Coyotes are smarter than coons!

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This coyote was digging around where the coons dropped food. I opened a door 24 yards away on the 2nd floor very quietly and slowly, but it still spooked the coyote that promptly left the scene. A least this coyote will be much tougher to remove than coons.

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You are so right. We have visits regularly from yotes, and they are some of the cagiest animals ever. I have a dead rabbit hide that we put on a wireless magnetic wobbler to entice them out into the open on the edge of the woods at night. We hide in a blind probably 50ish yards away and somehow, they KNOW we're there and won't come out, even though we've setup long before they show and stay completely hidden the whole time. They will not come out in the open. Then on other days, when we're not there, they run all over the place and I've spotlighted them from inside the house. They are some smart critters, even food will not bring them out if we're there and that is the strongest enticement/weakness they have.
 
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bchannell said:
You are so right. We have visits regularly from yotes, and they are some of the cagiest animals ever. I have a dead rabbit hide that we put on a wireless magnetic wobbler to entice them out into the open on the edge of the woods at night. We hide in a blind probably 50ish yards away and somehow, they KNOW we're there and won't come out, even though we've setup long before they show and stay completely hidden the whole time. They will not come out in the open. Then on other days, when we're not there, they run all over the place and I've spotlighted them from inside the house. They are some smart critters, even food will not bring them out if we're there and that is the strongest enticement/weakness they have.
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do you wear gloves when you touch the bait ? a friend in Ok. even puts plastic bags over his shoes when setting out bait
 
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I think coyotes move around a lot but I find some squirrels are a lot more wary than others, especially if they've been shot at. Some even start running when they hear my dog barking when she's still inside the house. But the enticement of the acorns from my oaks always seems to trip them up. I don't know much about coyotes, however. My guess is if you consistently have food out available to them they will get stupid at some point. The mature raccoons I've seen around here are wary, never out during the day, occasionally I see one at dawn or dusk. They like to look for fish washed up on the shoreline of the lake behind my house. I've shot a couple little ones who were not nearly as careful.
 
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JimD said:
I've shot a couple little ones who were not nearly as careful.
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Yep, I was surprised one night. 2 days before probably got the mother. Then 4 youngsters 7 and 12 lb showed up 2 days later. Get a double, while the 2 other ran away. Withing 2 hours the 2 were back. 2nd double of the night. 4 within 3 hours!

BTW for those debating 850 vs 950nm. Neither the coons or yote seem to mind at all that the webcam's IR turning off and on.
 
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bchannell said:
You are so right. We have visits regularly from yotes, and they are some of the cagiest animals ever. I have a dead rabbit hide that we put on a wireless magnetic wobbler to entice them out into the open on the edge of the woods at night. We hide in a blind probably 50ish yards away and somehow, they KNOW we're there and won't come out, even though we've setup long before they show and stay completely hidden the whole time. They will not come out in the open. Then on other days, when we're not there, they run all over the place and I've spotlighted them from inside the house. They are some smart critters, even food will not bring them out if we're there and that is the strongest enticement/weakness they have.
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Yotes are easily educated! A little cover scent might help out too(fox pee on a boot) and play the wind ....cleaner you are the better! (No human scents)
 
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