I got out a couple times this winter. First two came in November. The first dog took about an hour to get done. Glassed him up at 657 yards at twenty minutes in to the stand. Tried a jack distress, not interested. Tried a cottontail, he lays down. Try a rodent coax, head comes up, then comes about 10 yards and hit him again with the coaxes and here he comes. Disappears in a wash and about 20 minutes later he shows up. Ended up killing him at 157 yards! Dogs can hear!
Second dog came in at the 2.5 minute mark, tail on fire. Got her on the move at 60 yards.
The next December day was my best day yet. Solo day and still managed to kill 8! Missed a couple til I started carrying the shotgun. Killed 4 with the shotgun and 4 with the rifle. Was also my first day with two doubles! Incredible day. Dogs were coming hard and I had to use the shotgun to get them to stop. Had one stand that five dogs came and another with 6 in it.
Had one more day with 6 dogs killed with 13 called in. Didn't get many pictures that day. Love calling song dogs!