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« on: October 28, 2009, 10:34:58 am » |
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I was looking at some posts the other day and got to thinking what to do during deer season, and this question popped in my head. Could you use a hound for coyotes? I haven’t ever heard of it and where I’m at in LA, we don’t have many cats at all and it might be illegal to kill em unless they are killing some of the livestock, but we have a passel of coyotes. So I was wondering what you guys that run hounds out there on mt. lions and bobcats and even coons can tell me about this. Heck it might be as big as hog doggin or coon hunting for all I know, I just ain’t heard about it.
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« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2009, 10:58:47 am » |
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« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2009, 11:15:22 am » |
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About a year ago, I was waiting for my flight in the airport and read an article in a hunting magazine about some guys in the northeast that used hounds to hunt coyotes. It bascially sounded just like a hog hunt except the game was song dogs. The hounds would bay the coyote up and the hunter would work his way in for the shot. Sounded like fun and the pictures were pretty cool. All of the hounds looked like walkers.
I have a big male lacy that absolutely hates coyotes. If he picks up the track.....there's gonna be a fight. And when the rest of the pack shows up they stretch it out pretty quick.
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« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2009, 11:19:07 am » |
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I've got a magazine sitting by the computer at home that has a really neat article about hunting yotes with hounds. They too were using Walkers. I'll dig it up when I get home and see if there's an online link.
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« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2009, 12:16:19 pm » |
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I know people up north run grey hounds on yotes,but it more like rabbit hunting. The dogs run the yote into the ground and the hunter shoots it when he gets the chance. They dont bay them like Bryant and Tyrone are talking about.
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« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2009, 01:20:09 pm » |
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I'm wanting to look into it. I'm sure the training on coyote dog would basically be the same as on a coon or something. I see alot of lone coyotes during the day, but at night you'll see em in twos and threes, sometimes in bigger packs, so you think if the dogs got on one at night, the other coyotes would turn and fight the dogs or run off.
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« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2009, 01:35:09 pm » |
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I've heard of people hunting coyotes with dogs but don't know any
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« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2009, 01:45:23 pm » |
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Where in La. are you. There are several fox pens that run field trials with the dogs. Its pretty common out where I live. They call them fox pens but there really coyote pens. Several thousand acres fenced in.
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« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2009, 01:47:42 pm » |
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There is a long history of running 'yotes with grey hounds, wolf hounds, and Stag hounds in West Texas, New Mexico, and SW Oklahoma. Sight hunting and the dogs will catch and kill.
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« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2009, 02:04:20 pm » |
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I'm from West Central LA, and I was looking more into seeing if a hound could be cast out and trail one down. It would be more or less just something during deer season nothing real serious, but if you could bay a coyote up and figure a way to catch em, fox pens are always buying nowadays just like you were saying.
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« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2009, 02:16:38 pm » |
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Does not make sense to me to stop running hog dogs because of deer season and then turn right around and run a hound on coyotes,wouldnt you be in the same boat risking your dog being shot if he ends up in the wrong place at the right time?  .If i am way off track here let me know,i too am looking for some staghounds for coyotes but as far as im concerned any dogs in the woods during deer season is a roll of the dice. |
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« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2009, 02:22:38 pm » |
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I see your point Rockin Roo, maybe I should have been specific. We own a farm here thats primarily pine timber and we really have no hogs on it what so ever, and if there is they are right on the borders and during deer season its just my family hunting and we don't hunt much so I was looking for something alil different for me. But I appreciate the concern for my dogs.
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« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2009, 06:00:27 pm » |
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my uncle used to run coyotes back in south dakota with greyhounds and I think a wolfhound. big grey haired kinda wooly dog. the greyhounds would run them down and catch em and then the wolfhound would get there and end it. he couldn't keep up with the greyhounds, but when he got to the fight it was all over. neat to watch.
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« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2009, 10:23:54 pm » |
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some folks use curs as "decoy dogs". a yote will actually follow a single dog that isnt trying to kill it. the right dog will lure the yote right back to the hunter and the "kill dogs"
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« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2009, 10:24:33 pm » |
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go to coondawgs.com and look at the big game forum
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« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2009, 12:07:59 am » |
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I know an man probably in his 80's that had wolf dogs when he was younger. From what I always heard him say, they used alot of July's and Running Walkers. I always enjoy getting to hear some of the stories of the chases he's been on and experiences he's had running them. They didn't have to really worry about property lines and such and could go clear across the county if needed, most landowners were happy to see them coming running yotes. They'd build a fire by the road and listen. If the dogs sounded like they were getting wore out, they'd turn a fresh one in to help out. Different times then.
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