jackal hunting

[Nnobby45]

I live in Nevada, and here we tend to hunt coyotes with some of the hotter .22 center fires. Like the .22-250 Rem, or even the .223.

Deer rifles with lighter bullet weights also work well. All rifles are, of course, scope sighted. Any long range rifle will do.

We attract them by using a call that imitates a critter, like a jackrabbit or cottontail, in distress. Such a call can be heard over long distances in flat country. There are even electronic devices that play a recording that accomplishes the same thing. I prefer the hand held call.

Hunting at night, where legal, is probably more effective than by day. Hide, keep still. Loud at first. Call then pause for a minute or so. Keep repeating. When they approach, call much softer. They may come right up to you, especially if they haven't been called before.

Jackels may be different, but I'd suspect their predatory nature toward an easy meal would make them vulnerable to the same tactics.

 

[lt dan]

photos

just a couple of photos of a recent jackal hunt. one of a jackal one of a hedgehog and one were we are grilling wart-hog while waiting for the wart-hogs. i made a feeding place for the hogs and the jackals. i will be visiting the place 3 hours before nightfall and wait it out. if succesfull- more photos.

 

[lt dan]

better size photos

here are more photos.this time the size is good. i am still learning. let me know if i should post more images of what we shoot here in africa

 

[Art Eatman]

Pictures are always welcome. During daylight, try to frame the shot so you can pick up the background, to show terrain and vegetation as well as critters.

, Art

 

[lt dan]

art, wil try to. meanwhile have a look at this photo. one of the reasons why hunting in the summer is not advisable in africa.there are milions of these hanging between the bushes. it is also turning to autum which means the snakes are all over the place getting ready for their winter sleep. shot another jackal today, no opportunity for a photo.

 

[Art Eatman]

lt dan, I hate to tell you, but garden spiders like that are all around my wife's house with amazing regularity. That's in south Georgia; her "micro-empire".

My own micro-empire is out in the desert in SW Texas. (Second marriage deal.) Out there, we have tarantulas, brown furry spiders that grow up to maybe five or six inches across.

Fortunately, neither variety is agressive, although tarantulas can jump like crazy. Four or five feet, I've seen.

In the fall of the year, tarantulas will migrate to some winter hidey-hole. Some areas, you'll see thousands for a few days. South central Texas is one such area, around Gonzales...

 

[lt dan]

art, i have learned my lesson. i will stick to what i hunt.( i thought critters ment creapy crawleys). i have shot another jackal today, that makes 5 in 2 weeks. i have photos and will post them. i have also shot a warthog, but still need to find it. i shot it 25 min before last light. it fell 3 times before disapearing into the bush. so tomorrow it is back to that point. i again saw the bat eared foxes. this time during the day time.the thing about this is that it is due to hunters that the foxes problem came to light, and it is due to plans set in motion by jackal hunters that their numbers are increasing. i have a photo of one of them running away - not to good but i will post it anyway.allso a photo of the jackal.you will see the massive damage. this is due to the fact that a 300wm(180grn) and a .308(168grn) hit it at the same time. pushed it back about 2.5yards and tore off one hind leg.

 

[Art Eatman]

You have higher population densities there than we do here, seems like. But, for me out in the desert, about everything is low-density except insects. The bug'n'bunny PhDs say that in terms of pounds per acre, the insect life outweighs mammalian life in the Chihuahuan Desert. Fortunately, we're low in mosquitoes...

 

[wpcexpert]

Looks like home

That spider looks like the same ole Bannana spiders I'd cuss everyday in the swamps of SC. Big spiders, and very sticky, thick webs.

 

[lt dan]

sorry for the delay in reply,i have been on a hunting trip and there was no internet. among the things shot was a puff-adder. this is the biggest one i have evr seen or heard about. i have a photo on my phone i will try to post it via bluetooth(never done this before). this snake is responsible for the most deaths in africa.it has the very nasty habit of not moving away when people/animals come closer. due to this the natives see this snake as the snake talked about in the bible and therefore see it as their duty to kill it.i have no problem about this view.