How Did You Get Started Coyote Hunting ?

[vmaster59]

Hi,this the friend that got me started hunting coyotes over 35 yrs.ago. I still have the first tape I ever got and it was a tape of his dog's pups crying. Man did it ever work. He is gone now and we all miss him very much. I now hunt with his son. It's been awhile for he has moved off to Ok. He comes down from time to time and we go calling. Thanks Clint.

[SCcoyotehunter]

My brother in law bought me a electric caller for Christmas three years ago. Been hooked ever since.

[alscalls]

In the late 80's we were hunting Fox in the north east corner of Ohio.......and I saw my first one come to a call......been hooked ever since but did not get into it real hard till about 10-12 years ago.

[vmaster59]

Hi,cool once you try it there's no going back LOL.

Clint

[Okanagan]

Some of my earliest memories are of my dad carrying me on his shoulders while he hunted or followed the hounds in Oklahoma.  I started hunting coons and progressed to coyotes when we moved:  still hunt walking, spotting and stalking them in the sage of E. WA with a single shot .22 and later a 30-30 carbine.  Open sights but both rifles killed them.  I read of the Burnham brothers and tried calling a couple of times about 1960 with a doubtful friend who talked too much, though we called one we didn't get a shot at.

In college I met a girl and got serious enough to go hunting with her dad, who was a bow hunter and predator caller.  He had a Burnham call and showed me how to make the simple "two slats with a reed" call and tune them for different critters.  I married his daughter.  

The first time I did the calling, using a call I'd made, a coyote charged to within touching distance.  The adrenaline has never quite shut down.  Calling critters interested me so I used coyotes as a baseline and I learned to call everything I could.  I'm well past 30 kinds of critters called, not counting waterfowl and still learning.  I've been fortunate to call in a wide variety of places, from rain forest to severe desert, from Southern California and Arizona to northern BC and Saskatchewan and some places in between.  Today I tried to call mule deer, moose and a coyote.  The coyote came in to an experimental deer call that had already called several mule deer today.  Since he had exceptional looking fur I decided to shoot him and did some lip squeaks.  Then I held out for a shot that would not mess up fur with my deer rifle, and let him get away without even shooting at him!

[pitw]

First one I called in was a total accident when I was 10 with a blade of grass between my thumbs.  Never had a gun with me but it taught me something I never forgot .  I've been killing them out of necessity and for their hides ever since and somewhere near the beginning the fun part of the hunt showed up as well.

[JohnP]

Had to be in the late 40's or early 50's and it was a matter of survival.  Something was eating all my leghorns and they were my 4H project.  I sat in a small apple tree in the chicken yard all day with my model 12 16gauge but to no avail.  When I went in for some super my dad told me that I wasted a day sitting in a day.  You should sit there right before dark and see what happens he said.  I went back out and sat in that tree, right before dark had a gray come sneaking in, when he got directly under my tree I shot him.  Been hooked on it ever since. 

[HaMeR]

My start was squirrel related. I was getting my squirrel vest & 22LR out of the back of the Bronco one very foggy AM, the kind you see in the werewolf movies   ,, when suddenly they all just lit up!! It sounded like 3 or 4 coyotes & I still remember the hair standing up on the back of my neck!! Then I realized they were howling right about where I was headed. So off I went in stealth mode hoping to see one & get a shot at it. I've been hooked ever since.  

[FinsnFur]

Cant remember how I got started.
I think rick223 and I just decided to go give it a shot one day after watching Randy Anderson videos for so many years. :roflmao:

[Jimmie in Ky]

They got into dad's goats in 88 and I cured his problem. Caused a huge problem for me though, I still can't get enough of it  Jimmie

[Bills Custom Calls]

I started about 4 years ago when we were building the new house and I saw a pup walk across the drive.Been reading studying and hunting coyotes since then.Seems like everytime I think I get them figured out they teach me something new.

I have hunted with a few different folks and used many different calls,and I am still learning

[Palegroe]

Jan. 1,1998 all of my friends stayed out all nite drinking and and I went to sleep early so I could get up and try out a Haydel's Goverment Cottain tale I got for christmas.  Took a Ruger 7mm mag it was the last gun a buddy of mines dad bought before he died and he had asked me to site it in for him cause he couldn't bare to shot it. I took that gun and didn't really think I would see nothing at all.  Ended up having the first bobcat I had ever seen in my life come in to about 70 yards and set down on its rear and just look at me.  All I could see was its head took the shot and have been addicted ever since.  I kill a cat every year on Jan. 1st in that same field.  I save that stand for that one hunt a year and its always paid off.

