Gonna start with coyotes.

[Smossy]

Ok everyone I've pretty much decided my best bet would be to find an interested buddy who's wanting to go out at night to call in and spot ssome coyotes. I have a great bow. A great drive to get something. Anyone have any suggestions on high coyote populated areas. I hear them all night out past roy where my girl lives but I'm kinda on edge of doing calls to bring them around juss for the simple fact that us and quite a few local neihbors have cattle, dogs, cats. Etc. We just recently lost our prized bangel cat named koda. Beautiful creature. Amazing lovable cat with his still wild intincts. Only cat to ever PUNK me. Hell come after u like a dog lol. But unfortunetly we lost him due to coyotes in the area or possible eagles. What's everyones opinion on that and what do you think my best bet would be to do? Ill like to eliminate a majority of the yotess in the area but yet to figure out an effective safe way to do it. Any ideas?

[Smossy]

And if anyone would ever like to tag along or let me tag along and teach me a thing or two I'm all ears. Don't have a problem helping with gas and food.

[szairborne]

Where are you located? I have a bow and would love to get a few coyotes.

Shayne

[team steak em]

im new the the elma area so id love to pal around in the woods shooting these wild poachers i have a 22 mag rifle thatwould be excellent let me know and ill be ready

[scotty1969]

im glad to see this after you replied so many times to my post yesterday(negatively)I see people were coming out of the woodworks here to help you out.

[Special T]

Calling them in is reallyyour only choice to see them on a regular basis, and especially since you will use a bow. They are keene on movement so its hard to kill one with a bow. I've killed them with everything BUT a bow... Good luck!

[Smossy]

im glad to see this after you replied so many times to my post yesterday(negatively)I see people were coming out of the woodworks here to help you out.

This was one of my early\first posts. I learned from that. In which. Tried to pass on how it works to you. If you took that as negative then thats on you. I wasnt complaining when no one offered right away sir. Now ive met (in person) over 20 members and i have numerous people offering to show me\take me elk and white tail hunting this coming up season. Plus i cannot be around firearms so i need to pick and choose within those offers so im not violating state law.

[RadSav]

Starting with one of the toughest to get with the bow!  You master that and deer and elk will seem like a cake walk.

Calling coyotes in the dark to within bow range is much harder than during the daylight.  Even with the red lense on your light they get quite skittish around 100 yards.  Night time is the best with rifle, but loaded with issues with the bow.  But it can be done.  Probably no other animal has the sense of smell forcing you to play the wind as much as a coyote too.

I'm not up on the current laws of baiting coyotes in Washington, but I know guys that do very well with the bow baiting those flea bitten varmints.  One friend does extremely well on dogs with the pellet rifle combined with baiting too.  Though again if in Washington I would check the regulations first as I'm not real up to date on any weapon restrictions for coyote hunting in WA.

I assume it has been posted on H-W before, but here is a cool pellet gun/coyote video.   Coyote Hunting With Fred Eichler of Predator Nation and the Benjamin Rogue Air Rifle

At 20 yards a .22 pellet to the head works wonders as well.  As long as it is out of an extremelly high performance air rifle.  Guys will probably balk at it around here, but in Arizona it is quite common place.  One of the Arizona airgun clubs actually has a airgun/coyote derby each year.  But again it calls for close up shots and that usually means daylight hours unless you bait or are skilled and lucky.

Good luck to you

[Special T]

I would say your best time of day would be day break for calling with a bow. I've seen more at that time.

[Smossy]

Starting with one of the toughest to get with the bow!  You master that and deer and elk will seem like a cake walk.

Calling coyotes in the dark to within bow range is much harder than during the daylight.  Even with the red lense on your light they get quite skittish around 100 yards.  Night time is the best with rifle, but loaded with issues with the bow.  But it can be done.  Probably no other animal has the sense of smell forcing you to play the wind as much as a coyote too.

I'm not up on the current laws of baiting coyotes in Washington, but I know guys that do very well with the bow baiting those flea bitten varmints.  One friend does extremely well on dogs with the pellet rifle combined with baiting too.  Though again if in Washington I would check the regulations first as I'm not real up to date on any weapon restrictions for coyote hunting in WA.

I assume it has been posted on H-W before, but here is a cool pellet gun/coyote video.   Coyote Hunting With Fred Eichler of Predator Nation and the Benjamin Rogue Air Rifle

At 20 yards a .22 pellet to the head works wonders as well.  As long as it is out of an extremelly high performance air rifle.  Guys will probably balk at it around here, but in Arizona it is quite common place.  One of the Arizona airgun clubs actually has a airgun/coyote derby each year.  But again it calls for close up shots and that usually means daylight hours unless you bait or are skilled and lucky.

Good luck to you

Thanks again for your expertise RadSav. Ive thought about the air rifle thing myself but im not sure about how it works when hunting predators/pests. I think its not legal in our state but ive been known for being wrong before. We actually gotta go pick up some used coyote 3d targets from a gentlemen we met on here at cabelas today. Good deal on them but theyre quite used. Thats alright though gonna start setting them around the yard and practice practice practice. Id like to be effective with those lil guys at 60 yards. Still have some fine tuning to do on my bow though. Dont think id attempt that range on big game though.. not yet atleast.

[Special T]

Depending on how "used" the targets are, you may be able to revive them by taking some cheep silicone calking from walmart, $2 a tube and filling in the holes helping ot bind the foam together. If there are BIG chunks gone you can use the "Great stuff" expanding foam to fill the voids.You need to wrap them in plastic wrap to trap the foam in. I have had mixed resultswith this method, but may work for sporadic use. In either case you would need to keep them in a warm spot 60+ deg while the foam or calking cures. I would think that inside a house at 60deg placed near a heat lamp or space heater you could get the temp a little higher and speed the cure time.

[Smossy]

Depending on how "used" the targets are, you may be able to revive them by taking some cheep silicone calking from walmart, $2 a tube and filling in the holes helping ot bind the foam together. If there are BIG chunks gone you can use the "Great stuff" expanding foam to fill the voids.You need to wrap them in plastic wrap to trap the foam in. I have had mixed resultswith this method, but may work for sporadic use. In either case you would need to keep them in a warm spot 60+ deg while the foam or calking cures. I would think that inside a house at 60deg placed near a heat lamp or space heater you could get the temp a little higher and speed the cure time.

We got them earlier. Theyre in decent condition. Def still shootable and guarantee there will be no passthroughs. Thanks for the advice to about the silicone and expanding foam. Itll be nice to have some solid targets for a change. The guy was really cool too. Ill keep him anonymous but hes willing to take me out scouting and looking for some deer. Really enthusiastic about it! Cant wait.

[Curly]

Get more cats to use as bait.  It appears that the yotes in the area already have a taste for cat.
 

[hollymaster]

Have you thought about a crossbow? It would get you more range? 

[Smossy]

Have you thought about a crossbow? It would get you more range? 

Not much more. If im not mistaken average effective range for xbow is 60 yards. But my question about that is... im not alowed to possess firearms... im limited already on my season... but.. being as its year round to hunt for coyotes would i actually be able to use one for that? Hmm you brought up a good idea worth finding out... i didnt want to pick up a xbow origioanly because i want to use my compound durring big game season and not have to choose between the two. So would i/ should i pick up a crossbow strictly for year round animal hunting? Coyote/rabbit etc. Then i could put electronics on it if im not mistaken like my lights at night to chase yotes. Sorry for my weird typing if it looks off.. im on my unsmart smart phone.