just wondering how many coyotes some of you guys kill in a night, day, year, lifetime whatever just trying to know what other people are doing

I have a good friend who will shoot about 150/ year. I am sure there are people who shoot more, but that is quite a few.

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so is there any one out there who stills coyote for a living or is that all over with or still knows how to kill alot

like 40 a night

Considering that coyotes are very territorial and that a pack of 5 or 6 is big, I would say that 40 in one night would be very unlikely and next to impossible.
As far as making a living shooting coyotes you need to get a job with the USDA/APHIS (animal damage control)trying to live off the sale of furs at $20-40 each would be pretty meager. Prime furs are only around for around 3 months out of the year.

I am sure it varies around the country. One of the few good things about living in California is that we do have lots of hogs and lots of coyotes.

My dad and I went a few weeks back and killed 5 in one morning. The most I remember getting in one day was 14.

A few years back a guy called us because the coyotes were eating his calves. We killed 38 off of his ranch in about 6 weeks.

The best year my dad ever had he managed to kill over 200 in a year.

300,000

we kill have killed up to 46 in one night we avarage around 25 a night but we only go out about 3 maybe four times a year but when we do go we mean bussiness. I rember as a little kid that my dad would come home after a weekend with a truck bed full of fur. My dad would make a living hunting coyotes during the winter when construction work was slow I just do it now as a hobby its alot of fun but have still to this day ran in to any body who can kill coyote like the two of us. Its not hard it just finding the system that will work my dad found it out and it works. Me and my dad are going out in two week I will Post a picture then that way all of you out there wont think im full of shit

At the area where I deer lease, land owners have AR-15's with night vision. They shoot the occasional coyote and often a few dozen hogs a week, raiding their crops. We are in south Texas.

May I ask where you live that you can even have a chance to shoot 46 in one night and what does a non resident need to hunt coyotes in your state, it sounds like a winter time hunting trip a person dreams of taking.

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well the sate i hunt is nevada but you can do these kinda numbers allmost any where there is lots of open land where you can hunt for coyotes

Questions how many stand do you hunt on a normaly night and how many coyote do you see

nevadarice wrote:

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we avarage around 25 a night

I'd like to see some photos of your one night's work. I'm not trying to discount your claim, but to AVERAGE 25 a night does seem a little hard to believe.

I've hunted and trapped coyotes for years. My best season was in the late 80s when I took 88, most of those during a 2-week period when I ran traps in the morning, skinned into the afternoons and called in the evenings and well into the night. I was a lot younger back then and doubt I slept more than 2-3 hours per day during that span. (I know I couldn't handle that today... )

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Originally posted by nevadarice:
so is there any one out there who stills coyote for a living or is that all over with or still knows how to kill alot

like 40 a night

Can't decide whether your posts are harder to read than they are to believe ....or not.

HAHA 25 average huh? thats hilarious. you shoulda said something smaller like 10 or 15 at the most. it woulda been a little more believable. thanks for humoring us!!

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well the sate i hunt is nevada but you can do these kinda numbers allmost any where there is lots of open land where you can hunt for coyotes

So this would in your opinion cover the wide open spaces of Alberta Canada?.

Three of us hunting as a team in 2006 for the better part of the year took 78 yotes. This includes most every weekend for the 3 months after big game season is closed. We work with 2 guys calling and one guy shooting and switch up once the shooter connects. We saw quite a few more than that, some were way too smart to come into range, we missed lots of them and who knows how many winded or sighted one of us before we saw them. I really have to figure that taking all the above into account we were about 30-40% successfull. It sure is a lot of fun even if we don't get any. The challenge and the experience far out weigh any kill numbers.

I thought 2 a day was doing damn good. 3 on a great day. I'm sure most have done better than me though.

Ed

I have a cousin who along with three or four buddies killed close to a thousand or something like that one winter. This was what they used to do in the off season when construction and fencing are pretty damn slow. Keep in mind this would be every day of every week for about three months. I used to have a picture with all of the furs they had taken. I don't think they do it anymore. Got in trouble once for shooting them from a helicopter or something.

Dude, with those kind of numbers, (25-48 in one night) why are you asking us questions? Your the "expert coyote hunter" on this forum now!! You should be teaching us your secrets!!

That said, what are you really looking for?

Bragging rights? I can understand that. It's a part of the hunting tradition.

Or, are you truly that uninformed about what your fellow hunters are doing? You seem to have been raised in a bubble with no previous contact with other hunters to be asking the questions you pose. That is highly unlikely for a true hunter.

Or, are you digging for information to fullfil an ulterior motive? Are you writing a paper for school or something?

If your numbers are true, I would have serious concerns about the balance of critters in your area. Do you see any elk or deer at all where you live? What are all these coyotes eating?

Your claims are exceptionally hard to believe.

WHAT!!! thats way beyond anything I have ever heard. To average that number you must be seeing at least twice that, in one night??? Thats pretty heavy numbers there bud......round here 2-3 would be reason to celebrate, must have some real population numbers....must be travelin' a lot of miles a night. Hmmmmmm......

