whitey21
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So I've been pretty busy and just now getting around to doing some real coyote hunting. I checked the weather figuring it was going to be windy or raining like it usually is when I have a day off. To my surprise it was clear and no wind. I got permission in August to hunt this cattle farm just up the road from me, so I swing by the night before and tell the owner I'd be out there in the morning. I get home from work in the wee hours of the morning and grab a little bit of shut eye before I am to be awoken by my alarm. I set it later than usual because: 1. the property is literally a 1/2 mile from the house and 2. I wasn't going to walk in till it was breaking daylight so I didn't jump anything (really I just wanted any extra sleep I could get).
Park the car, gather up the junk and head out to a little stand of trees on the base of a hill. It looked like a nice funnel area to direct the coyotes down a wooded corner of the property. I set the caller 50 yards in front of me and I go lean up against a fence post with a few head of cattle on the other side of it. Not really where I wanted to sit but I had the hillside to my back and I could see better than being in the stand of trees. Plus I hate calling around cows, especially with a shockwave that could be trampled.
I like starting out with a good rodent sound. I did that for 7 minutes or so. Nothing. Click over to some lightning jack...Nothing. So I give it a minute and I hear a faint bark. It caught me by surprise and I couldn't tell if it was dog or coyote. So I figure what the [beeep], I'll call back with some howls. This time I could tell it was coyote directly in front of me but still far off. So I heard someone saying they go to submissive calls whenever they get a response. It is just as good of an idea as any that I had so I punched in the Fem sub and let her rip. This time I got a challenge bark back. So I challenged. Now a different ones barking on my 10 O'clock. So I bark back at both of them. Waiting...waiting...nothing. Well alright lets do some pup screams, that'll get them pissed. Got some barking from both of them. So I figured lets do some male barks and howls. After a few of them I let it sit for a minute, and her she came over the hill on my left down between a couple of round bales of hay.
She come in at a good jog and by the time I got turned and scoped her she was nearly to the caller, zeroed in on the decoy. I barked and she locked down and I centered her. Foxbang kicked in and I scan the field. She still had some life in her so I put another one down range to make it quicker. I got a few barks from the other one, but it wasn't up to the challenge to come in.
Here is the property. Red dot-caller, Green dot-me facing red dot, 1X and 2X-estimated location of responding coyotes, Blue line-shot coyote's path that I could see.
She come from the far left in this picture between the round bales.
Thank God for foxdata. I had forgotten half of this with all the barking going on. I will say the times are when I remembered to punch the data button. So if I remembered half way through the time I let the sound run it'd show up shorter than what happened. I did have some male challenge barks in there too, must have forgotten completely on them. Also the temp drop was because of the remote being in my jacket.
Park the car, gather up the junk and head out to a little stand of trees on the base of a hill. It looked like a nice funnel area to direct the coyotes down a wooded corner of the property. I set the caller 50 yards in front of me and I go lean up against a fence post with a few head of cattle on the other side of it. Not really where I wanted to sit but I had the hillside to my back and I could see better than being in the stand of trees. Plus I hate calling around cows, especially with a shockwave that could be trampled.
I like starting out with a good rodent sound. I did that for 7 minutes or so. Nothing. Click over to some lightning jack...Nothing. So I give it a minute and I hear a faint bark. It caught me by surprise and I couldn't tell if it was dog or coyote. So I figure what the [beeep], I'll call back with some howls. This time I could tell it was coyote directly in front of me but still far off. So I heard someone saying they go to submissive calls whenever they get a response. It is just as good of an idea as any that I had so I punched in the Fem sub and let her rip. This time I got a challenge bark back. So I challenged. Now a different ones barking on my 10 O'clock. So I bark back at both of them. Waiting...waiting...nothing. Well alright lets do some pup screams, that'll get them pissed. Got some barking from both of them. So I figured lets do some male barks and howls. After a few of them I let it sit for a minute, and her she came over the hill on my left down between a couple of round bales of hay.
She come in at a good jog and by the time I got turned and scoped her she was nearly to the caller, zeroed in on the decoy. I barked and she locked down and I centered her. Foxbang kicked in and I scan the field. She still had some life in her so I put another one down range to make it quicker. I got a few barks from the other one, but it wasn't up to the challenge to come in.
Here is the property. Red dot-caller, Green dot-me facing red dot, 1X and 2X-estimated location of responding coyotes, Blue line-shot coyote's path that I could see.
She come from the far left in this picture between the round bales.
Thank God for foxdata. I had forgotten half of this with all the barking going on. I will say the times are when I remembered to punch the data button. So if I remembered half way through the time I let the sound run it'd show up shorter than what happened. I did have some male challenge barks in there too, must have forgotten completely on them. Also the temp drop was because of the remote being in my jacket.
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