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Gun training dogs

NYBowhunter71 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:46:16 GMT

I am very new to training,
I have read on other posts about when shooting around your dog, watching out for adverse reactions.
What would these be, and what would you do for it?

Coyote Killing Methods

FL_Cracker — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:49:23 GMT

I know my favorite way to kill these flesh suckers is with a big bore rifle but I just thought it would be a good thread to post other creative ways y'all have found to deal with these turds.

Two (rather) new methods I've heard of recently that I want to try are:

1. Tie/crimp a big treble hook onto some 60# + wire. Hook the wire to a sturdy tree branch. For bait, you can gut a turkey, hog, or whatever animal and leave the guts on top of the treble hook, or simply bait up a small chicken or something. Apparently this has been effective.

2. Buy a bunch of foam rubber and soak it in bacon or some other type of grease. The yotes will eat the foam and not be able to digest it and kick over.

So post up your ideas....and lets send some yotes back to their maker.

breaking beagles from deer

bunnybuster — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:19:09 GMT

does any one have a good solid way of breaking beagles,or any hound,from running
deer.they will run the hell out of rabbits but just cant stop them from running deer if they come across one.........have tried breaking scents...and several head thumpings.thinking of trying an
e-collar....any tips would be great.

Who Squirrel Hunts

hoskins — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:36:57 GMT

So who all squirrel hunts here?

COYOTE MISADVENTURES

BowBo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:49:28 GMT

.

http://www.predatorxtreme.com/breakingnews.asp?NewsID=126

Coyote Misadventures Nationwide

Ed Park
3/6/2008

Our favorite predator keeps getting in the news as they learn that they can easily outsmart those two-legged, clothes-wearing predators we call humans.

Coyotes are only one of a very few species that has increased its numbers and range along with increases in our human population, and have become a growing problem in many urban areas as they dine on pets, such as cats and small dogs.

Populations of coyotes continue soaring in our eastern states and officials are scrambling to find solutions to some of the problems being caused. The Board of Supervisors of Bedford County, Virginia, had been considering a $50 bounty on coyotes after increases in complaints from citizens about livestock losses, but on February 27 decided against a bounty but in favor of a predator prevention education program. The Virginia State Code authorizes individual counties to create bounties by ordinance, and several counties already have such bounties on coyotes. For example, Campbell County pays $50 per coyote.

In Yellowstone National Park a female coyote stole a woman’s pack at the Old Faithful Snow Lodge. Family members got the pack back by throwing snowballs at the coyote. The coyote ran off, but circled back and attacked the lady. Bites to her leg punctured the skin. Within 15 minutes a Yellowstone Association employee, who was skiing nearby, was bitten on the leg by the same coyote. The skier hit the coyote with a ski pole. A park ranger tracked the pesky coyote to a safe area, then shot it. Tests for rabies were negative.

In Gulf Shores, Alabama, people in residential areas hear coyotes every night, and parents will not allow their children out at night. Residents call the howling “terrifying” and small children are scared. In Orange Beach, Alabama, officials have posted “Coyote Crossing” signs along parts of Canal Road.

This past winter a coyote began harassing skiers at the Copper Mountain ski area in Colorado. Its actions got more and more aggressive – approaching people with teeth bared. The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) was finally called when the coyote nipped at a skier’s boot, grabbed at a child’s jacket, bit the board of a snowboarder who had fallen, and was driven off as it approached a three-year-old child DOW officers arrived, the ski area was shut down, and the officers located and shot the coyote. Tests for disease are being conducted.

A DOW spokesman said the coyote’s actions suggested the animal had become habituated to humans and looked to them as a source of food. Perhaps skiers riding lifts were dropping food to it, or local residents had been feeding it. As the DOW spokesman said, when people feed animals such as this coyote, they think they are helping, but in too many cases it results in that animal’s death.

San Francisco’s city parks are experiencing a ballooning coyote population and the resulting problems, and city officials are trying to figure out how to handle those problems without raising the ire of the city’s animal-loving human population. The coyotes are showing actions typical of habituated animals. People unthinkingly – and illegally – toss bits of food to the “cute coyotes.” The coyotes begin associating humans with food, get aggressive in their begging, are fed more, get more demanding and nip at the hands that feed them – and end up getting removed and killed. City animal-care workers are encouraging people to scare the coyotes without hurting them – an action they call “vexing” – such as yelling, but not throwing rocks.

In all urban areas having coyote problems, officials issue lists of things not to do, and to do – such as don’t leave pet food or bird feeders outside overnight or allow pets to roam free, and do store garbage in critter-proof containers and keep all pets indoors at night. Too many people ignore any advice, so the coyote problems increase. Along with that, some people scream to leave the coyote alone while others scream to exterminate them.

