Ohio coyotes

[Magwa45]

I was poking around the Ohio DNR website and it looks like there is some good coyote hunting in the Buckeye State!

http://www.dnr.ohio.gov/wildlife/do...2&Gallery=Hunting&SubGallery=Small Game&pos=7

Out there, you cannot hunt deer with a rifle, but you can shoot yotes with a rifle, or anything else. I think I will have to get up to date with my Ohio cousins! Any Ohioans here who would like to tell us about coyotes, where they are and what works?

 

[matrem]

ODNR exagerates our coyote problem....
Umm..Honest..

Kidding aside, the real problem in Ohio is land access, but since you have family here, you're probably in good shape with that.

Good luck, and I doubt you meet too many here that are against you shooting the dang things.

 

[Grumulkin]

This is my latest from about 3 or 4 weeks ago. It was a bang flop neck shot with a T/C Contender in 204 Ruger.

I know there are more coyotes visiting my place as I've get them or it on a game camera. They are pretty common but VERY wary and not seen often during the day. I've also never been able to call one in with a predator call.

 

[matrem]

I've also never been able to call one in with a predator call.

This has also been my experience here.
A few folks I know have some luck calling them, I just can't seem to master it.
And the grey & red foxes seemed to be so easy for me to call in...?

 

[Magwa45]

I see there are plenty of yotes in southern and central Ohio. How is it in northeastern Ohio, say Geauga and Portage counties? There is a lot of farms and open space up there. I know the local hunters want permission to hunt on my relatives 50 acres up there.

 

[Tex4426]

im in southern indiana and its about the same here...best thing i do is when i shoot a deer and field dress it i will hunt over the gut pile..works like a charm...also i use the carcus but use a stake to pin it to the ground..dont want rib bones going through my tires

 

[MARKMALL]

There are plenty of coyotes in southern Portage county. I would assume there are plenty in northern Portage county too.

 

[308win]

The Coyotes are around but they seem to be here today, gone tomorrow. I have seen them frequently and you hear them regularly. I have seen one in our subdivision in Westerville. A friend and I are supposed to have access to an 800 acre row crop and livestock operation this spring; if we don't get on the Coyotes it won't be for lack of trying.

 

[Grumulkin]

The Coyotes are around but they seem to be here today, gone tomorrow. I have seen them frequently and you hear them regularly. I have seen one in our subdivision in Westerville. A friend and I are supposed to have access to an 800 acre row crop and livestock operation this spring; if we don't get on the Coyotes it won't be for lack of trying.

I saw one right beside I 270 near the Mt. Carmel East hospital.

 

[308win]

That isn't all that far from the Columbus Metro Airport. Do you remember a couple of years ago when the Gahana and Airport police were hunting the 'big black cat' and the eye-in-the-sky TV chopper was following the Coyote on the Airport property?

 

[.45Guy]

Geauga has their share. Hell, we have a healthy population around the farm in Lake county.

 

[308win]

Do they glow in the dark?

 

[Harrod]

I know there are several around here in NW ohio, alot of folks in the rural areas lose alot of cats to them. Hard to get permissions to hunt around here anymore though. Weather its liability or "someone else hunts here" its hard to find good spots.

 

[.45Guy]

Do they glow in the dark?

Funny you should say that, the farm is less than a mile from the gate. Not glowing as of yet, but the pups I've seen are pretty mangey... Maybe they didn't receive the Perry issue potassium iodide tabs