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Mark Walters For Agri-View
Mar 22, 2025
Mar 22, 2025

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Mark Walters learns about an excellent setup for hunting coyotes after dark.

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Good friends Tom Hoinacki, left, and Brian Ball do a lot of hiking for each coyote-hunt setup.

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Mark Walters For Agri-View

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Mark Walters lives near Necedah, Wisconsin. An outdoor-adventures writer since 1989, he enjoys hobby farming, adventure and anything outdoors. "If I wasn't earning a living as a writer I would want to be a beef farmer," he says. Email sunsetoutdoors@tds.net to reach him.