AdrianJHare

Congrats thats a good season...

I have a couple of real good turkey areas close to a small town about 10 miles away. Everytime I hunt these areas I see or hear yotes. The winter has been hard and the snow depths get far to high to walk into these areas from the road even with snowshoes. After the thaw we have had I thought I would check it out at the edge of light and sure enough I could get in so I gave it a shot. Well at one place I set up and at -16 this morning it was cold. I got the cottontail dst on and at 3 minutes with it at volume 21 I just paused it and looked to the right and there a dog running towards the caller from down wind. I turn fast and she sees and stops at 100yds and I happened to at the sametime and bang down she goes. I hit the remote 015 my KiHi and turn it up to 40 and it starts and out comes another and he sees me move and runs the other way. I bark him and bark and bark and he stops at about 225yds and I place the crosshairs and bang down he goes. Only 3 -4 minutes on the calls and 2 down so I continue with the rest of the 20 minute sit and it was silent for the rest. When I got up and headed to the yotes I noticed the male had only 3 legs. After skinning it I found Bird shot in under the hide. The setup with both yotes already down The Double The 3 Legger,sorry about it being sideways New Photobucket I head straight across the road to the property owners other property and I drive back in and stop close to the last feild, park quietly get out and walk down the feild edge 500 or so yards to the end. As I walk down I see fresh tracks crossing back and forth in the area so it looks good. I move to setup out from the inside corner of the woods on both sides of the field about 150yds out. Got the caller and mojo out and I settled back along a drainage creek in the field and the wind is cross wind from the corner. I feel good, Never hunted this place this winter so maybe some uncalled coyotes here. I start calling with a distressed rabbit call for about a minute and stop. I then turn on the caller and raise the volume to a 30 for about 20 seconds and then lower it again to 23 and after a minute I stop. I scan the wood line and have to also look over my right shoulder to watch just up wind to woods and as I come back I spot a yote standing in the grassy wet swamp looking at the mojo up wind of the caller. I lift the pod and move to the right and settle on him and squeeze, Bang Down he goes. I hit the remote fast 015 KIHI and turn it up to 40 and I jack another shell in the gun and start scaning the wod line and as I scan all the way to the right over my shoulder and coming back I spot the other running up and back towards the woods on the edge. As I swing the dog spots me and stops and I get settled perfect and squeeze and down goes number 2. I watch for a minute again with the KIHI on and I spot a running movement back in the open area of the woods going to my right up wind. I shut off the caller and wait silent watching for about 2 minutes and see nil as I scan the line. Now my hearts pumping hard and I'm totally mixed up here as to what to do, so do what ever comes to mind. I hit the recall button and on goes the cottontail dst and I run it for a minute watching and then hit it again so on comes the KIHI again and as I scan THERE he is standing back in the swamp grass looking out at the caller. I swing slow and settle on his chest and squeeze and down he goes ! A triple at set 2 I am so excited that as the caller is running i'm texting my buddy Wayne to tell him what has just happened to me. 5 coyotes down in 2 sets !!!! Unbelieveable ! what a record for me and one that I dont exspect to ever beat. I need Ammo ! :lol: The setup The Dogs Here is the All Together pic

A little to much snow here yet but I want a shot ! lol

I found after testing that gun that it shot and controlled the shot better with a .555 Indian Creek or Pure Gold was the same with a #6 Hevi shot...

This morning we started out up in the higher grounds but the wind was nasty so we drove back down into the lower areas I hunt and have taken 4 other yotes this week and drove looking at tracks. Seems there is a number of tracks heading to this one woods but no permission. Its 10;30 am a little late for my liking but I decided to head down a long lane in a horse stables that had the woods behind it and ask permission. I heard a few howling yesterday there too, so I get there and knock and the owner comes to the door and I tell him who I am where i'm from and what I am after. He says YES they are running all over here so we thought of trying a late set and headed back across the field to the woods and got setup on the edge of 2 feilds that jioned the same woods and set the caller and mojo out 40 yards from the fence row to the left just up wind of us and about 100 yards from the woods. I started with the Cottontail Dst for 2 minutes on volume 24. About the 1.50 seconds I look up the row and theres a orange dog standing looking at 50 yards with a little srub brush between us. I moved slow onto him and set the hairs of the scope and he looks as he is only 40 yards from the caller and critter that he's done. I picked a hole and took the shot and down he goes. Perry and I had a great time this morning and am going to target the same area tomorrow too.