[Wolfwoman]

Well I haven't yet..... plan on trying some calling this winter.... if I ever get the calls I need.... 

Should be an interesting winter.... maybe..... 

[Frogman]

I have hunted deer and small game since I was just a kid.  I have fond memories of my Dad taking me squrrell hunting.  Especially the first time he let me carry the single shot 20 gauge.  I have always looked forward to hunting season.  As a school teacher WV schools usually closed for the first week of deer season.  If they didn't most of the kids and teachers would be absent anyway!!  Thing was, the seasons just didn';t seem to last long enough to suit me.  In 2005 a friend of mine that I groundhog hunted with some asked me if I would like to try coyote hunting.  We went a couple of times.  He had called in and killed a couple of dogs, but we never saw any the couple of times we were out.  When I retired from the school system in 2007 I wanted to find something I could hunt all year round.  I thought of coyote hunting.  I had an old "Sears" Predator call and did a few stands with a deer hunting friend with no success.  I started reading everything I could find in magazines, books and on the internet.  I used info from the internet to make a homemade e-caller with an mp3 player and a speaker from Radio Shack.  On our 12th stand my deer hunting buddy and I finally called in a coyote that I was able to kill.  It was a really nice big male.



You can tell by the look on my face I was hooked!!  Now WV has extended the deer season.  I still deer hunt a little the first few days of season.  I always take my calls with me.  Deer season and the mandatory blaze orange just seems like a big nuisance to me now.  I would rather hunt the coyotes!!  I'm still learning from any source I can find.  The guys on this forum have contributed much to my coyote education.

Jim

[LBLDOG]

I have been hunting coyotes going on 7 years this year. I was looking for something to do between bow season and turkey season and this wad it . Ithink about yotes 24/7 love this more than anyother hunting. I love hunting THE HUNTER !!

[JDMiller]

 Being born & raised in Ky.... hunting in general has been a big part of my life. I was given my first 22lr at age 6 and my first squirrel & rabbit was that same year. Started bowhunting deer before I ever gun hunted them... then turkey hunting was soon to follow. I'm 42 now... so.. thats about 36 years of chasing critters.

As for my yote hunting.....still wet behind the ears.... just started last December. A friend of mine on another forum invited me to do some bobcat & yote hunting at LBL. I honestly knew nothing about the sport of predator hunting but my first experience was a blast. Been hooked ever since.

I've taken 5 yotes since then.... made plenty of mistakes in the process and tried to learn from them. Have had good advice from some of the KY boys that also post here. Made the learning curve a whole lot easier. I've went from not knowing what to do... to a bag full of calls... decoys... even invested in my first 22-250. You can say... I dove in head first but what a feeling to bring a yote to the call. 

With that said.... probably the most addictive type hunting I've ever done.

[vmaster59]

"probably the most addictive type hunting I've ever done. " I head that.

[bigben]

I never really just went coyote hunting.  I started fox hunting and just happened to kill a coyote.  Coyotes are starting to work their way into the local areas I hunt in numbers that are huntable. 

[LORDDAL]

Been in and out of the woods all my life My Dad and big brother always took me hunting with them everytime they went out ever since I was big enough to walk. My Dad was hard core turkey hunter and will always be the best Bird man to ever walk the planet him and my grandad made their own mouth calls way before you could ever buy one in a store I always told him yep you made some buddy s friend a call and they cashed in on it he would laugh and just say that how it goes. My Big Brother took me everywhere taught me to shoot hunt track and everything specially bow my dad was no bow hunter thats for sure my brother was a gunsmith taught me everything he knew about guns from fixing them to reloading been doing that since I was 5 now I got Logan helping me out passin it right on along like I was taught. Never really was much into predator hunting till I hit 18 then one cold November Day Dad and I were out deer huntin remember he was a bird man I can only think of 4 deer he ever killed and wouldnt want to begin to count mine any way Dad and I were making our way along a ridge in some real nice snow when I saw him. Not 80 yards uphill old wiley coyote his own self stood lookin at dad and had no Idea I was there. Dad had no idea he was there either cause I scared the living bejeebers out of him when my 30-06 cracked and that was the first Yote I ever killed and man a 180 grain silvertip makes a mess of em for sure. after that I killed as many as I could run across for the bounty that was on them at the time hen the bounty got dropped and I quit. i got back into hunting predators a few years ago again and have now gone to calling still waiting to bag on called in I kill several a yea but I just happen to be in the right places at the rigth times I guess though I do love hearing them answer when I howl at em at night

[vmaster59]

Cool.


Clint