Originally Posted By: TA17rem Quote:Tim, you are right. Buster really hurts our numbers....LOL.
Like i said it may have something to do with how high the population is in a given area. nice bunch of coyotes by the way. So now we know how many a dog helps to get so how many have you lost haveing the dog along and what time of year was the pic taken??? Also are you useing the dog to decoy them in or is it sitting by youre side till after the shot???
Tim,
He sits beside me on the stand until I send him out. (or Barbara's)
If a coyote comes in and we shoot it, I'll send him out & he'll go to the coyote that's shot, dead or not while I play the KiYi.
This gets more coyotes they may have come in, whether we have seen them or not, to come investigate what's going on with the dog hurting their buddy, so to speak.
If a coyote is coming through the stand, or has been shot at and missed, I'll send him out to make a circle. He won't get out my sight, then comes back in, with the coyote behind him....thus affording a shot at one.
Jerry is absolutely right about having an aggressive dog running at coyotes spooking them. Buster hunts WITH us, and aids in all sorts of ways with what he does. Not to mention that if we shoot multiple coyotes on the stand he takes us to all of them without us leaving one unfound.
If we make a dry stnd, he'll just sit and hunt by my side & I'll never send him out, so, I don't think I lose many.
The dogs size has something to do with how the coyotes are intimidated as well. Buster weighs in at 45 pounds, and they aren't intimidated by him. I have shot coyotes that were watching HIM and not me, and even coming into where he was, so, he doesn't scare off coyotes like that either.
It just takes some work to get a dog trained to hunt the way you WANT him to hunt. Once you get that, you will increase the numbers & opportunities for shots. At least we have.
Barry