I think that midday is when they spend their time flipping through the acme catalogs, so it's tougher to get them at that time
Here's proof.
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Mid day coyote calling
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Here's proof.
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even funnier ha ha ha
I had gone out yesterday mid morning as I had seen a coyote run by the kitchen window about 300 yards out. I tried a stand in a fence row but with the -38 windchill and 65 km winds my face and neck felt like it was getting sandblasted from the blowing snow coming straight off the field. I hunted about ten min and then called it a day.
This morning I took the sled out to see if there were any fresh tracks and spotted a coyote across the road laying down in a field I don’t have permission on. I headed out with the snow shoes after lunch and did a stand behind my place. A red fox came out but I didn’t shoot as they get a pass from me. I walked the whole concession calling into each bush as I went and managed to shoot a nice coyote on my second stand. The coyote came out of a rabid anti hunters bush lot who blares music on a loud speaker 24/7 to scare the coyotes away. I waited for the coyote to cross her fenceline and shot it when it was 30 yards into the neighboring field.
The coyotes were definitely moving today in this cold as on my walk back to the house I had two sets of coyote tracks in my fresh snow shoe tracks I made an hour and a half earlier.
This morning I took the sled out to see if there were any fresh tracks and spotted a coyote across the road laying down in a field I don’t have permission on. I headed out with the snow shoes after lunch and did a stand behind my place. A red fox came out but I didn’t shoot as they get a pass from me. I walked the whole concession calling into each bush as I went and managed to shoot a nice coyote on my second stand. The coyote came out of a rabid anti hunters bush lot who blares music on a loud speaker 24/7 to scare the coyotes away. I waited for the coyote to cross her fenceline and shot it when it was 30 yards into the neighboring field.
The coyotes were definitely moving today in this cold as on my walk back to the house I had two sets of coyote tracks in my fresh snow shoe tracks I made an hour and a half earlier.
Are you using distress calls or coyote vocalisations this time of year? Or does it not make much of a difference if it is breeding season or not?
Today I just used rabbit in distress but early in the morning I’ll always give a few howls and yips. Whenever I shoot a coyote I always follow up with a pup in distress call in case another one snuck in with him. Normally it gets them to stop for a second allowing for a shot.
I wish I knew more of their vocalisations. I spend quite a bit of time listening to them in the fall and winter months. Almost nightly I can hear them yipping from inside my house.
