coyotes that were 50 yards beyond the bait area, just not really ready to feed. The advantage of the alarm is
that you don’t have to stay up all night waiting for Wily to show up. You can get some shut-eye (on slow nights) and then do some calling in the morning. I like to scan from time to time, as the alarms don’t always catch everything. A 'yote still has to walk in front of the sensor to set it off. If you get one to run past the alarm and it wakes you up, you can wait on the gun and often he will wander back. NIGHT VISION
The third part of this method
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THE DRIVEWAY ALARM If you have an area where you can
shoot from the comfort of a cabin, ice shack, or barn, so much the better. Two of the places I hunt are heated
and have bunks, and the bait pile is located about 75–85 yards from the cabin. We have a Chamberlain drive- way alarm located at the bait pile and it stays there for months. You can find these alarms on the Internet for about $60 and they work extremely well. You just have to change the batteries from time to time. We can’t hunt all the time. The bait is freshened up every few days and the alarm is left in place. In one area, we have three separate alarms on the bait. With this setup, the alarm will beep once if the coyote is on the left side of the bait, beep twice if he is on the right side, and beep three times if he is coming down the trail to the bait.
When you look at the instructions
for the driveway alarm, it mentions not to put it too low to the ground so you don’t pick up animals. But you need to make sure it is low enough to pick up coyotes and anything else you are look- ing for at your bait pile. Too high and it won’t pick up a coyote. Multiple sensors on one bait also increase the odds that he won’t get missed. There was one night when conditions were perfect, and we never heard the alarm go off all night. As we could see from the tracks, they were there, but just never came over to that pile of bait. We had a few scraps that we threw on the side of the trail that, apparently, were much more “tasty” than our other bait. Sometimes the trails leading to the bait can be set up so you will get a wary coyote that may be really cautious about coming directly into the bait. We have shot
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is being able to see the coyote when he shows up. I have tried lights, laser designators and various types of night vision devices. My advice to you is to get the best night vision you can afford. My buddy has an Aurora 8010,
which is Gen III. It has a 2.5-10x regular scope that you sight in just like a stan- dard scope. When you need the night capability, the rear eyepiece comes off and the intensifier slides on and you have a Gen III night vision device that is about as good as you can get. I don’t have $5,300 to invest in a night scope, so I’ve searched the manufacturers high and wide. The best I have found for the money is the Pulsar 550 Digisight. It is a “digital” night vision scope with a 4.5 power. It gives you clarity that you would find in GenII+ or GenIII units from other manufacturers. You can sight it in during the day, which is a big plus, as most night vision devices with the exception of the Aurora 8010 need darkness before you can take the lens cover off. The unit has a built in IR light for those times when there is no moon or stars. This unit generally sells for about $1,495 and will save a lot of time and money in the long run. Many shooters expect much more
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out of a night scope than they are going to get for their $400-$500 investment. It’s not like the movies. If you can, go to a dealer that stocks several types of night vision sights and compare them. Another good setup is one that mounts either in front of or behind a regular scope. These have the advantage of using your own scope, so you can use it on your Leupold, Swarovski, or any other brand. Cost is more than the Di- gisight, starting at about $2,700. Since most hunters already have a scope on
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