The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Coyote Hunting Farm Style: Take Two by Sheri Baity

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

Coyote Hunting Farm Style: Take Two by Sheri Baity https://www.amazon.com/Coyote-Hunting-Farm-Style-Take/dp/1962402363 Sheribaity.com Join Sheri Baity, owner of Crow’s Nest Calls, on a thrilling journey through the great outdoors. From her early days fishing and hunting in the wild to becoming an expert predator hunter, Sheri’s passion for nature shines through. When faced with a coyote problem on her family’s farm, Sheri took matters into her own hands and became a seasoned coyote hunter, reaping an impressive harvest of 17 coyotes on her property in just one month. But Sheri’s impact extends beyond her own land. Her skills and dedication captured the attention of her community, leading her to assist neighboring farms with their own coyote troubles. Through hard work and determination, she helped to bring about legislation that changed the game for nighttime predator hunts in Pennsylvania, ultimately increasing safety and efficiency for hunters across the state. Experience the thrill of the hunt, the beauty of the countryside, and the power of one woman’s perseverance in this captivating outdoor adventure.

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Today's featured author comes to us from books to lifemarketing.co.com. With expert publishing to strategic marketing, they help authors reach their audience and maximize their book's success. Today, an amazing lady on the show. We're going to be talking about her book. Sherry Beatty will be joining us for the show. Her book is entitled Coyote Hunting Farm Style, Take Two, out November 7th, 20, 24. We're going to get into it and what her book is about and maybe how you can utilize it to improve your life.

She is 63 years young, married to the hardest worker. She's ever met Dairy Farmer G. Okay. The farm has been in the family since, 1858, and one famous daughter, archaeologist, Jamie, with a funny and full of Shannon's husband's son-in-law, Phil, one precious daughter who is a combat medic for the army, getting ready soon to give her a granddaughter, I guess. A great granddaughter. Wow. People are moving around over there. So give us a, give us your dot-coms. Where can people find you on the interwebs there, Sherry? It is sherrybaiddy.com. Also, if you wanted to do a Google search on just Sherry Beatty or Sherry L. Beatty,

there's many pages of stuff about me out there. So, lots of good. As long as they're not in hand to prosecutors, you're all right. I got rid of them. Yeah. I mean, people always say, haven't I seen you before? And I'm like, yeah, on the wall at the United States Postal Service. That's what we wanted there.

So tell us about your book, Coyote Hunting Farm Style. Yeah, I've been coyote hunting for a long time for about 32 years. And it's just really a collection of stories, different short stories on different hunts. And then I got the bright idea to change law here in Pennsylvania. So I went on that journey I found someone to write the bill I lobbied for it and three and a half years later

I got the governor to sign it and then I got a couple months later I got the game commission to change law for predator hunters in Pennsylvania so then I thought okay I want to tell this collection of some of my most favorable hunts

and kind of like put an exclamation point at the end of it after I talk about the bill, just this is me. Ah, coyote hunting. So tell us, how did this start? How did this begin and what got you into this sort of? I married a very hardworking dairy farmer. And basically, he was doing field work, and he said, why I go up there and shoot those coyotes?

So I just started, and then about a year into it, I thought, what? what are these animals that I'm really hunting and why and so then I started doing a lot of research on them, East versus West and just started to learn about the actual animals. There was one month that I went up to my cabin and just sat there for the whole month and never, never fired a trigger, never pulled the trigger because I wanted to listen to their vocalizations. I wanted to watch how they work, you know, with the animals, the wild animals out there. So I learned a lot. And plus, I wanted to watch the other animals and how they interact when the coyotes light up. And so I took a whole month and just really researched it with these coyotes. Good to know your enemy, I suppose.

Yeah, yeah. Now, was there something happen on with the coyotes, with something going on in the farm that caused them to... Uh, there were a couple times where they would bust through the barbed wire fencing. Um, so they would, they would end up getting gouges or hurt. And, uh, the coyotes would, uh, come relatively too close for comfort as far as we were concerned. Yeah, they probably harass the animals, you know, we're talking about the foreshow. If you've got kids, small children especially or, or, uh, small dogs, even bigger dogs have seen coyotes or out from,

in a pack. Yeah. And, you know, one dog, it's, you know, trying to fight off four is scary. I was, I was hunting up back one time when I heard the coyotes laid up down in the swamp. And the first thing that came out of the corner was a domestic dog. And it had a really long chain on it. Oh, no. And then before you know it, there were five coyotes coming after that domestic dog.

Oh, wow. So. That's crazy. Yeah, it's, and I imagine, you know, if you have a farm, they might go after the cows or, The chickens and lions and tigers, bears, all that sort of stuff, right? Yep. Yeah. So you get into coyote hunting, or is it also called predator hunting?

