Unexpected lure to your calls or decoys?

[HOOfan_1]

I've read some people state that coyotes sometimes come to their turkey calls.

I've had hawks attack my dove decoys, and I've heard of things attacking turkey decoys. Have you ever had an unexpected visitor responding to your calls or decoys?

 

[slicksleeve]

I had a bobcat come to a fawn bleat one time.

 

[juk]

I'm pretty sure I have called in a few eagles with duck calls. Apparently, eagles, ospreys and owls will all attack ducks.

 

[buck460XVR]

In the past few years, barely a spring turkey season has come and gone without at least one 'yote comin' in to the call and decoy.

 

[dirtykid]

I've had owls intensley search for me when im calling coyote's,one actually was hopping-down thru the branches of the pine-tree i was sitting under to try to figure out where the dying-rabbit was ! . Once i looked up and waived my hand ,he took off,, I've also had deer come and investigate my fawn-bleat call

 

[AR-yoter]

Cougar and a fox in the same day off of a fawn in distress, two different set ups of course but the cougar totally freaked my buddy ot he wont go to that spot any more.. i even explained that we seen the cougar and he had a gun .. ya know just in case.. it was so funny watching him walk out of that spot havent seen such a big guy run from a kitty

 

[CSA 357]

i have had yotes and bobcats come in to turkey calls if they say around very long i will shootem!

 

[Cob]

I've had coyotes & other turkey hunters come to turkey calls, a bobcat to fawn bleat, and little songbirds seem to investigate almost everything alot of the time.

My Boss had a Hawk crash down from out of the sky and wrip the head & upper neck half-way off of a foam turkey hen decoy.

He said the hawk had such accuracy & precision that he was positive it was something the hawk was accustomed to doing...

 

[towboat_er]

Had a buzzard check out my turkey decoy.

 

[TNboy]

I had a guy that built a stand just over the fenceline from me a few years ago, I was out stalking when I heard him grunt several times in a row. I entered our barn which is about 100 yards from his stand and proceeded to use a grunt and a pair of rattlers while stomping around. The more I did it the more he was grunting. It was hilarious. Don't mess with my stand buddy!

 

[jmr40]

Another hunter, happens a lot during turkey season.

 

[HOOfan_1]

Another hunter, happens a lot during turkey season.

Not the safest thing to do, walking towards a hen yelping sound...not the most courteous either.

I've had a hen some to my yelping before though, she was on the other side of a ridge and was yelping and putting herself.

 

[natman]

I had a coyote come to my turkey call once. While I wouldn't recommend 2 oz of #4 shot as a general purpose coyote load, I can tell you it works fine at close range.

 

[MachIVshooter]

wasn't me calling, but a good friend of mine was trying to bring in coyotes with a wounded rabbit call. When some dirt fell on him, he looked up at the dirt overhang he was sitting under and found that his calling technique had attracted a cougar. Scared the crap out of him.

 

[rcmodel]

I had a friend get bit & clawed by a bobcat while calling coyotes years ago.
It sneaked in behind him and jumped on his head!

He had to get the rabies shots!!

rc

 

[CoRoMo]

I've bugled in a few hunters during elk season. I've fallen for it myself, once.

 

[eastbank]

i,ve had fox and yotes come in this year calling turkeys, killed one fox,the only one that ran right up to me. eastbank.

 

[Cob]

This is off subject just a bit, but while in College at MSU, a student was bow-hunting in a tree stand on the John W. Starr Memorial Forest. He was in full camoflage when an elderly man walked nearby his stand while squirrel hunting. The student did not say anything, but waved at him with just his gloved hand, and the old man mistakenly shot him for a squirrel! The student fell out of the tree stand, and suffered both gun-shot wounds, as well as fall injuries. The shot and fall were not fatal, but caused permanent injury to the student.

When questioned later about it, the older man said he thought that the hand waving was a bushy-tail, of a squirrel.

 

[HOOfan_1]

When questioned later about it, the older man said he thought that the hand waving was a bushy-tail, of a squirrel.

and it is irresponsible (high road language) people like that that make it necessary to wear blaze orange....

I hope the man was charged with something.

 

[jbkebert]

I have arrowed three yotes over 5 years coming into fawn bleats. It seems yotes really really don't like 100 grain monotechs through the chest.

 

[Whitman31]

I was set up on a tree-line overlooking a cattail slough. Soon after my first flurry of a very raspy jackrabbit call I heard something crashing through the cattails coming right at me. I raised my 22-250 hoping to see the coyote come out of the brush before he saw me, (the edge was only about 10 yards away) Out jumps a very angry looking whitetail doe. I kept silent and watched her for a while, she stomped around for a while and then wandered off.

On another occasion I had a pair of coyotes show up right at dusk while I was trying to convince a nice buck to come a little closer with my grunt call. They were very young and chased off the buck, he looked way more annoyed than scared, they appeared to be playing.

Several times I've had owls, crows and hawks show up to my coyote sets.

 

[courtgreene]

Similar story to RC. two guys and I go turkey hunting. We see a tom working away from us and decide to sneak to where we think he is going and ambush him. we set up and start calling and soon realize we weren't the only predators with such a scheme. Bobcat jumps on one guy's back, locks on with left forepaw and starts scratching with the right. it was bloody and he had to get shots but otherwise, quite entertaining. (No bobcats or turkeys were injured in the making of this hunting trip)