Setup at first light in this new area on a field. The wind is not great as it from the North West and blowing enough to cause small driffs on the road. I started calling with the DST Cottontail and worked with all the calls like the DST Jack rabbit and ended with a female howl. The set was not good so I get up and move to another location about 300 yards and reset up. Interesting thing is I thought I would try a Coyote decoy and can now see why no one uses them that often. I start with a Cottontail DST and work the volume up to 40 on the caller. The wind is picking up a bit so volume is important to me so I change over to a JackRabbit DST at 20 minutes into on and off calling and as soon as the Jack is done I wait 1 minute and try a Female Invatation howl and within a minute I see one come out around 250 yards. He looks and turns and heads back away into the swamp. I bark but it does nothing. I quickly turn on the KiHi for 30-40 seconds at 40 and pause it and take a hand call and start a Jack distress and out he comes again for a look and he turns again away. I bark and he stops and I take the shot and down he goes and gets up and runs in to the swamp. I get up and leave the equipment and snow shoe in the direction and take up the track. Blood all over so hes hit well and I only do about 40 yards into the swamp and there he is still alive looking at me. I take a follow up shot and end the hunt once again. Moral of the story is - I'll leave the coyote decoy in the truck from here on as I believe it caused more of a problem that he shy ed away from the set because of the presents of the decoy....

I got up at first light and headed back to the same place this morning and when I got there I spotted another yote in the same feild as I got one yesterday. Tried to do a sneek around behind the barn but when I rounded the barn the wind was so bad and cold that my eyes watered so bad I could not see. I however noticed that the yote I had tried to move on was no where in sight I tried a little calling and nothing so I went back to the truck and moved up the road and on the other side of the road. There a creek bottom with a think run of cedars and scrub running into a swamp but the wind was not right blowing from me to the woods. I decided to go anyway and tried to do a cross wind set. My set was close to the end of the thickets along some red gads and the wind was blowing straight into the red gads so I turned on the caller on 38 to start as the wind was blowing bad. DTS Jack rabbit and played it for 2.5 minutes and stopped. I waited about 1 minute and thought I would try a female howl and as I grabbed the Quaker Boy female open reed I looked up to see 2 Yotes down wind of me allready running back towards the red gads , so I swung with the bipod and Barked loud and one disapeared and the female stopped right at the edge to look back and the Rem 788 - 243 was set on the shoulder and down she went. Tried the Kihi for a minute but the other did not come back out. As I thought that I only called for a few minutes I howled and barked and followed with a short Kihi and waited. After 2 minutes of silents I started to do the DST Jack again. I glanced around and over my shoulder and theres a yote walking into the wind behind me about 250 yds but it can not hear the caller for the wind. I swung around and barked and it stopped and I forgot to allow for the wind drift and settled on the shoulder with the cross hairs and squeezed to find I missed as the cross wind was just to hard. Anyways I got another and there is more yet in this new place so I stopped by 3 different adjoining farms and asked permission and got all three of them so I can now call from better locations down wind of the area...

Got up at first light and head to a place close by and sneek in and setup the fury and Mojo and settle back about 40 yards from the caller. I turn on the cottontail Distress 035 for 1 minute at vol 24 then I raise the volume to 28 for 32 seconds and then back down to 24 for another minute. I mute the caller and as I watch the woods edge I catch a gret yote trotting straight out towards the caller. I allow him to come and get ready at about 50 yards when I see movement back at the woods and out pops a Black. She stands at the woods edge and watches the grey confront the caller. I swing and set the crosshairs on the black and down she goes. The other hauls a$$ and I turn on the Kihi and at around 200 yds he stops and broadside I shoot and miss I was right on him and have to wonder if I shot over it anyway this is this is the second black yote I have taken in 2 years...

Thanks guys, rage, I have found that you have to keep at it when you start because you'll try a number of different calls and squences until it unfolds at about 100miles an hour in 10 seconds. Once you get it to happen then follow coarse and do the same things over. Always call soft to start and build volume on every call and even change to calls that have higher sounding tones. Most calls are Distressed calls and I will end a squence with a Howl or howling and even a fight of some sort. The odd time I will start with a lone howl and then into distressed. Change it up but follow close to squences and times of pause close, and play the wind, that is very important. Hope that helps and Thanks everyone, turkey season is getting close....

But the 243 did This morning at the edge of daylight I slipped out for a set before heading to BM's wife service. Thought I would stay close to home so just up the road I start out across a small field. The wind was still but a drizzle was falling as soon as I get to the setup point " Figures" : I get the caller setup and move back to a tree and angle towards the tightest shooting area in front of the setup and grab the Pup open reed from the Quaker Boy Howler pack and thought I would start the set with a light jack rabbit. I blow the call for like 30 seconds and catch movement out of the left side and Holly Hanna A yote is running right towards me. I swing with the 243 and he catches the movement and stops and POW ! All said and done, A male down and one less to harass the neighborhood animals and deer. A fast hunt, but I did find it to warm to move and the drizzle soon changed to a little harder fall, so I packed it in just happy for the time I got this morning.

I can not watch it here at my place as I don't have high speed but I hope you got the yote ! Congrats if you did....

