Bait pile coyote

[Slayer_MN1]

Smoked this big boy off my bait pile this past Tuesday at 2:30PM.
I guess it pays to obsessively stare out the window across the field all day..

[FJ540]

Good job.

[Slayer_MN1]

A few that've been checking the bait (Dates are wrong)

[FJ540]

The second pic is a red fox.

What are you using for bait?

[Slayer_MN1]

Correct the second pic is a nice red. Judging by the wide head, big shoulders and hips of the dog in the third picture i'd say its a young wolf, though its hard to tell with the infared photo.

I pick up roadkilled deer mostly, every once in a while i'll get a dead calf from a local farmer.

[FJ540]

It's got round ears, so I'd say you're correct.

[Slayer_MN1]

Never thought i'd see the day that wolves would be running around here, I live about 10 miles north of Cambridge in wide open farm country.

[tenmilmag]

Nature finds a way

[gearguy10]

Never thought i'd see the day that wolves would be running around here, I live about 10 miles north of Cambridge in wide open farm country.

The DNR has GPS tagged and tracked wolves that roam down into the northern suburbs/Blaine area. The tracking I've seen was of Camp Ripley wolves.

[greenfarmer]

Have gotten scraps from a couple of local butchers before. Works great. I have put some piles of them out, and also used a 5 gallon pail, and filled half full with scraps, and then water, let sit outside and freeze. once it's froze the crows and other varmints can't eat it all up before the yotes come in.

Yotes are smart and coy.. They sense any movement or scent, and you won't get them to come in. But i've also had some of the dumbest ones ever. Went out in late december, full moon. Drove my truck right up to my brother in laws deer stand. Big 10x10 shack up on 4 telephone poles. Walked up the steps, turned on the LP tank, and went inside, fired up the heater, and sat there for about 10-15 minutes. Then started calling. 10 minutes later, i had one walk right under the stand! 30 feet from where my truck was parked. I almost fell over! I was facing south, and he walked in from the north, right under me. Well, i was looking alot further to the south, and never saw him walk under me, or thru the drainage ditch that's 20 feet away from my stand. But finally saw him in the open field. Blasted him, and when i walked down the steps to the ground, that's when i noticed his tracks, followed them right out to where i shot him. I still shake my head at how i never noticed him until he was out in the open field. But it could have been the bait that he walked right under me. Had a nice pile of butcher scraps another 200 yards from him. After i carried him back to the truck, i crawled up in the stand again and started calling. Wasn't long and i had 2 of them coming into the bait. Ended up with 5 total for the night. All the deer we have had around here the past 2-3 years, i want to make sure i can get rid of as many of them yotes as possible. Especially after the winter we had two years ago, that was hard on the deer and pheasant population. saw alot of hens this past year out in the field, so hopefully that's going to turn around now. years ago it was nothing to be making a pass thru a corn field with the combine and just smile the whole way across the field as you would see a bunch of nice roosters coming out.

[Jaggazz]

What do you do with the hides? I've been looking to get one for a mountain an hat at some point.

[xd ED]

Are there any issues- game law/ regs- wise about picking up road kill deer?

I've thought about doing something like this w/ a game cam.

[FJ540]

Get a possession tag from the hwy patrol or dnr and I'm sure they'd be happy to let you dispose of it for them.

DO NOT cart the deer away and then call them. I was issued a written warning last fall for hauling out my neighbors deer without allowing them to tag it first. I won't let the cockroaches onto my property, so I thought I was doing the right thing by delivering their deer via my atv. Next time I'm going to make the CO haul it out himself.

[greenfarmer]

What do you do with the hides? I've been looking to get one for a mountain an hat at some point.

Next time i go out and shoot a couple, i'll bag them and throw them in the freezer, and let you know, your more than welcome to have a couple if you want them. Usually one of the guys i go with takes them and get's rid of them. But i can always save a few.

[FJ540]

Fur prices are way up this year. I can understand not having the ambition to skin them (I don't bother with coons either), but you should try to find someone to take care of it - they'd probably compensate you for some of your gas and ammo.