This is my 2nd stand from a couple days ago.
You are on public land that is heavily called. About 5 minutes into rabbit distress hand call you spot movement about 800 yards out where the red arrow starts. It is a hard charging coyote coming your way along with a 2nd coyote right behind it. The first stand of the day already produced a big male coyote and you get a second rush of adrenaline from two hard charges coming on the second stand of the day.
Unexpectedly both coyotes suddenly stop when they are about 500 yards out where the red circle is. At this point I'm not sure if they saw something they didn't like. I doubt they saw me. Did they smell me? There is no real wind this morning but occasionally I feel a light 1 or 2 mph breeze that could blow my scent their direction but I'm really doubting they smelled me from 500 yards away without any significant wind. Did they not like one of the sounds I made? After they were stopped at 500 yards for about a minute I tried a couple more rabbit screams but they don't seem convinced to come in. After 5 minutes and some additional rabbit screams they still seem unconvinced about coming in.
What do you do?
#1 Try a different sound? If so, what sound?
#2 Take a long shot?
#3 Try to sneak closer to the coyotes? Unfortunately this would be difficult because they would likely see and or hear you but you could always try it
#4 Try something else?
I'll post what I did and the coyotes did in a couple days. What happened was really unexpected on this stand.
You are on public land that is heavily called. About 5 minutes into rabbit distress hand call you spot movement about 800 yards out where the red arrow starts. It is a hard charging coyote coming your way along with a 2nd coyote right behind it. The first stand of the day already produced a big male coyote and you get a second rush of adrenaline from two hard charges coming on the second stand of the day.
Unexpectedly both coyotes suddenly stop when they are about 500 yards out where the red circle is. At this point I'm not sure if they saw something they didn't like. I doubt they saw me. Did they smell me? There is no real wind this morning but occasionally I feel a light 1 or 2 mph breeze that could blow my scent their direction but I'm really doubting they smelled me from 500 yards away without any significant wind. Did they not like one of the sounds I made? After they were stopped at 500 yards for about a minute I tried a couple more rabbit screams but they don't seem convinced to come in. After 5 minutes and some additional rabbit screams they still seem unconvinced about coming in.
What do you do?
#1 Try a different sound? If so, what sound?
#2 Take a long shot?
#3 Try to sneak closer to the coyotes? Unfortunately this would be difficult because they would likely see and or hear you but you could always try it
#4 Try something else?
I'll post what I did and the coyotes did in a couple days. What happened was really unexpected on this stand.