From the first second, act like a hunter. 2400 NW 95 Ave, Doral, By emitting the male and female lone howls, we have told the resident coyotes that a coyote is present. This new e-caller sounds just like a dying rodentwhich is exactly what you want. With the passing of fox season, March is a time to target coyotes. He even pulled on a weathered Carhartt coat, stepped onto his porch stoop, and motioned toward a creek drainage separating his cornfield from the neighbors hayfield. Lets recap all this quickly. Keep the rifle pointed in a safe shooting direction, the safety should be on, and remember; finger off the darned trigger! It was a perfect crosswind set, with the road covering our downwind side. Comments on this site are submitted by users and are not endorsed by nor do they reflect the views or opinions of COLE Publishing, Inc. To get started, click the link below to visit mymagnow.com and learn how to access your digital magazine. Rinse and repeat. After a long season of intense calling efforts, its nice to let the silence work in your favor. Coyotes today are more educated than ever. Hunters without these calls, or hunters using mouth calls, can manually adjust their volume. Does fawn distress work in November? It patterns lights-out through my turkey tube, which cant always be said for large predator pellets.
You can call too much, in fact, its a common mistake. A large male coyote lopes in close and stares into the light. The sequence I came up with took into account several variables such as why coyotes would want to come to the call, how much calling I should actually be doing and how much time I should allow for coyotes to respond. Join other outdoor enthusiasts who already get great content delivered right to their inbox. Some people would laugh at you and others will tell you that theyve had success using this sound year-round. Camouflage is not very important, but you must be quiet and still. Right down in there is where we usually see them cross. Then he added, They eat my chickens, so kill em all.. A coyote will often use all available cover to approach you. The wait can be as long as five minutes. Camo is niced, but not needed. It comes programmed with 50 sounds, but you can play others from an SD card. "I start off with electronic male coyote howls," he said. Many hunters simply wear a black hoodie. Whether the hunter is playing the part of a rogue coyote or a pack member it makes no difference. Stay quiet. Pretty sure he was dead already, Tim said. The shiners (no, not a guy making homemade liquor in the woods) who are repeatedly successful always have their lights on and are always scanning the area for glowing eyes. With a little experience, you can tell one critter from another at a distance by the spacing between their eyes and by their gait as they come to the call. Personally, I think it just confuses them and they lose their senses. You can use spotlights, but a $500 night vision scope is much more effective. At first blush, it seems that hunters no longer need skill to call coyotes quality electronic calls do most of the hard work. Even this really is debatable to some degree. Ive also hunted less than a few miles from that spot and called and not seen a coyote in the field for 3-4 months before killing a double out of it. One-of-a-kind, handmade mouth calls aren't just cool to look at they offer several real advantages. Editor's Note: Andrew Lewand kept a journal of his last-season efforts to see how well his new calling sequence works. My Q-beam, fitted with a red lens filter, was connected to a lawn-mower battery at my feet. Morris is partial to non-aggressive male coyote howls and female yodels, and he pointed out the importance of understanding not only the rut, but also the gestation period and following pup-raising months. I mean, again, it goes against everything that youve been told and thought was one of the golden rules. Most hunters out there at night have one on their rifle. This one is much easier and generally much more productive. They use tall grass, treelines, or ditches to hide before they are forced to step out into the open for you. locate and monitor all the concealment points as a first priority. X-SIGHT 4K PRO 3-14x. Why did this just happen? Identify those areas. This is no easy task, however. Ive played with a few cheaper things out there, and I just never was impressed with them compared to the wraith. Noisy snack wrappers can be replaced with ziplock sandwich bags pre-hunt. The good news is that Morris doesn't believe any coyote is uncallable. The best time of night to hunt coyotes is when you are there. Save that approach for the coyotes. Hunters should resist the temptation to over-call the situation. Winchesters VarmintX shells are tough to find online, but theyre well-worth seeking out. Your email address will not be published. In fact, we have now reached my favorite portion of the sequence. But with at least three arrows in my quiver diaphragm, hand calls, and a good electronic call I'll stand half a chance on the call-wise song dogs of central Utah. Ive been known to bring a peanut butter sandwich myself. Try various sounds. Sometimes, they seem to come out of nowhere and just show up right in front of you. I start my sequences off at low volume and ramp it up a bit as the hunt progresses. An Oregon study showed that coyotes use only 11 to 13 different vocalizations to communicate with. Keep it simple. We sneaked along the creek drainage with the wind in our faces and set up within a couple hundred yards of the crossing that the farmer had shown me. New West Virginia State Record Muskie Caught From Shore! I was betting on another pair of eager eyes. By mid-March I was finally able to field test my sequence and was quite happy with the results. At night, we get a response every three to five sets on average. many models are fine in the rain, but cheap models are not waterproof. Try and make it sound believable. Be quiet, cautious, and alert. Many readers from the northeast will remember that last winter dished out severely harsh conditions for predator hunting. Sustained single-digit temperatures and persistent knee-deep snow all but ruined the second half of the calling season. At the first traces of shooting light, I pressed the button that activated the Primos Alpha Dogg electronic call placed 50 yards away down the slope, sending a series of locator howls drifting down the draw. Do not use night vision scopes with spotlights or flashlights. Late winter is mating season for coyotes, and theyll respond to howling. Decoys are not worth the extra weight for nighttime coyotes. For hand calls, I was interested to hear that Morris really likes hand-turned wood calls made in my home state of Utah by Kerry Carver, who also just introduced a rubber call that is "the most amazing call" Morris has ever used. Dawn came quickly, frost hanging on the sagebrush and growing in my beard. Scan and scan often. I do not believe coyotes check their calendars as they wander around. Sound selection is one of those things that youll get answers from all over the board. The big male crashed through the brush in the creek drainage, just a few feet from Tim, on the upwind side, and was just about gnawing on the ecaller when I finally got the light on him. If you set up so the closest area of cover is downwind, you can be fairly certain thats where they will come from. Most responses occur within the first few minutes, but we always give it a full half-hour because weve spotted eyes as we were packing to leave too. A bright light focused directly at the coyote blocks out their vision and tends to keep them from being spooked as easily. Thats hunting 101. So how do you successfully hunt educated coyotes? I also play it at a uniform volume suitable for the conditions. Decoys are often destroyed at night by owls who were called in and thought they spotted a quick meal. Ive been on after-dark hunts in Texas where we called up a dozen different critters in just a few hours. I was running the spotlight on this set, and Tim was the primary shooter. 1 of Field & Stream. Wed swap on the next setup.
