hunting a farm that was logged. Lots of tree tops on the ground. So these birds are coming pretty as can be. They just gotta clear one more top and I'll shoot the biggest one.
Getting ready when they start alarm putting. A blondish coyote comes in. Stalled the birds and he was between us standing on a downed trunk w his front legs. He took one for the team. When I shot him he yelped a couple times and the birds gobbled at each one. They didn't spook from the shot or the now dead coyote. They did however walk back the way they came. Don't spook the birds by jumping up. Shots commonly don't scare em.
Those birds came in the next time I was there. It's only one story of a bunch. I'm sure everyone has em. Shoot next time
Quote from: High plains drifter on April 06, 2018, 09:57:09 AM
Several times while turkey hunting, I have called in coyotes real close.I have not shot any, I don't hunt big game.Shooting a coyote will ruin my hunt, but they kill a lot of turkeys.
Turkey are considered "big game" in TN...
But I think I know what you meant...
Anyway, shoot all the yotes you can!
I thought of that after I posted, they are considered big game in a couple states, which is silly. But if it is legal to shoot them while turkey hunting...heck yes.
Mark
I'd pass up a gobbler any day to get a crack at a coyote
Quote from: Lonehowl on April 06, 2018, 10:52:02 AM
You shoot them...and you shoot them in the face, with a shotgun. They are not "big game", they are varmints.
Mark
I'm not going to shoot anything in the face.I shoot turkey in the neck.
Most years I call a few in, shoot ones where it makes sense like if I'm set up on rooted birds and yote rolls through not shooting and blowing birds out of the tree. Call In a coyote and no turkey in sight... bang
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Quote from: High plains drifter on April 06, 2018, 11:57:47 AM
Quote from: Lonehowl on April 06, 2018, 10:52:02 AM
You shoot them...and you shoot them in the face, with a shotgun. They are not "big game", they are varmints.
Mark
I'm not going to shoot anything in the face.I shoot turkey in the neck.
Buddy you're still getting some residual pellets in the face at least some of the time. Kinda the reason you aim for the wattles, so your pattern covers whole area. Anytime we shoot a shotgun at small game some are hit in the face. Pattern your gun and aim for the neck on a target, you'll see face shots. You can't avoid it
I have shot a few when I was younger, but NIW can't do it.
I shoot every coyote that I can. We (my family and friends) have lost too many deer, turkey, cows, cats, etc to those things. The only good coyote is a dead coyote.
I will shoot everyone I can get an opportunity at.
Lots of us hunt coyotes year round. Bobcats and fox whenever in season. My goal, and I live out west, used to be 100 coyotes a "season"...roughly Sept 1 to March 1.., which was my self imposed season. Reached that goal many times. Coyotes are not turkeys, they are tough, and if you are shooting them with a shotgun...trust me...shoot them I'm the face/head. That's the best and fastest way to kill them clean. Ain't gonna be perfect every time but that's what you should concentrate on.
Take it for what it's worth to ya.
Mark
Shoot them.
Had a LARGE male coyote walk up on me in some pretty dense woods. Bang. Watched a female coyote try to figure out and stalk my decoys all at the same time in a field once. Finally, she got close enough. Bang. Female put on a very interesting show and entertained me for quite a while. Appreciated her efforts but it didn't matter in the end.
I would shoot everyone of them too. I've never personally called one in while turkey hunting.
Quote from: Lonehowl on April 07, 2018, 12:36:42 AM
Lots of us hunt coyotes year round. Bobcats and fox whenever in season. My goal, and I live out west, used to be 100 coyotes a "season"...roughly Sept 1 to March 1.., which was my self imposed season. Reached that goal many times. Coyotes are not turkeys, they are tough, and if you are shooting them with a shotgun...trust me...shoot them I'm the face/head. That's the best and fastest way to kill them clean. Ain't gonna be perfect every time but that's what you should concentrate on.
Take it for what it's worth to ya.
Mark. Im not going to shoot anything with 4 legs.Not my thing.
I sat down this morning to call and right before I put the striker to the glass I heard something closing in fast from my right side. It tops the hill at a full sprint dead at the tree I'm on, two coyotes, in shock I try to get my gun up and cocked , single shot, by that time they are maybe ten feet away and I shot without even looking down the barrel kinda in self defense and missed, they kept sprinting. For a second I was wondering if they were after me lol, they came from the direction I walked in from less than thirty seconds of sitting down. It was all over in four or five seconds from hearing them coming to shooting, they were running wide open for some reason.
Sort of s sidebar but I shot a coyote in last falls deer season in December. The coyote laid in the field dead untouched for at least a month. No buzzards, no scavengers, nothing... I've worn ndered why since..any ideas?
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ive never called in a coyote while turkey hunting. i keep hoping that i do cuz i really want to shoot one
I called one in today on my kids youth season and told him to shoot it,but he said he didn't want to scare the Turkey's all away. It was gone before I could convince him.
Quote from: WNCTracker on April 07, 2018, 10:30:20 PM
Sort of s sidebar but I shot a coyote in last falls deer season in December. The coyote laid in the field dead untouched for at least a month. No buzzards, no scavengers, nothing... I've worn ndered why since..any ideas?
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Every critter in the woods have learned to avoid coyotes even buzzards. Threy are not taking chances that ol Wiley Coyote is just playing dead.
Quote from: mtns2hunt on April 07, 2018, 11:43:42 PM
Quote from: WNCTracker on April 07, 2018, 10:30:20 PM
Sort of s sidebar but I shot a coyote in last falls deer season in December. The coyote laid in the field dead untouched for at least a month. No buzzards, no scavengers, nothing... I've worn ndered why since..any ideas?
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Every critter in the woods have learned to avoid coyotes even buzzards. Threy are not taking chances that ol Wiley Coyote is just playing dead.
Or maybe sleeping was a consideration also
I have called in 6 in the last few years and 5 did walk away..called one in last Saturday opening morning and give him a face full of #6 longbeard...I kill everyone I can
Ironic topic. This guy came in last week when I was working a couple of birds right after flydown. If I wasnt working them only about 60 yds out, I would have blasted him. Funny thing is I shoed him away and he ran right towards the birds. One longbeard flew up into a tree about 20 yds past where the coyote is in the picture. 60 seconds later a strutting longbeard came in to 40 yds, and I shot him. Acted like he wasnt bothered at all.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180410/c6027e1ba8228a0c4da1fd856b2e24ba.jpg)
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