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To give you a good suggestion on what to get, what are you wanting to buy? Mouth blown calls or electronic caller.

Re: first time coyote hunting Have fun is the most important part. Keep the wind in your face. Watch for coyotes tring to circle down wind. Use tree's or bushes to break up your outline, Wear full camo and use a cover sent. Keep movement to a minimum and walk into an area as quietly as you can (do not drive in).

Re: perfict gun South Texas coyotes generally are about 30 to 35lbs. Most of my coyote hunting is in East Texas, and they are about 35 to 40lbs. Most of my shots are 100yds or less, but I have taken coyotes out to 400 plus. Most coyotes called in will be 100yds or less.

Can You See Me Now? I believe that hunters have a specific gene that accounts for many of the manias we suffer. Whether it’s our gun obsession, hand or electronic calls obsession or our obsession with tracking, stalking and taking game animals, I think they can all be attributed to the “Hunter gene”. This may be the only explanation as to why we spend millions of dollars a year on camouflage clothing, guns and accessories. There’s just something that tickles the hunter gene when we watch someone walk out into the wild, sit down and disappear. We all experienced it while watching the movie adaptation of Tom Clancy’s book “Clear and Present Danger” You all know the scene I’m talking about. Each of us had one of those “I’ve gotta get me one of those” moments when PFC Chavez popped out of the brush in his ghillie suit a mere 10 feet from the men looking for him. But when we’re hunting predators, how much camo is too much camo? There has been a long running debate over the ability of dogs (including foxes and coyotes) to see color. Some hypothesize that dogs can only see in black and white and shades of gray. If that is true, then why isn’t all hunting camo black, white and shades of gray? The following is taken from an article by Dr. Dana K. Vaughan, Ph.D., from the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh: "Vision is just one of several senses that dogs use to scan their world for important information. Any visual scene has multiple aspects to which dogs’ brains are sensitive: brightness, shape, contrast, and motion are a few of these. But what about color? Many authorities have stated that "dogs are colorblind", with the implication that dogs perceive only black, white, and shades of grey. In fact, this was not known for certain, but became "folklore". Then, in the late 1980s, a definitive set of experiments was done at the University of California, Santa Barbara, by what may well be the world’s foremost research program on comparative color vision.” Dr. Vaughan played a role in this well-known study of color vision in dogs published by J. Neitz, T. Geist, and G.S. Jacobs (1989), "Color vision in the dog", Visual Neuroscience Vol. 3, pages 119-125. The complete article may be found by clicking HERE As a result of this study, it was found that dogs indeed lack the same color vision as humans. Humans have three types of color receptors in their eyes. Each color receptor picks up a small portion of the visible light spectrum. Dogs were found to have only two of these three types of color receptors in their eyes. This means that while dogs do see color, they are only able to differentiate a limited number of colors. This is very similar to a human who is colorblind. They are unable to differentiate between certain colors or shades. Dr. Vaughan summarized the findings of the study by saying, “These experiments showed that dogs do see color, but in a more limited range than that seen by normal humans, who see the rainbow of colors described by "VIBGYOR": Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Red (plus hundreds of variations on these shades). Instead, dogs see "VIBYYYR" (Violet, Indigo, Blue, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, and Red). The colors Green, Yellow, and Orange all look alike to dogs; but look different from Red and different from the various Blues and Purples. Dogs are very good at telling different shades of VIB apart. Finally, Blue-Green looks White to dogs.” So, What does this mean to the average hunter? Probably not much since we tend to buy what we feel looks "really cool" as much as what is functional. What this does mean is that we don't necessarily need to be so picky about the exact color of our camo. It is also a great argument in favor of using hunter orange to prevent hunting accidents. Since dogs (and probably deer as well) can't distinguish between orange, green and yellow, you can very easily get away with blaze orange gear because it will blend into all of the other greens and browns in the environment. As Dr. Vaughan stated, there are more elements to a dogs/coyotes ability to detect a hunter in the wild. While color can play a factor, it is most likely not the most critical factor in going unnoticed in the field. We'll examine those other factors in other articles. In the meantime, stay upwind and don't move.

