My Coyote Graveyard

[RoyBoy]

my neighbors have like 30 + differnt kinds of chickens, rabbits, doves, ect ect.. needless to say the last month or so she said every night at about 11 or so three different packs will move in from each side and get within 50-80 yards of her house some even closer just trying to eat her animals so needless to say that is where i will be tuesday and wednsday night!!! wish me luck   

[nontypical176]

If you make the big kill, start a graveyard.  I could probably be shooting more in mine, but I work out of town a lot.  Was gone for 9 days before I got the last one and I only started the graveyard about a month ago.  Still LMAO.  It really makes them dumb, the coyotes I've been shooting around the house before the graveyard were real cautious and gone in a flash...The coyotes coming from, going to, and standing in the graveyard act drunk and are giving me some easy shots.

[RoyBoy]

that is to damn funny lol

[bbay81]

easy shots usually each complacency, complacency= missed shots 

easy shots that are missed are caused by the "Ready, fire, aim." strategy.

[KimberRich]

That's awesome.  Good shooting.

[nontypical176]

I would still be killing coyotes there, I have heard them and seen things at the graveyard site, but the grass and brush has gotten so tall that I can barely see a deer walking through.  Bout a weak ago I could see something moving around there, put the spotting scope on it for over 20 minutes, but couldn't identify the target.  I'm sure it was a coyote, but what do you do....

I am going to bag up all I can of the bones/hair and move them to a spot that I can still see into.  The old location might produce again after the vegetation dies back down, but this winter will be the last time it will be visible so it must be moved.  Sorry I haven't set up my game cam on it, I actually did but my Bushnell broke permanently and my Cuddeback is just now functional again.  As soon as I get time to move the graveyard it will have a game cam on it.  I know there will be action there because I have heard them howling to their dead friends, just cant see'em through the tall grass/trees.  I am curious to see what all has been in there, 3 of the dead coyotes disapeared like they were carried off by something.

I can't believe how many coyotes are actually in this area.  I've probably shot 10 this year total and just last night I heard multiple coyotes howling.  I figured I put a big dent in their population, but maybe not.  Makes you wonder how any fawns survive at all.  When the coyotes are howling the only doe that has any fawns left comes right into my yard for protection.  Shes the only doe in the area that had any survivors last year too, but she is people friendly and keeps them fawns close to me and the neighbors houses.

[sebek556]

one or two words... weed whacker 

[Heredoggydoggy]

one or two words... weed whacker 

   Just what I was thinking--even just cutting a shooting lane through the tall stuff.  I knocked down the tall Thistles that were growing up in front of my game camera.  Didn't seem to bother the deer any. 

[seth30]

Congrats!!!

[ICEMAN]

Wow nontypical, coyote armageddon! Good for you!

[nontypical176]

Haven't been home much, and apparently the coyotes were enjoying themselves.  Shot the first one 100' from my graveyard looked like he'd been munching a blue jay.  2 days later I here a coyote going nuts down by the creek.  Gave it a little yelp from my new Cowhorn coyote howler I bought from R.R. Game Calls (a site sponsor on here) and that thing came in so quick it was less than 50' away before I could put the call down and grab my gun.  1 male 1 female both looked healthy.   

Sorry if anyone is offended by the coyotes hanging from the branch, but something has packed off a few of them.  I want to keep the skulls/bones/hair from the yotes I'm shooting here....maybe its a fettish, or maybe they will be used later in scientific experiments.  Also, after 2 months of a game camera pointed at my coyote graveyard there was only 2 deer on the cam, but a bunch of coyotes and nothing else.


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[grundy53]

Nice pile! You are really doing the local deer herd a favor!

[bearhunter99]

Great job, keep wacking em!

[Hunter Dug]

I was seeing a lot of deer around my property but come fawning time none of them had fawns, so I set out to see what was going on.  After tredging the back 40 I noticed a lot of coyote crap it was on every trail, in every clearing it was just crazy.  So I set out to kill a few.  Over the course of 3 months I killed 5 coyotes.  The next year we had 8 new fawns.  So, with out a dought you are doing the deer a huge favor.  Most people dont really understand how many coyotes there really are in the the woods.  Here in Southwest Washington most of the area is so overgrown you just never see them.  Great job keep it up.  I bet you money you have twice the amount of deer in the up coming years.

[nontypical176]

I sure hope there is more deer, and other critters too, like bunnies and grouse.  Killed a pile of them coyotes this year all within an area less than 5 acres and they just keep coming.  Got this female last night and could hear 2 others over the hill.  Coyotes sure decompose fast.  The 2 I got last weekend are now almost only skin hair and bones,  Have to say....sure do like my new Cowhorn Coyote Howler from R.R. Game calls.  Has them coyotes coming in to snoop around my place and then the Graveyard brings them into the open for the kill shot.