We made eye contact and just like that he was gone. Then I caught movement to my right at about ten yards, and there he was.
Looking down a long lane cut through a pine forest due to recent logging activity, I waited for a coyote to appear in front of me. I was sitting about four hundred yards from the pasture. When I hit the play button, the bellowing of the calf echoed through the woods. (A word of caution here: this will bring in every cow in ear shot, so make sure you are safe and be careful not to shoot any cows.) So looking at the options on my e-caller, I decided to try a “hurt Calf” sound. This farm is hunted hard for coyotes both day and night. Recently I was able to put this to the test on a small parcel of land bordered by a very large cattle farm.
#Coyote caller series#
Throw out a kid goat in distress, or a series of distressed chickens, and you will peak the interest of a call-shy coyote. Choosing something new among the variety of sounds will often bring in that coyote that has “heard it all.”īy trying something they haven’t heard before you increase your odds of drawing in the smartest of these wary predators. Some high-end calls come with hundreds of sounds to choose from. Most today come with a variety of sounds or sound cards that offer the predator hunter a pure smorgasbord of sound choices. One such method is to look more closely at the options offered by your e-caller. Most dedicated coyote hunters I’ve had the privilege of hunting with will pull one of several tricks out of their pockets when chasing call-shy coyotes. So the question remains how do we outsmart the top predator when he knows what we are going to do before we ever get there? When hunting educated coyotes, and by educated I mean those that have been hunted hard and often, you have to expect that these coyotes have heard virtually every variation of the cottontail and jackrabbit that can be played from every e-caller and hand call on the market. If they bust a hunter or two, they get more and more educated, which in turn makes them harder to kill. And in my area, where access to farms is limited, and the forest is thick, many of the coyotes that are called in are never seen by the hunters. If we want to successfully fool the top predator in our fields and forest, we must outsmart him at his own game. If I was going to find success, I had to find something that would bring in these coyotes that are wising up to the typical sounds used by most predator hunters.Īs more and more hunters head to the field in pursuit of coyotes, the education level of these coyotes has grown exponentially. So in a fit of frustration, I had to reach deep into my bag of tricks.
I couldn’t get a response from howling, and nothing looked my way at the cottontail in distress, mouse squeaker, or jackrabbit. I was using the same old tactics that worked for years before, but for some reason I wasn’t getting anything to respond. I suspected hadn’t been heard in these parts before.įor the previous month, I had suffered through a period of unsuccessful calling. I was as close to being invisible as possible. The decoy wasn’t alone: I sat hidden beneath the branches of a fallen tree whose limbs hung all the way to the ground. When the sun creaked over the horizon, my Mojo decoy was earning its keep as it spun randomly flagging any and all predators into the long logging road I was watching.
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