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General Categories => Hunting and Fishing => Topic started by: Burnsy87 on February 20, 2011, 06:40:36 PM
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Where would be a good place to go? A friend and I would like to just get away from Omaha from 4-5 and hunt Coyotes.
What all do we need to know? Plan on grabbing an e-call as well.
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Honestly, I wouldnt mind doing a bit of that myself. If you find out anything I'd appreciate hearing about it.
Ron
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You might try to look up some guys who have cattle. My dad lives a long way from where you're looking, but he absolutely despises coyotes especially during calving season. He carries a rifle with him all the time while calving and plugs them whenever he sees them, since they like to hang around and eye the babies. I don't know how it is close to Omaha, but in Northeast Nebraska they are thick with them - the last two years I've seen more coyotes up there than probably the previous 10 combined. You might be able to find a farmer who has a coyote problem and wants to thin them out.
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Mis-typed in the original post. Get away for 4-5 days, camping out would be pretty cool.
Good thinking on the cattle, not sure how I would go about finding people who would appreciate a smaller coyote population.
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Some approaches that have worked for me:
>Find your hunting area of interest. Go to the nearby small towns. Stop at coffee shop, where all the pickups are parked. [Be careful NOT to sit in chair of one of the "Regulars".] Be nice. Farmers will be there, talking about crop prices, weather, local events, dissing the Government. Wait respectfully until the right moment. Ask them.
>Go to farmhouse. Be nice. Knock on door. [If Lady answers, she'll refer you to the Mister.] Ask the Mister. Be sure to socialize a bit, unless he's very busy.
>Get NE Game & Parks pamphlets, both public and private lands. Lotsa places. Gotta drive a bit.
And when you're ready to go, gimme a call. Haven't gone after the Yodel Dogs for a while. Right NOW is prime mating season. Be sure to use the *****-in-Heat call on your coyote tooter; it's a Killer in mating season.
The yearlings are still just a bit stupid. But not for long.
sfg
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I have the farm ... and I've heard a few coyotes on it from time to time. It's about an hour and 45 minutes away from northwest Omaha. Honestly, though, I've never "hunted" coyotes. I've shot a few over the years because they were there and I didn't want them eating calves or piglets.
Someone with a call and some experience hunting them could get me interested in sharing my land, however. :)
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I'd be highly interested in helping if you have livestock at risk. Clearly, you're on this site, so you can handle things yourself, but if it was giving my friend an I an opportunity to do what we want, and helps a fellow NFOA member, that'd be great.
I have 0 hunting experience, still in college with an Associate's in Criminal Justice, right now at Bellevue U in one of the Homeland Security degrees, going for my BS then my Master's, so all my shooting experience is personal protection/tactical variety, not hunting.
The friend I'd be going with is military, he's an Iraq War vet. Also not a hunter.
I talked to Game & Parks earlier this month, found out coyotes are non-game animals, so we can hunt with our AR's with no mag limit or other restrictions.
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I wouldn't say that we have livestock at risk. We lease the land to a farmer these days and he's never mentioned losing a calf to coyotes.