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One Less Yote in the World!

ZeeZee Posts: 28,444 Senior Member
edited January 2019 in Hunting #1
Been getting more pics of a few yotes in my game cameras lately. 



And they hit the gut pit every time I throw a carcass in there. So, I went out this morning to try and thin them out. 

Sat in a deer blind watching several sendero with the hopes of catching a coyote crossing. As it got light, I started seeing deer but no yotes. So, I decided to try calling. 

Pulled out my handheld jackrabbit call and blew for about 30 seconds. Picked up the rifle and waited. 

Not 2 minutes later, a yote pops out of a sendero about 50 yards away and starts walking towards the stand. 

I aim out the window, he stops and stares, I send a 52gr Nosler HPBT through his chest at 37 yards with my Ruger American Ranch Rifle in .223 Rem. 

Dead yote. 

Unfortunately, I almost immediately see another yote dart across another sender about 200 yards away and disappear. Guess I have more work to do.

 




"To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith

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  • JayhawkerJayhawker Posts: 18,362 Senior Member
    You have some pretty coyotes down there...
    Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"
  • bellcatbellcat Posts: 2,040 Senior Member
    Good hustle!
    "Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see." Mark Twain
  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,444 Senior Member
    Jayhawker said:
    You have some pretty coyotes down there...
    Their coats don’t get thick. But, they have a nice orange colors. 
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,444 Senior Member
    bellcat said:
    Good hustle!
    Thanks. Actually surprised he showed up. I’ve never called with a handheld before. 
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  • Ernie BishopErnie Bishop Posts: 8,609 Senior Member
    Dead yote is a good yote!
    Ernie

    "The Un-Tactical"
  • orchidmanorchidman Posts: 8,438 Senior Member
    Wish we had yotes over here........The only thing we get attracted to gut piles in the wild is cats............wild cats........
    Still enjoying the trip of a lifetime and making the best of what I have.....
  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,444 Senior Member
    Choot’em!!!
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  • JayhawkerJayhawker Posts: 18,362 Senior Member
    edited January 2019 #9
    Zee said:
    bellcat said:
    Good hustle!
    Thanks. Actually surprised he showed up. I’ve never called with a handheld before. 
    They work...and killing them when they come to a call keeps them working....Coyotes are smart and get call shy fast...

    I was hunting with my cousin out in Colorado in the Comanche National Grasslands and he was working a howler...I saw a coyote coming in from about 300 yards out...making a bee line...as soon as my cousin switched to a rabbit squeal that coyote immediately locked up, swapped ends and left the area in high gear....the younger female that was coming in at the same time kept right on coming, much to her misfortune...
    Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"
  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 12,771 Senior Member
    Pretty colored coat, did you keep it, or too thin to be of use?

    And someone has to ask.  Did you eat it?
    Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5
  • snake284snake284 Posts: 22,429 Senior Member
    edited January 2019 #11
    Good huntin' Dude!  Shoot them scoundrels. There's hundreds of 'em down here that need thinin'. But these egg heads around here would rather be overrun with vermin than let you hunt for free. And I ain't payin' some A hole to fix his problem.
    Daddy, what's an enabler?
    Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,444 Senior Member
    Diver43 said:
    Pretty colored coat, did you keep it, or too thin to be of use?

    And someone has to ask.  Did you eat it?
    Nah, threw the whole body in the gut pit. I don’t need the pelt and I already have a yote in the freezer to eat. 

    😁
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  • wddodgewddodge Posts: 1,150 Senior Member
    Zee said:
    Diver43 said:
    Pretty colored coat, did you keep it, or too thin to be of use?

    And someone has to ask.  Did you eat it?
    Nah, threw the whole body in the gut pit. I don’t need the pelt and I already have a yote in the freezer to eat. 

    😁

    Which begs to ask.......   Does it taste like chicken???    :)

    Denny
    Participating in a gun buy back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.... Clint Eastwood
  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,444 Senior Member
    Haven’t tried it yet. 
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  • jbp-ohiojbp-ohio Posts: 10,943 Senior Member
    edited January 2019 #15
    Zee said:
    Jayhawker said:
    You have some pretty coyotes down there...
    Their coats don’t get thick. But, they have a nice orange colors. 
    Just saw one up here the other day. Full winter coat. Only way you can tell them from a gray fox is the size.
    "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson
  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,444 Senior Member
    I’ve only shot a handful of yotes in my life. But, one thing I’ve noticed is that they have a very sharp, ammonia Ted odor about them. Which I find odd. Being that they are dogs and well......my dogs don’t smell that bad. 

    Anybody else notice the rather rioe smell smell of a yote?
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  • Ernie BishopErnie Bishop Posts: 8,609 Senior Member
    I know what you are talking about
    Ernie

    "The Un-Tactical"
  • snake284snake284 Posts: 22,429 Senior Member
    I tried not to get that close to 'em. The couple of times we shot 'em at least one of my boys was along and he threw it in the pickup and threw it on our gut pile. I had no desire to handle it. South Texas Coyotes are mangy looking and generally smell bad. Not as bad as a Bore Hog but bad enough where I don't want to touch it much less eat it. And they have fleas big as B-17s.
    Daddy, what's an enabler?
    Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,444 Senior Member
    I don’t find the smell of even the biggest feral pig to be anywhere near as strong and foul as a male coyote. 
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  • Six-GunSix-Gun Posts: 8,155 Senior Member
    Beautiful yote!  Nice job thinning them out.
    Accuracy: because white space between bullet holes drives me insane.
  • CHIRO1989CHIRO1989 Posts: 14,855 Senior Member
    My wolf and the wolf of the guy in front of me in line to register them both REEKED from 20' away.
    I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11
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