Coyote Hunting In My Sleep Member John Klosenski
The only time hunting from a cabin requires getting cold is when a coyote is down and must be retrieved.
Beeeeep!
TIME” to my hunting partner in the next bunk. He was already up and on the rifle in the kitchen window of the cabin. Beeeeep! I grabbed my Litton ITT Gen III binocular off the kitchen table and strained to see the coyote on the bait pile. I heard my buddy whisper, “He just moved to the left. No, wait. He’s coming back. Can you see him?” I spotted the wary ’yote, and he was acting really nervous. Chris said, “I’m going to wait until he settles down a bit.” The coyote then started to feed and I heard Chris say, “I’m going to
I
scrambled to unzip my sleeping bag while whispering “SHOW-
The nine coyotes on this pole demonstrate that night hunting can really pay off.
crack him.” BANG! “Got him!” I could see the coyote lying next to the bait. We high-fived each other and then scanned the area for another visitor. There was nothing in sight after the shot. We were hunting northern New
Hampshire in January for coyotes in a manner that has become my favorite method of coyote hunting. Over bait, from a cabin, and with the use of night vision and a driveway alarm. I would guess that except for those
few expert callers, most coyotes in the Northeast get shot by deer hunters during the deer season. This usually is done sitting on a stand or during a drive, when a coyote happens to walk
by or gets pushed by a hunter. They are, by far, the most difficult animal to hunt I have ever encountered in the Northeast. I live in Maine and hunt coyotes
year round when not hunting ducks, deer, turkeys, pheasants, crows and just about everything else that has a season. Coyotes are my favorite – open season year round in Maine and New Hampshire. The night season in Maine is much longer, running through the end of August now as the state is really trying to decrease their numbers. Before I get off track, let me tell
you how I came to enjoy this particular type of hunting and why it works so well for me. Over the years, like most hunt-
ers, I shot coyotes when I spotted them while pursuing other game. If I was deer hunting and a coyote popped out, I shot it. I tried calling, and while I have called in coyotes and shot them, they present a few different challenges here in the East as opposed to hunting coyotes in the West. In the West, you usually can see
Hunter in night hunting mode. A bed, blankets, and a warm cabin ... coyote hunting doesn't get any better than this.
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them coming for half a mile or more. The terrain is more open, and if you set up properly with the wind, you often can call them in as if you had them on a string. Great fun and I wish it would work like this here in the Northeast, but our terrain is much different. We
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