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 Live chickens for bait
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08/23/13 02:50 PM
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BigPig
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Never used live animals for luring in coyotes, is it more productive then a call and electronic rabbit? Need something to keep the wife entertained while hunting this weekend.
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Re: Live chickens for bait
[Re: BigPig]
#4504758
08/23/13 02:52 PM
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cyberpyrot
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Need something to keep the wife entertained while hunting this weekend. please tell me your not planning on using the wife as bait...
I'm a terrible shot but I follow up with a grenade!
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Re: Live chickens for bait
[Re: cyberpyrot]
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08/23/13 03:08 PM
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Brother in-law
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I would say no
The young dumb coyotes should be appearing
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Re: Live chickens for bait
[Re: Brother in-law]
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08/23/13 03:09 PM
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Closed Traverse
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Chickens wont work.
squealing puppies work pretty well from what I hear.. but PETA may jump on you for that.
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Re: Live chickens for bait
[Re: Closed Traverse]
#4504804
08/23/13 03:11 PM
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SCson
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We have used chickens for yote bait in past couple years and it worked great.
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Re: Live chickens for bait
[Re: Closed Traverse]
#4504842
08/23/13 03:28 PM
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cmc
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Chickens wont work.
squealing puppies work pretty well from what I hear.. but PETA may jump on you for that. Cause PETA would prefer chickens to be used as bait over puppies. Chicken will work but so will calls if there's a critter there to hear it if no critters chickens or puplies ain't gonna work either
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Re: Live chickens for bait
[Re: SCson]
#4504882
08/23/13 03:35 PM
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elkaholic
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A few years ago I had this strange desire to trap a bobcat. A taxidermist buddy of mine told me he had surefire way to do it that he had personally used. He said get a live rooster and put it in a box/cage and attach it to a live trap on the bait end where the bobcat could see through the live trap and see the rooster (leaving the one side of the box/cage open where it is attached to the cage).
I stayed up a bit and shot a coyote the first night when he came to the rooster. I moved the trap and the second morning when I went to check on it.... the box was all torn up, tipped sideways and the rooster was dead inside (I assume it had a heart attack from the stress of his visitor that night). Whatever it was wasn't able to get to the rooster.
I didn't ever try it again.
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Re: Live chickens for bait
[Re: elkaholic]
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08/23/13 03:40 PM
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BigRon
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A few years ago I had this strange desire to trap a bobcat. A taxidermist buddy of mine told me he had surefire way to do it that he had personally used. He said get a live rooster and put it in a box/cage and attach it to a live trap on the bait end where the bobcat could see through the live trap and see the rooster (leaving the one side of the box/cage open where it is attached to the cage).
I stayed up a bit and shot a coyote the first night when he came to the rooster. I moved the trap and the second morning when I went to check on it.... the box was all torn up, tipped sideways and the rooster was dead inside (I assume it had a heart attack from the stress of his visitor that night). Whatever it was wasn't able to get to the rooster.
I didn't ever try it again. We have used this tactic to catch 2 bobcats, 1 fox, and too many coons to count. Leaving a chicken in a small cage and overwatching from a blind brings in Coyotes also.
God is so good to me.
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Re: Live chickens for bait
[Re: BigRon]
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08/26/13 09:06 PM
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World Predator Hog Expo
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I took a chicken and shackled one leg with a string. This allowed him to walk and flap around. I killed a coyote on the first stand. I tried 4 more stands afterwards to no avail. I took the chicken back to the owner. I also tried a rabbit once and had no luck. The dogs just were not there at the time
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Re: Live chickens for bait
[Re: elkaholic]
#4523968
08/29/13 09:50 PM
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blackcoal
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A few years ago I had this strange desire to trap a bobcat. A taxidermist buddy of mine told me he had surefire way to do it that he had personally used. He said get a live rooster and put it in a box/cage and attach it to a live trap on the bait end where the bobcat could see through the live trap and see the rooster (leaving the one side of the box/cage open where it is attached to the cage).
I stayed up a bit and shot a coyote the first night when he came to the rooster. I moved the trap and the second morning when I went to check on it.... the box was all torn up, tipped sideways and the rooster was dead inside (I assume it had a heart attack from the stress of his visitor that night). Whatever it was wasn't able to get to the rooster.
I didn't ever try it again. I heard those bigger gators are pretty rough on those wire cages. Course, could have been the black panther, been some time since we heard any reports of that monster.
The Greatest Enemy of knowledge is not ignorance,
it is the illusion of knowledge.--Stephen Hawking
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Re: Live chickens for bait
[Re: blackcoal]
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08/30/13 04:07 AM
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In my opinion with predator hunting you lose all of the thrill of the hunt when using electronics or bait. Get a few hand calls and learn how to use them, there is a thrill that cannot be described when calling in a predator with a hand call. It's work, not easy, but a challenge that some cannot master.
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Re: Live chickens for bait
[Re: dogcatcher]
#4525071
08/30/13 04:48 AM
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zederwatz
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Put chicken in cage. Then fox pro call near chicken and use chicken sound to draw coyote in.
If wife get bored, dress her in lion costume and she can crawl on all fours while you play mountain lion in heat tape.
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Re: Live chickens for bait
[Re: zederwatz]
#4547022
09/07/13 03:15 PM
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GND
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I haven't tried the chickens but have heard a lot of success stories using them catching yotes and bobcats.
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