Do other other things you know? Yeah, a lot of people call it predator hunting. I call it coyote hunting. Okay. Okay. Maybe you need to team up with Chris Hansen. You know, he does some predator hunting too. I can see a reason some people should be put down on that show.

the now this is take two in the title of the book is that was there a take one book or is this there was a coyote hunting farm style one and that's been um reprinted three times and i just finally stopped reprinting it i just let it let it fall to the wayside oh uh is take two i guess better then uh is there more yes or what's the key component there yeah just take two i wanted uh i wanted I wanted to use the same title that I used on the first one, and then I was sitting here thinking, I thought, oh, take two sounds cool. So I'll just add that to the end of it. Now, are you the owner of crow's nest calls? Am I seeing that? Yes, yes, I am. Okay. What are those? Tell us the laymen. They are predator calls. I have a coyote vocalization call. They're all mouth calls. And that one is double dog deria. I have a crow call, and then I have a rabbit distress call. You have anything for dating on Tinder where I can have a call to attract some wildlife?

I can teach you how to how hell, but I don't know how successful that'll be. I usually just wave money around in that scene. Oh, there you go. That'll work. So on the cover of the book, it says blow a crow. drop a yote. What is that refer to? That was the tagline I come up with because I'm always using my crow call

when I coyote hunt. Oh, really? Because the crows have what I call the birds eye view. You know, they're up there in the treetops. So I blow my crow call and, you know, usually I can drop a yote because it'll, the coyotes always want to know what the crows are talking about,

whether it's food that they might have, or, you know, danger or something, but they always want to know what the crows have to say. So that's why I always incorporate my crowfall. So it kind of like a tagline blow a crow and boom, you drop her out. Well, it's probably important because according to Ed Garau and Polo, if it says never more all the time, that's a bad sign with the crow. That's a literary joke.

Yep. Sometimes we go too smart on this show. People right now, right now, Gen X or G or Gen Z or whatever the hell they're calling the cells to speak. I'm like, what's a, what's a crow? Who's Edgar Allan Po? What's history? So anyway, I tease the Gen Z's.

I love them sometimes. So you've got your collection of your stories in here. And then it sounds like you've done some legislation work. What was some of the legislation work you mentioned earlier and why was that needed to be done? I happened to be at the shot show out in Vegas. And I came across this infrared equipment to put on your gun. And I thought, wow, that's really cool. And at the time, I was doing a lot of, I've been all over the country,

but I was doing a lot of seminars at Baspros, Gander Mountains, and Cabellas, and also private ranches. So I was teaching them about this equipment, especially the ranchers that had the top dollar, you know, cows out there. They wouldn't let predator hunting because they were afraid that, their cows would get shot. So I talked them about the equipment, and then I'd get back home to my own farm

and try and protect my coyotes, and it's like, this is ridiculous. I can't use this equipment here in Pennsylvania. And I looked into it further, and it's like all these other surrounding states of Pennsylvania allow it. Wow. But not Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania was kind of old school at the time. So I thought it was time to bring them up to the current time. Yeah, there's a lot of old laws of the book That make no sense Yeah Like the fact that you can't park whales Downtown, that's like

People wrote a lot about that In some, I don't know I'm just going to Yeah, there's a lot of dumb laws out there And so basically You just developed this passion For hunting coyotes Do you have to, I know boars are a dangerous thing

They have any of those out there Have you done that? I've done that too, yeah That's kind of scary, man I've seen them charge at people, man Those guys are, I mean, whenever I see him, I start thinking of bacon and some eggs. But when I see him, I mean, I've seen them run into people, man. I think they can kill you if they really, those big ones.

Yeah. Yeah. That's some angry bacon right there. Victoria, Texas was where I went hog hunting. What a blast. Really? Wow. Yeah.

Wow. Well, you got hog hunting. You got coyotes. And so it sounds like you influenced. it's a lot of people with your different things you do with the calls for the, the crow calls or whatever they are, the things you used to call it the crows and pretty wild stuff there. And you do some of this alone when you're out there by yourself on your property. I try and always do it alone.

