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I had learned in the early 1980's from listening to the coyotes on the mountain and out in the prairies, that in the mornings the coyotes that have been out hunting at night will talk to the one that is home with the kids as they are coming home. Even if it's a male and a helper they want to let...

You can look back to page 4 for Volume and distance and page 6 for Coyote Hunting Tips for a ton of useful information.

So very many times setting quietly and just listening to the world has paid off in my quest to find the coyotes that were killing livestock. I have learned so much from them just listening and watching them. Knowing that I had to kill them but first letting them tell me more about themselves for...

I haven't done extensive amounts of calling in other areas. But I did some in Montana and Southern Indiana, and tried the same locator and where are you howls in both other places and they worked the same there as they did here. I learned the locator series from Bill Austin but the where are you...

I have always found it interesting how fast a surrogate will take the pups out of the area after something happens to the adults and how far they will take them some of the time. I tracked a female taking the pups up a good sandy road one year for over a mile to another location. I shot the male...

It's raining in the low country and snowing in the high country today. They predict up to two feet of snow above 8500 feet elevation, that's hard on the young, old and sick animals. more pups will die from this weather than we could kill, it's faster than starving to death. The tracking will be...

We didn't get any form of moisture here today, but the wind was blowing at 25mph when I got up this morning with gusts over 40mph. Trucks under 50,000 gw were asked to stay off the roads again but still some ended up on their sides, just not as many as yesterday, thankfully.

Here today we are having rain and snow mixed with high wind gusts. South of us I-25 is closed to high profile and light weight vehicles most trucks under 40,000 pounds are asked to stay off the highways and in places those up to 50,000. Small cars and pickups are asked to stay off the highways...

The weather turns nasty when the warm humid gulf fronts meet the cold dryer northern fronts. It's been dumping rain down south and causing some pretty hard winds to blow in the northern central parts of the country. It looks like the weather will be moving eastward this week. We here will be...

The wind never laid down last night it was blowing 23 mph when I got up this morning with gusts of 36 mph. They predict it will continue to blow for the next couple of days with rain and snow mix starting later this evening. Not good predator hunting weather no matter who or what you are. Most...

It was cloudy, windy, and snowed all day yesterday till around five in the afternoon then the clouds moved out and we had sunshine for a few hours. The temperature only got up to 43 degrees but with winds running around 25 mph it wasn't very comfortable. We can nearly always use moisture and it...

So far, I have learned that the Thomson snares with the stiffer cables that are preloaded need to have more attention paid to keeping the wind from closing them, they don't untwist as easily as the finer aircraft cables do with an animal that decides to roll instead of jump over the fence and...

You are way too kind my friend Thank You, I'm just an old guy trying to be helpful to others. Doing what I think is right and the way that I want others to do for me.

Some of the things in Texas' proposed changes for mountain lions are borrowed from other states regulations on them that are already in place. The numbers of lion and human interactions will increase as the populations of both increases. The lion only comes out on top in the short run, then gets...

I learned early in life not to do things in anger because you can't undo it. A bullet sent down range cannot be called back. I have killed a few thousand coyotes over the years, and I have no amosite for them I actually have a regard, and respect for their abilities to survive being one of the...