Missed a chance yesterday on another two Pure Black yotes. The male ran in and would not stop running and I took the shot and missed It was for the good because Al Morris would have killed me if It happened again Nothing special about this one, but a great hunt this morning. The gun was on this one as the Wolf Wolf stopped him in his tracks this time. The exciting thing was the Fox pro died in the middle of the set and I happened to have the Quakerboy howler pack around my neck and I took up with the small pup call and did a aL Morris disress rabbit and he came out and loft down a fence line about 100 yards. One tip if I have one is - don't leave without some hand calls incase you need the backup....

yet another great morning but a late start. 7:30am I get up, get ready and off to find a place where I could set up for a hunt or two. I got to a place where I have taken down 3 yotes and setup in a fence row with fields on both sides of me and started the set with distress Jack and after 25 minutes I decided to end that set and walk a bit farther back as there was a hardwood ridge and valley I could see back in the far field. I got setup and decided to do a locate call starting off with the Lone howl a few times and then I sat quiet for about 3 minutes. After no sightings I turned on the distress Jack again on vol 20 and ran it for 10 seconds and volumed up to 25 and left that for about 20 seconds and then volumes up to 39 and left it for 30 seconds then back down in volume for about 15 seconds and pause. After 3 minutes I decided to change to Lightning Jack which is a louder and longer cry and I turned up the volume to 24 and left it running for about 1 1/2 minutes and as I slowly scanned the wood line I spot a yote step out about 150-200 hundred away and stand looking. I moved the tripod to the right as he was slightly up wind and steadied the the gun on the front shoulder and WAM ! The 270 WSM does it again. Yote down around 9:00am Great hunt on a great day The Kill this is the setup a pic from the coyotes view to my setup at the large tree in the fence line at the end of my tracks in the snow Taking him out

The wind and setup is the most important. I also find that morning sets seems more productive for me. Around me area the jake rabbit seems to be the ticket, even if we don't have any. Sit still and watch with your eyes slightly down wind of the caller as most fast run ins come from slight down wind. A decoy like the Mojo Critter is worth the money as I have had to move on yotes that are running in. To stop them just yell WOLF ! and they will stop to look...

Anyone yote hunting ? The snow levels are down here this year so I am taking an advantage of it ...

I'll post a few more hunts when I have time, but this mornings, This has to be the fastest set I have had happened. 8:45am setup on a new property that I just asked permission on and the owners first words "No turkey hunting " but kill all the coyotes you want ! I got setup behind a vacant barn a field away along a scrub of thorn trees. I heard yotes howling yesterday in this area as I hunted a set down the road. First call was the Jack rabbit distress on volume 26 on the Fury and played it for 1 min 36 seconds and out running right at the Mojo critter , she seen me move a little but I had no time to shut off the caller. One wolf and she stopped 50 yards infront of me. The downed yote is to the right and the critter to the left, pic taken right after the shot.

Thanks Guys ...

This past November was good to me as I had a chance to use my new setup in the Controlled hunt. 870 Wingmaster Magnum 20 ga with Remington Acu Tip sabots. I sat on stand before light and had action real fast after 8:00am. This was one buck of two that I took from the same spot. This buck would have made a great wall mount but both brows were snapped off, so I will pass the mount...

Funny you should ask. I have seen a few birds , but no gobbling yet here. Now I know other areas are hearing the birds, I guess they are scared to gobble here because of that Nova LOL! Thanks Guys

This morning I took my annual walk up the road and noticed the coyote tracks coming right out of my own property and crossing into the woods across the road so when I got back I decided to go for a hunt. We can just start to walk the fields here and after all the fun I had at the sportsmen show howling and kikiing entertaining the general public on the mouth call I thought as the day was nice and it was cool that I would try a setup or two before I get going with the day. The first setup was the ticket, as I sat I started with howling on the mouth call and then waited for about 3-4 minutes and started a squealing as a distressed rabbit. I did that for a 4-5 segments and then stopped and waited about 10-15 minutes and did another squealing about 30 seconds and stopped. As I sat there staring out in the field thinking that maybe they are back in deep I decided to try again and out of the corner of my eye running at mach #1 comes running a yote and right at me. I waited still and she kept coming and at 40 yards locks it up and turns and heads back. I followed her with the 270wsm and as she slowed for a second look BANG and down she goes. I was frigin excited to see a female as this may stop some of the population for sure or slow it down anyway. Here's the setup and the yote where it dropped on the left The Prize

The lake effect snow has shut down my deer hunting here at home. Yesterday a friend Perry and I shovelled a trail to a stand location and the path was 3 feet deep in the woods. The snow loads have put a stop to traveling back off any main roads. I hate when I am forced to stop hunting before over having the season come to an end.... Here is what I have to work with and this is yesterday after plowing

Thanks everyone I had a good time this spring...

Congrats what a season !

Congrats what a great season, love the black and white pic ..

This was my season behind the gun April 20 Ohio USA 20LB 3/4 spurs 10in beard April 27 Ontario 1st bird 22.8 lbs 11inch beard 1 3/8 spur and 1 1/4 May 12th Ontario / 2nd bird 18.8 LB spurs matching 7/8 beard 10 1/4 May 27 / 1st bird PA USA 20 LBs 9 3/4 beard 1 3/8 and 1 1/4 spurs May 28th / 2nd bird Pa USA 18 Lb 1 1/4 matching spurs 10 in beard