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I am 40 and I am from Michigan, I am married to the the greatest wife. She tolerates me in my selfish pursuit to shoot the biggest buck and catch the largest bass, don't know what I have ever done to deserve her, thank you Lord! I have 1 Child who is my best friend! Christopher is my fishin buddy and future my hunter, we watch hunting and fishing video's together. He gets all quiet before the impact shots and and then yell's OH OH OH ! He is 2 1/2, goes crazy watching the movie "300". He is his Daddy's joy! I Work for Toyota, it is a respectable and honest living, I am proud to be a part of a company who cares about the lives of people they never met, nor will meet, but creates the technology to keep everyone who drives one as safe as possible. Miss my family in AZ, but it is good again when we are finally together.
 
Newb here from Iowa, too close to 40 to think about it. I have an overactive 3 yr old boy who is ready to "shoot the coyotes" and a 11 yr old daughter that I will need to keep locked up for the next 10 yrs to keep the little hormone-driven monsters away. My wife is a saint for putting up with my bad attitudes and my bow,mzldr,rifle hunting or thinking about them year 'round. Been killing deer, turkeys, pheasants, small game, and incidental fox and coyote for years,but new to actually hunting for coyotes the last couple years. I have a Wby VG .308 Compact that I'm itching to use this year.
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Hi I'm Aaron. I live in Flagstaff and love to call in foxes. I got two in the other night right outside my front door. I have chickens and foxes seem to like the taste of em.
 
Hello my name is Bob and im 30 years old. im a gunsmithing student currently enrolled at trinidad state junior college. Im originally from michigan and love to be in the outdoors. I've hunted yotes with hounds before but only tried calling a few times without any luck. I've trolled this site for awhile now and finally registered, looking forward to conversing with everybody on here.
 
Hello all, My name is Matt Craig. I am now using my dads screen name instead of my Crownshot one. Nothing is different from the two except my guns have long since been lost due to unemployment earlier this year. Good to see all the old names i know, and look forward to meeting those of you i don't know already.
 
It's good to have you here Matt!

Kick back and look around and re-familiarize yourself with the site; some things have changed, some have not but we are still a great place to be. You can take some pride in what your dad got started in "Predator Masters" as there are many people who call it home!
 
Hey Matt glad to have you back bud! Even though I didnt know your dad he gave me a home here at Predator Masters also... You have my number,give me a yell sometime... Ill see you at the PM hunt...Chad
 
I take more then a little pride in PM, it is truly wonderful what the site has grown into due to both his vision of what he wanted for the site, and the wonderful people who have made it so. Thank you all for contributing to his dream, words can not express the joy of seeing the site come this far and knowing it has the ability to go so much farther thanks to the members and the board, from giving it such a solid direction to move forward in.
 
Originally Posted By: AzWillHello all, My name is Matt Craig. I am now using my dads screen name instead of my Crownshot one. Nothing is different from the two except my guns have long since been lost due to unemployment earlier this year. Good to see all the old names i know, and look forward to meeting those of you i don't know already.

Says a lot for PM when it goes from one generation to the next. Hope you can get your hunting equipment back soon.
 
Good to see you back Matt. It is a real pleasure. I'm looking forward to seeing you at the hunt.We all have a lot of catching up to do. Your dad's dream and vision has provided a home and family for a lot of predator hunters. I'm proud to have been a part of it.
 
My name is Chris, and Im 24. I'm from Massachusetts and New york, but moved to WA a couple of years ago.

I'm a chef, I love finding new food.

I caught the coyote bug since I moved out here, and every night the yotes get closer and closer to me when Im out at night having a cigarette. I recently purchased a custom argentine mauser in .243 with a burris 3x9 scope.

I've never hunted before, and this is my first gun. I;ve done a lot of target shooting and Im not bad shot given favorable wind conditions.

I'm hoping to post my first coyote pic on here soon.

This site has so much information and great people, and I read almost a hundred posts a day. I'm an information junky.

I also have a love for machining and inventing, and I will be posting pics of a homemade portable shooting stand and some experimental homemade calls.
 
It's great to have you here Chris! Hang around a little and get ready for some reading, there's plenty of good info and alot of really good guys here so take advantage of it.
 
My name is Nic. I am married with 2 Children and I am a SFC in the US Army. New to this site and new to Predator hunting. Cant wait to learn some new tricks to get my first Coyote or Cat!!
 
Greetings, I'm Bayden, I'm 21 years old.

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I joined Predator Masters because I want to become a predator master myself.

I'm from Alberta, Canada, which is great... but I wish I could use an AR-15 or something like it to hunt coyotes. By the way, this is the first year we can legally use electronic game calls for predators.

