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chase870
Possum Sox
I called a set the other afternoon nothing showed but the adrenalin is constant when I'm in thick stuff with a shotgun
I kill them quite often durning turkey season.
WOODIE13
HILLBILLY COOT SLUICER
Why Johny Tyler, where you going with that shotgun?
HarryO45
Mag dump Dirty Harry
I was sitting in my driveway the other day playing with the call. Wounded jackrabbit - suddenly and two fox come trotting down my driveway. So that was cool. Gave me some confidence
twincedargap
Senior Member
any luck on your lease?
HarryO45
Mag dump Dirty Harry
No
It is funny today was the first morning that i tried. I went into bottom about halfway. I moved with wind in my face. Through 20’ planted pines (very quiet). On way in i found a cottontail kill - fur everywhere saw some yote tracks. We have a lot of coyote.
Set up call. Moved back about 30 yards to my stand. Climbed waited about 10 mins. Started with wounded bunny variations i waited about and hour and repeated. Saw nothing. I ended up with a yote fighting call. In frustration i turned it up to max volume
I think i over used the call? Perhaps i should have not moved so deep in bottom to set call? I think maybe i should have waited longer to let woods settle? As i was sittIng i was thinking that any yote nearby would have likely seen or heard me move into position so automatically i was busted? Could the call be loud enough to attract yotes out past those who i alerted as i moved in? I assume most yotes are bedded during daytime. So i want a yote to hear the call further than the noise and movement i made coming in?
Obviously this is gonna be a learning process
Things i think i did right:
Wind, movement, camo, visibility, learned a lot about the call, had a great tome in the woods
Things i did wrong:
I think i should have been more patient and waited a bit longer before initiating the call, too loud, too long, mid morning? It had a light rain.
HarryO45
Mag dump Dirty Harry
Other info: i have seen as many yote moving in daylight as dark (cell cams). Mostly single yotes i have not seen more than two traveling together if that means anything?
twincedargap
Senior Member
Dang that's not what I'd hoped to hear. I'll not respond with wisdom as I don't have that w/yotes. However, for the sake of others responding, can you clarify your call sequence?
You called with mulptple rabbit distress calls for ??? mins, then silence for 60 mins?
You called with mulptple rabbit distress calls for ??? mins, then silence for 60 mins?
HarryO45
Mag dump Dirty Harry
Let me first off saying that i thought that i had practiced operating the call enough, but clearly i need some more practice. I started off with a rabbit distress call and accidentally went from volume #2 and then straight to volume #7 (only for a few moments). I then waited about ten minutes and started what i thought was my best sequence 15 seconds on at low volume getting louder and louder until i got to volume #6… that took about ten minutes. Operating the decoy every 30 seconds or so.
After that i ended up accidentally pushed a buck grunt and loud. So i decided to wait and try again - while waiting i figured out the preset favorite buttons and started to load a sequesnce of distress calls.
The bottomline is it was not my finest button pushing.
But i am wondering how close will a coyote get to a call before he realizes its a trap?
Big7
The Oracle
Just a thought for next year since Deer season is over.
If you take a Deer hide and staple it to a tree with the bottom about armpit high they will come to it and stay until you shoot or they wrestle it down. They have to keep jumping to get at it.
I suppose you could strap it somehow or maybe aluminum nails since you are in pine timber.
I did this every year of a lease I was in for 8 years in Warren County. It works.
EDIT: (Meant to say flesh side out, hair side next to tree)
HarryO45
Mag dump Dirty Harry
Went this morning and did much better operating the call. Saw nothing but birds and a squirrel. Distress calls only. Will look at breeding calls next rime
chase870
Possum Sox
It won't be long and baby bird distress nutty nut hatch and other bird related sounds will be the flavor of the day
HarryO45
Mag dump Dirty Harry
I wouldn’t set up in really thick cover. They’ll circle behind you,downwind….and be gone before you ever knew they were there.Been there..done that. I’d put the call & decoy about 40 yds out in the open,and upwind,if possible. Another thing about Coyote hunting…they are not always around. That Coyote that killed that rabbit may be 2 miles away now. Sometimes you get skunked. It happens..
chase870
Possum Sox
Breeding is over for the most part. The yotes will be hunting food now, pregnant females will be hungry.
HarryO45
Mag dump Dirty Harry
So stick with distress only?
twincedargap
Senior Member
I also removed the darn "siren" calls on my FoxPro for exactly this reason. didn't want to accidentally activate it.
HarryO45
Mag dump Dirty Harry
I haven’t given up. I still have another month before AL turkey. After that no more in woods unless you a turkey hunter! After that i recon visibility (foliage) will make it too hard to hunt them? Sad thing is we have a very large coyote population
chase870
Possum Sox
Invite or interrogation howls ought to get you a response
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