Coyote hunting with Greyhounds?

[Shane]

We used to do it without any dogs. We'd get a few farmers together, and everybody had CBs back then. One or two pickups would drive through a creek drainage or playa lake bed, and another 2 or 3 pickups would be spread out around the edges and/or on the dirt roads. When a coyote or three would run out of the cover, the chase would be on. Sometimes we'd get 'em before they went 100 yards, and sometimes we'd chase 'em 10-15 miles (in circles).

The funniest thing I remember was one COLD morning with snow everywhere, we had a coyote surrounded on a frozen playa lake. We were all on the county roads around the pasture about 400-500 yards from him. He was slipping and sliding and busting his arse on the ice. We were all laughing and telling each other "SHOOT HIM!!!" on the CBs. Nobody could stop laughing long enough to make a steady shot, but we had him going in circles on the ice. Somebody finally got him, but the ice was too thin to walk out and get him.

Disclaimer: We knew everyone in the county back then and had permission to hunt anywhere we wanted to go, pretty much, and the GW nor anyone else ever cared a bit if we shot off of the dirt roads. In fact, he'd go with us sometimes. We didn't shoot off of or across pavement, and we never tore up any fences. We DID have a ball on lots of snowy mornings when we couldn't get into the fields to strip cotton or plow.

Those were definitely the good ol' days.

[BrandonA]

My buddies up in Greenwood Cnty. Kansas hunt yotes with greyhounds. I have never done it but plan on doing it in the future.

[jkk831]

I have a buddy who does this. Uses Irish wolf hound x greyhound crosses. They scared the $%!^ out of me driving 70 miles an hour across a CRP field to get close enough to release the dogs.

[doncom]

When I was in high school in Throckmorton, there were a couple of ranchers that chased all the time. They had custom made dog boxes on their trucks with fans and automatic water.

Poss Murray and R. A. Brown Sr. were two of them. Poss was the manager on the Swenson Land and Cattle Co. and RA owned Brown Ranch. Together the two ranches stretched from the west city limits of Throckmorton westward almost to Haskell and northwest almost to Munday.

Fences were few and far between and some pastures were as large as 8,000 acres. When the dogs were turned out and the yote, (the old timers around there called them wolves) did manage to get under a fence, they simply drove through a five strand barbed wire fence and sent the cowboys out to fix them.

They had the local shop, Barrington's, weld plates under the trucks, beef up the springs and put the biggest tires on them that could be found in those days.

Throughout most of the '60's is was common to see much of the 33 mile highway between Throckmorton and Haskell with a coyote hanging on most of the fence posts.

During my early teen years there were few things that excited me as much as an invite to accompany these two on a wolf hunt.