Flesh Eater
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I'm at my wits end with my local pack. I've tried just about everything. Hunting open fields at night, setting up in the woods at day break, at last light, everything, from many different angles.
Yesterday I was on the phone with a landowner acquiring permission for a new parcel to hunt groundhogs and fox when I heard faint yipping coming from behind the house. So, I packed up my gear and headed out, thinking they were a little more southeast than normal. Well, I guessed wrong. I set up further southeast than I normally would with a NNW wind. Started the set non-aggressively with three female howls, with about 8-10 second rest between. Less than 100 yards west of me, upwind, the pups started howling like crazy. Thinking pup distress might bring one of them in, I played pup screams. Then mom challenged/threat howled, so I returned the response. That was the last I heard.
Had I set up where I normally would have, I would've been right on top of them. Would that have done any good? Who knows.
I've called to these coyotes maybe six or eight times over the past year or so, but a lot of other callers have been hitting my one spot as well. I've also inadvertently called them in while targeting fox and coon. Usually on those nights they come to the wood line and howl, which at least let me know no fox were in the area.
Anyways, my only other thought is to keep an ear out for them, or sneak in on suspected den sites and call very quietly with a wood mouse or some other rodent distress (maybe grey squirrel or groundhog), and see if that brings them in. I'm not chasing these coyotes again until October/November, though. Maybe January will bring better luck with vocals.
Thoughts?
Yesterday I was on the phone with a landowner acquiring permission for a new parcel to hunt groundhogs and fox when I heard faint yipping coming from behind the house. So, I packed up my gear and headed out, thinking they were a little more southeast than normal. Well, I guessed wrong. I set up further southeast than I normally would with a NNW wind. Started the set non-aggressively with three female howls, with about 8-10 second rest between. Less than 100 yards west of me, upwind, the pups started howling like crazy. Thinking pup distress might bring one of them in, I played pup screams. Then mom challenged/threat howled, so I returned the response. That was the last I heard.
Had I set up where I normally would have, I would've been right on top of them. Would that have done any good? Who knows.
I've called to these coyotes maybe six or eight times over the past year or so, but a lot of other callers have been hitting my one spot as well. I've also inadvertently called them in while targeting fox and coon. Usually on those nights they come to the wood line and howl, which at least let me know no fox were in the area.
Anyways, my only other thought is to keep an ear out for them, or sneak in on suspected den sites and call very quietly with a wood mouse or some other rodent distress (maybe grey squirrel or groundhog), and see if that brings them in. I'm not chasing these coyotes again until October/November, though. Maybe January will bring better luck with vocals.
Thoughts?