Opinions/Experiences on calling Coyotes

[Shawnee]

Hey Y'All...


Most of the coyotes I've shot have just more or less blundered into me. Have shot a couple that came in to hand-held yelpers and rabbit-distress calls.

What is your opinion/experience using hand-held calls versus electronic calls ? Are the electronic calls really worth all the cost ?

Also what kind of luck have you had calling in the daytime ?

 

[wankerjake]

I haven't had any luck calling them by hand with dying rabbit and mouse calls, but i've only tried it a few times. i have had them come to cow/calf elk calls though. I'll be trying again this fall.
-jake

 

[Kingcreek]

Coyotes are easily educated and if the first shot misses, they can be call shy forever esp in an area with hunting pressure. The coys I have shot by calling have been mostly younger ones. Sometimes calling works, sometimes nothing does.

 

[Jst1mr]

I killed a couple a year or so ago with bow and arrow....using just a "mouse squeak" (kissing the back of my hand) whiile deer hunting...

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Be sure to check out varmint Al's...

http://www.varmintal.com/

http://www.varmintal.com/ahunt.htm

http://www.varmintal.com/coy5-20.htm

He uses an MP3 player w/speaker in the field for calls.

 

[Bezoar]

in my area of michiga, shoot a deer and in five minuts youll have a dozen yotes on it.

 

[matrem]

Have had more yotes in a 30 acre field with me last November(with a downed whitetail),than I've been able to call in the previous ten years combined.
I can relate to Bezoar's experience.

 

[buck460XVR]

Coyotes are easily educated and if the first shot misses, they can be call shy forever esp in an area with hunting pressure. The coys I have shot by calling have been mostly younger ones. Sometimes calling works, sometimes nothing does.

+1

Most of the coyotes I have shot over the last ten years have come in to turkey calls during turkey season. Average about two a season. Last year got two in one day an hour apart.

 

[Wildfire]

About the same.

Hey There;
My results have been about the same as the rest here. They can be very call shy. I have called a few , but usually way to close to me to get a shot.
it all happens way too fast. Fox are about the same. If there is a fox in the area I can call him in but, he is on me so fast that a shot is very hard to get.

Calling at night is often over rated too. When they do come in they are just all of the sudden there. Usually too late to do anything about it but watch them run off. I use a squeaker and it has worked the best... otye calls are very hard to master and most of us call way too much. watching a fresh gut pile seems to work better.

Most hunting videos are in places that the critters are never called and come in fast out of curiosity. find that place and things will go much better.