Posted: 6/19/2008 8:31:53 AM EDT
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What sort of calls, if any, do you use on coyotes? What sort of lighting? I have only gone out a few times solely for coyotes. Attempted to call them in at dusk. Never had any luck. The only ones I've shot have been where our paths have crossed. Kind of random events usually in the early morning hours. |
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Long range Jack rabbit and cotton tail call. I have over the years had great luck with them. That said there are some great electronic calls out there that really do a great job. Oh and yotes have a good eye and can see movement really well. Camo up and settle in. Where you heading? |
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I have a Faulk's dying rabbit call. I have never heard anything that sounds like this. I am heading over to the Joseph area. We will be camping for a night or two up near Hat Point if the road is open. ETA - it's actually a Lohman "Circe" call. It has 3 settings - close, medium, long (variations of a squeak) I am fairly proficient at calling Geese, Ducks, Pheasant, Quail, and Turkey. So if you have a favorite call let me know. |
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Calling coyotes can be fun if you do it right. First, plant a 4X4 post in the ground vertically so that it is about four feet high.  Then, get a three-foot leash for a cat harness and nail it to the top of the post.  Put a cat in the harness and set it on the post. It will probably try try to jump off the post and run away (cats usually don't like the harness.) Don't worry, if you have purchased a quality harness the cat will hang momentarily about a foot off the ground before climbing back to the top of the post. Most cats will jump about five to ten times before they realize that they are stuck on the post. At this point, the cat, stuck on top of the post, will make horrible howling noises that will bring in almost every predator for five miles. You just need to sit under a nearby tree with a bottle of your favorite beverage and your Benelli. You won't have to wait long.   bw |
| Years ago I had good luck using a cassette tape of a distressed wabbit. First came the hawks and owls then came three coyotes. This was in Lakeview OR during a family trip to a fiend of ours who runs a small sheep ranch. While in the car on the way, I put the tape in just to hear it before using it. When my 10 year old daughter asked me what it was, I told her that it was for calling in coyotes, but it seemed a shame that they had to torcher that poor rabbit for an hour just to make that tape. She can laugh about it now, but at the time she was pretty upset. It was that same trip she learned the truth about "Jackalopes". She really hasn't listened to me since. |