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coyotes coming in to Turkey calls
« on: March 25, 2007, 07:15:57 AM »
Any others out there have experience with coyotes and fox coming in to your turkey calls? The last several season where I hunt, you best be waitin' till well after sunup to start using hen calls or the dogs will beat the Toms to your setup. I have shot at least one a year(two last year) that came into our setups during the middle of the day.....even attacking the decoys.  I use to balk at shooting them, but have come to realize they will frighten the birds off more than the sound of a gunshot. They have become very proficient at hunting turkeys and I have watched at a distance several times where one dog will actually drive the turkey/turkeys to another one that's waiting on an escape route. They pattern the birds over the year just like us hunters. I use to think that the Toms shut up when they hit the ground because of being "henned up"......that is one reason, but I now know that Toms that spend all day gobbling and displaying without keeping an eye out, soon become coyote food.
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Re: coyotes coming in to Turkey calls
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2007, 10:22:15 AM »
Yep, it's happened quite a bit to me and my buddy while out.  We usually kill a couple every spring season, and see many more that don't get close enough for the shotgun.  Another friend I know, his dad kills about 20 yotes every spring while turkey hunting.  He's retired and hunts every day of the season.  He uses a ground blind, because he doesn't get around too well anymore.  Matter of fact, he now takes a .223 rifle and a shotgun to the blind, so any dog he can see is in real danger now.  Got tired of dogs coming in from behind him and scaring the be-jesus out of him.   :D

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Re: coyotes coming in to Turkey calls
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2007, 11:01:47 AM »
I have it happens a few times every year.  I sometimes shoot them, sometimes not, depending on the turkey action in the area.

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Re: coyotes coming in to Turkey calls
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2007, 09:53:46 AM »
yup, happened to me n a buddy once, funny thing was he was using a homemade slate call that i personally thought sounded nothin like a turkey. he had made it from roofing slate and garden dowels as i remember. but the next mourning i was kicking my self when i heard something coming up the side of the hill towards our calls, i figured i was never going to live this one down if he killed a bird on this call of his, but turned out it was a coyote and while he was watching that one i turned around to see another not 10 feet from the blow down we were sitting in. pretty cool critters to watch hunt though, they use team work, for lack of a better word. watched em scattter birds once or twice while hunting but never come to the call like that before.

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Re: coyotes coming in to Turkey calls
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2007, 10:52:28 AM »
 It happened again this past Saturday.  My friend and I were about 100 yds apart, he was up on a high spot, I was down lower, near a hollow that runs down the hill.  We were taking turns calling, he was in the middle of a sequence, and I look up, and there's 3 of them just breaking  out of the wood-line about 75 yds down from me.  They didn't get close enough to catch a load of 3" mag #5's though.  :P

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Re: coyotes coming in to Turkey calls
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2007, 09:25:41 AM »
I've called in Bobcats,Foxes and Coyotes. I haven't gotten one to come in close enough, when I'm carrying a shotgun, for a shot.

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