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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: slavenoid on May 28, 2022, 07:48:52 PM

Title: What's with this coyote?
Post by: slavenoid on May 28, 2022, 07:48:52 PM: Switched to mushroom mode on a turkey hunt. Saw a coyote stop and stare at me for an unusual amount of time before jogging off. Couple hundred yards later I turned around and the coyote was following my track. It was maybe 20 yards at most matching every step I took. It eventually flanked me and popped out right in front of me cutting me off.

I have never had a coyote encounter ever result in anything other than tucking tail and running immediately. Is this a thing that happens normally? What could it be doing?
Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: Southpole on May 28, 2022, 07:57:03 PM: I had a coyote years ago do that to me while I was hiking around. I figured it was a female trying to distract from her den is all I could figure.
Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: Okanagan on May 28, 2022, 08:01:16 PM: VERY odd. Am curious if anyone has any idea what was going on with this coyote.

On two occasions I've had a coyote seemingly ignore me at close range, (8 feet one time, 15 feet the other) but I stood still, and each one soon walked away, apparently unspooked. Very different from your experience.
Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: slavenoid on May 28, 2022, 08:26:41 PM: Quote from: Southpole on May 28, 2022, 07:57:03 PM
I had a coyote years ago do that to me while I was hiking around. I figured it was a female trying to distract from her den is all I could figure.

Could be something to that. It didn't seem like it wanted to do me harm or anything but more like it had a duty to do it.
Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: emac on May 28, 2022, 08:48:56 PM: My biggest? Is why didn't you shoot it. If it was 20 yards from you with a Turkey load.

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Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: slavenoid on May 28, 2022, 09:04:35 PM: Quote from: emac on May 28, 2022, 08:48:56 PM
My biggest? Is why didn't you shoot it. If it was 20 yards from you with a Turkey load.

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Shotgun was strapped to pack. I was committed to picking mushrooms at this point.
Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: Timberstalker on May 28, 2022, 10:08:45 PM: One major thing that’s wrong is that it’s not dead.
Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: hunter399 on May 29, 2022, 06:08:55 AM: I have let a young yote go before.
We where eating lunch, little young guy came out on the road and just stood there.
I grabbed a 22 mag rifle I had in the truck,I started to walk up to it. Got as close as a dog being on a leash. That little sucker walked right up the road right in front of me like it was my dog or something. I could of shot it in the back of the head at any time.
Anyway it was a puppy,it was the middle of summer,it was hot out, and it looked like it wasn't doing well.
After it walked up the road in front of me for a 100 yards or more,and just the way it looked,and it wasn't really hunting shooting it in the back of the head.
I decided I let God figure it out,and I let him go.
It looked strange anyway that it had no fear of me,looked sucked up,I figured that wasn't my choice to make.
Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: GWP on May 29, 2022, 07:36:49 AM: Hope it was not rabid or infectious with something. Sometimes being ‘compassionate’ is not the best course of action.
Perhaps God lined you two up so the situation could be resolved? Hard to say.
Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: hunter399 on May 29, 2022, 07:40:07 AM: Quote from: GWP on May 29, 2022, 07:36:49 AM
Hope it was not rabid or infectious with something. Sometimes being ‘compassionate’ is not the best course of action.
Perhaps God lined you two up so the situation could be resolved? Hard to say.
Yup can't go back on it.
I'll never know if I made the right choice.
I'm sure my co-worker that was back at the truck was waiting for the gun shot.
Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: bkaech on May 29, 2022, 09:32:53 PM: There is a reason dogs became domesticated. They can be curious creatures, not all, but a few of them. Some have the propensity to be curious and behave this way. These days most of those dogs get shot. At least that is what comes to my head when I hear this type of behavior.
Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: idaho guy on May 29, 2022, 10:38:37 PM: Quote from: Timberstalker on May 28, 2022, 10:08:45 PM
One major thing that’s wrong is that it’s not dead.
:yeah:
Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: Flaming Antler Outdoors on May 30, 2022, 06:45:22 AM: It's a female with pups near. They just had litters
Title: Re: What's with this coyote?
Post by: LDennis24 on May 30, 2022, 11:40:10 AM: Yeah it's a female with pups and she was distracting you. Some have pups that are out already exploring the world. Probably not rabid. You should have shot it anyways. I have some pics from last year on May 21 of some pups I was working by playing in the field and hiding in the culvert. They were about the size of an average house cat this time last year.