Hey I'm new to the forum but have done a lot of reading here over the past year or so. I got into coyote hunting about 3 or 4 years ago and never really had anybody to go with to learn from. I bought Byron south videos and learned what I could from there. All has been well up until this year I had pretty good luck and pretty good success rate. My first year of hunting I called in and killed 15 or so coyotes and around 25 last year. This year has been a different story, I think I shot around 10 this year. I have a few questions as to what could be the issue. I use a foxpro firestorm and some hand calls. I got in good with a cattle rancher that has quite a bit of land and has also gotten me on to other ranches, I currently have about 8000 acres to hunt that is split up into 12 different pieces of property. I never have had good luck night hunting at all. Here is how my normal stand is , I set up on the edge of a tree line or a thick fence line and start the fox pro off soft for the first couple minutes or so, I then usually kill it for a few minutes and start it up a little louder I do this over a period of 20 minutes and maybe a little longer if I have high hopes for the spot. My fox pro goes up to volume 20 and I have never called with it past half volume and most of the time I usually stay around volume 7 or 8. I am always cautious with the wind and usually try and call cross winds or wind in my face. I wear full camp face net and gloves and sit so still that my whole lower body is asleep. I know something is missing or I'm not doing something quite right. I also have enough places to call that I'm always calling a fresh spot and I usually give each places 3 or 4 weeks rest after being called. One thing I can say is I have honestly never went out and located coyotes and I was reading an article where the guy said he will go out the night before and use a howler to locate coyotes for the next mornings hunt. I never have don't this and didn't know if it was that important? We hunted a tournament here a while back and I gave all my places 2 months rest before the tournament. We called 22 different stands and didn't call in a single coyote. Sorry for the long read but I'm a little frustrated because of the good success I have had in the past.