Well I tried my luck and came up empty handed. Went coyote hunting last night climbed up a 35-40 foot tree to my deer stand(prememant) around 8:00 pulled all my gear(rifle first[unloaded of course], then my bag with my caller, mags, lights, backup pistol) well I settled in and waited for the sun to go down abit furthur. Around 8:30 the sun settled behind the mountains at the horizon and dusk settled. Glancing around I hit play on the caller and the speaker connected to 50 feet of cable on the ground below me starts playing death of a cottentail bunny in C-minor. Well I sat and scanned with the eye spotter light and about 10-15 minutes later I am drawn to the woods on my right by sounds of feet moving quickly if not quietly over dried leaves. I hang the spotter on a nail behind me and switch to the AR15 w/ scope mounted light(red lens of course) and watch the likely spot of exit for the approaching critter.
Here is the scene, me tensed and ready 35 feet in the air wind in my face round chambered, fingers posed on safety and burn spotlight switches prepared to nail whatever sharptoothed creature appears and lo and behold a pair of yearling deer jump the fence 40yds away and trot towards the speaker!
Needless to say when they stopped at the base of my tree staring about trying to determine the location of what I guess they thought was a distressed fawn and issueing aid to it after reflecting on my knowledge that does will come to help a fawn in trouble I flipped off the switch on the caller knowing that if a coyote did showup that the does would probablly chase it off before I could get a shot.
I switched out the tapes for coyote pup in distress and hit the paly button the does played little attention to it and continued grazing away from me about 50-60yds into the field. I let the tape play to the end approxomittly 25 minutes then called it a night as I had no other stands ready that I could access in the dark. I think that I'll try to hunt an old saw mill tonight or tomorrow night better lines of sight and closer to the reported areas of activity.