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[Ketchup]

Dang wrench you shoulda went with someone who knew their business. 😜

My season is just starting, but have shot 3 since Sept, 2 of those with my bow. The guys i hunt with are keen to the property "ranch" we hunt. A typical winter we will shoot roughly 20 between our group outings and going out alone. This is on a 10,000 acre ranch north of Springfield that runs lots of cattle. The 4 of us are life long predator hunters/callers. One of the guys has his own show on Sportsman Channel "not hard to figure out who he is" and is a world champion caller.

I love every sit i do, just as much as i do bow hunting or fishing. Then to call in a bobcat or fox makes it like catching a bass over 7 pounds.  

But this airgun stuff is fun as heck. Tomorrow is supposed to be 60 but windy. Planning on shooting atleast 100 down the Hatsan to get it wore in. On some coyote sits i take a shotgun and rifle. Wonder if i could get by with the 25 cal. for upclose instead of the shotgun? Just for the thrill of shooting one over a call with an air gun.

 

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, Ketchup said:

Dang wrench you shoulda went with someone who knew their business. 😜

My season is just starting, but have shot 3 since Sept, 2 of those with my bow. The guys i hunt with are keen to the property "ranch" we hunt. A typical winter we will shoot roughly 20 between our group outings and going out alone. This is on a 10,000 acre ranch north of Springfield that runs lots of cattle. The 4 of us are life long predator hunters/callers. One of the guys has his own show on Sportsman Channel "not hard to figure out who he is" and is a world champion caller.

I love every sit i do, just as much as i do bow hunting or fishing. Then to call in a bobcat or fox makes it like catching a bass over 7 pounds.  

But this airgun stuff is fun as heck. Tomorrow is supposed to be 60 but windy. Planning on shooting atleast 100 down the Hatsan to get it wore in. On some coyote sits i take a shotgun and rifle. Wonder if i could get by with the 25 cal. for upclose instead of the shotgun? Just for the thrill of shooting one over a call with an air gun.

 

We hunted Audrain and Monroe counties.  There always seemed to be "too many" coyotes until we started hunting them.  We got all fired up about it because we thought they were killing all the quail.   I think they started being 100% nocturnal up there, and we just couldn't get many shots on them.

One of my customers is on the Outdoor network (John Embry), he kills quite a few of them but they put a ton of time into it.

[Ketchup]

I dont get to excited until 2 weeks after gun deer season is over. They have plenty scraps to eat during that time. They are getting hungry now and searching for food. 

What i dont agree with is that Missouri protects coyotes during the breeding season, but yet posts articles about the benefits of killing them due to game loss. We are the only state around that doesnt allow year round killing of them, or at night. If they allowed night hunting i would be out often. 

 

[BilletHead]

6 minutes ago, Ketchup said:

I dont get to excited until 2 weeks after gun deer season is over. They have plenty scraps to eat during that time. They are getting hungry now and searching for food. 

What i dont agree with is that Missouri protects coyotes during the breeding season, but yet posts articles about the benefits of killing them due to game loss. We are the only state around that doesnt allow year round killing of them, or at night. If they allowed night hunting i would be out often. 

 

          Ketchup.

  Coyotes are breeding now. You can hunt them year around but they are closed during daylight hours for a short period of time. Why then? To protect turkeys. Seems some people use the excuse of hunting coyotes to kill extra turkeys. Check it out here,

https://huntfish.mdc.mo.gov/hunting-trapping/species/coyote/coyote-seasons-hours

   You can hunt them at night but without a light. You ever been out with snow and moon light? You can see pretty well,

   BilletHead

[fishinwrench]

15 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

          Ketchup.

  Coyotes are breeding now. You can hunt them year around but they are closed during daylight hours for a short period of time. Why then? To protect turkeys. Seems some people use the excuse of hunting coyotes to kill extra turkeys. Check it out here,

https://huntfish.mdc.mo.gov/hunting-trapping/species/coyote/coyote-seasons-hours

   You can hunt them at night but without a light. You ever been out with snow and moon light? You can see pretty well,

   BilletHead

So nobody's gonna say... "-------, that turkey looked just like a coyote sittin' up there in the moonlight"?

Typical MDC reasoning.   That's a good way to get somebody's coondog killed.

I wish we could hunt turkeys with an air rifle.   Doves too.  That'd be fun.

[fishinwrench]

We have a 6 month old wolf running loose around here now.  Some doofus brought it back here from Colorado (a weed run no doubt) and it bit and then got away from him the first day back home.

They supposedly arrested the dude but nevertheless we still have the wolf running loose.    

[bfishn]

9 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

We have a 6 month old wolf running loose around here now.  Some doofus brought it back here from Colorado (a weed run no doubt) and it bit and then got away from him the first day back home.

They supposedly arrested the dude but nevertheless we still have the wolf running loose.    

Inspired by Ricky Bobby?

[BilletHead]

15 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

So nobody's gonna say... "-------, that turkey looked just like a coyote sittin' up there in the moonlight"?

Typical MDC reasoning.   That's a good way to get somebody's coondog killed.

I wish we could hunt turkeys with an air rifle.   Doves too.  That'd be fun.

          Where did I say anything about hunting turkeys by moonlight?   

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, BilletHead said:

          Where did I say anything about hunting turkeys by moonlight?   

You didn't.  

You said they prohibited coyote hunting during the daylight hours, for a certain period of time, to protect turkeys.  Then you talked about how easy it was to see under a big moon with a blanket of snow.

My point was that if a rule breaking hunter could see a coyote on the ground, he could darn sure see a turkey on the roost, and could easily help him out of the tree.  And the likelyhood of him getting caught doing that at night is  way less than him getting caught shooting a turkey during the day. So how does prohibiting coyote hunting during the day, but allowing it at night, protect turkeys?

Someone saying "it was a mistake, I thought that turkey was a coyote" is no more crazy than mistaking an elk for a whitetail.  A coyote might be able to sleep in a tree, you don't know ! Shooting coyotes out of trees is not prohibited is it?

[BilletHead]

From what I heard it is using coyote hunting for an excuse to poach turkeys during daylight hours. Turkeys are pretty vunrable to high power rifles that time of the year being out in the open during courtship. Your comparing it to night time turkey poaching is way out there but you are too at times. Daylight or night.