Anyone hunting coyotes in SE TN

[bushfox25]

I'm in Chattanooga anyone hunting yotes around that area?

[molonlabetn]

Nope... have been interested in trying that for a while though. What are the regulations involved?

[bushfox25]

Not to many really open year round, no centerfire during big game, no lights or calls at night, no bag limit

[Guest Mugster]

I think you can call at night if its lung powered or mechanical. I believe the regulation species electronic calls.

[SkWaShDeM]

Coyotes fall under small game hunting.

Small Game Hunting

• Shotguns and handguns using ammunition loaded with Number 4 or smaller shot are legal for all small game hunting.
  
• Shotguns using ammunition loaded with T (0.20 inch diameter) or smaller shot are legal for hunting coyotes and beaver except during big game seasons.
  
• Shotguns loaded with nontoxic shot approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are legal for hunting waterfowl.
  
• Rifles and handguns using rim-fire ammunition and air rifles are legal for hunting small game except migratory birds.
  
• Rifles and handguns using center-fire ammunition are legal for hunting beaver, bobcat, coyotes, feral hogs, fox, groundhogs, and crows, except during deer, bear, or boar seasons.
  
• Muzzleloading firearms (rifles, handguns, shotguns).
  
• Longbows, compound bows, crossbows and other bows drawn or held by a mechanical device.
  
• Falcons and Falconry subject to TCA Section 70-4-414.
  
• Gigs and angling equipment are also legal for taking bullfrogs.
  
• Weapons may be equipped with sighting devices except those devices utilizing an artificial light capable of locating wildlife. Night vision scopes are illegal.

From the TWRA website.

However, there's a rider on this in the Illegal Weapons section:

Rifles or handguns loaded with center-fire ammunition are prohibited during all deer, bear, or boar seasons for hunting any wildlife except deer, bear, or boar. Coyotes, crows, groundhogs, beaver, feral hogs, foxes, and bobcats may be taken by big game hunters while hunting big game with any legal big game weapon or ammunition.

[Guest BigJ45]

I hunt them a lot up here north of Knoxville but don't venture down that way much.

[Guest Mugster]

Coyotes fall under small game hunting.

Small Game Hunting

• Shotguns and handguns using ammunition loaded with Number 4 or smaller shot are legal for all small game hunting.
  
• Shotguns using ammunition loaded with T (0.20 inch diameter) or smaller shot are legal for hunting coyotes and beaver except during big game seasons.
  
• Shotguns loaded with nontoxic shot approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are legal for hunting waterfowl.
  
• Rifles and handguns using rim-fire ammunition and air rifles are legal for hunting small game except migratory birds.
  
• Rifles and handguns using center-fire ammunition are legal for hunting beaver, bobcat, coyotes, feral hogs, fox, groundhogs, and crows, except during deer, bear, or boar seasons.
  
• Muzzleloading firearms (rifles, handguns, shotguns).
  
• Longbows, compound bows, crossbows and other bows drawn or held by a mechanical device.
  
• Falcons and Falconry subject to TCA Section 70-4-414.
  
• Gigs and angling equipment are also legal for taking bullfrogs.
  
• Weapons may be equipped with sighting devices except those devices utilizing an artificial light capable of locating wildlife. Night vision scopes are illegal.

From the TWRA website.

However, there's a rider on this in the Illegal Weapons section:

Rifles or handguns loaded with center-fire ammunition are prohibited during all deer, bear, or boar seasons for hunting any wildlife except deer, bear, or boar. Coyotes, crows, groundhogs, beaver, feral hogs, foxes, and bobcats may be taken by big game hunters while hunting big game with any legal big game weapon or ammunition.

It boils down to a money thing. If you buy a big game tag, you can hunt coyote's or beaver all you want during deer season. Pisses me off actually.

[shaftbass]

What is normally done once the animal is killed? I know they are mainly hunted because they are a nuisence, but is the fur normally taken off and sold, what about the rest of the carcass? I want to hunt them but I don't know what to do after it's killed. Maybe it's just left there?

Buzzads gotta eat, same as worms.

[Guest Mugster]

Generally you hunt coyote for the pelt. Most guys just chuck them in a ditch I fear, but if i bag one i usually skin it unless its mangy. Since they are considered varmints its ok to do that and also its ok to blast them in the summer when the pelt is relatively worthless.

Or you could take the whole kit and kaboodle to a taxidermist and have it mounted for posterity. I guess you could eat a coyote. Indians considered dog a delicacy. If you do, let me know how it goes...I think you're supposed to boil it to get the worms out, or maybe thats monkey, i can't remember.

Its days like this I wish I had invested in one of those crossbow thingo's. Yanno its hunting season right now?

[shaftbass]

Generally you hunt coyote for the pelt. Most guys just chuck them in a ditch I fear, but if i bag one i usually skin it unless its mangy. Since they are considered varmints its ok to do that and also its ok to blast them in the summer when the pelt is relatively worthless.

Or you could take the whole kit and kaboodle to a taxidermist and have it mounted for posterity. I guess you could eat a coyote. Indians considered dog a delicacy. If you do, let me know how it goes...I think you're supposed to boil it to get the worms out, or maybe thats monkey, i can't remember.

