Posts by Martin W. Duke
Coyote-Takers Calendar: January
By Martin W. Duke and Renee’ Nolan A childhood friend of mine and I have often spoken about how much we enjoyed the occasional short, school-night cast of the hunting dogs to which our patriarchs treated us back when we were young. Given that it gets dark so early this time of the year, the…
Read MoreCoyote-Takers Calendar: December
By Martin W. Duke and Renee’ Nolan Along with Thanksgiving’s feast, the peak of the annual whitetail rut has come and gone, and autumn’s bright colors and amber air give way to post-frost predominance of browns and grays and shorter days. Each day is a little chillier. Plant life is bowed, broken or harvested, and…
Read MoreGo Call A Coyote
Most hunters fall into the category of the common man. As with any statistical population, there will always be those individuals who fall in the 10 percent category on either side of the bell curve that represents the 80 percent of the norm. Our modern-day deer-hunting adventures may also be described the same way. Chances…
Read MoreDeer Woods Gone To The Dogs? Hunt Coyotes!
On whichever side of the philosophical predator fence you sit, there is no getting around the fact that coyotes are opportunistic killers. They travel along roadbeds, fence rows, edges of open fields and anywhere else there is a break in habitat. Their keen noses and sharp, alert eyes are always in the active, target-acquisition mode.…
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