Originally Posted By: NoName1Originally Posted By: 1badboyOriginally Posted By: NoName1Some very good points made by everyone that posted. I do disagree with this though "I'm going to call my way into it". My take on that is making multiple sets on the way to that spot? I would rather make one well executed and perfectly timed setup to max out the odds of a kill to the utmost extent versus the "haphazard stands on the way there because they can come from anywhere" guys. As swampwalker said, I would do the opposite. Instead of hunting your way to that spot, start there and if they aren't in that core area then hunt the other spots and try to catch them out and about.
I'm not saying you are wrong, just saying I would do it differently.
Honestly , that's a pretty ignorant statement considering you don't know the setup.
This isn't my first time out or first time in the area...
Just because I think I know where they're bedding doesn't mean I'm going to blow through a 3/4 of a mile of prime calling to get there with the chance I'll spook coyotes , that doesn't make any sense.
I've seen coyotes from the road until there so I make obvious stands to within ear shot otherwise you'll have spooked the coyotes you're trying to hunt without actually knowing where they are.
Like in the original post , I shot the first coyote in the first stand only seconds into the stand because he was messing around in the feild. Had I tried to go right to the bedding area I would have spooked that coyote and maybe many more.
If the area I want to hunt is a distance to get in I " call my way in " by making sets every 400 yards or so , so I don't bust anything out on the walk in.
Good way to educate coyotes if they see or smell.you going in and you setup and call.
Honestly, you aren't able to have a conversation about it and accept a different viewpoint from your own. You come on here asking questions and opinions, then get butt hurt when you get one that is different than from what you already have set in your own mind. I didn't say what you were doing was wrong, I just said that I disagree and would do it differently; and I can change that approach. You call every 400 yards for 3/4 of a mile and wonder why you didn't kill anything when you got there? I'd rather bump one just walking in 3/4 of a mile than educate them the whole way there. Better to have them just see and smell you walking by then seeing and smelling your setup 3 times before you get to the highest percentage kill zone in that 3/4 of a mile.
What's ignorant is this "Just because I think I know where they're bedding doesn't mean I'm going to blow through a 3/4 of a mile of prime calling to get there with the chance I'll spook coyotes , that doesn't make any sense." Why wouldn't you hunt the exact most likely spot for you to kill one first? That doesn't make sense to me just as what I said doesn't make sense to you. When you start killing them doing that come back and say how great your plan is and how ignorant other people are that are trying to help you and see it differently. Good luck.
Have you ever hunted or ever been to vermont ?
Your terrain is alot different than ours , so offering ways to hunt my area and "disagreeing" even though you most likely have never hunted anything close to what we have terrain is , in fact ignorant in my opinion...
Our calls don't carry more than a few hundred yards with snow in the trees , especially in deep swamps.
But thanks for giving me opinions and disagreeing on how to hunt a place who've never been.
If you were remotely close I you know what I'm talking about.