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One stand I started with a howl then female challenge then waited and went into distress. And ended with pup distress. On another stand I started with distress calls and then ended with female challenges, howls, etc.This time of year I normally start off with prey distress of some flavor and then work into more aggressive coyote breeding/fight sounds.
I definitely want to get thermals and do a little night hunting. I was just short of 50 dogs in 2024. Close to 100 would be awesome hahaThere's so many folks calling nowadays most of the guys I know won't even hardly go in the daylight. The guys I know that are killing lots of coyotes, (one friend killed just short of 100 last year) call at night and run thermals. I went to fishing, in the daylight, I sleep at night.
I agree. I was switching stuff up with the bird distress and grey fox distress since we don't usually use it to much. Brand New sounds and mouth calls are probably going to have to start getting used more in my area.Recently, I went out to once again, see "The Miracle". Coyotes coming to a familiar sound. I decided to try a coyote low howl with my Foxpro, and after a few minutes I saw fur in the distance. Three coyotes crossing a harvested bean field. I turned the volume down, and let them close the distance. At 200 yards, they all stopped. Close enough, and the first one went down. One of the others ran 50 yards, stopped looked back, and he went down. The third coyote ran off into the hills, well educated. My next call, using the low howl, had yet another coyote closing the distance. At about 500 yards he stopped, listening intently. Not moving. So, I thought he just needs a little incentive to finish the trip. I switched to a very low volume squealing bird. The coyote jumped up, did an about face nearly choking to death on his sphincter muscle as he ran off to a safe haven. That coyote had heard that particular "Top Forty" song before. Yes, with all the calling technology out there right now, it has become quite difficult to attract an ignorant furbearer. With an electronic call everyone has become a seasoned veteran in regard to collecting fur. I don't see anything changing for the foreseeable future.
Thank you for the name of that thread. I will be reading on that for weeks. So many good storiesGo to Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote. It has some of the best information that I am aware of. it is a thread here on the long range hunting forum. Be advised, it is over 300 pages long. There is a lot of information there.
Definitely so. I was able to pick up some advice from the first and second page already hahaIt is far and away my favorite thread on the forum. There is more than just stories. There is a lot of good information. On how to hunt coyotes from very experienced t hunters.
Couldn't agree more. Years ago, before the crowds were into it, I was calling with mouth calls to coyotes who had very little to no pressure, and there were days you simply could not get one to come. Days they would hang up in sight, but hundreds and hundreds of yards away, and then there were those magical days when as many as four or five would come into one sit. Back then when I called one in and shot it, I just kept calling. I can't even tell you how many times I called in coyotes after I had killed one or even two. I called in two pairs once and I was using an Encore in 22-250. First pair I killed them both, second pair I only killed one. I called in two coyotes as singles one day, killed them both, kept calling and shot a cat half an hour later. Like I said earlier I spend my days outdoors fishing nowadays after deer season. All my buddies have the best electronic calls, thermals, and access to vast acres of land. They are so much more successful at night they are simply unwilling to spend those days out there when no one can call a coyote. They recently went on a trip to western Kansas where there is no pressure, and killed several, I can't remember the total, but every single one was at night. They called late evening and early morning every day, but I believe he said they did not call a single coyote in daylight hours. My guess is at least part of the time coyotes aren't moving much in the daylight because they have a belly full of mice, or rabbits, or whatever else they could catch at night.It's easy to blame lack of action on calling pressure, but that's not the only reason lack of action happens. Sometimes the coyote's just aren't motivated to move.
If a guy goes calling enough, he'll have those days when he can't buy a coyote, even though he's calling in a coyote rich and low calling pressured area. There are days when a coyote will simply lay there and listen, even though he may only be a couple hundred yards from the call to start with. Have seen it several times. I have even had it happen where a coyote might sit up out of bed and then lay back down. Have done it and have witnessed it where a guy ends up shooting the coyote in its bed because it wouldn't come to the call, but it was already close enough to shoot.
It's in our nature to try to figure out the "why" the coyotes do or don't come to the call on any given day but it's obvious to me that we may never figure 'em out. They'll leave even the most seasoned caller scratching his head from time to time. The best we can do is keep trying and maybe someday someone will figure out the magic code that will make 'em come to the call every time they hear the call.
