Coyote runs through....do you switch spots?
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Coyote runs through....do you switch spots?
Assuming you don't shoot the coyote, this happened to me twice this year. Coyote runs by either where I'm expecting the deer to come from, or coming from where I expect the deer to be. Do you switch spots for an area or trail free of fresh coyote scent? Or do you hang tight?
Both instances, I chose to hang tight, and both times I saw no deer.
Curious to know what a card-carrying hunting beast would do..
Both instances, I chose to hang tight, and both times I saw no deer.
Curious to know what a card-carrying hunting beast would do..
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I'm shooting the yote and taking it from there..... They never get a pass from me. Too many of them around here. But assuming I didn't I would probably sit tight. We have a ton of yotes around here so deer encounter them frequently. A mature deer isn't really a target animal for a yote anyway. Wolves..... that's a different story (no wolves around here). But a 35-pound coyote wants no part of a deer over 100 #s. At least not around here. Unless the deer is injured or something like that.
Coyote are usually solitary animals. I have seen them work together though.... If I saw several I would probably shoot as many as I could and move on. But one - I would shoot it if able and if not sit tight.
Coyote are usually solitary animals. I have seen them work together though.... If I saw several I would probably shoot as many as I could and move on. But one - I would shoot it if able and if not sit tight.
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Re: Coyote runs through....do you switch spots?
Bubbles wrote:Assuming you don't shoot the coyote, this happened to me twice this year. Coyote runs by either where I'm expecting the deer to come from, or coming from where I expect the deer to be. Do you switch spots for an area or trail free of fresh coyote scent? Or do you hang tight?
Both instances, I chose to hang tight, and both times I saw no deer.
Curious to know what a card-carrying hunting beast would do..
Good question. I’ve had a similar problem this year.
I have a 1/3 travel corridor that I’ve got a camera on and I’m pretty sure a buck bedding pretty close. I was seeing some good buck pictures until a coyote starting showing up frequently on the trail cam. Now the deer are more sporadic and mostly does. The coyote pressure increased once snow was in the ground for a couple of weeks straight.
There may be many other contributing factors for the bucks not showing much anymore, but the coyote presence is the evidence that I have on camera.
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Re: Coyote runs through....do you switch spots?
The yotes just both came through so fast I had no shot opportunity. I guess if you shoot it or not, doesn't matter, the scent is still there.
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I have seen good bucks come thru down the same trail after a yote. They don't seen to care. I'd stay put.
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Everything is situational, but I would be staying put. I've shot a good buck shortly after two yotes moved through recently..infact it may gotten the buck on his feet a bit earlier than normal and worked to my advantage.
I hunt coyotes in the winter months and you'd be surprised at how little the deer pay attention to some of my coyote howls when they're coming out to feed at last light...leads me to believe they tolerate each other alot more than we assume.
I hunt coyotes in the winter months and you'd be surprised at how little the deer pay attention to some of my coyote howls when they're coming out to feed at last light...leads me to believe they tolerate each other alot more than we assume.
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I would just stay put. Moving would cause more problems than him passing through area.
I'm reason they call it hunting and not shooting.
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ThePreBanMan wrote:I'm shooting the yote and taking it from there..... They never get a pass from me. Too many of them around here. But assuming I didn't I would probably sit tight. We have a ton of yotes around here so deer encounter them frequently. A mature deer isn't really a target animal for a yote anyway. Wolves..... that's a different story (no wolves around here). But a 35-pound coyote wants no part of a deer over 100 #s. At least not around here. Unless the deer is injured or something like that.
Coyote are usually solitary animals. I have seen them work together though.... If I saw several I would probably shoot as many as I could and move on. But one - I would shoot it if able and if not sit tight.
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Re: Coyote runs through....do you switch spots?
I have plenty of trail cam pics where yote comes thru and not too much longer a deer comes on the same trail...
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I have always stayed put. I don't think it bothers them that much.
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Had 3 yotes encounters this year and saw deer afterwards on all 3 sits. Also helped a buddy drag a mature buck and a yote out from a morning hunt. He shot the yote 20 minutes before the buck on the same trail.
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My cousin has shot 3 nice bucks within less of an hr of the coyotes passing through.....now he swears that the mature bucks follow coyotes.....lol im not sure i am buying that last part but understand why he would believe that part now. Down here in Florida...coyotes will kill big mature deer as well as Bobcats. I shot my biggest buck because a coyote was chasing him. It was basically running the deer to death and i assume was goin to attack once it was wore out..the deer looked like he had been running for days. I also shot a nice 7pt a few years ago after i spooked a huge bobcat in front of my stand. He ran behind me and about 20 mina later heard a huge commotion goin on behind me and about 5 min after that the 7pt came running in and i shot it. He had fresh bite marks on his neck and claw marks down his legs and chest.
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I'm all over the place on this. For me, I would move to another quality spot if I saw yotes in the area. However, I realize that if the yotes don't smell you and they are running within shooting distance, that's a good sign you have the wind nailed down. Perhaps after an hour, a doe or a buck will walk by. But most of the time I know a few other quality spots that will boost my confidence, better than being around some yotes. But, if I'm feeling lazy or overheated that day....Sorry, can't help on this one. Great question!
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Re: Coyote runs through....do you switch spots?
I have frequently heard coyote's howling within 100 yards of my sit near last light and have deer show up shortly after.
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After shooting the buck I got in Minnesota in the Hunting Public video, my answer is absolutely not. A half hour before the buck came out of bedding I had a coyote head straight to him, nose into the wind. There's no way that Coyote didn't pester him, but it didn't seem to bother him.
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