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Topic: Why do we hunt coyotes?
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20t-n-t
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posted March 27, 2003 12:50 AM
Every person that hunts these cagy old hunters has a motivating factor behind them. Why do you hunt coyotes? Some hunt them for sport, some for the challange, some for the fur or like me, strickly for revenge. LOL What is your motivating factor?
For me it all started when I was 6 almost 7, My grandfather was always hunting coyotes and fox. He said: They are hard on the phesant population.
Well that was enough for me and so I started hunting with my granfather, every chance I got.
My first coyote hunt was one I will never forget. This particular coyote was one that had been hunted before. Everytime we got within 1/4 mile of him he would flat out vanish into thin air. My grandfather said that this coyote was smarter than most people he knew and he was going to get him if it killed him. After deviseing a plan my grandfather and I got in the truck.
My grandfather droped me off and drove up on the hill. It was at this point that things went south. I had brought my ruger 10/22 with a weaver K8 on it. To make a long story short, I missed that coyote 11 times. I took more ribbing over that coyote and told myself that would not happen again, but it did. I may have come away from that hunt without bagging a coyote but I had been bit by the bug and 30+ years later I'm still hunting them!
so why do you hunt the coyote?
Slydog
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Crow Woman
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posted March 27, 2003 03:37 AM
Slydog, I use to hunt for the trophy: deer, turkey, coyotes, bear always looking for that perfect trophy to display until one day I received a message. A man came to me, I will call him coyote. He said the coyotes have been talking about me. I asked him what they have been saying. He told me the coyotes call me "She who hunts for fun." I thought that was really nice but he explained further. He said that "She who hunts for fun" is meant that I am only out there for the kill and thrill that I am hunting for no purpose whatsoever but for blood.
So in turn, that is when I started researching the coyotes, and by researching, I spent countless time out there at night just watching, listening and observing their patterns and their way of life or survival. I started the art of calling and talking in their own language. My farm changed in a way. I noticed that their perimeters had changed. The ones that were the agressive trouble makers dared to attack and kill in front of me. But their were a few that would actually walk outside of me around me night after night after night never going after my cows. Just bordering and seeming to be respecting.
As time went on and my observing continued, I started to take only the coyotes that dared to cross my property line and go after my cows. I did not ever nor did I want to go after the ones that were just over that property line. Things changed for me in many ways. I even started blessing the coyotes that were taken in a kind of ceremony.
Shortly after changing my ways, that man, Coyote, came to me again and said he had another message for me. He said the coyotes were pleased and they renamed me "TopDog." I have taken the time to learn, understand and take out the trouble makers of the pack.
Many visions have followed since. This is my story, my belief, my way.
I'm in no way asking anyone to even comprehend this, what matters is that I have understood the messages that were sent to me. I'm just telling you "MY" answer to your question.
Da-Na-Ho
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onecoyote
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posted March 27, 2003 06:24 AM
I'm not really sure why I hunt them. Them meaning coyotes, but I can say the same for all predators. It's not the fur and it's not the challange, ![[Confused]](confused.gif) I've been there and done that before. It's something else and I can't put my finger on it, ![[Frown]](frown.gif) maybe someone else can, Good Hunting.
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Leonard
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posted March 27, 2003 06:55 AM
I used to see tracks. I couldn't figure how they got there, as I had never actually seen the animals that made them. In a word: elusive. Mysterious; another good word.
Then I heard about calling these animals; I was stupified! The most amazing thing I've ever seen, and it never gets old.
Good hunting. LB
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Rich
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posted March 27, 2003 07:33 AM
Danny,
Maybe it has something to do with this sound http://pages.sbcglobal.net/barracudabob/_uimages/domainhowl.wav
I hope the link works. ![[Smile]](smile.gif) The yippity yowl of coyotes has a way of getting a man just a little bit excited.
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UTcaller
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posted March 27, 2003 08:22 AM
Why do I hunt coyotes?FOR THE PURE PLEASURE OF IT. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) GOOD HUNTING CO
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Rich Higgins
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posted March 27, 2003 08:33 AM
My story closely parallels Crow Woman"s. One evening I was hunting at a waterhole. "Coyote" approached me and spoke, "What is it that you seek here, One With The Lolling Tongue?" "I seek the excitement of the chase, the thrill of the stalk, and the ultimate satisfaction of success", I replied. "Coyote" led me to it's den where I learned many secret ways of the coyote. The next day "Coyote" again approached me and spoke. "The other coyotes and I talked about you. From where the sun now stands and forever more you will be called "Tripod". In gratitude I saluted "Coyote". One day "Coyote entered the den and attacked me. As it tried to viciously rip my throat out I.... wait a minute... that was all my ex-wife. Never mind.
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pup
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posted March 27, 2003 09:27 AM
Just to see what they will do next.
later pup
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Crow Woman
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posted March 27, 2003 09:27 AM
Rich Higgins....*THWAP!!!!!* I enjoyed the chuckle... hehehe May your armpits never be infested with a thousand fleas from Coyote.
Crow Woman
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Sheri L Baity
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WolverineAtWork
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posted March 27, 2003 09:32 AM
Target shooting got old. You can only blow up milk jugs in so many ways, I found em all. I'd always wanted to become a hunter. I enjoy the outdoors immensely, enjoy just walking along in nature observing signs of "business as usual".
