Hey guys, I have the 8 suggestions. I will start at #1 and work up every set. I’m starting tonight and will keep this thread updated. Thanks again.
If I drop one while on ‘your set’, $50 is yours!
Pressured Yotes
1. WyYoteKiller: Bird Distress/Woodpecker/Fox distress
2. mhammer: Skip the distress and use coyote vocals only. Create a conversation, even if it's with yourself (ie, no response from the coyotes). Move that conversation into a fight sound and end it with pup distress.
3. Woltrapper: Try house cat yowling. I have had dogs my entire life, and every time they hear a cat fight, they have erupted instantly, even if they had never heard a cat before. I use mouth calls, and am working on that sound right now.
4. Plotboss: Be careful with the volume, set up 50yds down wind of your caller but make sure you can still see the caller and try grey squirrel distress. That sound has been killer for me in the timber!
5. Iamjuggernaut: Sent via private message.
6. West.Mass.Hunter: Call 3 or 4 minutes at a time with equal amount of silence if not more. Hand calls only!!
7. Tripod: The most frequent success for me comes by using vocals and most importantly with an approach from a direction that is not typical. Like behind them, not from the road or a usual entrance route.
I have always scored more with hand calls in these instances.
In places where there is sage it has a strong odor, so I tear off some rolling it in my hands like there was a scuffle.
These tactics have brought coyotes literally into my lap and silently appearing as close as 18" with teeth bared.
Oh I almost always face downwind and some times back into a bush.
8. AWS: With smart coyotes getting to your stand in silence and no movement on the stand go a long way. Wet leaves and soft snow are you friends, though with soft snow it is very hard to tell what is under it when putting your foot down..
We hunted a very heavily hunted area after a crusty snow and never saw a coyote the first three days. We started hunting the same stands over and walked in silently placing our feet in our old prints and killed six in the next three days.
You can also try just shutting off the caller and sitting there for a half hour and see if they come to investigate. It is suprising the number of coyotes I've seen when going back to a stand to get something I forgot.
If you can get them to light up and you have silent conditions there is a good chance if your fieldcrafts are good of circling down wind of them and making a sneak on the while they consentrate on the running caller.
Hunting smart coyotes are fun and it makes you think alot about what you've done wrong.