The less people, the less noise, the less movement. Yeah, yeah. I'm more comfortable just being out there by myself. Yeah. Plus you won't have any of those Dick Cheney experiences where actually shoot your friend when you're hunting by accident wink at least i know how to load my gun that and that and if you owe dick cheney money make sure you pay him please and if you don't pay him probably not best to go hunting gotcha yeah he is he has a he's a anyway that's enough jokes for the dick

turn you think you're a trip go ahead go ahead i get me i just always think it was funny about that whole thing. I'm sure the lawyer who got shot in the case, I didn't think it was funny, but you know, like, I mean, never, never, never, never, uh, renege on paying a bet that you lost to Dick Cheney. Uh,

so what else do people need to know about some of these adventures you've been on? Do you ever worry about, you know, if you're out there and, you know, maybe there's five coyotes and they decide to come at you or like those boars that will charge? You ever, you ever worry about that going on? Or do you got a good machete and are you got a good,

You've got a good Rambo situation there going on. Do you want the truth? Sure. I kind of figure, I look at it this way. I came down here with a plan. So if that's how I wrote in my plan, how I was going to be taken out then. And, you know, and I look at everything I've done with the two books and got the bill and the laws changed. I did good.

so you know there you go yeah you know what's it old adage to die by the sword live by the sword die by the sword

sort of thing in the Bible there you know you never know man those coyotes they could organize and come after you like the coyote mob could finally

yeah we gotta take this one out this one's a problem yeah my one game warden said you know what you are and I said what's that and he goes Sherry

he said you're like the sheriff of the coyotes they hear that you're coming to town and they they're out. Well, I mean, coyotes, I mean, do they ever have rabies and stuff too?

Is that like a thing? Sometimes you got to worry about? Rabies is very rare for coyotes. More like foxes. Oh, foxes. Yeah. And Coons sometimes, but it's very rare for a kind of skitt of.

There's a lot of diseases that they can carry too. I've seen some people on Tinder that I'm pretty sure I have rabies, but I don't know. I think Tinder should have something that says you have all your shots. I always tell people I'm updating all my shots. Anytime I take my dog in for rabies, you know, and all the crap, they have to do every two years or whatever it is now,

I just go, give me a rabies shot, too, just in case, you know. What kind of dogs do you have? Huskies. Oh, I have two rough-cut collies. Yeah, so do you, now, are the collies the ones that you can use for hunting this sort of thing? You can, but me, they're more like my babies. Oh, okay. So they stay in the fenced-in yard.

They stay here with Mama, and Mama's happy then. Yeah. Because that could be dangerous, you know, if you, your dog, I wouldn't want my dog out, you know, hunting boars, because my gun's bigger than them. They don't have those opposable thumbs and they can hold a weapon. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, it's pretty wild.

So what do you all people get from learning and reading your book? Um, how it's possible to connect to nature like I did and be able to read the signs. And you can pretty much tell what's gone in the woods and where it's going to come out of and what it is. Oh, really? Just by listening and watching the other animals and their communication is just so fascinating. I mean, I can go up there and I can spend six, eight hours up there and never get bored because there's always something happening to watch. you know and it's just it's incredible it's it's free education you know yeah a lot of people say oh I would never kill an animal well that's okay you don't have to hunt with a gun you can hunt with

camera oh yeah what do you do with the what do you what do you do with the camera when you hunt uh take pictures because there's lots of hunters out there who are hunting alone and don't have anyone to you know photograph their hunts and stuff like that so there's lots of advantages out there yeah that would be kind of fun yeah so i'm a photographer too and so you know i love i love wolves i don't know about coyotes so much but i love wolves but yeah i love wolves but yeah and i mean is there a real problem out there where you're at with coyotes are they overbred and you know i know that sometimes hogs can be that way they can be overbred there used to be a problem i've kind of uh tipped away out of

The sheriff's been in town. Yeah. The Cowdy sheriffs have been laying down the law. Yeah, I mean, it's one of those things. Do they, do coyotes have a predator above them other than us? Bobcats don't like them. Bear don't like them. Yeah.

Oh, bears. They probably owe money to bears. They probably have a gambling problem. Bears are like, you better pay the bookie, man. Got to pay the video. else. I know. Yeah. Coyotes are notorious for running up a gambling debt. I live in Vegas.

I'd say the only real predator that coyotes have are humans. Ah, well, they got you. And then, so these calls, do you want to plug the calls that you sell? Is their website for that? Do you want to plug that at all? I killed that page because it just wasn't paying for itself.

So I have a bunch of calls. here, they can always reach out to me via email and I'll get them set up. Do you do consulting and coaching on, you know, how to clean up the coyote stuff in your own neighborhood somewhere, you know, around the world or something?

I've worked all over the neighborhood. I've worked all over the country. Wow. You know, people take these big time deer hunts and stuff like that out west. Just show me the coyotes. I don't care about any big game. Just show me the coyotes and I'm there. I think you need to convert this book to a script for Hollywood. I call it Jane Wick, Coyote Hunter.

