DaveS

Welcome Steve!

You'll have to get you a good hide next year and make yourself a nice rug. That hide looks good though!

Nice job on the hide!

Most land owners like for "dead things" to be removed, by exhausting every means available to recover said dead animal. If a larger caliber is needed to make the yote "DRT", then lets use it. We as hunters owe it to the animals we hunt, no matter how lowly they may be, to dispatch them as quickly and as humanely as we can. Land owners finding wounded animals on their property doesn't bode well for furture hunting there. Heaven forbid some farmers wife walks out the front door to find some critter flopping around! It's good bye, see ya later! Lets not use under size under power cartridges to hunt our game. So to the O/P, I wouldn't use a .22 on a coyote. At a minimum....204! At close range, 12 guage with 3" BB.

LOL...I'm in the process of adding some video gear! Just for those "Kodak Moments"!

Well, did anyone get to do any hide tanning this year? Lets see some pics!

Thank you. They did have good winter fur. I'm tanning them right now. I want to display them in my "guy room" with my flintlock rifles and antique traps. It sure is fun hunting them! I'm wanted to go yote hunting tomorrow, but my beagles are not happy campers, so, its off the fields for rabbits!

Welcome! I live in the Woodlawn area...I guess that makes us neighbors! Welcome neighbor!

You're right on the money with the female sounds. I add a little "female Coyote in heat" lure, to spice things up.

Now's the time to start getting on them. The male yotes are starting to get love sick. Gotta play on that weekness!

Rural King has the Johnny Stewart PM-3 and the PM-4 on sale. I had to make the move on one. Blowing a hand held call was getting rough! The "decoy" was made using a "weasel Ball" (Hammock Decoy) purchased from Cracker barrel. I'm going to try to get back out this weekend for some "fun" hunting, but the word got out, and now a few cattle owners wants the "cy'otes" gone. Fine with me. I used the weasel ball and niether one saw me. They were transfixed on that thing, like they wanted to play with it. Felt kinda bad really...well not!

Thanks Mike...it was a blast!

http:// A picture of Dave (WD) with a couple of yotes and our setup. Hope ya'll enjoy the picture. I'm in the proccess of tanning the hides. I got a friend at work involved in coyote hunting, and while using a distress call this morning, the farmer's mule got after him! I never laughed so hard in my life!

Tried going through photobucket. Let me try something else.

So...it did not!

I hope this works. First time I've posted a picture.

Welcome neighbor!

I chose the .243 for coyote, as a backup deer rifle, and as of a few minutes ago, an opportunity to go antelope hunting out to New Me' he co! I guess I'll just work with some handloads to see what I can get. Thanks for the info so far.

I'm looking at getting me a .243 here in the next couple of days. I've never owned a .243 before. I want it primarily for coyote hunting when I'm not in the mood to use bow or flintlock rifle. How much "hide" damage would I expect, and what rounds do you reccomend?

The deer most likely will not recover if it is infected already. Just think what that broadhead is doing to that animal every time he moves his leg. If it was me and the deer was on my land, I would put him down.

Give the person a chance to get his stand back. He may be hunting there with permission and in good faith, and may not know the land has sold. Tons of signs on trees always makes our country drives more scenic. Sadly at times, it's the only answer.

The coyotes are getting everything...bunnies, turkeys, eggs, quail...you name it. The Game Warden and myself just had this conversation a couple of hours ago. Too many yotes, not enough people hunting them. I told him the state needed to "lighten" the rules on coyote hunting. Too strict. And, until they make it easier...all of our desired species are going to continue to dwindle. I do hope the turkey population continues to grow. I'd rather hunt other things...so I wish ya'll the best of luck!

Guntroll...we have several good birds, but we hunt "Yotes" over them...kinda like live bait. I think the yotes find them better eating than we do!

Sorry, I use 12 guage 3" "T" shot. My hunting and business partner uses .308 or .17, depending on the mission. Bow is not out of the question either. I'm wanting to get me a rifle in .243...I'll sit back and watch this thread....

I don't turkey hunt anymore, but I use the time afield for other species. I see hundreds of birds on post, but you have to get ahead of the NWTF gang here to get a spot.