What is considered “east”? Is it east of the Mississippi, or other designation?
What are the main tactics used in the “east” to succeed?
What are the main tactics used in the “east” to succeed?
Agree 100%I find more success with vocals than distress (@ about 4 to 1 when l used to keepsuch records) and ALWAYS much more silence than noise. Most stands are minimum of 45min and if l have had an answer l might wait 30-45 min in silence after my last call. Most kills have come in the 25-50 min of silence zone. The longest kill stand l remember was 2-1/2hrs with lights.
I literally do the same thing here in the west.The ones around here have a large territory. They usually have plenty to eat so vocals are the key. They are very wary and not very vocal so I have learned from on here to. At night I call with a couple of howls and wait at least 5 minutes,give it a couple more and wait. If nothing shows I either try again in an hour or so figuring they are out of ear shot. They seldom answer back here they just pop up on you
...but do you have to reiterate to the homeowners, when your coyote hunting- when they hear coyotes NOT to turn on outside lights, call you on your cell not just once( "hey are you hunting? I hear yotes out back"), come out with a spotlight yelling to scare the coyotes away, activate their truck alarm remotely, call the police, come out shooting a gun...and my best to date x2- come out full tactical at you?
...just some of the crap hunting in the East
That is a blessing. folks around this area look at you as if you are crazy for asking to hunt period much less at night. When I was young in Ky I secured hunting privileges by killing groundhogs all summer. I had several farms that I thinned them down and several older widows that called every time one got in their garden. Securing quail hunting privileges was a snap.Good to see this lively discussion. Keep 'em coming.
Been blessed with three large ranches on which I have hunted for 20 years, all owned by the same family. They are all leased for hunting and all have exotics which can be hunted year round, but access is limited to lease members so no competition from road hunters other than a (rare) fence jumper.
Gotta say that, if I had to hunt in some of the populated"neighborhoods" described above, I'd have hung it up years ago.
Regards,
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I have. I hunt some tracts as small as 5 and 10 acre tracts on the edges of city limits. I had a home owner start shooting in my direction when he heard me start my stand with howls. I have had land owners shinning spotlights on my from their side of the fence. I have called them in places where I only have one shooting lane cause of houses. I have also called them in with kids playing outside a couple hundred yards away and also with lawnmowers and music audible in the back ground. In areas like that they are more conditioned to human scent. Just some of the crap you have to stay flexible and adjust to.
this was not at night it was at sunset. I went up a fenceline that had a patch of cover on the land I was hunting and trying to call them to the edge of, the house was on the land behind me on the other side of the fence.it happened fast and caught me off guard. I think i wrote about this incident on a post here a few years ago. I started calling then all of a sudden it sounded like semi automatic 22 rounds snapping off over me, I instantly rolled over and laid close to the ground, I should have yelled but it took me a minute to process what was happening. When I stood up i could not see anyone outside, I was a little shook up trying to decide what to do next so I just grabbed me gear and made my way back to the truck, it was the last stand of the day getting dark.Any guy that lives in a 5-10 acre subdivision (or anywhere else for that matter) that comes outside at night and starts shooting in the general direction of sounds he hears without identifying his target and backstop needs his gun barrel bent over his head. That sumbitch is too stupid to own a firearm.