Tips and Tactics

We’ve all heard people talking about how they’ve shot a coyote at a thousand yards on a dead run. How they’ve had three coyotes come into their calls and bagged all three of them, and my favorite scenario is when the coyote came in so close that they didn’t [click to continue…]

If you want to maximize your productivity on stand you might be asking when is the best time to coyote hunt? What effects does temperature, barometric pressure and moon phase have on coyote hunting and how can you use them to your advantage? If you have the luxury of choosing which days you would like to get out calling, then answers to these questions will help you know when the most productive times would be to be out in the field. [click to continue…]

The sun was just rising over the mountains to the east as we approached the desert valley. We turned off the pavement and headed down a dirt road. As we surveyed the landscape we found a huge wide-open valley with very little vegetation. We had to improvise to make this work. We wanted to hunt together so we could enjoy the stories, but there was just no place to hide the truck. My calling partner dropped me off [click to continue…]

A few years ago I planned a coyote calling trip with a couple of good friends, one of which was new to hunting coyotes. We made plans for the trip and loaded up all of our gear and travelled a good distance from home for a day of calling. We arrived to the area we were going to hunt just before daylight and began getting our coyote hunting gear ready. As we were about to walk out on our first stand of the morning I noticed one of the guys [click to continue…]

The question always seems to arise as to which is the best coyote call on the market. There are many different calls out there and the task of choosing just one as the best coyote call is probably more a matter of opinion than reality. There are some good call manufacturers out there that make quality products. The beginning coyote hunter out there can ask this question, “What about me, I am new to calling coyotes?” Well here is our recommendation. [click to continue…]

Where did you learn the fundamentals of marksmanship, or have you? Most of us learned how to shoot from our dads who learned to shoot from their dads. Did your dad teach you the fundamentals or have you had to overcome your bad habits as you continue shooting. When it comes to shooting, hunters come in every skill level. There are those that are highly skilled, those that are pretty good at getting the job done, and those that, [click to continue…]

I recently started shooting in a trap league one night a week to continue practicing shotgunning coyotes. The trap league consists of shooting a round of singles and then a round of doubles. While most of the guys involved are shooting an over and under shotgun, I have been using my field shotgun. Why not practice trap with what I am going to take into the field predator calling. As I began shooting in this league I had someone ask me [click to continue…]

As I browsed through the shelves at Cabela’s I was in search of a cheaper method to take coyotes than Hevi-Shot Dead Coyote. I settled on two different loads. The first being a box of Winchester lead BB shot and the second being a box of Hevi-Shot Hevi-Metal also in a shot size of BB. When I got home I realized that the Hevi-Metal was a Hevi-Shot / Steel shot mix. I thought… what have I just bought, [click to continue…]

Probably the biggest question, for good reason, that gets asked about coyote hunting is where to find coyotes. Finding where a coyote is will definately up your odds of being able to harvest one. If you do a search on the internet for coyote numbers you will find the number of coyotes are growing. This should make finding a coyote easier, but with the popularity of more and more people going out to hunt them it makes it much harder to bring them in. [click to continue…]