I chose predators after a good amount of research. It's one of the few challenging animals that doesn't require a tag in AZ. I bought my first call, sat down outside my house and called a coyote to 30 yards just outside street light range. We just sat there and looked at each other. I played every tune I knew on that PC3 and he just layed down and listened.
Since then, I've been fascinated with coyote behavior, movement, social life and response to human influence. I enjoy killing and skinning them, but I am just as satisfied calling them in and observing/filming them. I do it for that warm fuzzy feeling that tells you that you've communed with nature (and in some cases blown it away w/ extreme prejudice).
(On a side note, those who know me can attest that I've found a bigger and better way to blow up milk jugs.)
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DAA
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posted March 27, 2003 09:39 AM
Coyote hunting gets my juices flowing. Makes me feel ALIVE. A memory from my mispent youth, relived. A bitter cold morning, ice glistening in the sage tips, coyote stopped to cock it's head at me from 60 yds, glowing in the sun, my crosshairs painted accross it's chest, the smell of warming damp sage and burnt powder and gun oil and that ultra-addicting "whump" sound drifting back to me, the boundless optimism of a new day stretched out ahead that seemed like it might never end when I was younger. That's why.
- DAA
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Cdog911
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posted March 27, 2003 11:00 AM
I don't hunt anything that can't hunt me back.
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Leonard
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posted March 27, 2003 11:51 AM
That's quite a nice essay, Dave. It should be a caption on a magazine cover. LB
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Bomba
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posted March 27, 2003 12:05 PM
Bomba hunt yellow dog because Chief say:
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Soul of man best preserved the longer he avoid wife and list of things she want done.
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Doug
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posted March 27, 2003 12:26 PM
Twenty years ago I trapped foxes for the fur check to the point that it was more work than fun. Now I hunt foxes and coyotes for the challenge and the pleasure it brings me. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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Crow Woman
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posted March 27, 2003 12:28 PM
Doggonit... I knew I'd take cr*p from that post! Uhmmm... can I please blame it on the blonde hair dyes that have somehow penetrated my brain cells plus adding PMS(pleasing men syndrome) Or how about we just talk about Danny looking ever so sexy in his pantyhose, control top, of course
Bomba, you crack me up
Crow Woman who's going back to eating worms to keep her mouth and fingers occupied
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Sheri L Baity
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20t-n-t
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posted March 28, 2003 09:28 AM
And " The first 10 years I hunted coyotes for fun, the last 20+ I been hunting them for revenge" ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
Don't know why I like that so much but it is so damn true, it just fits.
Smote the Yote
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brad h
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posted March 28, 2003 09:45 AM
How addicting, to be able to call an animal that I rarely see otherwise, to come running from 1/2 mile away, dirrectly at me, to within 30 or 40 yds. (or sometimes 8 ft.) to a sound I made, and have them at my disposal to do what I want and do it year round!? Man, I gave up fishing for this.
oc in controltops?...Tums
Brad
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Leonard
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posted March 28, 2003 04:44 PM
Control tops? If Danny could gain twenty-five pounds, you could call him skinny. LB
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Lone Howl
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posted March 28, 2003 06:06 PM
Because they taste good!
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Crow Woman
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posted March 29, 2003 06:32 AM
Leonard... Danny told me once that he prefers control tops because it give a nice roundness of his butt and the look of sleek slender sexy silky legs adding a uniform all over sexiness about him while it gives him the figure that any woman would kill for, donchaknow ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Sheri L Baity
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onecoyote
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posted March 29, 2003 02:11 PM
Crow Woman, What the hell is a control TOP? I thought it was the LOWER part we had to control ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) ..... Leonard, I stopped smoking 6 months ago and put on 40 lbs .....20t-n-t, the first 10 years hunting coyotes I didn't learn much, the last 30 years the coyotes proved it . I'm still thinking about control tops? I wonder if it is some kind of butt shaper hehehe, Good Hunting.
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20t-n-t
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posted March 29, 2003 02:48 PM
ROFLMAO,,LOL Now you guys stop now OK, You are going to make me sick. The picture is to clear in my mind.LOL
Get back on topic,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,yuckkkk
Slydog
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Bryan J
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posted March 29, 2003 04:28 PM
Varmint Rifle $800, Scope for said rifle $400, shotgun $450, used electronic caller $100, assortment of hand calls $200, hearing aids to compensate for hearing loss due to practicing distress sounds in the truck on the way back and forth to work $1200. The chance to see the smile fall from the coyotes face when he realizes you are not what you pretended to be…….Priceless.
I guess I better mention Mastercard so I stay out of trouble for borrowing their ad.
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Leonard
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posted March 29, 2003 05:50 PM
Ah, yes. The cost of our passion. As Club hunters, we all began speculating one afternoon on what our little hobby set us back, annually.
After we listed the usual guns and scope and gear and special clothing (cold and warm weather), then we got into lost pay and vehicles. Did somebody say, gas?
The total could have bought a nice house in a better section of town.
Wish I had some of that money, right now.
Good hunting. LB
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