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Dog Food Doesn't Work for Bait #27062
12/07/2015 10:34 AM
12/07/2015 10:34 AM
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Stinger Offline OP
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Just wanted to tell a quick story about one of my few attempts at using dog food as bait while coyote hunting.

This was around 2005... I figured it was cleaner to carry out a 50lb bag of dog food rather than a bunch of scrap meat for bait on a little section of private land I had access and permission to hunt.

I set out the dog food wearing perfectly scent-proof boots with huge sandwich bags over them, dropped off the dog food and backtracked perfectly along the same straight line I had walked on the way out.

Took off the bags around the feet and got in my stand. Used a mouse squeaker (thinking it wouldn't do much) and low and behold here came two coyotes within 15 minutes.

I really wasn't prepared for them headed straight at me because I was totally exposed and couldn't draw my rifle.

They trotted right up to the dog food and sniffed around it. I thought I could finish raising up my rifle while they were at a "bad angle" facing away.

As soon as those buggers got to my trail with my "perfectly scent-proof boots" BAM!!!

They high-tailed it out of there. What an education I got that day.

No such thing as scent proof no matter what you do and coyotes do NOT like dog food.

That food sat there the rest of the winter, untouched and then the weeds never grew better than that spot - 6 foot tall weeds grew in a 4ft X 4ft spot for the entire spring and summer.

I apparently bought the most expensive fertilizer ever dropped in the history of man.

Lessons learned. Hopefully this year 2015-2016 I'll take that lesson and add to my experience.


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Re: Dog Food Doesn't Work for Bait #27063
12/07/2015 08:59 PM
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Amazing noses those dogs have. I think they're 10x more scent-wary than deer.


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Re: Dog Food Doesn't Work for Bait #27064
12/08/2015 03:14 AM
12/08/2015 03:14 AM
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Yes they do. I missed a coyote with ny bow this fall, 20 min later another came thru and stopped on a dime about 15 yards from my arrow from previous shot then immediately turned around and hauled azz the other way. He didnt even hesitate or think twice.

Re: Dog Food Doesn't Work for Bait #27065
12/08/2015 03:16 AM
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the combination of their hearing and sense of smell is amazing. They can run right into the spot of the sound they heard.

I have learned the hard way, when you hit the caller you better be ready!

Re: Dog Food Doesn't Work for Bait #27066
12/08/2015 04:09 PM
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A yote can smell and hear a mouse under three feet of snow


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