Anybody do any night hunting?

[Jerry malbeck]

Sorry been working all day .
In the past i have found that a great calling area ( honeyhole) if you will can really be ruined by night hunting that area . When calling at night your vision is limited to the light . More often then not you will have multiple coyotes responding to your distress call . At best your going to take(one) said animal , what happens to the others that were coming in or were in that given area? they get educated , no matter how quiet you are you have to go and get that animal you just put down after the shot , your going to walk or drive out of the area making noise and stinking up the place .( how many times have you walked into an area to be greeted by a warning bark?)  coyotes tend to gather in a given area, again Honeyhole, if they cannot feel comfortable in that area at night( the hours that they rule that area) it is my opinion they will quit staying in that area, if you continue calling it at night it will soon become unproductive . hence my statement.If i was going to call at night it wouldnt be on any ground i call i the day . . just my 2 cents , doesnt mean its true , just what i have found in the areas i call .

[Machias]

Thanks Jerry for your thoughts, I appreciate them.  All those things you mentioned also take place during daylight.  Very few guys calling an area, consistently take multiple dogs at each calling site.  Allot of times you have dogs that come in and get "educated", if they don't get smoked.  That is why I always change the way I approach an area and vary my sounds, in case they are getting "educated".  I also have multiple calling locations, so I may only hunt a given area 5 or 6 times a winter.  The other thing is unless it's private property you have no idea how many other guys have hunted your honeyhole before or after you.  I honestly don't believe night hunting has any more or less effect on an area then daytime alone.  Two big pluses for me at night, bobcats are much easier to call in and see and very few dogs slip in unseen and leave.  That's just my 2 cents.

[KTMSMOKER]

I have seen the same kinda thing turkey hunting.  The bird will respond opening day.  Come back to the same area at the end of the season and the birds get "called -out" or "over called."  They will run from your calls.  Probably different for yote hunting, but sounds similar.  I have had good luck by changing my calls.  One of my calls sounds terrible, not even similar to a turkey, doesnt work during the first part of the season.  However, it works at the end of the season.  This certain area is hunted hard by alot of people.  Not sure if its similar, but sounds kinda the same.

[Machias]

I have seen the same kinda thing turkey hunting.  The bird will respond opening day.  Come back to the same area at the end of the season and the birds get "called -out" or "over called."  They will run from your calls.  Probably different for yote hunting, but sounds similar.  I have had good luck by changing my calls.  One of my calls sounds terrible, not even similar to a turkey, doesnt work during the first part of the season.  However, it works at the end of the season.  This certain area is hunted hard by alot of people.  Not sure if its similar, but sounds kinda the same.

Very similar, however yotes can smell.     Good thing turkeys can't smell.  Growing up in MO, by the second week of the season they would run from loud aggressive calling and box calls.  Soft little slate calls and they would come walking right in.

[Bofire]

 :)I have heard the same basic comment as Jerry made before, an old timer told me that he thought night hunters saw 1 out of 10 dogs they called, shot a quarter of those, and trained the rest. Now cats are a different critter.
I aint saying thats true but its a thought.
Carl

[Jerry malbeck]

 I have to disagee with you on the things i mentioned happening in the light of day as well.Possible yes , but not by me , I usually hunt alone.
We all have our own Ideas i guess, like i said just what i have seen in my areas .
 I hunt all private acres and for the most part am the only one allowed to call for predators on the ground.
 Bobcats are a whole diffrent story dont you agree?.
they are nothing like a coyote when called in and are not easily educated .
 Most i have seen are dumber then a box of rocks , Shoot at them and miss and they just sit there, not to many coyotes do that LOL.
 Thanks for the input, Maybe one day we can get together and you can change my mind .

[Machias]

I have to disagee with you on the things i mentioned happening in the light of day as well.Possible yes , but not by me , I usually hunt alone.
We all have our own Ideas i guess, like i said just what i have seen in my areas .
 I hunt all private acres and for the most part am the only one allowed to call for predators on the ground.
 Bobcats are a whole diffrent story dont you agree?.
they are nothing like a coyote when called in and are not easily educated .
 Most i have seen are dumber then a box of rocks , Shoot at them and miss and they just sit there, not to many coyotes do that LOL.
 Thanks for the input, Maybe one day we can get together and you can change my mind .

Agreed on the cats.  And I'd love to hunt with you, probably change my mind.  I appreciate your thoughts on the subject.

[KTMSMOKER]

Sorry about this, but I burned my regs at deer camp, needed heat.  Can you shoot bobcats and cougar at night?  I know cougar have a specific seasone, but can you shoot bobcats whenever like yotes?  I was thinking the other day (this can be painful) We nearly eliminated wolfs, bison, moose, and cougar (arguably).  People have been shooting the crap out of yotes day/night all year long and these buggers are still thick (until the wolves eat them all ) Kinda strange these critters are so strong.  Sorry.

[carpsniperg2]

i do a ton of spotlighting i love it so much. only small game yotes and bobcats and such. a cougar is a big game animal and can not be hunted at night.

[buckhorn2]

You never know what might show up calling at night. Started calling one night in the high dessert in Oregon and all of a sudden the ground started shaking and when we hit the light we had called in about 2 dozen wild horses with steam coming out of there noses it scared us real good.

[Machias]

I have called in tons of fox, quite a few bobcats, alot of yotes, several deer, and two donkeys.  The donkeys came running in with their heads down, I hit them with the white light to ID em and was quite suprised looking at those loooong ears.   

[rasbo]

I have called in tons of fox, quite a few bobcats, alot of yotes, several deer, and two donkeys.  The donkeys came running in with their heads down, I hit them with the white light to ID em and was quite suprised looking at those loooong ears.   

thats funny,I had a herd of cattle in the daylight run at me in Idaho,I bout shat myself,