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Post by ozark on Apr 2, 2009 15:51:48 GMT -5
A large road killed doe is in the bed of my Pick Up. Tomorrow a friend of mine will go with me to use it for coyote bait. We will drive a large iron bar through it and into the ground to prevent it from being drug into the bushes. I plan to sit in my shack and see if the .17 Cal. will take care of South American Buzzards and the .243 anchor a coyote or two. I will put it 100 yards from my shooting window. Just hope to feel like sitting and watching some for a couple days. Eat your hearts out. Ozark
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Post by raf on Apr 2, 2009 21:54:49 GMT -5
Be prepared to sit a while . In my experience coyotes won't touch it for a while. I don't know why. Maybe it's the human scent. I believe they'll go after road kill, or a gut pile in short order but when something has been handled by humans they shy away. Years ago I accidently left a turkey out of the freezer and we went away. My kids found it 5 days later and it was pretty ripe. Put it outside to refreeze it and then took it out to my hunting area. It was weeks before the coyotes touched it. Hope you don't have to wait that long
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Post by jims on Apr 2, 2009 22:01:57 GMT -5
raf: That may be correct, perhaps it varies by location. Here in Ohio where it is relatively heavily populated even in the country the coyotes seem to be pretty tolerant of human scent. Deer gut piles are often gone by the coyotes by the next morning.
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Post by wilmsmeyer on Apr 3, 2009 5:10:42 GMT -5
Same here with gut piles overnight. Foxes get their share too.
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Post by raf on Apr 3, 2009 10:09:32 GMT -5
Around here the major consumer of gut piles is not the coyotes but birds, magpies and ravens. Sure coyotes get some but not as much as you think. Many times after gutting a deer and waiting for my partner to come and get me I seen magpies and ravens appear out of no where and get after the pile. Years ago a friend and I were hunting up near my cabin. Right after lunch I shot a nice buck. We field dressed it, loaded it in the truck and then drove back further into the forest to hunt some more. When we came back about 2 hours later there was a large flock of ravens around the gut pile and as we drove up the flew off. If it hadn't been for blood stains on the ground you wouldn't have know there was a gut pile, it was all gone.
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Post by ozark on Apr 3, 2009 14:23:51 GMT -5
We got it staked securly to the ground and no coyote will drag it off. If crows decide to feast on vension then the .77 Cal. will be used. Ravens we don't have here. Brown headed buzzards (different and much more agressive than the turkey buzzard) are also targets because the farmers have problems with them pecking the eyes out of calves being born. Maybe tomorrow I will get to shoot some. Supposed to be pretty weather. I need to do some killing. LOL
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Post by minst7877 on Apr 3, 2009 18:41:04 GMT -5
Ozark isn't .77cal is a little over kill for crows . Just couldn't resist and I do know you mean the .17HMR
DC
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Post by ozark on Apr 3, 2009 19:19:58 GMT -5
Yes, .17HMR....One of the nice things about being old is that it doesn't even bother you to make a mistake. Perhaps my parents did.
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Post by ozark on Apr 5, 2009 16:00:26 GMT -5
I watched the coyote bait for about five hours yesterday. Vultures came and dined and I shot one crow that fell from its perch to hang on a limb about twenty feet off the ground. That kept the crows away. But all afternoon the turkey paraded back and forth before me. They came by in small groups of three but usually just lone hens. A nice gobbler strutted and showed its stuff about seventy yards from me for nearly an hour. It looks like we will have enough turkey to make the season (coming up the 11th) interesting. I didn't see any coyotes or squirrel in the area. But it was an interesting watch.
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