Now, we are telling the coyotes that a female is in the area and any unpaired males are allowed to come in looking for late season love. A coyote will generally approach from one of two areas; downwind or the closest cover. Published Feb 10, 2022 2:00 PM, It was late afternoon in February, and the farmer gave me the usual post-deer-season response when I asked if I could hunt coyotes on his land. "Drive at night, stopping every two miles or so to run a group howl sequence on your electronic call," he said. If nothing happens after four or five minutes, Ill let off a loud cry with my cottontail-in-distress call. According to Morris, the question he hears most applies to coyote language. Its fairly cheap, works day and night, and works clearly at night to 100 yards. A twitch of the coyotes tail was all it took for me to fire a blast of my own, just for good measure. If a target is fully illuminated, iron sights can be used at night. They can cover a lot of ground in ten seconds. Coyotes usually come from downwind but can come from anywhere. Generally, as Ive explained before, you have coyote vocals and prey distress. 125, No. Keep your calling realistic, and take occasional breaks.
Morris disagrees: "As far as I'm concerned, a coyote is a coyote is a coyote you've just got to have a full set of tools to consistently call them. The only rule of coyote hunting that anyone ever needs to remember is a very simple oneThere are no rules to coyote hunting. Others use a low-visibility red light sold specially for predator hunting. . The controls glow in the dark, and the remotes range is rated to 400 yards. Trial and error makes up 99% of the hunting that we do. For the most part, everything looks the same at night.
Around here, coyotes seem to associate lights with humans, and they shy away from them. The action was so fast and close that I flooded the dog with the full beam before thinking twice, and the coyote spooked and bolted. I started scanning the cornfield in front of us with slow, smooth sweeps of the red beam, looking for eyes. You dont always need camo at night. Get your rifle as high off the ground as you can, and use a shooting support if possible. The darkness is your camo. Eventually you will get to the point that you create a pretty solid baseline of expectations based on what youre doing, but thats about it. Then I drove home for supperand to charge the batteries for the spotlight and e-caller. He's on FoxPro's pro staff, so clearly he leans on them heavily. Coyotes have been inundated with a plethora of sounds for five long months and getting them to commit to the call is a definite challenge. I feel, at this point, that no more howling is necessary. Too much light too soon usually spooks them. Batteries can let you down, and the display often isnt incredibly clear. I didn't come right out and ask Morris if he has a "secret weapon" sound I didn't have to. The very next stand you go and sit on stand and have coyotes come in downwind of a guy sitting there smoking who smells like he took a bath in cologne and shoot them with no problems. Hunting at night, weve learned that setting up with our backs to cover doesnt hurt, but you dont have to hide. They sometimes show up after the first howl, but from my experience, it typically took more calling to lure them in. Decoys arent needed. No dying animal will scream nonstop for half an hour. They also disappear in grass or low-growing brush very easily. Dont give them any hint you were there. The coyote crumpled at 30 yards from a 3 12-inch dose of Hevi-Shot Dead Coyote. Direct Sales: 305-900-6841 they come from downwind so they can small out the area and see whats up. Lets go. So, what do you do? He grew up hunting, fishing, and trapping. It sets the standard for entry-level night vision scopes. About hunting with lights, some light hunters use a regular spotlight or powerful headlamp. Later in the night, hungry coyotes are getting desperate for a meal and respond more aggressively to a call. He has earned black belts in four martial arts and is a certified Krav Maga instructor. Required fields are marked *. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments. For conversation's sake, let's say most pups are born mid-April, and they stay in the den for a month or more. Morris offered a parting tip for beginners: "When you're starting out, don't be afraid to push the button, to blow the call. A few minutes later, I followed up the howl sequence with a great sounding to me, anyway series of electronic jackrabbit distress calls. You will also likely scare the coyotes when the lights come on. Give them time to respond, usually five to ten minutes. Get the top Petersen's Hunting stories delivered right to your inbox.
Morris's year-round go-to sound is a wounded dog, specifically a pup distress or canine distress. I'm pretty sure that coyotes will continue outsmarting me more than I outsmart them. Killer Caller Sequence For Late-Season Coyotes. Sign up for the Field & Stream newsletter and get the latest intelligence straight to your inbox. 
