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Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on December 25, 2007, 07:52 PM:

[Razz]

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Posted by stevecriner (Member # 892) on December 25, 2007, 08:23 PM:

Tim, Brother. You put on a few years quick. But to answer with my opinion. Before we really started hearing and seeing alot of road shooters picking up freebies i would see them more in late season out and about during the daylight hours due to temps. But dont exclude our cold early season temps. It seems to me if i do see them out and about its toward 9 am or so and this is when the nights are really cold( 15 to 25). I know our numbers are down and the presure i asume is up because ive put alot of miles on my truck and not seen nothing out and about lately. So my answer was based on previous expieriances.

Posted by Rich Higgins (Member # 3) on December 25, 2007, 09:00 PM:

You're looking good, Tim. Those multi-vitamins are working for you. [Smile]

I see fewer coyotes out and about during the day as the season progresses.

Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on December 25, 2007, 09:18 PM:

Been putting alot of miles on myself and it can make a guy feel really old..LOL [Razz]

Rich.. Lots of Kitty kisses to you.. [Razz]

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Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on December 25, 2007, 11:24 PM:

Tim, 2 weekends ago, the boys and I were out 1 1/2 hrs. West of Denver (mountains). We spotted 6 coyotes from the highway from daylight until about noon. Perhaps, there are always that many out and the snow you and I keep getting make them easier to spot from the road!?!?

Just a guess. Maybe it has more to do with a new snow. It seems, I always see more out and about after a new snow too. Maybe its both things. Maybe neither. [Confused]

Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on December 26, 2007, 04:23 AM:

Late season means colder temps. Colder temps mean higher metabolic demand, thus hungrier coyotes.

Late season also means every other hunting season has either come and gone, or the road hunters are too lazy to actually brave the cold normal to this time of the year. So, rather than walk thru grass for pheasants, they'll drive the roads looking for a coyote which they may or may not hit when they do shoot and, if they do, don't have the foggiest idea what to do with it now that it's dead so they just leave it to rot. Really chaps my butt.

Average lifespan of coyote that doesn't learn to stay in cover and out of sight? < 30 minutes, so no, we do not see more of them out in the open. At least, not any that aren't running for their lives the opposite direction.

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on December 26, 2007, 07:42 AM:

I have a soft spot in my heart for Kansas coyotes, due to what Cdog just wrote, and I've seen it with my own eyes! A bunch of meanies!

Good hunting. LB

not "Killers" mind you, just coyote harassing meanies.

Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on December 26, 2007, 05:21 PM:

LOL, soft spot hell?!? When Quinton and Randy were here, they both scored on KS coyotes. I advised them both that they were the first non-residents I'd seen kill coyotes here, but amended my statement by adding that we were in the target-rich environs of SW KS - the kind of place champion comp callers hail - and that it was only November. Things are different now. Luckily, the coyotes are starting to calm down a bit and showing their mugs to us. Our goal for the year was thirty, and we killed it Sunday afternoon. Everything from here is gravy.

Posted by smithers (Member # 646) on December 26, 2007, 06:27 PM:

In my hunting area, nocturnal seems to be the rule, no matter the weather, until February.

It's like a switch goes off in mid-February and from then on they will show up in the middle of the day to distress sounds, that have relatively no chance of working any other time. Not much of a chance, in my experience, of getting them to come in mid day even if you get right in on top of them up until then.
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Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on December 27, 2007, 04:27 PM:

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