Coyote hunting tips

I just got back from the big coyote hunt. I ate a large piece of humble pie. From past experience on this place I thought we might put half a dozen down. Well how about one cat , one coon, and one yote. The only excuse I have was the wind 30 gusting to 52. The one we did call in acted lost. He just was not sure where the sound was coming from. I had the Fox Pro volume wide open. In order to save our hunt we drove to Fort Worth and rented thermals. Wind is wonderful for hog hunting so we took full advantage. We put eleven hogs down plus three coons that had been tearing up the feeders. Ended up a great hunt.
 
I just got back from the big coyote hunt. I ate a large piece of humble pie. From past experience on this place I thought we might put half a dozen down. Well how about one cat , one coon, and one yote. The only excuse I have was the wind 30 gusting to 52. The one we did call in acted lost. He just was not sure where the sound was coming from. I had the Fox Pro volume wide open. In order to save our hunt we drove to Fort Worth and rented thermals. Wind is wonderful for hog hunting so we took full advantage. We put eleven hogs down plus three coons that had been tearing up the feeders. Ended up a great hunt.
That sounds awesome. I can only imagine trying to spot them in that much wind is almost impossible too, especially this time of year.
 
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We tried everything I could think of including dropping off the cap(high ground), heavy cover, and calling from draws to try and marginalize the wind. I tried hand and electronic calls with sounds I thought would buck the wind. If you have ideas or have had success in high wind please school me. Thanks.
 
I don't get much success in any kind of wind, so I am interested in what other people say.

At least you were able to get into the pigs though. I thought that was pretty cool
 
Alltheway you are right. The hogs saved the day. Here is a blue ribbon winner my brother shot. With the wind we could drive within a 100 yards of them. Then KA-POW.
 

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Coyote aren't much different then humans when it comes to wind they like to lay up . A lot of times it will be in well protected areas where they can still get sun shade or water brushy draws low spots ect. . They can be called but you need to get closer to them because the wind drifts and diffuses the sounds ( a catch 22 if you will ) it helps you get closer by covering your sound and spreading your scent but then they don't hear your calls as well the same as you don't hear or smell as well in the wind . Some of them will even go underground in bad weather but fox are more prone to that then coyote . Down wind in brushy draws , below rocks , cut banks and hedge rows any place that they can be protected from the wind , below the wind line on hill sides where they would bed for the day ect. are where you would want to look to set up to call in the windy weather . Spot and stalk works best when it's windy , study the coyote more when it's windy in your area so you will know where they want to lay up , teach your self to see coyote curled up sleeping , then you can learn to get close to them if you insist that you need to hunt in the wind as we do because we have so much wind here .
 
I thought all would want to know my coyote decoy is safe for now. I only tried it on two sets. I thought it was going to end up in "Kansas." (lol). Reemty I knew you would love the old KA-POW. So here is another and another. KA-POW.
 

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338 dude and I just doubled up on some pretty song dogs
 

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Alright, well we stopped by a ranch where I've been hunting for a while to get permission to bring Bill out to hunt, and the gentleman who owns the place said we could have at it, and told us where he'd seen a few recently. We made our way in very, very quietly into a wooded hilltop with an old road running across it. The timber was thick, and the undergrowth was heavy, so we knew we were probably going to have them in our lap if they came in. We had the wind quartering into our faces from left to right and set up accordingly. I didn't turn on my e-call in an effort to save batteries, and started with a rabbit distress hand call. I blew it for about 30 seconds and saw fur missles enroute. We shot the big male at about 50y directly behind my position as he was trying to get around us to get our wind. He dropped drt. The female took flight, and because it was so thick, we were unable to get her killed before she got out of sight. I grabbed my remote and realized that I had never turned it on, so it took about 30 seconds to get a ki-yi playing, but once it came on, she circled back upwind into about 100y in stuff so thick that you could only catch glimpses of fur. She finally stopped with her head and neck exposed for a couple of seconds and died right there. The whole stand lasted about 4 minutes from sit down to high fives.
 
It was awesome. It was one of those stands that make a couple days of empty stands worth it.
 

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