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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: Jeremy Leaf on May 23, 2013, 09:10:51 PM
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I have a yote that has almost got hold of my little buddy twice now. He is a Chihuahua so he's helpless against a yote if out in the open. Both times he ran to me in broad daylight with this yote hot on his trail. Since the last close call I went out and got one of those driveway motion detectors from harbor freight ($18) and put bait in front of the detector. The detector senses heat so wind and stuff has no effect so no false alarms. This setup works awesome because it rings a doorbell sound on the receiver inside to let me know he is there. The problem is the thing is constantly going off from coons, birds and wild ferral cats but the coyote never comes in. I thought this would be a sure fire way to get this guy but it seems he is only interested in food that is alive. I really don't want to set traps out of fear of catching something like a deer. Our property is only 40 acres and deer are everywhere so foot holds and snares would be risky I think. Anyone have experience with a situation like this?
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were are you located at?
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Just outside the city limits of Puyallup.
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Put your dog out in a live trap all safe and sound to draw in the yote...
:bfg:
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I actually thought about that but lets just say the wife is not sold on the idea. I might though if left with no other option.
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Yeah, not really the most PC bait strategy.... :dunno:
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I'm just glad I wasn't the only one who thought it :chuckle:
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Pm me and I'll come over, call it in, and take care of it with a nicely placed broad head.
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I really want to take care of him myself. It's personal now after the second run he took at him. Bad thing is my little buddy is full of piss and vinegar and not really scared of dogs so he's not quick to run for his life.
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Start baiting it with anything you've got. Leftovers from your dinner, bones, dog food even. Maybe set up a trail camera so you can see when it's coming in to the bait. Maybe set up a pop up blind downwind from the bait, and sit there and wait it out, and try to kill it with a shotgun when it comes in.
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um... chances are, it's probably not just a single coyote. :dunno:
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I have been baiting it for a week and have a trail cam on the bait as well as the the motion detector. So far no yotes. I'm sure there are several but so far it has been the same one that keeps trying to get my dog. He is very large for a Washington coyote and not very scared of people. I can't figure out why he would be bold enough to attack in the middle of the day right by my workshop with me there and a radio on pretty loud but then not come into bait even at night. I'm using canned dog food, bacon, canned tuna and chicken for bait.
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hmmm.... maybe hes not trying to "EAT" your dog... lol :chuckle:
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Go to a shelter and adopt some bait. :twocents:
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You guys are just wrong on so many levels :chuckle: Gonna try calling him this weekend. If that doesn't work I guess Lou is going to have to do some time in a small kennel by the edge of the woods. Might have to put him in therapy after though.
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Go to a shelter and adopt some bait. :twocents:
:yeah: :chuckle:
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Holy chit this is funny
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how good of aim does your little buddy have??
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hmmmmm, maybe you could put him in a coat of armor. Then attach treble hooks to him so he can run around like bait. :twocents:
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Here is what I would do .... Put your dog out in the yard staked to a leash ...Then I would sit in the house with the gun in the window and when he comes out to get the dog boooom ! Maybe use a shotgun and shoot before he gets near the dog :twocents: You may have to be quick because the yote could snatch him up real quick like .... :tup:
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I don't even think he has a dog, pic? :dunno:
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Here is a pic of Lou.
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ok, after seeing those eyes, I say I know where you can get a cat to use instead. :chuckle: beautiful dog
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Found another on my phone. Here he is all grown up.
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My suggestion would be a pup distress call on an ecaller
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There were a bunch of the noisy buggers trying to lure my Brittney into the wood night before last. You can get pretty close to them in the dark where you can't see them..... Sounded like a hundred of em.
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Lou is a really cute dog. Hope you kill the damn coyotes. :hunter: :mgun2: :hunt2: :bfg:
I like the idea of using a cat for bait. :tup:
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Here is what I would do .... Put your dog out in the yard staked to a leash ...Then I would sit in the house with the gun in the window and when he comes out to get the dog boooom ! Maybe use a shotgun and shoot before he gets near the dog :twocents: You may have to be quick because the yote could snatch him up real quick like .... :tup:
I forsee this ending like the scene with the donkey and wolf on Enemy at the Gates...
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I have been baiting every weekend since posting this thread but no luck so far other than attracting a large family of raccoons onto my property. I have several trail cams out and it looks like this yote has completely vanished from my land. I'm scared that he will return when we least suspect it and let our guard down. My plan now is to stop baiting and keep checking the trail cams until he comes back.
