coyotes

[jlp8cornell]

They are very noisy around here (upstate central NY) at night. I have seen coyotes as big as German Shepherds. we have a ton around here.

About 5 miles up the road, the coyotes lured an English Setter from his home...owners found him dead. I hear them all the time at night. Eerie...

[ACooper]

In most parts of the country "packs" of coyotes are pretty rare, usually pairs or singles depending on time of year.

Spring/Summer is "pack" (mating) season. Ever sit on a hill in the NW and listen to the night songs????

Spring is the easiest time to decoy them.

[jimbo&rooster]

In most parts of the country "packs" of coyotes are pretty rare, usually pairs or singles depending on time of year.

Spring/Summer is "pack" (mating) season. Ever sit on a hill in the NW and listen to the night songs????

I have sat up many nights listening to "packs" of yotes. What most people hear and envision as a huge pack of yotes is more likely 2-3 of them. heck the 4 dogs in my kennel have a tendency to sound like 20 if they want to.

In the last 10 years or so, between running coyote hounds, calling coyotes, and just driving around shooting coyotes, I have never seen more than 3-4 at one time in a group and the only time I have seen 4 in the same place was at a dumping pile for a local pig farm.

As far as running dogs that can run down AND kill a coyote, A friend of a friend used to come out on occasion and bring his Irish Wolfhounds out for a work out with our pack and I can tell you that those Either of those 2 dogs could catch and kill a coyote with little to no effort.

Jim

[Birddogz]

Irish wolf hounds are hard on yotes. I had a friend who had 4 of them. I can't imagine how many coyotes they killed in a year in KS.

[Buckeye_V]

There is a large pack that runs around our place every once in a while. More than 5. I saw them.

They are large bodied and bold.

Justin

[doco]

Thus past June, I was scouting for Joe Amatulli at the Flaherty Field Trial Grounds in East Windsor, CT and I heard all this barking and I figured that his dog must have come accross some kids in the woods with a dog. As I rode over to the treeline she came busting out of the woods with a coyote about 15 feet on her tail. Once the yote broke the treeline and saw me on a horse about 50 yards out, she slammed on the brakes broadside and tucked back in. I can only assume that she maybe had a den in there. Thankfully, there were no injuries, but is was screwy to witness.

We hunt them up here on on snowmobiles on the St. Lawrence River when it freezes over in Feb. They usually cruise perimeter of the Islands. So it is more visual hunting than calling.