It's like two hours of murderous rampage of Jane Wick. But when I get a coyote, I check the sex. I wait. Yeah. And then I usually double garbage bag it and put it in the freezer. I actually have a list of people that want my. my next coyotes so that they can have rugs made or mounted or people are mountain coyote i mean what they're now people are turning cuts into rugs uh-huh yeah they make good rugs yes really

yes they kind of like short hair fur uh not the winter fur oh okay my huskies i look at them every now and then when they have their winter fur coats and i'm like you would make a good blanket and they leave. So you're just not killing things out there, leaving them, and then, you know, maybe this stuff gets wasted. It's being utilized for something. So it's not a full sort of, you know, some people, they like that sort of thing, you know.

The Indians were kind of like that. You know, they used everything that they killed and stuff. Sounds like my first date, ex-wives. But, I don't know what that joke. I like you, Chris. I got a couple like it is. I got a couple of jokes. I get a couple of callbacks.

This whole show is just callback jokes I've used 5,000 times on the show. People are like, really that one again. I like David Letterman. If the pelts aren't too good, and as long as the bullet has gone all the way through them, I'll let them lay up there like on a rock pile because we have a bald eagles. Oh. So they like to come and feed on them. And so that's kind of like my giving back.

Might be a warning sign, too, for other troublemakers, right? Hey, here's what happened. The last guy who came in across trouble. Jane Wick. Dave never came back. Yeah, yeah. Is your husband ever lie awake at night with one eye on you? You know, you put stuff, you're killing things, putting it in the fridge, you know?

It sounds like the Iceman from, you know, some Italian mob movie. Put all the bodies in a fridge. How do you know I don't? I, that's why I'm saying. If I was your husband, I keep one eye open at night, make sure that I never cross past with you. Now, I always tell people, I only kill the four-legged furry predators.

I've got some, there's some people that do this thing called furries and they have a convention. So if you ever think about, no, don't do that. I'm just teasing those people. I was watching a thing where I guess, I guess the furies, Are you familiar with the furies?

You mentioned furry, and so you triggered something. But the furries are people that dress up as furry animals. And there is some sexual nature to it, but then they also kind of, they just kind of like it. They identify as furries. And I guess their new thing is they're new form of exercises. They run through the woods and the streams and their furry outfits. And they pretend like they're the animals. Oh.

And now I'm thinking, boy, you're. can you get shot by Jane Wick if you're not careful. If you're looking like a coyote, you're running around there with you think. No, let me put something out there and get it straight. I don't believe that we need to eradicate packs of coyotes. Oh. Because there's a benefit to having them in the system. But what I like to do when I hear that there's trouble in a certain area,

I like to take a few select out of the pack, and it brings the balance back in with the animals, and they stayed at their wild animals and not the domestic pets. Yeah, probably important. I know that they have to do that with dears. I mean, I mean, everyone loves dears is so cute,

but the more I found out, the deers are just like giant tick fucking farms. Tell me about it. They are. They're like, they're like the worst, they're like, they're just grown rodents of the,

of the thing that spread to seas. They're like, you know, other than getting animals off them. I don't know, making a great plot for a Disney movie. You can't eat the antlers, though, I've been told. Yeah, you can eat deer meat, though, right? With venison?

Oh, my gosh, yes. I just got done canning some venison. Have you ever eaten coyote? No, but there are recipes out there. I would like to try their backstrap sometime. You probably send some of that meat. You can probably send some of that meat to China. They like dog over there.

That's kind of interesting. But, yeah, you know, I mean, these things, there needs to be balanced in nature. You got too much of any one thing. Yeah. You know, that's kind of a problem. I mean, I can think of a few humans that maybe we don't need anymore. But anyway, just doing jokes, people. But seriously, though, we could just put them on an island.

Yeah, I like that idea. Just never talk to them again. I'll send over some names and addresses. No. It's funny how everyone has a whole list. to you to go. So is Crow's Nest call still a thing then,

or you took the website down? I shut the website down. Okay. Because I know, I've seen those people that they go to competitions. Like, you know, Miss America's got that competition

for who's the beautiful woman. They have, they have, I guess, nature calls sort of things. Yeah. And these guys are like all competing with each other for,

yeah. I don't know. Who can't get laid or something? I think. There are some people. out there that I know that are phenomenal callers. Really? Wow. I'm just so jealous.

