Who hunts more than rabbits

[chris1971]

Ok now you got my attention! How does this hunting coyotes with dogs work? What kind of hounds?

[k5blazer]

Ok now you got my attention! How does this hunting coyotes with dogs work? What kind of hounds?

Good Question We sure have a lot of those around. Would be plenty to train and condition

[Spruce Ridge Beagler]

My ex left me cause if it had fur, fins or feathers it was more important to me than her.
I just wish it wouldnt have took her soo long to figure it out
I love bow hunting to the point that my dogs suffer this time of year, but having said that its more important to see the kids get a big one than me. I just want that freezer full.
Took a fox at 35 yards while bowhunting behind my house this weekend,he had one of my chickens in his mouth!
Fishing is high on our list too, i cant even sneak out of my house with a pole in my hand.

[Cooz's Beagles]

Ok now you got my attention! How does this hunting coyotes with dogs work? What kind of hounds?

Every year after a good snowfall the coyote hunters gather around my neighborhood. They all drive in trucks and have dog boxes in the back. I think they use big coonhound type hounds although ive heard of big 15+ inch beagles being used. They find fresh tracks in the snow and release the hounds litterally on anyones property around here we dont care we want the coyotes dead. Once the hounds get on track the hunters split up and drive down different roads trying to cut off the coyote when the hounds chase it out into open fields which we have plenty of in the winter here.
Thats how the hunting with coyote hounds works here not sure how they do it else where. Its pretry exciting to stand out non your back porch and watch and listen to them hounds tear through an open field after coyote.

Cooz's Beagles
Cooz's Just Snoopin Around

Lone Pine Cooz's Nicci
Lone Pine Cooz's Swampin Sammi

[Dillinger09]

Strictly rabbits! BUT LATELY a girlfriend who would love this sport as much as I.
I would love to schedule an engagement and her be late to say something that id say, kind of like "sorry honey the dogs where tied to that rabbit all night!!"

.....yeah strictly rabbits!

[pilotknob]

I was out west In Utah years ago,a guy had coyote hounds that were coon hound/grey hound crosses.He would turn about 6 loose and they would run them down.They didn't bark on the track much but you could sure hear the coyote scream when they caught it.It was over with pretty quick.

[deerhost]

Besides rabbit hunting I bowhunt whitetails. I made the switch to traditional archery a while back and hunted with a recurve and then 2 years ago I switched to a long bow and love it. I have taken a few bears and deer with my traditional gear and this winter will go out and rabbit hunt with the long bow. Below is a pic of a bear I shot last year and below that is a video of a traditional 3D shoot we attended last summer. After all the horsing around at the first few tragets you will see me knuckle down and make a 30 and 40 yard shot at the end of the video with my 53# pound Triker Stinger longbow........Deerhost

[yoteslayer]

Coyote hunting with hounds is very exciting, the way we do it is much like someone else described but we dont just look for tracks. We dump anywhere from 4-8 hounds in any heavy waterway, timber, CRP, and really anywhere else we may think a yote may be laying. The dogs will jump a coyote and run him to the road where anywhere from 1-4 pickups full of hounds will be waiting. When the coyote crosses the road you dump a few fresh hounds on him. and this continues untill the coyote decides its time to fight. The hounds generally will catch the coyote within a few miles. We used to shoot all of the coyotes but now only shoot about 10%, the rest are killed by the dogs. We all run Garmins now so it makes it very easy to know where to cut the coyote off. Many of the guys have electronic accuators on the dog box doors, the dogs see the coyotes coming to the road and you just stop and hit the button, then keep on chasin!!! It really is a blast, fairly grusome, dont take a member of PETA along. We have killed about 1400 coyotes in the last 12 years. About 90% of them came from an area 20 miles wide X 20 miles long. There has been about 6 trucks for the most part through the years, each holding 6-12 hounds. We have had over 50 hounds on the ground several times. When this happens you end up jumping coyotes as you run the original coyote and sometimes becomes a fiasco. We have run coyotes into milk parlors, we caught a coyote behind a gas meter at the bar in one town, we have run coyotes through residential areas many times, we even treed one last year in a hollow tree. We have caught them in hay mows, under peoples decks, had one run into a glass door as a lady was watching us try to get one out of her barn. You name it we have seen it!!!! If anyone is interested I would be more then happy to take you along. And we run mostly running walkers and July Bred Fox Hounds, and any combonation of the two as we see fit to breed them. We have used beagle mixes but never a pure bred beagle. We had a grey hound, but they are to dumb to cross a fence so he hit the road in a hurry.