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Offline trambo

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Coyote habitat
« on: December 04, 2003, 05:19:37 AM »
I have a question about the habitat of the coyote.  I have been hunting coyote for about a year and have had no success.  The type of areas I am hunting are very dense and most of them are very hilly.
   Here in kentucky there is not a lot of open feilds or brush land, at least not in the easter part of the state.  I have been utalizing the creek bottems and the power breaks as calling stand areas and have heard coyote there of the early morning.  My question is as follows.

   Would the coyote here use lower bottoms or hollows as a mid day resting area, and would the power breaks be a suitible habitat for the varmints?

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Re: Coyote habitat
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2003, 03:36:54 PM »
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I have a question about the habitat of the coyote.  I have been hunting coyote for about a year and have had no success.  The type of areas I am hunting are very dense and most of them are very hilly.
   Here in kentucky there is not a lot of open feilds or brush land, at least not in the easter part of the state.  I have been utalizing the creek bottems and the power breaks as calling stand areas and have heard coyote there of the early morning.  My question is as follows.

   Would the coyote here use lower bottoms or hollows as a mid day resting area, and would the power breaks be a suitible habitat for the varmints?


Hello im from KY as well & really love to hunt coyotes. Coyotes will use the sunny side of the hills on cold days & love the woods as they are likely warmer. Power lines & gas line right of ways are good places to call but are also private property. Bottom land & especially DRAINAGE areas are coyote magnets for most areas. If i had to guess what you are doing wrong(likely the same mistakes i made) i would say walking to your stand on a path that the coyote will likely take to get to the call,not utilizing the cover to get there,not hideing well enough(very important when useing hand calls),not setting still or calling to loud & to much. Of course this is assuming that the coyotes are in the area when you are. I.M.O over calling & to much volume sends more coyotes down wind than anything else,especially if they have heard it all before. Hope maybe that helped.

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