Predator Hunting.

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JuJu-

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Anyone here do much of it? I have thought about it, but I just haven't talked myself into it yet. I don't have anyone down here where I am living to go out with.

What do you prefer, hand calls or electronic calls? And most importantly what caliber do you use for what? Just looking for some Ideas!
 
I haven't done much recently but I used to do a ton of Coyote and Bobcat hunting in the California desert. Get a couple of hand calls and practice with them. It's not hard. Get a book called calling Coyotes by Rick Jamison. It's an old book but worth it's weight in gold.
I always used a Remington 788 in .22-250. I handloaded Sierra 40 grain hollowpoints to 4080fps and they were magical.
 
I lucked into two coyotes during deer season and took one with a bow, the other with a .308 (too much gun if specifically predator hunting). I am going coyote/fox hunting this weekend with a friend actually. He will be using a .243 and I will have a 12 ga with #4 buckshot. He has had luck using hand calls to bring them in so we will be doing that.
 
I use hand calls and either my 788 in 6mm or my Ruger 77mkI in 6mm. Sometimes I also use pistol, S&W 29 in .41 mag takes care of them just fine. Depending on where I hunt I also will use my .30-06 if I have routine shots over 200 yards. I have access to a couple thousand acres of foothills so its not uncommon to spook 'em across a small steep valley 300 yards away.


-Xander
 
For us, when we say we are going Coyote hunting, it really means we are just going to go walk around in the cold!

Been doing it for years, and never really cared to get better at it!

It is mostly just walking around looking at the animals we are not hunting for! (seriously, we will constantly see deer and all kinds of animals).

I have seen a lot of coyotes, and it is usually when I don't have a gun, or they are in a full sprint, or are on land where I have specifically been asked not to shoot them. One farmer has no livestock, and wants us to shoot all the rock chucks, but wants the predators left alone so they can eat the rock chucks too!
 
Sounds like a lot of fun! I would be needing to get another gun I suppose.I would love to get in to reloading all my own stuff. 44mag is too expensive to keep buying. Used to go out to my uncles with a case of beer and powder and we would load up the whole family. Now that I have moved it isn't as easy!

I figured the hand calls wouldn't be too bad to learn. I am usually good at that kind of stuff. Bigfattyt you sound like me hunting deer this season, all i did was take my gun for a walk most of the time!
 
Go down to Goodwill and pick up any battery operated stuffed animal that moves. Disable the speaker if it has one, put it maybe 40-50 yards from your stand/hide. Use your handcalls and turn the toy on. It will give the c'yotes something to focus on and they will not pay as much attention to other noises and distractions. Obviously check your local regs about decoy hunting.


-Xander
 
fast14riot said:
Go down to Goodwill and pick up any battery operated stuffed animal that moves. Disable the speaker if it has one, put it maybe 40-50 yards from your stand/hide. Use your handcalls and turn the toy on. It will give the c'yotes something to focus on and they will not pay as much attention to other noises and distractions. Obviously check your local regs about decoy hunting.


-Xander
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Thats a cool idea, i never would have thought about using a kids toy! Now, to go steal something from one of my kids rooms!
 
Bigfattyt said:
For us, when we say we are going Coyote hunting, it really means we are just going to go walk around in the cold!..........................It is mostly just walking around looking at the animals we are not hunting for! .
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Very well said! I like taking my Tikka 12/222 with #4 buck in one barrel and a 40gr ballistic tip in the other.
 
I do believe a coyote that knows its hunted is one of the hardest animals to kill.
 
I used to shoot a pile of coyotes while out deer hunting because they had a bounty on them here. Population was roughly 5 times what it should have been. Any time i went hunting coyotes specifically, i used my .243 S&W 1500, shooting 95 grain Winchester/Nosler Supreme ballistic tips. With this combo, a 400 yard shot was a chip shot on dogs, which is good because when the bounty was on, there was a ton of them out there, but man were they skittish.
 
Its actually part of my job, since I´m a gamekeeper. Admittedly, I have been outsourcing most of this task for the past 3 years since we got the kids, but I still think it is some of the most challenging hunting you can do. Over here (Sweden) it is mostly red fox and badger and we shoot about 40-50 on the estate I´m working on, every year. Some are called in, others are shot by "spot and stalk", and then we just sit out a lot in the dusk and dawn, where we know they come by frequently.
I mostly use my trusty Sako Vixen 222 rem with a 50 grains Ballistic Tip or Hornady V-max. Or I just grab my "do it all" Sauer drilling, a 3-barrel shotgun/rifle combination in 12 gauge / 7x57R.

I´d like to come to North America at some point to hunt coyote and bobcat though

Brian
 
bad_juju said:
Anyone here do much of it? I have thought about it, but I just haven't talked myself into it yet. I don't have anyone down here where I am living to go out with.

What do you prefer, hand calls or electronic calls? And most importantly what caliber do you use for what? Just looking for some Ideas!
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I call Coyotes --- started in 1974 when pelts were worth a lot. Get a closed reed hand call (to start with) and get out there after 'em. Nothing wrong with going alone. I use a .223 now, but have killed more Coyotes with a 22-250 than anything else.
 
Coyote and squirrel are my two favorite things to hunt. I much prefer a a hand call (Crack calls: crazed rabbit). A rabbit distress call and a howler is all you need. That and a nice .22-.250 :)

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