Coyote

[petelanca]

Ok, looking for input on the best budget rig for thinning out over population of coyotes here. I live in the country on a dead end road. I guess I would like to get input on calls, bait, optics, lights, laws. I have 10/22, AR15 other various possible choices. Lots of nights I can sit on my 4 wheeler and hear them but very seldom see. Any time I have seen one, there were atleast three.

 

[103M 95G]

use the AR!

 

[Bearco]

Night season will be opening back up soon. The WLF is now reporting that 22 mags are also legal for nighttime outlaw-quadruped hunting.

We tried last year, but were unsuccessful at calling one in. This year, I will probably try using decoys or maybe some fresh road kill. I will also be looking for a new call.

Here are the basic regs.
http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/hunting/outlaw-quadrupeds

 

[dantheman]

.17hmr ?

 

[whbonney26]

I have been hunting Coyote, Bobcat and other predators in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for a few years. I have an electronic call, decoy a few mouth calls and have even used attractants like Gut Pile in a bag or even real gut pile.

They have been a lot more fun to hunt because at the time we started my son was not old enough to understand to sit there in the woods deer hunting all morning. There is more action with predator hunting. Working the call, looking around, the quickness of the action....it all helped keep a 5 year old (now 9) happy and wanting to keep hunting.

I usually use either a AR-15, .22mag or a 12 gage shot gun with full choke, depending on the area im hunting.