Varmint hunting in MN

[nyffman]

Silly human. You think Bender needs to be told anything?

[Stradawhovious]

Every now and again....... yes.

[nyffman]

Silly human.

[MNCarry]

Talked to a guy behind the meat counter at Cub. Bottom line, I can have all the 'dog bones, scraps, waste, etc' for ONLY $1.98lb.

My hound doesn't eat THAT well.

But I think this is the way to go. I'll just have to find a country butcher shop and see what's available.

Still rather do the road kill. I mean, it's not like I'm going to put it on ebay...

[yukonjasper]

I was told that a good quality electronic call is all that you would need to bring the critters within rifle range.

[MNCarry]

I was told that a good quality electronic call is all that you would need to bring the critters within rifle range.

Please have the individual who told you this contact me; I've got a swell bridge in a borough of New York city I'd like to talk to him about....

[yukonjasper]

As it turns out it was a DNR guy and a CO who met me on site outside of Morris MN. We were asking these guys how we could turn the 50 acres we bought into better pheasant and duck nesting habitat. They advised us to take up varmint hunting among other things. I don't think he was talking about getting within range to club the critters but get them on the move toward the sound so you could pick them off from a reasonable distance. With the relatively low pressure that these animals get, there is no need to go to extreme measures. The population is large enough and untested enough to allow for a relatively low effort hunt.

[hammAR]

I was told that a good quality electronic call is all that you would need to bring the critters within rifle range.

Please have the individual who told you this contact me; I've got a swell bridge in a borough of New York city I'd like to talk to him about....

..you just reselling the one that you bought........meat counter at Cub and dragging around road kill..........

[MNCarry]

I was told that a good quality electronic call is all that you would need to bring the critters within rifle range.

Please have the individual who told you this contact me; I've got a swell bridge in a borough of New York city I'd like to talk to him about....

..you just reselling the one that you bought........meat counter at Cub and dragging around road kill..........

Actually, the meat would just be an appetizer to entice the bridge buyers!

[diamondsj]

Our neighbor calls in yotes in the winter time -- started out sounding like something was REALLY sick and being tortured, then over time he's gotten much better...some nights we can stand on our deck and listen to him call -- then hear the return calls...then inevitably, the gun shot of another going down....

Almost nightly these days, we hear them calling and yiping...lots of them around us, just no time to hunt them. I shot one last year in broad daylight, 75 yards out. This year I could have shot another in broad daylight a month ago, but gun safety kicked in and I didn't think it prudent to shoot toward the neighbor's grove...yote disappeared into that very grove, so one got away.

Other than that, lately we've been shooting alot of coon and skunks...last night was a shotgun skunk night...saw it walking across the lawn at 10:00 p.m. -- my shotgun was out of the safe yet from trapshooting yet, so I grabbed that and did away with it...smelly!!

We also shoot possum around here too...we are just beyond the border of MN....

[Stradawhovious]

Which brings me to another point....... Here I go groveling again.......

If someone wants to have a noob tag along on a coyote hunt or two, please feel free to let me know.

[JFettig]

Which brings me to another point....... Here I go groveling again.......

If someone wants to have a noob tag along on a coyote hunt or two, please feel free to let me know.

Me too!

[plblark]

Which brings me to another point....... Here I go groveling again.......

If someone wants to have a noob tag along on a coyote hunt or two, please feel free to let me know.

Me too!

Me three!

[nyffman]

Next time I go out you are welcome to go with. It will probably be right after the three coldest and windiest days of this coming winter. Yotes hold up in dens when its cold and windy and if you can put three days or more of those conditions together old mister yote gets MIGHTY hungry. Dress in white ( head to toe ) ,sit in a fenceline in the middle of a section back to back, turn on the squeeling rabbit call and get ready to party. A quart or so of rabbit blood downwind works wonders too. I've had yotes run straight at me and get within 10 feet before I've shot their sorry a$$. When they get hungry and smell blood they are some of the dumbest creatures on the face of the planet. Oh yeh, you get to stay at my place for the weekend and eat and drink for free. Not a bad deal!!

Last time I checked at the local Cub, they didn't have rabbit blood in quarts. I guess I'll have to get a couple pints instead. Are you saying that human smell doesn't make them extra cautious?

[goalie]

Next time I go out you are welcome to go with. It will probably be right after the three coldest and windiest days of this coming winter. Yotes hold up in dens when its cold and windy and if you can put three days or more of those conditions together old mister yote gets MIGHTY hungry. Dress in white ( head to toe ) ,sit in a fenceline in the middle of a section back to back, turn on the squeeling rabbit call and get ready to party. A quart or so of rabbit blood downwind works wonders too. I've had yotes run straight at me and get within 10 feet before I've shot their sorry a$$. When they get hungry and smell blood they are some of the dumbest creatures on the face of the planet. Oh yeh, you get to stay at my place for the weekend and eat and drink for free. Not a bad deal!!

Last time I checked at the local Cub, they didn't have rabbit blood in quarts. I guess I'll have to get a couple pints instead. Are you saying that human smell doesn't make them extra cautious?

When they have been denned up for a few days and they are HUNGRY, a squeeling rabbit and the smell of fresh blood turns them into retards. They do not approach cautiously--they come at a dead run----right along with any fox in the area. I have some fabulous spots within 5-6 miles of Alex.

Do they really get that dumb? I have only been out in the winter hunting them when the schedule at work allows, so, sadly, it isn't based upon conditions. I've had mixed results, and that was knowing where there dens allegedly were thanks to local farmers.