Airedales....coyotes???

[Cliffaharley]

When I lived in MT I know they used dogs to chase Coyotes. I have heard they use greyhounds to out run the yote and then an Airdale Terrier as the killer. Anyone have more knowledge?

I have an Airedale that I am planning to breed and was wondering if there is enough info to pursue this?

As always you guys are a wealth of information ;D so I am asking you first

[buzzsaw]

Cliffaharley,
Hi I think I can point you to a few boards who like airedales and are geared toward useing them to hunt with.
Real working airedales.
coyotegods
working airedales( a written colum in full cry mag.)
I am waiting for a litter to be born from a breader named Matt Thom for my new pup.

[okcoyote]

hey cliffaharley....

here in southern okla. it is fairly common to chase yotes with greyhounds. usually they will have an airedale or an airedale cross (sometiimes called a stag) for the kill dog. we have a large amount of farm land with county roads around the mile sections. most of the time those of us who like to call coyotes (at least where i live)
sorta look down our noses at the youte chasers... only because we feel that they are competing with us for the coyotes. i have been told they feel that we are killing coyuotes that they could be chasin.
dont get me wrong,...,i have many friends who chase yotes. just call me greedy..... i know that they are fellow hunters and i do respect their method......

okcoyote

[Krustyklimber]

There are two disticntly different methods of using dogs to "catch" coyotes...

One, is the chase dogs, or " dogwagons"... usually greyhounds with a wolfhound or other large speedy "grasper" to do the actuall killing.
Many times these dogwagons, are used to hunt inside of large pens, sometimes several square miles or more.

The other is the tolling dogs. This is the way airdales and other smaller "slow" dogs are used.
These dogs will go out and "engage" coyotes, then leading them back to the shooter.

Tolling can be very productive at certain times of the year, like when coyotes are defending a den, but many tollers leave their dogs home for just as much of the year.

It is a skill a dog must either possess on it's own, or that can be learned from another dog... you can't likely get up in the middle of a chase and yell "no! Over here you stupid dog!" when your dog decides to lead them where you can't shoot, or just goes in the scrap with them on it's own never leading them back at all.

Krusty

[buzzsaw]

Hay Krusty,
it's been a long time since I said hi.
It's easier now with the electric collars with tones to get your dog to under stand when it's time to come back.
You don't even have to light up there eyes any more. but it still gets there attention. (i am only kidding) to bad we can't get them issued in schools. ;D

[BobMc]

I’m in touch with a fellow in North Carolina who used to hunt much as you describe. He and his wife had a pair of Irish Wolfhounds that they ran coyotes with. They followed the chase on horseback. Often the IWH’s would catch and bay a coyote, but wouldn’t engage it. They also had an Airedale that couldn’t run up there with the speedsters, but when he arrived on the scene it was all over. He took no prisoners!

Also used to also be a fellow in Minnesota who wrote a column in FULL CRY magazine. He and a group of other hunters ran coyotes with a pack of running hounds; the fox hound type. He had an Airedale that he used as a turn in catch dog. The ‘dale was sure death to a coyote.

[libertymesa]

I dont know much about the dogs but we just returned from a javelina hunt in south western NM just across the border from Duncan Ariz. where i came across a guy with 2 of those airdale dogs and i asked him about them and he said they were for coyotes and lions he had been checking a trap line and said he grew up there hunting and trapping dogs and cats and lions all his life and wouldnt trade them dogs for any thing. Growing up here on the eastern side of NM all of my life ive seen alot of guys use greyhounds but it has not been practiced as much now as it was back in the late 70's and 80's but it sure was fun the few times i got to go i couldnt believe the time and money put into those old beat up trucks. I swear they looked like scrap metal but ran better than most folks town car see you later Tim

[billyp]

the airedale is tough we use one as a catch dog on hogs .so i think they would work on coyotes