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Post by mofotrapper on Mar 24, 2012 1:03:15 GMT -6
Got a question on yote hunting in MO...
Was reading the regs and rules on MO fubearer hunting and it said for yote hunting:
"They can be taken all year, except coyotes may not be hunted during daylight hours from April 1 through April 15 and may not be hunted at all during the spring turkey season from bla bla bla.....
Question: Are they saying that they can be hunted day and night other then the dates posted above. I didn't know you could use any kind of artificial lighting at all hunting anything in MO. Or am I just a dumb a$$...
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Post by bigjohn on Mar 24, 2012 5:15:16 GMT -6
You can hunt them at night,just can't use a light.MDC is afraid you'll be spotlighting deer.Same goes for coons and other furbearers.The only way you can use a light at night on furbearers ,is if they are treed with a dog.
Back in the fur boom,it looked like those war films you see on WW II.There were guys spending the whole night spotlighting old houses,barns,and tree rows for coons.I guess it was a GW nightmare,with calls coming in from landowners reporting it.
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Post by krank on Mar 24, 2012 7:26:26 GMT -6
In Mo, Like John says, you cant use an artifical light at night unless you are coonhunting (like me). I have never been able to throw a light on a yote and get a shot while coonhunting. They stay back (even though they sound like they are rightthere) and dart too fast. I have treed bobcat but they bail when the human gets near the tree.
It is legal to go out in a full moon and mouth call. I have done that on the snow in a full moon. I used a shotgun with #4 buck. Kinda scarey as you could get something jumping on your back.
When I was kid, we hunted fox at night sitting back to back with a red light. Fox walked right into a red light. We didnt know it was illegal with the state but we knew it was illegal because we were in city limits. Got the idea in Outdoor Life magazine and thought it was ok.
I am thoroughly against hunting at night with a spotlight. It is really dangerous and the deadly scenarios are unlimited.
In Texas, they jacklight yotes. They have trucks loaded with spotlights and seats for multiple hunters and beercoolers and megaphone speakers. Totally insane.
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Post by bigjohn on Mar 24, 2012 10:16:04 GMT -6
Nothing like having an owl think your head is the rabbit lol.
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Post by trappingfarva on Mar 24, 2012 12:58:00 GMT -6
Had an owl steal baby pigs two years ago had the conservation agent come and watch it. He ended up killing 4 2 week old pigs. He trapped it and relocated it. Evidently owls like pork the size of rabbits.
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Post by townsendtaxidermy on Mar 24, 2012 13:11:57 GMT -6
Nothing like having an owl think your head is the rabbit lol. LOL, you should have a full head of flaming red hair! You wouldn't believe the critters attracted to it. I once had a downing woodpecker fly into my hair three times in a row. Hence, my intense phobia of anything in my hair. If I hear it buzzing or feel it crawling, I totally freak out. |
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Post by yote on Mar 24, 2012 13:44:31 GMT -6
That good one kim I would love to see that one I bet that was funny to see.Mofo I hunt at night time when the moon is out we do that alot around here.And lot time we put dead deer out on pond on the ice and shoot them right out the camp window or sometime we will go chase them down with our snowmolbie and ride right be side them and shoot them with a shotgun.But you want a fast sonwmoilbe to catch up to them before they get off ice into the woods.I just hear that a fellow have shot aimost 80 yote with dog in maine.
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Post by ozarkmountainman on Mar 25, 2012 11:28:56 GMT -6
I've got a scar on my head from a night-time coonskin cap incident over thirty years ago. Man, them owls hit HARD!
Dale
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Post by mofotrapper on Mar 25, 2012 14:18:13 GMT -6
That is something that I still don't get. They allow you to hunt yotes at night but you can not use artificial lighting to see what you are shooting at. To me, that is about the unsafest thing ever thought up to do. I never shoot at something that I cant see or make out. Shoot at movement, not for me.
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Post by krank on Mar 25, 2012 14:57:06 GMT -6
Full moon or some moon....No throwing beams of light....or dont hunt at night. My brother lost his flashlight and treed and shot 8 coon in the moonlight.
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Post by bigjohn on Mar 25, 2012 16:13:18 GMT -6
Dale,a Candain fellow was killed by a greathorned owl a few years back while calling at night.Seems the owl mistaked his fur hat as the critter in distress and sunk it's talons into the guy's skull.You can't hear an owl until he has to pull up from a kill or makes the hit.Their feathers are designed in such a way as to be very quiet when flying.I've watched them hunt mice,as I was setting on a deer stand,and it is amazing to watch them glide in and make the catch.
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Post by townsendtaxidermy on Mar 25, 2012 17:23:23 GMT -6
I know I shouldn't laugh...but a helluva way to go out, right? Wonder what his tombstone read? "Who-who-whodda thunk it?"
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Post by mofotrapper on Mar 25, 2012 18:15:31 GMT -6
I think this thread should of been called, "How to get an owl to attack ur @$$ " .....
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Post by bigjohn on Mar 25, 2012 19:48:26 GMT -6
I know I shouldn't laugh...but a helluva way to go out, right? Wonder what his tombstone read? "Who-who-whodda thunk it?" LMAO,By golly Kim,your fitting right in with the rest of us aren't you gal? |
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Post by yote on Mar 25, 2012 20:11:26 GMT -6
That is funny kim but got to tell ya I never heard of anyone around here get a attack by owl .Mofo coyote will not hand around with light you can count that one I well most of us here in maine find it alot easy to get them on the full moon and don't worry you can tell if their are coyote or not with a scope it come in very clear
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Post by krank on Mar 25, 2012 20:31:23 GMT -6
So lets go to Maine and chase coyote on can-ams shooting buckshot out of auto-mags. That is so cool.
Years ago out in KS they chased yotes in dune buggies and shotguns and 'you guessed it, the party poopers stepped in.....
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Post by yote on Mar 25, 2012 21:13:34 GMT -6
And it all legal to do it in maine cause we lost over 2/3 of our deer herd in one winter that was two year ago when we over five feet of snow and it rain that what got the deer it bad their was dead deer every where that kill by coyote and that how everyone got piss off and it starting a big hunt on them anyway they can .It not unheard of now that they get 100 + coyote with dogs The antis was very surprise how strong we band together and starting killed coyote .I got a feeling someone shut antis up cause we don't hear anything from them anymore.
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Post by krank on Mar 26, 2012 7:00:53 GMT -6
Definetely overpopulated. I think that is why there aint no rabbits. I have a hedgerow 1/2 mile long and all the rabbits are here by the house. I am glad they leave the season open 11 monthes out of the year. They need to put a bounty on them.
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