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Was your dog barking and carrying on when the yote showed up? If so what about trying to record your dogs barking to an e caller and maybe some sort of decoy, like a large cut out pic of the dog :dunno:?? Sounds better to me than using him as live bait. I have a little guy like that also, no way I could use him as bait.
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I had a yote keep trying to get my scotty when I lived in unincorporated Gig Harbor. I bought a little squeaky thing that was supposed to sound like a rabbit in distress and called it in one night and shot him with my 9mm from about 20 yards.
I left the head in the field as a message to the other coyotes.
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i had a yote trying to get "big lou" he is my cat, well i managed to slip out the front door and get around the back before he consumed big lou and smoked the yote with the 06, it was a little messy for sure, but the other yotes steer clear of the big lou now.. :tup:
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the coyote packs in the area around orting like to run a single one in to antagonize pets into chasing them then the pack attacks in an ambush. I've shot a few and left their carcasses on display seems to keep the others away for awhile.
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They used to get coyotes for bounty by putting a triple hook with chicken guts on the hook attached with wire so it hung about 2 feet above the ground it worked but they made it illegal.
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the coyote packs in the area around orting like to run a single one in to antagonize pets into chasing them then the pack attacks in an ambush. I've shot a few and left their carcasses on display seems to keep the others away for awhile.
More likely than not, the others come back and eat the carcass.
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I have been using chicken leg quarters for bait hanging in front of a motion detector to alert me if something comes around. Maybe they are just after fawns right now?
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You need to kill that sucker. We have them around here and I have shot many out of my back yard. We have 2 like yours and they only go outside on long leashes at night. I would suggest you keep him on a leash and keep him close. Not worth loosing your dog. Keep a gun handy and be ready for him.
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Small hole in the ground but large enough to put a bucket in. Zip tie a grate on the top of the bucket that's filled with scraps of food. Drop bucket in the hole.. He (THEY) will come to the smell..Stay down wind and a crossbow is exactly the ticket.
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Nice idea on the bucket in the hole. That will hopefully make all these coons go away if they never get a free meal.
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I am in Bonney Lake and have been trained by the world reknown Jerry Malbeck. Shoot me a PM.
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Well after thinking the yote had moved on to another area we have quite honestly let our guard down for the past few months and have gone back to letting the dogs wonder the property at will. I don't let them go into the woods but other than that we were not being very careful. Last night my son was taking the dogs out before going to bed. There was lots of thunder from a storm coming through so my son wasn't surprised that ol Lou was growling, barking and would not come off the porch. When he went to pick Lou up to make him go to the grass lightning lit up the yard and there that SOB was on the edge of the woods staring right at them. This yote is giving up the ghost come hell or high water. I'm putting trail cams back up tomorrow and my son and I are going to hunt him until he's dead. I will post pics of his dead carcass asap...
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LET EM HAVE IT :mgun: :mgun: :mgun: :mgun:
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I can help you guys out, I have a foxpro as well. I have been hearing about a problem with them over by Highway Grocery and Foothills Elementary. I know a guy out there who has lost 3 cats to em.
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Its a little late now, but you can hunt coyotes at night with artificial light, except during months of Sept, Oct and Nov.
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When did the artificial light rule take effect? Is it any artificial light period? Or any light with a power source plugged into a vehicle?
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Id start using a leash
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When did the artificial light rule take effect? Is it any artificial light period? Or any light with a power source plugged into a vehicle?
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It has been around a little while, can't say for how long, but it has to do with dates and areas open for modern firearm deer & elk.
Page 70 in the reg book:
Night Hunting and Hound Hunting
During Deer and Elk Hunting Seasons
Hunting at night:
• Bobcat and raccoon may be hunted
at night during established bobcat
and raccoon seasons, EXCEPT it is
unlawful to hunt bobcat and raccoon
at night during the months of
September, October, or November
in any area open to a modern
firearm deer or elk season.
• Coyote may be hunted at night
year round, EXCEPT it is unlawful
to hunt coyote at night during the
months of September, October,
or November in any area open to a
modern firearm deer or elk season.
It is not so much about the use of artifical lights, as the regs only specify that big game cannot be hunted with the aid of artifical lights.
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The area probably isn't open to modern firearm deer or elk season for the rest of this month and for the first part of October, so spotlighting might be legal for about 6 or 7 more weeks. Probably ought to be night hunting those damn yotes............save your pet and help save some deer from those yotes. :tup:
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When did the artificial light rule take effect? Is it any artificial light period? Or any light with a power source plugged into a vehicle?
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I use a spotlight with a red lens on my AR's quadrail for night hunting. Runs on CR123's. Remote switch for easy on/off.
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Did you ever get this yote?