Re: primos calls I don't think the primos double whammy would be a good call for a beginner. The double whammy would be alittle hard to start out with since it is a double reed call. The primos Ki-Yi and the Lil Dog call would be a better choice to start out with. The Ki-Yi is several calls in one, you can use the call to sound like a jack rabbit. cottontail rabbit, fawn distress and coyote Ki-Yi. The Lil dog is several call in one also. You can sound like a jack rabbit. cottontail rabbit, bird distress, fawn distress, doe distress. coyote howls, barks and coyote Ki-Yi. The Lil dog comes with two different size reed mouth pieces for different tones.

Re: Anyone with a deer cam.... HELP!!!! [ QUOTE ] Yea it has a sensitivity dial. I have it set on motion. Thats really the only way to set it up. [/ QUOTE ] Yes you can set the sensitivity level on the cuddeback. Read your manual. The section your talking about is the section were you setup motion or time laps.

Re: check this out!!!! Congrats Todd. Great story.

Re: R.T. Photo hosting question If you upload a pic that is lets say 640x480 pixels (large pic) 90.1k. RT's default size is 600x467 pixels (small pic) 32.2k. It shows the size of both pics, but you are only using 90.1k of your space.

Re: perfict gun You can get a Remington model 700 ADL synthetic for about $350 to $400 and top it off with a $50 to$100 scope. Thats what I did, and it is a tac driver. Mine is a .22-250 but a .223 would be a great choice. I think I have taken more coyotes with my .223 than my .22-250

Re: bullet selection Try the 100gr and see how it performs first. Most of the time a larger grain bullet will do less damage than a smaller grain bullet will. Larger grain bullets do no have time to fully expand on smaller animals like coyotes

Re: 2 more coyotes snared Congrats KTMMIKE. Your the snare king.

Re: 1 happy camper! Congrats Doc. You will really love it when your a mile or two from the truck. I really like mine. I have called in a lot of coyotes with it.

Re: Room for more pictures [ QUOTE ] Thanks for the help.How do I make my pictures smaller [/ QUOTE ] Photo resizer Just download it and you can make your pictures smaller.

Re: Where the Red Fern Grows It looks like it's going to be a good movie, but it going to hard to beat the original.

Re: Snared my first coyote! Congrats. Share a lil info on how you set up your snare. Pic's of the snare would be nice also.

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Re: Favorite Digi Cam [ QUOTE ] Who makes the Leaf River? Do they have a web site? [/ QUOTE ] http://www.vibrashine.com/

Re: Room for more pictures Select My Profile, then select Manage Photos, then choose a Category, select the delete option button beside the photo you want to delete, and click Submit Changes. You only get so much space. Try and make you pic's smaller. (640X480)

Re: What I woke up too What's that white stuff? Oh, it's snow, you don't see that much in Texas. All were getting is rain. By Friday we'll be getting rain and sleet. What fun that's going to be.

Re: Favorite Digi Cam I have used 3 different digital game cam's, and the one I would chose again would be the cuddeback.

Re: Which coyote caller? What kind are you looking for. Tape player, digital or CD.

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Saturday I left to go deer hunting. When I got up there I decided to go sit in a box stand that has a lot of coyotes in the area, and try and call some up. I got in the stand about 4:00pm and just sat there until 5:00 and called a few times on my Johnny Stewart digital prey master. At 5:15 I hit the button again, I hear foot steps in the leaves behind me. I look out and it's a bobcat 5 yards from the stand. I have to stand up and point my rifle down at an awkward position, I can just make out the bobcat in my scope (I have it dialed up to high) and I pull the trigger and off he ran. I missed. So I get out to make sure I missed and a coyote starts howling back in the woods, so I get back in the stand and start calling again. 5 minutes go's by and it pops out 100 yards away. BOOM down he go's, then I another one takes off running across the field, BOOM, I missed. Oh well I sure would have liked to get the bobcat, but thats the way it go's sometimes. Here's a pic of the one I did get.

Re: Coyote Decoys I tryed the rigor rabbit with out success. The one I have just sits on a stake and only moves if the wind is blowing. Out of 20 or so coyotes called in, only 2 or 3 even noticed it. I was looking on the web for a better predator decoy, I found the predator supreme decoy. I have used this decoy for the last 3 or 4 years, and it works great. You can get it a Cabelas

Re: Help with Coyote and Bobcat populations! [ QUOTE ] jcwa question for ya!! When callign cats shoudl i leave the howler alone? I never rreally just go for cats but would love one to coem in , just wonderign if I shoudl stop howling in areas i think cats are in! thanks!! [/ QUOTE ] Yes. If your calling bobcats or foxes you don't want to use the howler.