The bottom line – which is no consolation for those suffering losses from coyotes – came from Curtis Herbert, a wildlife manager for the Arizona Game and Fish Department. He said, “There will always be coyotes. Eradication’s just not the answer. That’s been proven time and time again.”

rabbit count so far!

jcgt2000 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:04:41 GMT

well so far this year ive taken 15 rabbits with no ruined meat!! i cant balieve this eyar there are sooo many rabbits out. how many have you guys gotten so far this year???

ELECTRONIC PREDATOR CALLER

BowBo — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:08:12 GMT

I'm thinking of trying an electronic caller for the coyotes here............ but don't want to pay a fortune for one either.

Anyone know of a "good" E-Call that is reasonably priced?

HELP!

pheasents

travo — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:45:50 GMT

this is a pheasent hunt i went on a few weeks back. 7 guys limits by 3 every day. a very good hunt.

WENT YOTIE HUNTIN' TODAY

BowBo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:39:37 GMT

Well, me and Romer finally got a chance to go yotie hunting this morning. We tried one set for close to an hour, with no dogs in site. Then we tried another set for about an hour, still no dogs!

Oh well, at least we got out there and gave it a whirl. We'll be going back the next good chance we get!

Anyone else been able to get out and call some yotes yet?

Rabbit hunting land

JDK — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:55:51 GMT

Anybody got any good rabbit hunting areas in York/chester/Lancaster or Fairfield county S.C.? I have a couple of guys with pretty good dogs that are always looking for someplace new to chase bunnies. It's not all about numbers with us, we like a good race with a shot thrown in here and there.

Chickens from a can...

xOZx — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:14:15 GMT

A local church organization I belong to put a shoot together up at a club in central IL for last Saturday. I figure it sounded like a good time to hang with the crew for some laughs and fellowship, so I tagged along.

It was at a neat little club that does 6 day deer hunts and turkey hunts as well as the pheasant/chukar/bobwhite put and shoots. Had some real nice deer on the walls too.

The Group:

We set up the throwers when we got there to warm up on a few clays, after all, we done paid for these birds, can't be lettin' em go off to the wild as coyote food. I unleash the Benelli prepared to wreak havoc on some clay birds and find myself with little or no breakage. I was feeling ill...I mean, it been a while but daggone!

Now I see it, I got an IC in there and this hand had me feedin' the M1 #9 shot! So I proceeded to redeem myself by smoking them birds about 10' from the trap! I was lettin' em get out too far for that sand I was shootin at em.

We go out to the field and the guide lets the dogs out. We do the meet and greet with the guide and assure him we ain't gonna shoot his dogs and off we go.

First patch, the dogs were up ahead a flush a chukar. I watch that mug fly off and think, "well dang, if them hounds is nothing more than flushers, he can take that junk back to the rig!"

Ah, but then they settle in and get a nice point on a pheasant.

We all took turns after that with the shots and backing each other up. On my first shot my mechanics were still in the trap mode...when that bird got shoulder high I fired and all we could see was feathers! It was a nice shot I tell ya! Just kinda had a bit of picking when it came to cleaning him.

The shot:
Me and my backup on the final "prized bird". See the smoke coming out of the Benelli!

So, it was a fun day of hanging in the outdoors, cutting up and having a good time. One thing this club did was put out one real dark pheasant for each group. These things were beautiful. Hold them up to the sun and blues, purples, reds...really pretty. They were almost black in color when they got up and flew and well, our guy up missed, but we marked him. So at the end we trounced over to see if we could get another crack at him. Sure enough, the dogs pointed him. Another guy flushed him and I was primary gun. I was letting the bird get out a bit so as to not mutilate him...and then I fired. Almost at the same time, my back-up fired (didn't want to see him get away again....LOL). We both hit that mug and he dropped like a sack of rocks.

A good time was had, even if it was chicken from a can...

Me and my BIL with our "harvest"

Hilltophunters Rabbit(kinda)

mspaci — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:40:47 GMT

Me & Hilltophunter went out with my dogs for a few hours. I got one & he was bowhunting them. Dogs started a bit slow but started hammeringthem pretty good about 10am. 5-6 good runs. Hilltop did get a shot about 18 yards & hit the rabbit(kinda) unfortunetly the rabbits butt may be a bit cold the rest of the season. I wish I had a camera when he came out with just a tail. Never saw that one before. Seriously we had a good time & dogs did great. He might of killed that rabbit had he been shooting a hoyt????? Mike

Coyotes anyone????

