Coyote hunting?

Generally they can be called in close . .357 mag will do the job and it is totally legal in the books . I have shot and skinned many , maybe to many to be proud of , but gave it up when I realized I like dogs and have a respect for the coyotes durability . Now is a good time because the pelts will be in good condition . I do not want to thwart your hunting , but if it were me I would hunt them with a camera , just me talking . You will have all the thrill of the hunt . If you want a nice pelt , by all means do it , just be aware of the mess and left overs that most will leave . If you have no adversion to eating them , that is a whole different story . Jack Rabbits are highly under rated as far as table fare , good in a crock pot . They are also open year round . Turkey season opens the 27th of March and will give a better game to chase . You will have a good amount of time to scout them out . Good Luck out there ! WR

 

Lever action?

 

If you can get them close enough to ID well try to shoot the males , this is whelping season and you may find or realize that you are killing more than one with a dead female . Have fun with it , you can use mechanized calls and lights at night within the regs and you should find it easy to take as many as you can use , have a good hunt . WR

 

fair warning coyote meat is probably gamey

 

Put a stick in the ground with a bird feather on string near your call. That way you can be sighted in perfectly. They will come right to the feather

 

Yotes aren't bad eating, I would recommend cooking thoroughly and taking extra care with the knife work tho. You are going too far west for the JRs tho, I would say. Plenty of you get far enough east

 

Get a box of 20 mule team borax , and 5 lbs of pure salt no iodine , you will want a 3 inch fine or drop point knife as well as a 1 to 1.5 inch fleshing blade . Believe it or not a medium sized Buck 3 blade stockman pocket knife is about perfect . When you get the hide off , I suggest reading or watching tutorials made by trappers and pro hunters . Soak the removed hide in the borax mixed with cold water , this will clean the fur and remove / kill alot of the ticks and fleas . you will probably find a few Bott fly larvae as well . After a 24 hour soak rinse the hide and put it on a stretching frame while wet . now you can flesh and salt the hide . There are several ways to tan it but if you look up a simple brain tan recipe thats the way it has been done for millennia . Just make sure the recipe is for keeping the hair on the hide . They are pretty and can bring good money as well . In my younger days a buddy of mine and I supplemented our incomes quite well selling hides . Don't know the logistics or legality of it now . Shoot straight stay safe WR

 

Works well with a slight breeze, drives them nuts. Chicken feather works great

 

Having looked into it recently, both here and in AZ, near as I can tell all it takes is an additional permit to sell the hides. Feels a little more muddy for CA, but I don't think there is much of a barrier to it otherwise.

 

Which apparently I looked into it longer ago than I thought. State legislature banned sale of raw furs as of January 2020, with a full ban on any kind of fur sale of any kind in 2023. So not an operative method to get a bit of cash back from hunting anymore. In this state at least.

 

Personally I could never just shoot a coyote for the fun of it. If I owned farm animals and needed to protect them, sure, but I have seen too many videos on Youtube of people who own coyotes, and they seem too similar to domesticated dogs.

But I wouldn't deter anyone from doing it, so good luck.

 

I shoot coyotes in my turkey spots during the off season. It helps with the pressure on the flocks. I have had good areas wiped out by coyotes. They kill what they can and push the birds out. We put a lot of pressure on these turkey and eliminating a few predators putting pressure on the same birds helps.

 

Turkeys roost safely in trees at night while yotes are hunting. Lots of coyotes in my neighborhood, but even more Turkeys.