I need a Tinder call. That's what I need. I have an idea for that. Rather than flash of money, start buying designer purses and flash a Louis. Oh, that'll do it. As long as they take a check

because I got more of that than cash in the bank. There you go. You got more checks than whatever so anything more you want us to know about what you are how you doing and how are you doing it are you are there a book three maybe coming out soon i'm not sure if there's going to be three but i know there's there's something else i need to write and i'm just not sure the exact direction yet but there will be more words for me more stories of the venturing so we can read about you know you out there i i still think you need to turn this into a holiday

would script and, you know, Jane Wicked, you know, Cowdy hunting. I do have two young men that have done a documentary on me. Oh, really? And they want to finish it up this fall. Submit it to some film festivals. And then they'll let me go public with it. But it's pretty cool.

In a world gone mad. She's had enough of the coyote bullshit. it's called the bounty she's taking the coyote bullshit into her own hands and now it's revenge jane wick in couty hunting take two and there's one other thing that i can positively say i will never ever ever get into politics again oh that was probably a pain in the ass dealing with all those politicians the game playing and ridiculous oh my gosh no no never again Nope, no, nope. You just remind him that you're Jane Wick.

I don't know. Don't do that, folks. But, yeah, I could see this being an interesting thing. And coyote hunting, boar hunting, you know. There's all sorts of predators. I mean, that's the biggest fear I have with my dogs. You know, I've had friends say there's coyotes in the neighborhood. I've had friends that have had really small dogs that have been attacked.

You know, I have doggy doors. So, you know, anything can come to dog doors. But you have to scale a plastic fence. dig under it, I guess. But I have huskies. We fix the dig under problem. But yeah, they have to scale over the fence. And I'm not sure they can do that, especially with a plastic fence. Oh, yeah, they can. Really? Oh, yeah. Well, that's good enough. Now I'll lose sleep at night. But, yeah, that's interesting about the crows. Is one of the reasons that the coyotes track the crows is because maybe the crows are feeding off of the dead carcass somewhere or something?

Could be. Could be. You know, when I start blowing like a feeding frenzy crow sounds, it attracts the coyotes. And they want to know what those, what those crows are eating off of. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We got a, hey, there might be a meal here somewhere.

Yeah. Well, that sounds like me when I'm at McDonald's waiting in that long line. All right. So as we go out, get people a final pitch out to order up your book and where they can find out more about you on the interwebs. You can go to sherrybaity.com that has a connection to Amazon for purchasing my book. It's in many bookstores all over the world and Barnes & Noble. Maybe you can make a novel where you, you know, there's, I don't know, it's a coyote.

It's kind of like Cap Mayhab. Remember that book? What was that book? The book, Moby Dick. Oh, okay. Cap Mayhab was like, you know, most of the book, I guess, is a duel to the death between him and the whale. Maybe you could do something like that between like Jane Wick figure like yourself and then a coyote and you're like up against this main coyote of this coyote gang. I like it.

I like it. Yeah, it's a novel. Okay. And then you could, you know, the coyote's thinking too, he's like, eh, how do we stop Jane Wick from murderous Cowdy rampage? That might be book number three. I like it. I like it. Jane Wigg versus the coyotes.

You know what you could do? You could do a thing like the Charlton Heston Planet of the Apes thing. You could come back in time or space or whichever the hell was. I miss those old. And then instead of Planet of the Apes, it's Planet of the Coyotes. Like the Coyotes are taken over and they're like running shit and stuff. And you're like, get your hands off me, you dirty coyote.

If you're Gen Z, you can Google that and find out who Charles and Heston was. It's better than anybody you guys put up nowadays. Anyway, guys, thank you very much for coming on this show, Sherry. We really appreciate it. It's been fun to have you. I had a fun time. I didn't know I could pull so many jokes off a coyote material. I didn't know how to end me.

I've got to take this on the road now. There you go. So, folks, give us the dot-com's one last time, share, as we go out. The dot com for your website. Hey, Sherry, can you give us the dot-coms for your website one last time? Sherry-B-D-D-E-D-C-E-R-I-B-A-T-Y dot com. And that'll be on the web, that'll be on the Chris Foss show site. You can check that out too.

Or an upper book, wherever fine books are sold. It's called Coyote Hunting Farm Style, Take Two. Not November 7th, 20-24. It's something like some fun stories there. You read them to the kids at night. there you go. There you go. Right before you put him to bed and remind him that the monster under the bed is a coyote.

And he eats small children if they get out of bed or if they cry. That's what I always tell my kids. Except for my future great grandbaby. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then if you duct tape the kids to the bed, that... I won't scare her. I'll just raise her and take her up hunting.

Take her out on the murderous rampages. all right well thank you very much sherry for come on the show thanks for us for having me I had a great time thank you go to goodrease.com Fortresschuschristchris Foss LinkedIn.com Fortess Chris Foss Chris Foss won the TikTok and y'all is a crazy place in the internet be good to each other stay safe we'll see you next time