Fall and winter snow changes the game of varmint hunting into another realm. Varmints are hunting day long, and so should you be. I use a simple white bed sheet cut to poncho length for my winter camo outfit. It’s cheap, lightweight and covers me right down to the ground.
along creeks, streams and rivers. Not only do they use them as travel lanes, but also to hunt on for small game that comes there, and even fish. I once saw a winter coyote dashing back and forth through a shallow pool madly chasing a trapped trout. I sat and watched him until he eventually caught it, standing there with it flapping in his jaws, im- mensely proud of himself.
Another travel lane is any place where winter winds have scoured off deep snow, such as the tops of ridges and saddles. Setting up in timber nearby where you can call and watch from is a deadly post for coyotes on the move. And using a coyote decoy mentioned earlier in an open spot like this will be picked up by the keen eye of traveling coyotes from distances that have to be seen to be believed, drawing them straight in at a run. Every predator hunter knows and
uses camo clothing to blend into the area he or she is hunting. Commercial
clothiers offer many different snow pattern clothes for winter hunters, but I use a much simpler and cheaper one of my own design. I took a regular white bed sheet, cut it poncho style down to my boot tops with a center hole to pull my head through and two arm holes. A white, pull-down beanie tops this off. It’s light and easy to move in. When I stop and sit to make a stand, the whole thing drops down, completely covering me, while blending perfectly with snow. I simply become another hummock or mound of white. It works like a charm. Finally, this. When I title this story “Top Country Tactics,” I don’t intend it to mean you can successfully apply these tactics only in the Rockies or some other major mountain ranges across our nation. Quite to the contrary. Rolling hill country, smaller individual mountains, rimrocks, bluffs and tablelands, all have elevation that offer these very same ad- vantages. Real elevation may be 1,000, or 10,000 feet. Wherever you find him,
and that’s just about everyplace today, the coyote is a smart, intelligent, wary animal by any measure. Use every edge you can to successfully hunt him. He’ll give you a real run for your money like nothing else, spring, summer, fall or winter.
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