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Topic: Mud! Going out Anyway
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Zach
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posted May 13, 2005 11:51 AM
It has rained in Wyoming for 4 days in a row. It is muddy everywhere! The sun is out and things are warming up. I am going coyote hunting tomorrow. What are your opinions on coyote responses when it is muddy? I know where one breeding pair live and I am setting up near by.
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2dogs
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posted May 13, 2005 12:00 PM
The only type of weather, I've found. That they don't like are {snow-blizzards & rain}. Sounds like you ought to go.
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Melvin
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posted May 13, 2005 08:05 PM
After all that rain they should be getting pretty hungry..They probably would put it in 4 wheel drive to get to ya...Go get em!!
[ May 13, 2005, 08:07 PM: Message edited by: Melvin ]
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Leonard
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posted May 13, 2005 09:29 PM
Main thing is; don't get stuck too far off the road. But, coyotes move in the mud, when they have to. I have killed coyotes that were just muddy from head to foot. I don't think they prefer cold and wet any more than we do, but they are survivors. Ultimate survivors
Good hunting. LB
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Az-Hunter
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posted May 13, 2005 11:07 PM
Two winters ago, I called a pair, that I first caught sight of possibly 400 yards away, coming over a wide volcanic ridge. It had rained the night before, and was still drizzling on and off. I grew four inches higher just walking a couple hundred yards to make a stand. I watched the second of the pair, a big male, as it stopped halfway thru the death charge to the cottontail 101, to chew the mud balls off his feet, which were the size of tennis balls.
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Zach
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posted May 14, 2005 05:47 PM
Turns out where I hunted tends to dry fast. The only sloppy spots were the low spots that had puddled up. Everything else was about as moist as my lawn after I water it. I walked to the far end of a state section, one mile, mud did fill in the soles of my boots. I sat one third of the way down from the top of the biggest hill in the area. Waited about 15 minutes and then howled with my Preymaster. 5 minutes later howled again, this time a lone howl came from behind me. I switched sides of a sagebrush which was my only cover. 5 minutes later I hit the "Pleading Chicken" funny name but it is one raspy call. I didn't see a thing. The whole time my young cur dog is milling around but not getting too far out due to the sea of cactus surronding us. I switched to the fighting coyote/grey fox call. I had little faith in it as I haven't had a response to it before. But it does sound like a coyote attacking a younger pup so I gave it a shot. I sat for about 10 more minutes in silence. As I was about to get up for the long walk back I did one more look around and there he was. Staring at my dog and myself. He was nervous at first but seemed to relax as he laid down to watch us. He stayed down for seven minutes, the whole time I was trying to encourage my dog to head out that way but I guess he doesn't understand human. So I gave a few challenge howls. Nothing. The coyote never gave one vocalization to give away his presence to my dog. I am sure he wouldn't have stayed so long without my dog there though. He stood up and started to cautiously walk away. That is when I shot him, one time in the chest, he dropped and died in seconds. I paced it off at 160 yards. When we got closer my dog caught his scent and ran up to chew on him a little bit. Best of all the rancher that owns the land came to investigate and gave me a ride back to my truck! Now if I can only get that dog to look harder for the coyote in the distance.
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2dogs
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posted May 14, 2005 05:53 PM
Zach,
Congrats! Thanks for the story.
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