Had a thought while running my jackrabbit-killing circuit the other day. I could take these dead jacks, put'em in a cage of some kind, then hunt coyotes and crows over it in a day or two. Anyone ever tried this?
Find a desolate dirt road with little travel on it. Tie those bloody jackrabbits off your bumper with some strong nylon rope. Then drag em for miles at a fair speed (not over 20mph) in the late evening, the colder the better. The next morning go back the way you came and do some calling along your route with a dying jackrabbit call. I did this one time over by Ridgecrest and killed a [bleep] of 'yotes, even saw a few off the road while moving between stands.
MtnHtr
We used to use crow decoys and the standard owl decoy, but never tried the rabbit thing!
Where I hunt 'yotes now, we use dead livestock...
Catnthehat
Baiting is quite common where I live here in the southern New Mexico mountains....
I t can be really hard calling to get the coyotes to come in for some reason...??
So, I'll take the deer carcass or elk for bait & put it in the edge of a clearing where I want to hunt. This makes them more comfortable than just sticking the carcass in the middle of an open spot....
You will get anything from coons, crows, fox to coyotes....You can't get a lion in though...they just eat what they kill.
The coyotes will come in well though. sometimes I'll stop & pick-up a fresh road kill for bait. I usually put them about 250-300 yards off my deck, that way I can keep a vigilant eye out for them during the course of a day.....& at night, as I get up to check on the horses. that .223 ballistic tip surprises the hell out of them....LOL.
Rockinbbar
Well, being fresh out of deer and elk carcasses, I was wondering how to accomplish the same thing with a big wad-o-jacks...
T,
I've baited with jacks before as well...
You can get several of them to bait a location....
I usually tie 2 together with wire & hang them on a fence where I can keep an eye on them. I'd hang several at one spot, that way they cant just grab the bunny & run, they keep frequenting the area..
Hope this helps,
Rockinbbar
yep,tie um up snug,and keep um where you can see um.During breed season here,(feb-march)they work the bait daily.Tiz a pizzer shootin um at 300 yd's off deadrest windowsill.
I use dead rattle snakes, works well.
Best bait we've found for crows is a crow.
Wing the first one (22LR works great); tie the then-squacking bugger feet first to a fence. The more racket he makes, the more crows come in.
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How common is it to see a rattle snake in Montana ???
I use the cottontails in my garden for this... Hard to spook the little monsters, so throw a net over them, put on the welding gloves, grab one tie his back feet together with 10' of 50lb monofiliment, drive a stake in the ground somewhere off your back porch, whatever is comfortable for you to shoot, sit back and blast the Big vermin when they make the run for the bait...
Seems like cheatin', but when they raid the chicken coop @ 3:00 am, I would rather shoot em' at 7:00 pm while I am still awake!!
Pat
Even though the thread is getting stretched thin here I will give some advice on baiting crows. Put a chicken egg along a creek in the open or on top of a fence post. A crow will spot it from a long ways and come check it out. Along a creek so will snakes, coons or whatever else eats eggs (everything).
dead calves work well. just ask a dairy farmer to give a call when they get a still born.
toss it out back and give it a day or two.....
woofer
Most of the corvidae will mob a ferret if it's tethered near a nest. I used to do it for magpies and would get a lot of crows coming in. Pity it's ilegal here now. I have also shot a lot comeing to a scrape in the ground with a couple of hens eggs in it.
You would probably get thrown in jail for this toady, but when I was young and we had a gaziilon barn cats around, we would take one up into an old snag and tie it up there. Then call a few crows in. Once they zeroed in on that cat, they would just keep on coming when you shot them.
Of course the cat was totally paranoid at the end, and there was no way to go up and untie it. I'll leave it up to you as to what happened to the cat.
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Uh oh, don't let T_Lee see this one; we'll have a raft of new kitty avatars and pics posted.
But, it sounds like a great way to kill two birds, errr cats, errr...um, well you get the picture. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Best crow bait I've found is my wifes' garden. Damn the crows, full speed ahead!
Lucky you. Mines infested with rabbits and they eat everything. Good shooting with the airgun though.
I found two does after gun season dead- I dragged them back to a lower field behind my place, set up a trail cam.
Got fox, yotes, crows, hawks, and a curious doe on film. Some real intersting shots- the fox/yotes were all night time, 10PM to 2AM, no pattern to the rest of the visitors, other than daylight hours.
We're not supposed to use wild animals for bait in Wyoming, So I've use chickens. Staking out a live chicken on a short rope is an awesome coyote and bobcat call.
Every winter I set up a bait which I call "the meatsickle". Then I proceed to shoot yotes from off of my deck all winter long at just under the 300 yd mark.
Here is a quick description of my "meatsicle"
http://predatorhuntcanada.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=1083
To keep crows out of your garden......shoot one and string it up in a noose. Hang it high........no more crows......