Originally Posted By: bluegill74I am new to the forum and to predator hunting/calling. I live in north Florida and we seem to have a good population of coyotes in my hunting club and areas around my house. I am interested in learning to call them in for hunting. I just read the regulations on Florida Fish and Games website and they state that we cant use recorded sounds. I have seen the handmade calls on this site and they really caught my eye. Being new, can you recommend a few tones that you would say would be necessary for me to get started with hunting in the pine flat-woods and agricultural fields of north Florida. Any good tutorials on how to use them to produce the proper sound and when to use which one at what time. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I am really looking forward to learning as much as i can and getting into calling in coyotes.
Bluegill - not to talk you out of buying any of the call builders calls here, because every predator hunter should have a few of those in their arsenal as well, but you misread FWC Regs on calling coyotes...
Originally Posted By: FWC WebsiteMethods of take: Furbearers may be taken with guns, live traps, snares (including power snares), and recorded game calls. Live traps and snares must be checked every 24 hours.
http://myfwc.com/hunting/regulations/furbearer-falconry/
What you cannot take with recorded game calls, is game animals, e.g. no calling Deer or Turkey to recorded calls. Non-native, nuisance species, such as coyotes or hogs are open to electronic calls.
As for using one here in North Florida... I've had zero luck with mine, but given the way sound carries in the woods down here, I'm guessing at least part of my problem has been too much volume. Have called in a few with open reed calls, typically using territorial challenge howls, and they came from a LONG WAYS AWAY. But I was using a lot of volume there too.