I'm in my 3rd year of studying criminal justice, and planning on applying with the Edmonton Police Service right away. Bigger coyotes up there
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I've hunted since I was a wee 3 year old shooting chickadees with my bow, and have bagged some nice animals, but ultimately I love calling the wild predator stuff in close and tricking them into their own quick deaths. There is something about hunting coyotes that I can't get enough of.

I currently use a Tikka M5 .243 for everything. It is my only gun, and was a gift from my x-girlfriends father (I think he was trying to get me to marry her). I love the gun, but I'm looking to save up for a Tikka T3 Super Varmint .204 ruger or 22-250 cal.

I'm proud to say that I'm a born again Christian. Life is meaningless without Christ.

Currently, I'm living in a city of 80 000 people, and I'm really not enjoying it. It's always been the bush and the mountains for me. Thankfully, I'm a quick drive to some great coyote calling land which I still have to get out to.

Thanks for making this site. There is a wealth of great information, and awesome members to contribute to it.

Blessings,

Baer
 
Originally Posted By: cbosshog79It's good to have you here Bayden! Look around a little and make yourself at home…

Thanks Cody!
 
My name is George, I'm 42 & I dispute that some other folks here are married to the greatest wife in the world as I'm sure I am! She is pregnant with our first child (a girl) & I am really lucky to have her in my life.

I was born & raised in England & my father introduced me to hunting early on, think about 8 years old when he let me shoot his treasured BSA .22 Hornet at a rock. I still own the rifle & treasure it as much as he did. In the UK, all hunting is on private property & all game on the land belongs to the owner of the property. There is no such thing as Game & Fish or DOW over there. Also no tags, no bag limits & seasons are very liberal indeed. You can easily own suppressors, hunt predators or rabbits at night with lights, sell game animals & basically have a good old time.

Only problems are that the UK has turned into a socialist paradise & the gun control laws are pretty tough.

My father was a part-time gamekeeper for an estate with around 350 acres, sounds small don't it? Well, small is beautiful & we used to kill at least 400 rabbits a year off the place. The role of the gamekeeper is to keep the vermin (foxes, crows, magpies, jays & any other egg stealing predators) under control while maximizing the environment for game birds. (pheasants mainly but also partridges, ducks, snipe, teal & woodcock)We reared & released a couple hundred pheasants into the woods every year, feeding & watering them, keeping the predators from feasting by trapping & calling them.

The biggest lesson I learned during all this was that, given predators in the area, if you get out calling, it becomes a battle with the law of averages. Seems the more I got out calling, the luckier I got at getting them coming in to me.

The purpose of releasing the pheasants, predator control etc was to ensure that the owner had enough birds so that he could invite his buddies over to shoot on his land & they would do the same on their places. We used to drive the pheasants to the shooters who numbered about 8 to 10 guys. They would line up in a horseshoe around the ends of the wood where the pheasants would hide & we'd beat the bushes (hence why this activity is known as bush beating & the people as 'beaters') to get the pheasants flying over the 'guns' as they are known.

Many places in the UK do this very commercially & if you have enough money, between you & 8 other folks, you can shoot over a 1000 pheasants a DAY if you choose too. Very, very different to the USA for sure & having grown up with this kind of hunting, it makes me cringe sometimes when I see pheasants shot at really close ranges when flying away from the shooters. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

My dad never hunted anything bigger than hares so deer hunting etc was a mystery to me until I was in the British Army & got invited to one of the officer's estates in Scotland to cull some red deer hinds (does) for free. Had a blast, met a whole bunch of good folks & that got me into deer hunting in a big way. Used to travel to Scotland regularly after that & ended up getting on the cull team for several estates up there. When I say "estates" I mean places with thousands & thousands of acres to play with. The red deer needed thinning out, especially the hinds as the stags were reserved for the paying guests in the summer.

I probably killed over 450 deer during the culls, not bragging but just using that as an indicator as to how many animals there are in the UK. Game is very plentiful & I do miss the hunting opportunities I had there.

I moved to the USA about 6 years ago & love it here too! I have my own manufacturer's & importer's FFL & can own firearms here that I could only dream about in the UK. I love calling coyotes, shooting prairie dogs & traveling around the US hunting.

Got a few projects for coyote guns on the go right now & they offer some real promise for those dogs that hang up 'out there'. More when I have something solid to report.

Here's a couple of pics; the first is from 3 years ago in CO, killed an elk at a massive (!) 47 yards with my 6.8SPC AR & the next is in WY this year with doe antelope killed at 130 yards with the kind of L1A1 rifle I carried in the British Army.
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Thanks for the great forum & look forward to being a part of it, George.
 
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