Nighttime coyote hunting and tactics for yote shooting

[Blackjaw]

Like someone else mentioned, when I go out at night I call the local WDFW Enforcement people and let them know where I am going. They always seem to appreciate it and I have never had one come out and check on me, and yes it is COLD in late Jan and Feb at night, but the hunting can be GOOD.

[KopperBuck]

I got a call today asking these same question. Sounded kida fishy to me antie like. I just noticed the call came from New york. Said the same stuff as this post.  Rick

Not quite bud, definitely a gun totin' good ol boy that just moved back from Ellensburg. I'm stinkyrat on here, gunboards, waguns, ak-47.net and five-sevenforums. (well actually I am stinkyfert on five-seven.... they have a thing for ferrets over there ) but I sure am no anti.

Stinkyrat

EDIT: Hey while I'm on here, if I take my AR out for coyote, are you allowed to have a shotgun out with you at the same time? I only ask because if I see grouse, I'd just assume take em with a shotty over the AR. That and not have to hike all the way back to the truck to switch weapons if I didn't have to!

I usually pack both when I'm just hunting coyotes. Full choke and T shot does wonders.

[Stinkyrat]

Well as an update, I went to sportsmans warehouse and purchased the foxpro spitfire for about $150 which wasnt bad. Then turned around and walked over to wally world to get batteries and go figure they had the primos turbo dogg for the same damn price! Sportsmans had the turbo dogg for $209. So I went back and returned the spitfire and got a price match on the turbo dogg. Appears to be a MUCH better unit, we shall see just how well it works around here tomorrow morning.

Hopefully between me, turbo dogg and Mr. AR-15.... We'll get something down range in the sights

I'll take pictures and let you all know how it goes!

Stinkyrat

[rynokron]

Just my opinion but foxpro is better.

[bearmanric]

Excited got my wicked lights yesterday. Bad azzed lights. Foxpro is way better. Rick

[Blackjaw]

+3 on the Foxpro being better, unless they have upgraded the turbo dogg on the last year or two. Let us know what you think, esp. about sound quality and the distance the remote works from the call. I have only seen one and was not impressed with the things I mentione, but maybe they have improved.

[Stinkyrat]

And back! Didn't get a coyote, after I had gotten set up a couple folks walked up and were setting up elk camp right by my area. So I went off and walked the closed roads for grouse and didnt see a single one till I was driving out of the forest. He was 5 feet from my truck and flew off to the trees on my right. By the time I got up in there off the road with my shotgun loaded he was looong gone. Next time

Are you guys sure you are talking about the Turbo dogg or the older power dogg? The turbo dogg IMHO made the foxpro spitfire look and feel like a cheap pile of crap. What was your field experiences (I say that, not trying to be rude by any means but there is a difference between flinging internet opinion/preferences and actually getting out in the field and trying both to determine a honest preference) with it that made you think the foxpro was better? I thought it was good sound, came with more sounds and had hunts that changed between sounds better than I ever would have, but I've never tried the foxpro so that is all I have to go off of too. I'll try and get a few pictures up and show you atleast what this one did for me.

I guess the real test is when it brings in something to shoot at!

Stinkyrat

[bearmanric]

They dont make the Spitfire any more. The Wildfire replaced it. Johnny stewart has awsome sounds. Rick

[Stinkyrat]

They dont make the Spitfire any more. The Wildfire replaced it. Johnny stewart has awsome sounds. Rick

You would be correct, sportsmans warehouse still has the spitfire instock though at clearance price which was why I was buying it. I almost drove to cabelas to pick up the wildfire however I saw the turbo dogg and it looked pretty decent for the price and had a lot of similar features.

EDIT: Ok, here is my 'review' for this turbo dogg. Not that I have a ton of experience with it, but I can atleast show you a few pictures and what not.


This would be the turbo dogg. The remote will lock onto the back of it, which makes it a little easier to pack around and not lose part of it. Not sure if this is a feature of others, but it was pretty nice to see that.


I tied some 550 cord to attach it to my ruck. Doesn't have a handle like the foxpro did, but I think I'll survive without it.


Fuzzy picture but shows the remote. LCD screen on it is pretty nice and everything feels solid and durable. Again dunno how great a foxpro is, but this just felt a whole lot more durable.


Screen showing one of the 'hunts' you can choose from. All I did today was press the play button and it runs through about 20 minutes of calls with pauses inbetween as shown. For those of us that are new to this whole thing, the 'set it and forget it' feature is kinda nice. In the bottom left you can see the volume level, it goes from 1 to 100. I set it at 25 and that was really flippin loud!


Back side of the dogg. Shows power button with the accessory jacks on the left and right of it. Not the most informative, but atleast you can see what I saw. Seemed like a pretty decent unit. Again as long as it brings in predators thats all that matters!

Stinkyrat

[wraithen]

The only thing that I wonder about that is how that remote displays in extremely cold conditions and what kind of range you get with it. All in all it looks like a great unit. I am not trashing primos product by any stretch when I say this, but there is a reason people are super loyal to foxpro. They fix anything any time and always try to make things right. Whether you drop them off a cliff or they sent you a bum remote. They even have people lurk on tons of forums to see what problems are and I've seen them try to fix any issue that's come up. That primos though does look like a great product. It's far and away better setup than the spitfire, but that's why I got the wildfire. Super easy to add stuff to and reprogram the remote and when I make sure to put batteries in it and take it off mute it works great. We can meet up and make a good comparo this november. You're in my neck of the woods anyway 

[Blackjaw]

Yeah, the one i saw/[layed around with was Power Dogg not the Turbo. Keep us posted with field reports when you get a chance.

[motg9_6]

wlidlife technologies makes a great call. amazing sound and volume.