Fatrooster — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:16:24 GMT

Theres only one thing I like better than calling in coyotes and that wouldn't be an appropriate subject on this forum. Any other coyote hunters out there???? As the season draws near I thought I'd post some of last years handy work to get the juices flowing.

Forgive the "spock" sign. It was to prove they were shot during last years contest and not old pics.

from 05

rabbit season good so far

jcgt2000 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:28:04 GMT

started off my first day with 2 rabbits and missed 4. i was useing a noble 60 12ga. its a old gun prolly from like 50s i think. i dont use dogs so its a 1 man hunting team for me. 2nd time i got 2 again but i used my 20ga. then the 3rd time out i got 3 useing the 20ga again. and ive missed about 10 rabbits all together. just seems this year there all over the place.

need rabbit hunting on tv!!!

jcgt2000 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:35:15 GMT

i have only ever seen one show that did rabbit hunting and they were useing the new air shotguns. i could balieve it it was on the VS channel. are there any other shows that do that if not i think it be cool if they did a shwo or two on that and show what they have to do to get those boogers out. ive seen the vids on youtube and stuff but there just shooting rabbits with 308. and crap and laghing. id like a real show even with young kids just got there license showing that its a fun sport and addicting.

snow shoe hair hunting!

jcgt2000 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:27:45 GMT

well me and a 2 of my buddies are going up north from me to hunt snow shoe hairs. i did it last year and shot a realy nice rabbit first one ever. i actually thaught it was a small beagle running at me lol were are going up near indian lake twards canada like 2 hrs away cant wait!!!

Got me a bunny

Squirrelhunter91 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:26:07 GMT

On Wednesday, 12/26, my dad and I decided to take a ride up to the property in Sullivan County. The snow was deep so my dad decided to stay at the house and relax. So off I went with the old faithful 835 with a modified choke in search of some squirrels/bunnies. I decided to try this one thick spot of rhododendron, berry bushes and rose bushes for rabbits. I was literally crawling on my hands and knees to get through this stuff when I finally got a BIG one to flush. It was too thick for a shot and it was too far away so I held off. I went to circle around to get a shot at it and as I was circling, another popped out so I shot that one. No pics of me and the rabbit because I was alone and when I got back to the house it was too dark for pics.

But here's the one pic of it:

It was a good sized cottontail, maybe 1 1/2 pounds.

Good start...

FL_Cracker — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:53:37 GMT

Looks like these fellas have a good spot...can't wait for my truck bed to look like this... ;D

Ever see a fox shoot a rifle?

johnnie — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:24:32 GMT

Too funny

http://www.outdooroutlook.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153

Johnnie

Chukar Partridge

Coopersdesign — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:25:22 GMT

Took this photo of the elusive chukar partridge as he popped out to warm his feathers...

And another

Fatrooster — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:11:39 GMT

This year is driving me crazy. The new tally with the Foxpro in 5 hunts. Called in 12, missed 2, wounded and lost one, killed 3, and been busted by the rest. Talk about bad luck. I just can't seem to get my head out of my arrrs this year. Oh, well here's another one. Not a great pic though. I didn't realize we couldn't see his face till I got home. The piece sign is for an online contest I'm in. This one was getting the mange. Yuk. Stinky!!!

Finally, got another.

Fatrooster — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:00:46 GMT

Been a tough season so far but managed another. So far I've called in 8, missed one, lost one due to a poor shot, killed two, and been busted by the rest. But I think I'm getting the rust out. Got this old girl in on a pup in distress sequence. She flew in from a long long way out. 160 yards, broadside, 52 grn hollow, no exit! Gotta love it!

Fatrooster strikes again!

Fatrooster — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:51:35 GMT

The coyote season is off to a slow start but after a long uneventfull weekend I did manage to down this dog. 140 yard shot and the hammer fell. She dumped hard. Don't you love having the scope maxed out on a close dog and you can actually see the eyes looking around? I'll be putting up more hopefully for you guys & gals who like yote hunting as much as me.

Sandhill Crane Hunt

UTTRKYHNTR — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:22:50 GMT

Just hoping there might be some other Utah upland game hunters on this forum to get some help on the Sandhill crane hunt. I drew the sportsman tag for the state, but did not have the time to hunt the first portion of the hunt. I will be able to get out for the second portion of the hunt for Uintah County, but unfamiliar with the area. I was hoping someone could suggest some spots I could hunt or some doors I could knock on to gain permission to hunt some land. Thanks in advance for all the help!

Also wanted to say I am new to the site, but have enjoyed reading many of the topics! There are alot of hunters out there with alot of knowledge. I learn something new every time I am on the site.