Dave

Awww you guys are full of baloney....

45 to 50 coyotes in a night is no big accomplishment really....

Good bait and Claymores or Bouncing Bettys...

no problem...

heck, I took a 6 x 7 Bull Elk this past season, at a little over 2500 yds with a 22 Long rifle..... with a RED Dot for optics... in a 75 mph Cross Wind...nailed him right between the eyes and he dropped like a sack of potatoes...

Wow, you should be in the calling contests. Wait...there might be a minimum age limit though.

Almost daylight down there in Nevada, someone please report if they see a pickup down the road with 25 dead coyotes in back.......I would settle for a pic of just one, that would be good. r in s.

Where did Nevadarice get too? No posts for the past few days. I guess he is busy chasing the coyotes off his porch!!

I bet getting to the school bus stop is hell with all those critters chasing him!!

You mean all I read on here isn't the absolute truth? So some of you guys are just joshen' me.....Seafire I bet that elk ran a little ways at least.......

Dave

Christmas break is over he had to go back to school and I would bet mmmm about the 6th grade.

I still think he has coyote hunting mixed up with pdog hunting. With those kinds of numbers I am sure he meant pdogs.

I think he just wanted to belong. Thinking back to when I was twelve years old, hanging out at the used gun store, that was important. Trouble is they didn't listen to my outlandish . Now that I' m a little older they still don't. roger

When I was just finishing high school, which woud have been in the early 90s, we had a terrible problem with coyotes killing our bottle calves, chickens, even got one of my dad's cow dogs, I had a couple sheep killed, etc. (Grew up on a dairy farm) The family got in touch with the game warden and he came out and set up cyanide traps. He caught 7 coyotes in about 10 days, I think it was. He then brought in helicopter and sharp shooter. They killed around a hundred yotes (don't remember the exact number) in about a 2 mile radius of the dairy in a day. Needless to say, we never had any further problems with coyotes again, and hardly ever saw one for several years.

I find it extremely hard to believe someone can consistently kill 25-40 coyotes every time they go out!!

I don't about all you guy but it sounds to me like I could use some tutelage from this young man for our call shy dogs around here. Nate

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Originally posted by 12FVSS260:
Seafire I bet that elk ran a little ways at least.......

Dave

Well actually, he did have the courtesy and good taste to run and jump in the back of the pickup, before expiring..... then he fell like a sack of potatoes...

I went to shoot my CZ 527 today at a buddy's farm. I ended up killing 38 coyotes in a little over an hour. I could have done better, but I ran out of ammo.

barutmt-

See, next time you must bring much more ammo. Then you can average 50 or more per hour...and get closer to being as good as nevadarice

I have about 20 coyotes laying here in the living room. They keep peeing on the Christmas tree, and I am about ready to shoot them!

But the kids are having fun with them, and they do a great job of keeping the cat out of sight, so I'm torn... what should I do!!??

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heck, I took a 6 x 7 Bull Elk this past season, at a little over 2500 yds with a 22 Long rifle..... with a RED Dot for optics... in a 75 mph Cross Wind...nailed him right between the eyes and he dropped like a sack of potatoes...

Seafire - Yeah - but how would you have fared if he had been running?

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consistently kill 25-40 coyotes

It might be possible given unrestricted access and no equipment restrictions in certain areas.

We could set up a van with a shooting portal cut through the roof and drive around LA and Orange Counties in SoCal.

Spotlights blazing, drive the peripheries of the neighborhoods where they meet 'open space'.

Pop em' with the .17 Rem. and leave em' lay.

Otherwise, nobody but nobody takes an average of 25 a trip. Not even the aerial gunners working for the Feds. Nor the best trappers in superb country with no competition.

I know of one day totals in excess of 25 coyotes but that's rare.

My best year on coyotes was 162, about half bycatch trapping bobcats and gray fox and half knocking them down for ranchers. And that represented a Hell of a lot of work and time in the field.

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Originally posted by Bobby Tomek:
barutmt-

See, next time you must bring much more ammo. Then you can average 50 or more per hour...and get closer to being as good as nevadarice

Lesson learned.

You might be able to do 50 a day in upper Burbank and Glendale at 5 in the morning til 7 on garbage collection day. Of course some one like Rick Madrid or Debby Pope would be all over your ass. roger

I've never been that lucky to get 25 dogs in one day/night. The best shooting to date was 5 one cold February afternoon hunting by a herd of cows.

All fisherman and coyote hunters are liars except for you and me, but sometimes I wonder about you.

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Originally posted by TEANCUM:
I've never been that lucky to get 25 dogs in one day/night. The best shooting to date was 5 one cold February afternoon hunting by a herd of cows.

TEANCUM, that’s very believable but we have a few fellow hunters in here that are a little questionable.

The only folks I know of that killed more than 10-12 in a day in South Texas used helicopters and 00 buckshot. Six is a hell of a night, even thought he population is very dense.

Not to say a pro couldn't do better but I promise right here and now, anyone who can rack up 25 a night can make a hell of a livin' renting himself out to ranchers in that part of the country.