Sealesniper
Well-Known Member
You will need to see what calls work in your area, as pressure from other hunters can educate them to certain calls.
I stay with the cotton tail and baby cotton tail for most day, early evening setups. Once close to dusk, I go with locator calls, or pup in distress. I have the fox bang feature, so if I shoot, I play the pup distress call. If several come in to the call, the fox bang will normally stop or slow the remaining coyotes for other shot opportunities. My best was 4 came in and 3 were shot by me with a bolt gun.
Where I hunt I also target bobcats, so my time on stand varies. If I have not had a coyote or fox come in after calling quietly for 10-15 minutes, I bump up the sound some. Once I have elevated the volume enough for any coyote within range to hear and come take a look, I feel pretty certain they are not around, but that is not always the case. But it sometimes take a bobcat 30-45 minutes to sneak in to the call. A few years back I was set up in the landfill stand, and had been calling for 35-40 minutes, and had seen nothing. The caller was to the north, 90 yards off my right shoulder, and I was hunting 360 degrees, but expecting most to come from the south or the west. I saw a big coyote cross the food plot at about 350 yards, and I did know if he had heard the call. So I hit mute, pumped the volume and set the call to pup in distress. For some reason I always look at the caller when I hit the send/unmute button. The second that call went to high volume, a large bobcat jumped about 3 feet straight up in the air from about 6 feet away from the call. Cat slinked off to the north without giving me a shot, but he had snuck in slowly and had gotten feet from the call without me seeing him. Coyote I had seen, circled into the next shooting lane, doing their patented hop and look. He stayed there until I packed up and carried him out.
Best advice I can give is bring a notebook with you and keep notes on temp, wind, time of day, what sounds and volumes. You will find some work better than others. Have fun and share some pictures with us when you are successful.
If going hunting at night with NV or thermal. Make sure you know the lay of the land in daylight and do not shoot if you are not 100% about the backdrop. It is easy to get turned around at night and things are not always as you think they are, so make sure you know your hunting area. As you know you can't call that bullet back.
I stay with the cotton tail and baby cotton tail for most day, early evening setups. Once close to dusk, I go with locator calls, or pup in distress. I have the fox bang feature, so if I shoot, I play the pup distress call. If several come in to the call, the fox bang will normally stop or slow the remaining coyotes for other shot opportunities. My best was 4 came in and 3 were shot by me with a bolt gun.
Where I hunt I also target bobcats, so my time on stand varies. If I have not had a coyote or fox come in after calling quietly for 10-15 minutes, I bump up the sound some. Once I have elevated the volume enough for any coyote within range to hear and come take a look, I feel pretty certain they are not around, but that is not always the case. But it sometimes take a bobcat 30-45 minutes to sneak in to the call. A few years back I was set up in the landfill stand, and had been calling for 35-40 minutes, and had seen nothing. The caller was to the north, 90 yards off my right shoulder, and I was hunting 360 degrees, but expecting most to come from the south or the west. I saw a big coyote cross the food plot at about 350 yards, and I did know if he had heard the call. So I hit mute, pumped the volume and set the call to pup in distress. For some reason I always look at the caller when I hit the send/unmute button. The second that call went to high volume, a large bobcat jumped about 3 feet straight up in the air from about 6 feet away from the call. Cat slinked off to the north without giving me a shot, but he had snuck in slowly and had gotten feet from the call without me seeing him. Coyote I had seen, circled into the next shooting lane, doing their patented hop and look. He stayed there until I packed up and carried him out.
Best advice I can give is bring a notebook with you and keep notes on temp, wind, time of day, what sounds and volumes. You will find some work better than others. Have fun and share some pictures with us when you are successful.
If going hunting at night with NV or thermal. Make sure you know the lay of the land in daylight and do not shoot if you are not 100% about the backdrop. It is easy to get turned around at night and things are not always as you think they are, so make sure you know your hunting area. As you know you can't call that bullet back.
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