Its days like this I wish I had invested in one of those crossbow thingo's. Yanno its hunting season right now?

Yea, something about being 93 degrees and sunny doesn't bring out the big game spirit in me

[robertb]

Trying to hunt them up around Crossville but it's tough due to the terrain.

[Rightwinger]

We hunt them in south central TN, west of I-65. I will knock one down if out and about in summer because they are taking domestic animals and calfs in the area we hunt in BUT I prefer to hunt them in winter and we do skin them out. Now that we are getting pretty decent at the calling, I want to sell the skins. There is a market for them but I haven't gotten more than one per year to try and sell any. My son got a nice one last year during muzzleloader.

[molonlabetn]

I assume that FMJ centerfire ammo is a no-no, like any other game?

[Guest Mugster]

Well, thats a good question. Some might answer yes and some might say no...its kind of like a political question, sure to start an argument.

FMJ makes a decent pelt round (if you really want that pelt in good shape) because it doesn't expand and make an exit mess. Personally, I use or at least try to use a 60gr sierra fbhp out of a .223. Its a decent compromise between a hunting bullet and an outright varmint bullet. Or I just use whatever I'm hunting deer with, which is usually a fairly tough hunting bullet that I have confidence in.

If you decide to use FMJ, you need to take a real good shot IMO. I'm more willing to gamble a bit with a better bullet. Not to mention, most FMJ isn't real accurate at least in .223, unless you are talking a sierra, and those are rated as a gameking.

[Guest Mugster]

In regards to selling pelts, I think that pelt show started back up again in cookville a couple years ago. I have no idea what a decent pelt might be worth though. I'll look around on the web and see if i can find a link.

[molonlabetn]

The reason why I ask, is that most of the decent 5.45x39 commie ammo for my AK-74 is FMJ. Wolf makes JHP for it, but it's largely unavailable and rather low quality. The round is designed purposfully to make the projectile 'tumble' as its primarly wounding mechanism, and that ammo outperforms the jhp stuff in gelatin, surprisingly.

I'm not bent on hunting with the AK-74, but it would be a nice option. I'd probably be most inclined to hunt small game with the Marlin .357magnum loaded with heavy soft-points or the like...

[Guest Mugster]

Well, shoot them into phonebook stacks and see what they do. You might limit the range to where your round stops fragmenting. I'd guess that would be at around 75-100 yards, which should be more than plenty if you have some type of decent calling device.

[Tim Nunan]

Hunters may help research of coyotes

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

BY FRED J. AUN

For the Star-Ledger

Roland Kays wants dead coyotes. But he'll be happy with just their heads.

"Put it in bag with a label on it," he said. "Or tie on a tag."

That sounds nasty, but Kays isn't some morbid sicko. He's the curator of

mammals at the New York State Museum and he's trying to solve the

mystery of the Eastern Coyote.

With the help of hunters and trappers from New Jersey and other

Northeast states -- who are being asked to donate any coyotes they shoot

or trap -- Kays is attempting to learn why coyotes around here are

different from their cousins in the West....

Click here for the rest of the article: http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1193201422288930.xml&coll=1

[molonlabetn]

Well, shoot them into phonebook stacks and see what they do. You might limit the range to where your round stops fragmenting. I'd guess that would be at around 75-100 yards, which should be more than plenty if you have some type of decent calling device.

5.45x39 doesn't fragment... not the Russian loads, anyways. It just tumbles, and ends up backwards at the end of its track, intact.

http://www.brassfetcher.com/545x39mmBulgarian53grFMJ.html

[Guest dotsun]

5.45x39 doesn't fragment... not the Russian loads, anyways. It just tumbles, and ends up backwards at the end of its track, intact.

http://www.brassfetcher.com/545x39mmBulgarian53grFMJ.html

That's a pretty awesome site, I just wish he would show the gel from the same angle and lighting every time.

[Guest Clutch442]

A friend and I are looking to start coyote hunting. We are in the Chattanooga area. Any tips, tricks , suggestions would be welcomed. Any suggstions on where to go. Thanks in advance for any replies!

[Rightwinger]

Don't know any areas in east TN, I hunt on our land in S. Central TN, Wayne Co.

My first tip...if you have climbing or ladder stands for deer hunting, use them!

Next get really good with a yote call. I use the Primos stuff, Lil Dog works the best for me. If you can find some road kill or a carcass, throw it out near your site and take the same scent precautions you would when deer hunting. Don't call to much. Be patient and nail em!

[bushfox25]

Wear gloves and mask and watch the wind are important. There are several places around Chattanoga to go if you know where to find them.

[Guest Phantom6]

Lots of farmers and ranchers will let you hunt coyote on their land. Saves on the vet bills for the livestock. Put up a sign at the feed store or Co-op. Once you get one farm or ranch, talk to others in the area. Use Google Earth to spot habitat and drive the back roads and talk to land owners.

[ShaunM]

I use electronic calls they work really great. I hunt in Perry County, TN were my family owns a lot of land and I know a lot of farmers that I have permission to hunt on there land. I have killed 14 (since January). They are smarter than you think, they will circle down wind and have a great nose, use cover scent. Also I think using (per TWRA web site) FMJ are illegal.