coyotes

Cold Calling New Coyote Properties

Cold Calling New Coyote Properties By Troy Hoepker It doesn’t matter whether it’s deer hunting, pheasant hunting or coyote hunting, each time we gain permission on a new spot we as hunters see visions of limitless birds, huge bucks or dozens of coyotes emerging before our eyes like some fantasy from our dreams that we’ve […]

Cutting Tracks and Calling Coyotes

Cutting Tracks and Calling Coyotes The lone disturbance in the pristine virgin snow 20 feet below me told the story. A lone coyote had traveled the ice on the narrow frozen creek directly under the bridge I was checking, carving his footed imprint into the fresh powder from the overnight’s snowfall. I left the truck […]

Coyote Mouth Calling

Coyote Mouth Calling I could feel my heart start to pound, my breathing quicken and the hair stand straight up on the back of my neck, as a coyote let out a deep warning howl less than a hundred yards from me in near darkness! Warning me of his intent when he found me, this […]

Through the Eyes of A Coyotes

Through the Eyes of A Coyotes By Troy Hoepker “Where did he go?” How many times have I wondered that about a coyote that has seemingly just disappeared from the face of the earth? I swear, nothing in the world has the ability to disappear into thin air better than a coyote. Maybe that’s why […]

Small Property v.s. Large Property Yotes

Small Property v.s. Large Property Yotes By Troy Hoepker Something about the little 80-acre property just seemed promising. I had been given permission to hunt the piece of ground years before but never had until that day. That year the farmer had put part of the ground into preventative planting and the weeds sprung high […]

Choosing a Predator Rifle

Choosing a Predator Rifle By Troy Hoepker One thing you’ll probably never hear from me after I shoot a coyote that gets away wounded is to hear me exclaim that I didn’t have a large enough caliber bullet to anchor him. There’s always been a ton of discussion out there on which caliber is the […]

Ending Coyotes at the End of Winter

Ending Coyotes at the End of Winter By Troy Hoepker Recently I was reading an interesting days-gone-by story about Ed Canfield, a pilot from Williston, North Dakota who helped pay the bills in the depression era by eradicating coyotes from present day oil boom country in the Northwestern North Dakota landscape. His methods were a […]

Teamwork Coyotes

Teamwork Coyotes By Troy Hoepker It felt good to be settled in and surrounded by the tall walnuts and old rough-barked hickory trees that grew on the hillside once again looking down upon an open place in the field below that only we knew as a place where coyotes came to die. A year had […]

The Dog Days of an Iowa Winter

The Dog Days of an Iowa Winter By Troy Hoepker My truck seemed so insignificant and small as I drove down the road not even able to see up over the drifts and the snow piles in the ditches left behind from the maintainer. I came to a full stop and had to watch for […]

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