Late season small game

pabowhunter — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:54:31 GMT

So is there anyone going out for some late season small game? Just about everything is back in for us starting today.

I only made it out twice in early season. Been to occupied chasing whitetails. Time to head out and get some shooting in.

Anyone been dove hunting yet?

FL_Cracker — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:44:33 GMT

Has anyone been out yet?

Our first phase started on the 6th and I've been out once and had a good shoot. Got 11 birds but shot a few for others. They had another hunt/shoot where everyone limited out, so a pretty decent year so far. I hope to get back out the weekend of the 28th for another hunt.

We'll probably get out more in the last phase which is in January.

I've been helping my buddy train his 2.5 year old chocolate lab, which has been a lot of fun. We froze a bird and have been training her with it, and she's doing great with the training now that she knows the difference between a ball and a bird.

Crow from past Saturday

Squirrelhunter91 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:40:08 GMT

Here's a few pics of a crow I shot last Saturday.. Was walking in the woods with the 20 ga, heard some crows flying over so I called to them with my voice. I waited for one to land in a tree because I had the full choke in the gun for turkey's so once one landed in the tree, I shot. And here was the result..

Who says crows don't strut? They so have a tailfan.

When does YOUR....

BowBo — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:56:52 GMT

Squirrel season start?

Anybody here enjoy chasing those tree rats?

I use squirrel season to do a little scouting for deer season, other than that, I'm not big squirrel hunter.

But I do carry my Ruger Mark II Competition Target Model, with a red dot Aim Point scope on it........ just in case I do run across some little squirrelies ~ They do eat purdy goood

Grouse!

NoDak_Hunter — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:33:28 GMT

Today was the opener of grouse and partridge season. The weather this morning was iffy, but it cleared off. We went out, and did a whole lot of walking and pretty much no shooting for a long time. Finally, about 5:30 in the day, we start seeing them by the side of the road. Our basic method here is, drive along until you see a grouse near the road, get out, shoot. I think we can afford to do that for how much walking we had to do and no birds. Anyway, the new Uplander is working great. Got some great shots on the fly. Woulda had our limit if I hadnt forgot about the safety once...

Oh, and before all that, I snuck some geese and nailed a good 13lb-er. Not a bad day.

Sorry, no pics!!!

Huntin Wabbits

PsYcHo — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:32:33 GMT

I gotta say rabbits are tough little critters!!! I just blasted an arrow through one in the back yard.....the arrow stuck into the ground and the rabbit looked like it was done....a few min later it was sitting upright hopping through the yard like nothing was wrong with it....except the arrow sticking through it! I expected more from my muzzy!

Killin' Possum

FL_Cracker — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:55:37 GMT

Nov. 8, 2006

Well, this weekend my aunt called me to exterminate a possum that took residence under a stairwell in her back yard. Every time they’d walk up the wooden stairwell the possum would hiss and growl at them and their dachshund was gettin’ ticked off and wanting to attack it, which wasn’t good because the possum was twice as big as Max, the killer Dachsund.

I was sick this weekend so I couldn’t get over there until Monday evening about 4pm. I tried to figure out how I was gonna kill it since I couldn’t use a gun in the city limits. I decided on using a replica civil war saber that I use in civil war reenactments. It didn’t take long, I went up, quarried my game and poked it right in the gut and twisted and poked it again through the lung area. The possum immediately died and I drug it out from under the stairwell with it on the end of my sword.

Next, it was time for the proper Christian burial. I dug a hole and was about to lay Mr. Possum to rest, when this mangled possum jumps up and starts running around. WTF? Dumbfounded after the butchering I gave this poor creature, I chased it with the shovel around the whole yard a few times, at which time I noticed my aunt’s entire neighborhood staring at me swinging a shovel and yelling at the mangled possum. LOL It was hilarious!!! Finally got close and whacked his head off with the shovel and laid him to rest. I’m pretty sure it’d dead now!!! Boy, that was a lot of fun!!!!

What the fox ate

Flintlock1776 — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:02:16 GMT

Well, heard some screaming last nigh and this morining in the middle of the road was this

My lawn mower found some other parts so they must have nailed it in front and dragged the big parts to the road.

hunting beagles for sale?

beagleboy — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:18:04 GMT

I've been looking for a trained beagle for sale since one of my dogs has past away recently. Anyone know of a trained beagle for sale or a beagle kennel in the NY area?
Thanks
Frank

Some kills from the past few years

Squirrelhunter91 — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:50:09 GMT

I brought this post over here too..

UPDATED with some 2006/2007 pics

So now you've seen SOME of my pics, lets see yours..