I do both day and night stands, I like day stands best just for being able to see them coming in from a distance. Night stands are fun too and somtimes the coyotes seem to be a little braver and easier to come in but getting the wind right and your setups in relation to the cover your hunting is an art which I have not mastered! For night hunting I use my day gun which is a savage model 11 .243 with 58 grain hornady vmax, I put a new bell and carlson stock and a bausch and lomb scope on it and made a very nice shooter for not to much money. I have a lightforce 170 night hunting kit that mounts directly on my scope and I use a pair of telescoping 62" bipod sticks to stand up and scan my light at night. I can talk about this stuff all day so any more questions fire away!!
Not trying to thread jack but I was wondering what time of day/night you are shooting all these coyotes. If at night what kind of lights are you using? I was looking into one of BSA's ND3 laser lights but they are pretty exspensive and I wasnt sure about the green light.
I was out again today walking the dairy farm that I hunt. Was walking back from a stand through an uncut hay field and jumped one almost exactly the same place I did about a week ago (see earlier post) Long story short, missed a nice yote running at about seventy yards with the tc omega. I definitely need some more practice at running targets. Needless to say, there was no second shot.
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What are your calling techniques?
-How often do you use a howl or coyote call and for how long
-When do you use your distress calls and for how long
Night/Day?
I have a quite a few 'yotes around me and need some extra input.
From my experience. Aim your cross-hairs on the very front of the animal. On a coyote, just under the mouth on the neck area. Follow him with a nice even turn keeping your scope in that area. When you sure your steady, fire. The bullet should travel back about 12" putting you in a vital area just above the heart.