Predator

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT PEST CONTROL.

From coyotes to feral hogs and all sorts of pesky predators in-between, our assortment of videos and articles will help you hunt, spot, stalk, call in and kill with lightning efficiency. Get expert tips on what gear to use and what calls to make, while learning both basic and advanced techniques from the most lethal predator exterminators in the game.

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Elk, Bears and Hunters Don’t Mix

“What the heck is happening? There's no reason that bull shouldn’t come in to my calling. He should be trying to herd cows, and I'm sounding like several cows. I'm giving that bull all the right calls he needs to come to me.” Then, I noticed something on the ridge behind us at about the same elevation as the bull - a mama black bear that was popping her jaws, looking at us and huffing

Big Game, Predator, Bow

When an Elk Hunt Is Far More Than an Elk Hunt

I went hunting in a drainage that I never had hunted before in north Wyoming. I took my pack string with my horses and mules, and I picked out a spot on the map where we were going to camp. As I was riding in with two of my cowboy friends from Wyoming, I saw some beautiful country I’d never seen previously. About an hour before the sun went down, two grizzly bears stood up

Big Game, Predator, Mossy Oak

Two Mule Deer at the Same Time and Same Place

My wife, Kami, and I were hunting mule deer during November, which was the rut time for the mule deer out here where we hunt. Kami never had taken a deer with a bow. This was only her second year of bowhunting. We found a herd of deer, and I taught Kami how to stalk up and get close to the mule deer. As she was moving close on the herd, a big doe stepped

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How to Take Bears and Deer on New York’s Public Lands

One of the big advantages I have is that the place I hunt is only 10 miles from my home near the town of Elma. Our rifle season starts November 21 at the same time as our shotgun season. At this time, I usually go to southern New York to hunt. I’ll be hunting for black bears with my rifle there. We’ll be bear hunting around the towns of Whitesville and Independence from tree stands

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A Quick Family Bear Hunt

One time I went on a family bear hunt with my brother-in-law and my wife at that time. Since my brother-in- law tagged out the very first evening, he went with my wife the second evening and videoed and watched her tag her bear with a bow. The third night my brother-in-law went with me. We had a sow and two cubs come in to where we were.

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Mix Your Calls While Predator Hunting

In the world of hunting, we as hunters are always looking for a new tactic or a new product that improves our success rate. A few years back I began using a diaphragm call for howling coyotes. I began using this tactic with just a double reed diaphragm turkey call. It works. But, here recently I've started using diaphragms that are specifically made for calling predators.

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Use Predator Control to Remove Competition for the Wildlife Your Land Produces

Early summer is a good time to rid your property of predators that detrimentally can impact many of your wildlife species. If you feel like predators are impacting the wildlife population on your land, talk with your county agent or wildlife department about getting nuisance permits for harvesting predators during the summer months.

Predator, Land Management, How-To

Pat Reeve Explains When a Brown Bear Hunt Is More Than a Brown Bear Hunt

I decided to give up the entire month of November to go to Kodiak Island in Alaska to hunt brown bear with a bow. I wanted to hunt the brown bears fishing in the salmon streams. To my way of thinking, this is a classic brown bear hunt. I never had hunted Kodiak Island, yet I knew this island off the Alaskan Peninsula was where most of the giant brown bear were taken.

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Increase Your Odds for Taking Deer on Private Lands

At this time of the year, I’ll get a soil test on my property, prepare my ground to plant and plant cow peas. I'm very good friends with a wildlife biologist who has more than 50 years experience in managing whitetails in our section of Texas. So, I plant whatever he tells me to plant, and when he tells me to plant it. For a spring and summer crop in our area, my friend recommends

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Tracy Groves on Whether or Not to Shoot Coyotes, Bobcats, Foxes and Other Predators During Turkey Season

When you're calling turkeys, you're also calling predators. If I see a coyote or a bobcat coming in to my calling, and if I’m hunting in a state where harvesting coyotes and/or bobcats during turkey season is legal, I’ll shoot the predator and let the turkey go free. I know that I can come back to that same spot another day to hunt a turkey, and more than likely, I’ll harvest the turkey then. But

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Mike Magrew Takes a Bear Almost Too Big to Carry

When I don’t draw a special tag to hunt in Colorado, I buy over-the-counter tags. A few seasons ago I went to Colorado with an elk archery tag and black bear archery tag. On the opening day of archery season, I decided to hunt a drainage I had hunted before where I knew there were big bears and big bull elk. In the bottom of the drainage were plenty of berries and thick-cover areas where

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Mike Magrew on Hunting Elk, Bears and Whitetail Deer

In 2014, I went out West to hunt in Colorado. I had an elk and a mule deer archery tag in my pocket. I was hunting about an hour west of Colorado Springs on a draw unit. A friend of mine told me there were some really nice elk and good mule deer in this area where I'd hunted previously. I'd taken a black bear off this unit before. I went out 4 or 5

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Howling Coyotes

For several years, all I ever used to call in coyotes were distress sounds such as rabbit or rodent in distress - anything that sounded like a meal for a coyote. I didn't realize what I was missing out on, until I began using actual coyote vocals. Recently, I have learned when and why to use coyote vocals.

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Dennis Garrett Explains That When Bear Move in the Deer Move Out

When the area where we hunt first started getting bears, we thought hunting bears would be really cool. Lots of people were excited about having black bears. Before the bears came into our area, I had two trail cameras out on some property I was hunting and would average getting 1,200 pictures per week of deer, turkeys, squirrels, raccoons and possums. When the bear population moved in, after a week of having our cameras out

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Kentucky Has It All – Whitetails, Elk and Bears

Kentucky offers several hundred elk tags each year. But since I haven’t been drawn yet to take an elk, that’s why I concentrate my hunting on whitetails. I may see bears, and I usually see elk anytime I want to see them, but getting a tag to hunt them hasn’t been easy.

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