Spurchaser
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We went last night before the fog rolled in and blanked on a couple of stands. Afterwards were discussing our blank stands and this is what we came up with...
We thermal hunt on places that are religiously trapped for critters. We are also at the time of year where I believe we have the lowest number of coyotes.
They’ll have their litters in May or so and the population is replenished. We’ll have the most coyotes on the properties in July. From then until now we’ve trapped/shot all the “dumb” ones as I like to say, so now we’re dealing with the smart ones that are left. They’d had 9 months to see their buddies caught or shot and are pretty smart by this time of year.
That may sound like an excuse and technically I guess it is, got to have something to try and explain why we aren’t hearing anything and so many blank stands, lol.
So, my hats off to all those still knocking down coyotes on a regular basis. Y’all are killing the cream of the crop so to speak! One day, we hope to be as successful.
It’s like we can go once and think there’s nothing to this calling game. Then you go 10 more times and start doubting everything you’re doing and what’s changed since the last successful outing??? I guess it’s those successful stands that fuel us to keep going despite getting our butts kicked!!
We thermal hunt on places that are religiously trapped for critters. We are also at the time of year where I believe we have the lowest number of coyotes.
They’ll have their litters in May or so and the population is replenished. We’ll have the most coyotes on the properties in July. From then until now we’ve trapped/shot all the “dumb” ones as I like to say, so now we’re dealing with the smart ones that are left. They’d had 9 months to see their buddies caught or shot and are pretty smart by this time of year.
That may sound like an excuse and technically I guess it is, got to have something to try and explain why we aren’t hearing anything and so many blank stands, lol.
So, my hats off to all those still knocking down coyotes on a regular basis. Y’all are killing the cream of the crop so to speak! One day, we hope to be as successful.
It’s like we can go once and think there’s nothing to this calling game. Then you go 10 more times and start doubting everything you’re doing and what’s changed since the last successful outing??? I guess it’s those successful stands that fuel us to keep going despite getting our butts kicked!!
