Georgia coyote hunting
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:03 pm
Hey guys new to the forum and newer to the predator hunting scene. I am addicted now. Mainly a whitetail and bird hunter but just started calling for yotes last year. I have been reading around this site for quite sometime and just joined hoping to get some advice from more seasoned predator hunters.
We gained access to 200 acres of old (shut down last year) chicken farms that is right off of an active 2 lane highway in rural Athens, GA (go Dawgs!). There is a landfill one mile to the north and an airport one mile to the south. The highway is mostly a stretch of cattle, goat and chicken farms. The landowners claim to have been overrun with coyotes the last few years and I was eager to hop on the opportunity to help eradicate the problem. We did a walk around some of the property with them while listening to their crazy stories of how "unafraid" these coyotes are, claiming to have surrounded an employee in a chicken coup mid day, approaching there dog kennels, porch and so on.
I have hunted the area hard 5 or 6 times since late October using mostly cottontail distress up until tonight and last week was lone howls and pup distress MFK diaphragms. There are tracks and scat everywhere, heavy whitetail traffic, two swamps, two creeks and 3 large pastures with a cattle farm boarding the east tree line and other private land on the south and west ends.
I have been hunting from 3 until I can't see anymore and work the property in a circle based on the wind. There is a swamp at one end and a forest pond next to the cattle farm on the other. I make about 5 stands that are 20-30 minutes depending on how it feels in a hunt. Never being further than 100 yards from a bordering field into good "whitetail woods". These fields are torn up in traffic of all kinds with some biggg coyote tracks. I have had zero luck seeing or hearing this pack of yotes with what I believe to be effective set ups.
The east "feels" like the best part of the property. The cattle farm borders heavily wooded hills and a green forest pond that feeds a creek running to the highway. There is a 70 acre freshly planted field to the east (usually my back when on this stand), with about 100 yards of trees that separate it from the cattle farm. The pond and creek lies in that stretch.
Am I moving to much on only 200 acres? Should I wait it out in the one spot I think is best instead of walking around such little land trying to find them? Make a stand, skip a stand in the same stop, then repeat in the same spot?
I have a great time in the woods not seeing anything and blowing calls regardless of the outcome I'll keep on doing it just to be in the woods but my year would be made just to hear one respond to my lonely howwlllsss!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks and get ready for mating season!
We gained access to 200 acres of old (shut down last year) chicken farms that is right off of an active 2 lane highway in rural Athens, GA (go Dawgs!). There is a landfill one mile to the north and an airport one mile to the south. The highway is mostly a stretch of cattle, goat and chicken farms. The landowners claim to have been overrun with coyotes the last few years and I was eager to hop on the opportunity to help eradicate the problem. We did a walk around some of the property with them while listening to their crazy stories of how "unafraid" these coyotes are, claiming to have surrounded an employee in a chicken coup mid day, approaching there dog kennels, porch and so on.
I have hunted the area hard 5 or 6 times since late October using mostly cottontail distress up until tonight and last week was lone howls and pup distress MFK diaphragms. There are tracks and scat everywhere, heavy whitetail traffic, two swamps, two creeks and 3 large pastures with a cattle farm boarding the east tree line and other private land on the south and west ends.
I have been hunting from 3 until I can't see anymore and work the property in a circle based on the wind. There is a swamp at one end and a forest pond next to the cattle farm on the other. I make about 5 stands that are 20-30 minutes depending on how it feels in a hunt. Never being further than 100 yards from a bordering field into good "whitetail woods". These fields are torn up in traffic of all kinds with some biggg coyote tracks. I have had zero luck seeing or hearing this pack of yotes with what I believe to be effective set ups.
The east "feels" like the best part of the property. The cattle farm borders heavily wooded hills and a green forest pond that feeds a creek running to the highway. There is a 70 acre freshly planted field to the east (usually my back when on this stand), with about 100 yards of trees that separate it from the cattle farm. The pond and creek lies in that stretch.
Am I moving to much on only 200 acres? Should I wait it out in the one spot I think is best instead of walking around such little land trying to find them? Make a stand, skip a stand in the same stop, then repeat in the same spot?
I have a great time in the woods not seeing anything and blowing calls regardless of the outcome I'll keep on doing it just to be in the woods but my year would be made just to hear one respond to my lonely howwlllsss!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks and get ready for mating season!