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Topic: Locating or not locating before you hunt?
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TA17Rem
Hello, I'm the legendary Tim Anderson, Field Marshall, Southern Minneesota Sector
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posted April 06, 2007 01:56 PM
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What if I told you, the left wing and right wing both belong to same bird!
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scruffy
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posted April 06, 2007 02:16 PM
Randy, good job on the Iowa coyotes!
"Early fall till first snow was great, gets rough when the pickup boys are rollin, then dennin before the row crops got to tall was great again."
Your experience mirror mine, but we don't have alot of truck groups in my area, but notice a sharp drop off in responses as soon as the december gun seasons occur. But I like the challenge. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) I'm lucky if I make 1 stand a week most weeks. But managed to get a coyotes in the scope Nov, Dec, Jan, and Mar. A mix of called and spotted and called. November was the best month, called/killed 2, spotted/called/killed 1, spotted/missed 1 (couldn't call him, he was one the way out, rushed shot, didn't adjust for wind, coyote ran right at me, gun jammed, etc, gun is fixed now, new extractor, what a time to fail...). I'm hoping for similar April and May, however, I'll be lucky if I get out two more times this month and May isn't looking much better... Oh well, I'm not overcalling anywhere, LOL! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Fortunately my area isn't like TA's, south central Iowa has flat areas but more areas are rolling with lots of cover (which is where I concentrate my calling). I like calling it. Sneak in 1/4 mile into the section, be sure I'm not visible and the area I hope for a shot is not visible from the road, use the wind to my advantage, etc etc etc and start working the calls.
later,
scruffy
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Git R Done
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Greenside
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posted April 06, 2007 05:06 PM
RR
Sibley? Toad Smith(Otis) was probably before your time?
Although it's not, the picture looks abit like the Big Sioux River bluffs, NW of Fairview SD?
Greenside
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Wiley E
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posted April 06, 2007 06:35 PM
TA: "I would like to see a coyote called in from my area. Can they be called in? I don't think so ,but hey it could happen."
TA, try that strategy I described to you. Make it easy for them. Let me know how it works.
~SH~
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TA17Rem
Hello, I'm the legendary Tim Anderson, Field Marshall, Southern Minneesota Sector
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posted April 06, 2007 06:53 PM
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What if I told you, the left wing and right wing both belong to same bird!
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Randy Roede
"It's Roede, like in Yotie
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posted April 06, 2007 08:09 PM
Greenside- new Toad very well, before he got the in fisherman fame, doug stange of in fisherman was my 7th grade basketball coach, science teacher, also from sibley. Toad was a deputy before he got the outdoorsman fame, I know his two sons Elliot and John along with his wife Sue, I can't remember his daughters name? That little weezee laugh he had with his tougue out between his front teeth. Puttin wigglers in his eggs at a restaurant and callin back the waitress to complain. He was a HOOT. Toads Bait and Tackle right on highway 60!Good memories!!
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Leonard
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posted April 06, 2007 08:44 PM
I suppose must be the same historical figure? Sibley House was a sort of museum in a log cabin type of building, in Minneapolis, when I was a kid. I used to ice skake at Sibley Field and in Junior High school they held dances at that park. Never would have remembered the name if I had not just read it, above.
Good hunting. LB
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2dogs
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posted April 07, 2007 06:14 AM
Randy R,
Yes. There are plenty of hills to set-up on a coyote after spotting it. These coyotes are reluctant to move in close on a call. Plenty of prey critters for them. Et this open rolling terrain, offer's them good hearing & a view.
Two Winter snowflys ago WC around -20 or colder. Wind rippin hard out of the NorWest. I went out spotting. I stopped on a gravel hill, scanning to my SouWest.
I seen two coyotes around the 1/2 mile. One bedded in a CRP patch[staring hard, to it's NorWest]. The other coyote was neandering Northbound along a hill fenceline to the bedded coyote's SouWest. I watched for awhile.
I slowly crept down the roadway another couple hundred yards, making my stalk plan[triangulating] their position. Took another quick view of the coyotes. Drove down the road another couple hundred yards & paused. Both coyotes seen me, but were indifferent. I move on down the road to cut around to their SouWest to go in on them. Soon, I see a Red 4x4 truck parked up ahead.
I knew it was a friend of mine out in the same section, I seen his tracks[he's a caller].
A minute or so later, he came trudging back towards his truck[beat, Red cold], I pulled-up by him. I asked, "see any". Reply, "Nope, none in there" ![[Confused]](confused.gif) . I said, really! "your wrong, there's two in there" .
We went back up the road, et I shown them to him.
Around here in my main hunt area. Coyotes, have never "charged" in[close, less than a couple hundred yards away]. Over in Tama County, I've had two come in running/loping. More cover, more coyotes.
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Randy Roede
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posted April 07, 2007 06:55 AM
Hey 2 dogs and greenside, on the cover of your Iowa hunting reg. book do you have a pic.of a youngman out hunting waterfowl?
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Randy Roede
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posted April 07, 2007 07:06 AM
Look familar?
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Greenside
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posted April 07, 2007 08:05 AM
RR
The same shit eating grin! He's on the cover of the Migratory Bird regulations and not the hunting regulations manual. In our youth, Doug and I were next door neighbors, and on occasion we still get together to hunt or fish. I know he had a real hard time when it came to spreading Toads' ashes on top of that big mound by Ocheyedan. Toad was probably the only man ever to have caught a catfish with a piece of his own heart!
LB, Sibley was the first govenor of MN.
Back on topic: I don't do much locating anymore, since most of my stands have a history. If I go somewhere new or if I'm trying to pull some out of standing corn in the summer I definitely still do locate because on those cornfield coyote you have to get really tight. I'm probably the same as most of you in that I'm always looking out for that "Coyote Shit Road"
Edit: In the early 90's, I was in my recreational howling stage. Never went any where without a howler. Went out a couple of evenings a week all year long and howled coyotes. That's when I really got a good handle on preferred cover and also seasonal movement. Another thing I'd do was disconnect my trucks rear left speaker and splice in a female speaker jack. Then plug in one of those big JS Style speakers and play a Sunrise Serenade tape at full blast, with the truck tape player set on rear left fade. That would make alot of noise. Lot's of howl backs
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Randy Roede
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posted April 07, 2007 08:32 AM
His dad, Ken Lonneman, is married to my niece.They came out a couple summers ago and we hunted.
Coach Stange got your but in shape and was one of the best teachers, mentors I ever had.All the respect in the world for Doug and Toad!!The legacy of Toad Smith lives on in Sibley!
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