Predator Hunting Articles

The Truth About Western Wolf Hunting

March 14, 2022   |  From Articles

Predator hunting is a popular pursuit during the winter and in some areas of the Rocky Mountains, that includes the opportunity to hunt the gray wolf. Gray wolf hunting and trapping seasons have been open on and off across Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming for the past decade. These elusive apex...

3 Killer Sounds for February Coyote Hunting

February 7, 2022   |  From Articles

William Prescott famously told the boys at the Battle of Bunker Hill, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” Coyotes don’t have white eyes but if you try these calling tips on your next hunt, you might get to hold fire until they’re in that close, too...

8 Mistakes Rookie Coyote Hunters Make

February 22, 2021   |  From Articles

Coyote hunting experts like Mark Zepp can make it look so easy. No matter how many times you watch guys like that stack up predators on video, you just can’t figure out how to duplicate their success. They seem to bring coyotes running to the gun every time they make...

Tips for Summertime Coyote Hunting

May 29, 2020   |  From Articles

After spring turkeys are tagged and before fall deer, upland, and small game seasons kick in, summer can drag on forever. Sure, you can go fishing, but a hunter can only sit in a boat for so many days. We need a critter to chase during those off-season months. Luckily...

Tips for Nighttime Predator Hunters

March 17, 2020   |  From Articles

Hunting at night can be one of the most effective ways to take coyotes. Like most predators, they tend to be more active after dark, so chances are good that they’ll be up and searching for food while you’re calling to them. Hiding under the cover of darkness makes it...

Set Up a Coyote Hunting Shotgun

February 27, 2020   |  From Articles

All we could do was stare at each other. My youngest son and I had set up at the top of a narrow, brushy draw that ran through the center of a picked bean field. Our plan was to hit the call and hopefully catch a coyote using the cover...

Predator Hunts Gone Wrong

October 29, 2019   |  From Articles

Mark Zepp doesn’t remember all the predators that he’s killed over decades of hunting, but he does remember every single one that got away, right down to the smallest detail. He says those have done the most to turn him into a successful predator hunter. “I have called thousands of...

3 Coyote Hunting Vocalizations You Should Know

January 8, 2019   |  From Articles

You can improve your success calling coyotes if you learn to speak their language, and of all the sounds coyotes use to communicate, there are three you should have topmost in your coyote-hunting bag of tricks, according to Realtree Pro Staffer Fred Eichler . These three coyote vocalizations – lone...

5 Tips for Hunting Public Land Coyotes

December 18, 2018   |  From Articles

Many coyote hunters shy away from public land, believing it overrun with hunters, and that all the young, uneducated coyotes were killed early. Any surviving coyotes have either left the area or are super wary, having learned from previous run-ins with hunters just what those rabbit-distress sounds really mean. Don’t...

How to Hunt Coyotes in the Snow

December 11, 2018   |  From Articles

You know how hungry you get when you’re out hunting or working in the freezing cold during a long winter day? How the cold seems to sap your energy and strength, making you think about eating a snack or checking your watch to see if it's time yet for lunch?...

How to Hunt the Western Coyote

November 20, 2018   |  From Articles

I knew the spot was choice before I ever turned on my predator call. To my East, a brushy creek wound its way through the wide-open West Texas country — a perfect spot for bobcats and coyotes to hunt for mice and small birds. Plenty sign of both littered the...

Predator Calling Tips for When the Weather Sucks

November 13, 2018   |  From Articles

Do you know how to call predators when the weather sucks? You don’t always get to pick the days you hunt, so you have to make the most of those days, even if it means bundling up and braving adverse weather conditions that keep other hunters buttoned up at home...

How to Hunt Eastern Coyotes

November 6, 2018   |  From Articles

Most of us have watched the open-country coyote hunts filmed in the vast mesas and prairies of the West. We've seen coyotes coming in on the run from hundreds of yards away, then pausing for that perfect shot. It is a remarkable sight, a long-distance visual of your quarry approaching...

10 Tips for Calling in More Coyotes

December 12, 2017   |  From Articles

Coyote hunting has become a popular pastime within the last 20 years. Much of that is due to the recent coyote-population boom. But even with all these coyotes, it’s still never easy to call them in. Clay Belding of Banded and Dead Dog Walkin' and Byron South of Convergent Hunting...

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How to Stalk Wild Hogs

April 19, 2016   |  From Articles

Editor's note: This article was originially published in 2007. It’s difficult to move palmetto leaves in a quiet fashion, but I was doing my best. Fortunately, it’s also difficult for feral hogs to feed in a quiet fashion, particularly when there are several of them competing for the same food...

Great Predator Calling Sets

July 18, 2011   |  From Articles

Realtree pros Byron South and Mark Zepp know how to hunt coyotes. It all starts with the setup. Check out their tips for choosing the perfect area for predator calling

Mountain Lion Hunting: When and Where

February 21, 2011   |  From Articles

Do you have what it takes to kill North America's biggest cat with a bow?

Jason Patrick, My Coon Hunting Friend

August 6, 2010   |  From Articles

Keeping up with a coonhound in a southern swamp at night is tough—but imagine doing it if you were completely blind

In Black Skies

August 7, 2009   |  From Articles

When we stopped to park 200 yards from our first calling area of the morning, we could already see a half dozen crows sitting in a nearby tree. The jet-black birds, cawing and carrying on as they’re apt to do, prompted me to grab another box of 12 gauge shells...