What kind of call do you use for coyotes?

Could you just put a goat in a pen or fence in a area to use it as bait? Subsonic 22lr to the head so you don't scare the sheep.

Otherwise I've called in a bobcat on a flextone dying rabbit call.

Errrrrr, goat bleat in your case. That's what the coyotes are expecting to hear.

Donloadable e calls: http://www.goats4h.com/GoatSounds.html

Or ye olde fashioned call: http://www.cabelas.com/product/Hunters-Specialties-reg-Primal-Series-Kid-Goat-Predator-Call/1383174.uts

If you don't want to call goat, ie add to the attraction, cottontail and jack rabbit in distress work well generally.

foxpro with a varitly of calls. eastbank.

The TT Extreme by Tony Tebbe has been my most productive call.

http://www.predatoruniversity.com/predu/Online_Store.html

They are wary but at first their greed and not expecting it you'll bust a few. What caliber are you using as varmint medicine?

I'm not sure I understand why you want to call them if they're coming already? The 'yotes that respond to a dying rabbit might not even be the ones messing with your goats. Why not shoot them as they enter the pen?

Run really fast and yell, "Meep, Meep!"

Rusty Luck said:

Haha! I could just put headlights and a horn on a bullet.

The problem is they don't mess with the goats in the pens. Thanks for the suggestions. I usually use .223 soft points. Don't really need anything bigger.

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Sounds like a plan...post after action pics.

If you have some trail cams set them up or try to find out about what time they are coming in. Also find out if you can shoot useing a spot light in Idaho we can use a spot light on privet property to hunt predators. As for a call a goat In distress or some thing that sounds as close to it as posible. With this time of year a female wimper or a pup in distress these should really start working if not now but soon.
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If the dogs are already used to coming to the area, then most any type of call that gets their attention should bring them in. This would be food source types of call such as animals in distress or socialization type calls like howls, yips, whines and barks. The fact that they have already lost their fear of your buildings and the close proximity of humans is in your favor at first. As they become educated you will have to move farther away from where they are coming to now and will have to define your tactics. For the most part, shooting one or two and educating the rest of them that there is danger close to the buildings will keep them away in the future.

If you are going to spend the cash on a FoxPro there is a goat distress sound from FoxPro. Since that is what they obviously are after that is what I would use. Otherwise any rabbit distress works if it is used right.

Since you have goats, I assume you have a wove wire fence (goat can walk right through a 5 strand barbed wire fence). Find where they're coming under the fence and either add more barbed wire under the wove wire or a trap. They can get under a fence in a much smaller hole than I would have thought, but there'll be some sign there (drag on the ground or hair on your bottom strand). Also, check the bottom staples on your fence.

Edit: If your fence is getting loose, stretch a good high tensile strand of barbed wire (I like Gaucho) just below your wove wire and attach them together with hog rings.

For calling, a bush hog seems to work best for me.

I make my own coyote calls from mesquite, and a piece of plastic from a milk jug. Been killing yotes with my own calls for a very long time. I also use various other calls, most hand made as well. Changing things up can fool even the most educated coyote. I start with the typical dying rabbit type, and then progress through various types, including a turkey call, which I make from various different materials, quail call, crow call, hawk, you name it. A couple blades of sweet grass or other hollow type of vegetation is very good for imitating turkey, quail, and even a dying rabbit, and can be used with little or no work needed to fashion it in the field.

Different predators and scavengers will draw them in. When they hear a scavenger like crows and vultures, they know something is dead or dying and will show up for an easy meal. Same with owls, hawks, or any other typical predator, it signals something is dead or dying. Just by switching things up alone can be very effective at getting them to come in and investigate.

I also like to hang a couple feathers in a bush. It adds to their curiosity when they get within range to see them moving around in the breeze. I also snag a couple drops of my wife's skunk scent she harvests from skunks that she uses for trapping, I put it on the feathers and around the general area, I think it helps in covering my human scent.

GS

gamestalker said:

I start with the typical dying rabbit type, and then progress through various types, including a turkey call, which I make from various different materials, quail call, crow call, hawk, you name it.

GS

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Many of my 'yotes in the last several years have been shot while turkey hunting and having the dogs come in to calls and the decoy. BUT.....according to the local warden, here in Wisconsin, if you are in the woods with a firearm, in camouflage and using a Turkey call, you are Turkey hunting..... and they better be in season and you better have a legal tag for them.

Ya, I didn't consider that Buck460xvr, I do dogs out here in the SW desert, no turkey any where down here. So if the OP is hunting in a turkey populated region, he may want to delete that option.

GS