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HD6GTOM 
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 Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 1:01am |
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We useta have a whole lot of guys hunt them here. Unfortunately they have gotten old and their sons that used ta hunt with them got hitched up with a young gals. Nobody's hunting them anymore.
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 4:29am |
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Ranse, that was a good shot, maybe a bit of luck involved. Harder to make a shot like that with a scoped rifle than with open sights. And that is one NICE model 700, IMHO one of the best centerfire rifles made. And dang it I only have one - 7mm-08.
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ac fleet
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Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 3:30pm |
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Blinkies don't even slow them down. 12ga 3" mag. BB loads however will. --Problem is they only come at night when you can't see them.
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DMiller
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Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 4:48pm |
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Pack out close to here had pups last year, trapper got most of them but a mating pair still run the low hiding spots. I got two two years ago where they figured out near the house is Death and stay well away so am working on my 400yd skills practicing. May get a chance across the valley in my Brome field I can see from the Deck.
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DaveKamp
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Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 8:22pm |
They're exceptionally sly here... they yip and howl, but stay very well out of the illumination. i've tried baiting and calling them in, and they don't.
neighbor guys wait till it's good and cold, with a fresh layer of snow, then set up positions, and have one or two guys walk through the trees along the creeks, and once they're up and running, they call out the spots.
I was listening on the radio (they didn't know it), but I heard 'em calling out one that was out-of-reach of their positions. I took my rifle up to the third story window, and spotted it... it stopped for just long enough to catch a flying 90gr 243. When it dropped, they all saw it go down... it was fun listening to 'em all talking, tryin' to figure out who took the shot. ;-)
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Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest.
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 9:15pm |
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Thinking of getting a night vision scope. Only problem is I will need to buy a rifle to mount it on. There are some good ones out there now at reasonable prices. Then maybe I can thin out the coyotes and hogs.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 7:53am |
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had 2 deer hit this week so far by vehicles, night time the coyotes knaw on them, daytime they get picked by 2 eagles.
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 8:45am |
 DaveKamp wrote:
neighbor guys wait till it's good and cold, with a fresh layer of snow, then set up positions, and have one or two guys walk through the trees along the creeks, and once they're up and running, they call out the spots.
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That's the way they do it over here too Dave. There used to be a whole bunch that spent the winter hunting them. They usually got 20 or so if there were several snows. The last few years, it's been one of the few still living, his 2 sons, maybe a couple of the boys friends and sometimes my brother. Sunday morning , brother and 3 others got 5 of them by 11 in the morning. They got 2 yesterday without any fresh snow. Last year that small group killed 19 of them in about 3 days. That was early February when the males come from all over to find a female. The neighbors boy and my brother both started using an AR. If you see one runnin at 200 yards, you don't have to bolt the thing to shoot again and can easy see the snow fly if you miss. I hunted with them before, but used a 12 gauge, with 3 inch mag BB shot. Now days, 4 buck is legal to use in Illinois. You still have to have a 30 to 40 yard shot to knock one down, and best to hit em square in the face with the shotgun.
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 8:46am |
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 8:48am |
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DMiller
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Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 10:11am |
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Have to laugh, Mother in Law was from Maryland Heights MO, West St Louis County, born and raised. The locals were having deer issues, eating all the High Dollar have to be replaced shrubbery and Insurance Does NOT pay for animal damages!! That led to calls INSISTING On having Dept Of Conservation trying to round up the deer to transplant where many died as transported(stressed) some died from lack of area placed in knowledge so Step 2, allowed the hunting BY BOW in the Suburbia landscape, OMG the PETA Morons were on that as stink to a skunk, still happens just quieter.
THEN came the Coyotes, smell of blood, Trash with meat in it, small pets started disappearing, a few were seen taken by Yotes, Cats all but disappeared so MORE Calls to trap(LIVE) and replant, but that failed MISERABLY as the Coyotes RAPIDLY learned of human scented traps. Still more pets go away, now the PETA AND the Locals agree that they may be trapped and killed HOWEVER, few trappers still exist, been run off, do NOT want to come back and get run off again. So long story short, St Louis County has and will CONTINUE to have a Coyote problem ALL Thanks to the Idiots that stopped firearms hunting and trapping DECADES ago.
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Ray54
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Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 3:14pm |
Amazing you can smarten some part of  the know everything bunch up,once in a while.But as the old saying goes "nothing new under the sun" old Wiley E is going catch what he can. So Fluffy better look out for itself, or some Snowflake is going to have a new reason to need a support animal. 
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DiyDave
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Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 6:15pm |
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klinemar
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Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 6:59pm |
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Coyotes have been Yipping at night lately,getting ready for mating season. Friend of mine and I bought 6.5 Creedmoor Rifles because OUR DNR says we can not use a caliber larger than .269 at night. We can use lights, night vision or thermal imaging. Just no .270 or larger caliber! Go figure!
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Ray54
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Posted: 17 Jan 2019 at 12:52pm |
Dave that is a real good idea. Just need to get past the Fish&Wildlife officer that thinks he is the keeper of them. But said officer could well be a Snowflake as well today.
Edited by Ray54 - 17 Jan 2019 at 12:56pm
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from coyote chewing them off in place food the flake forgot to provide. 