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I'm going out tomorrow to set up my game camera overnight. Baiting for coyotes is legal (but not deer, bear or turkey). Any suggestions on baits that someone might have around the house? Can of tuna? Last night's leftovers?

Roadkill

dead horse....

Dog food?

I wish I had a dead longhorn steer. I was in the Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma in 2015 and there was a dead longhorn in a ravine. I drove out there at night and the place was thick with coyotes. I think that steer brought them in from miles and miles away. Never heard so much howling.

I leave coyotes and pigs as bait.

Run a blade down their bellies and leave em to the buzzards and mama.

why dirty a blade?.....

maybe because he thinks buzzards can't figure it out for themselves?

I think the coyotes we leave are eaten by the pigs.

Agreed.

Because it speeds up the cleanup detail, if i hit one with 22-250 and no exit, have seen them lay there up for a week with buzzard crew perched above thinking they're still alive i guess, clean gut slice and a tail yank to spill innards has them cleaning up very quickly, running a blade down into the soil a couple times cleans it up fine, i dont carry my Bagwell Damascus skinners up to check on a coyote kill, i grab the same knife i threw at that kid for a free ear clipping holding a gun up in the handgun forum under the 40 yard shoot off drill Bluedreaux started.

I went out this morning to plant my trail cam. On the way in, I found half of a turkey wing feather on the trail. It rained earlier in the morning. I didn't see any turkey or coyote tracks this morning at all. The rain may have washed them away.
There were some very fresh deer tracks.


I have no idea what kind of tracks these are. They were about and inch long. Funny thing is, it wasn't a trail of tracks, it was just these three in the middle of a big, wet muddy area.


I have my camera at the bend in a trail where I saw most of the coyote tracks last time I was there. I threw out six pieces of left over fried chicken for bait. So who knows.





I flushed some quail on the way out. This place does seem to have a somewhat decent population of quails.

The three tracks look like rabbit tracks

I skin the nice ones and either sell them when the prices are good or have them tanned when they aren't, my wife wants a throw for the den.

Toss a couple nice ones across the furniture, it spruces up the house.



The left one was killed just below the Canadian border and the right just a couple miles from the Mexican border.

I have a portable fleshing beam on my truck and keep a few stretchers in the gear box.

Pretty cool. I have several tanned hanging around my house, but my house is different from most.

Let them lay! Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms……..

But, But, But..... You have to slice their guts out and stab your knife in the dirt a few times, or buzzards won't touch 'em...... Or so I've heard.

Road kill skunk. I'm serious. Keep a garbage bag and a bucket in your vehicle... preferably a pickup. Kind of like stinkbait for catfish... you don't want to get any of it on you but they like it.

So that was pretty anti-climactic. I went to retrieve my camera. Two of the pieces of fried chicken had been eaten, with the skin pulled off and not eaten. The other four pieces were untouched. What kind of infernal creature would eat fried chicken and not the skin? Whatever it was must have been low enough not to trigger the camera. I had it set a little high so I could see down the trail. I had the flash turned up and the sensitivity on long range. Nothing. The only pictures I got were when I set it up and when I took it down. And no tracks of any kind on the trail that I had it watching.

However,

After I took my camera down, I decided to walk the trail past the second bend. Lots of deer tracks there. As I am wrapping my strap around my camera, not really paying attention, I look up and vaguely notice something walking in the high weeds to my left going in the same direction as me. It was a big ass skunk. It was like 12 feet away. I don't think it ever saw me. I stopped and it continued on. It started to turn left into the thicket where I flushed three hens a couple of weeks ago. I started making kissy sounds and it stopped, finally saw me, but never got defensive. I pulled out my Glock 19 and took aim I could have nailed it but I decided to let it go. If I see it again after September 1 when they are in season on this state forest, I will. I understand that are very much egg eaters.