Calling yotes
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Derek__Erickson
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- Location
- Kamloops BC
Foxpro
Anyone have a problem with there mouth calls freezing. I went out the other morning and tried coyote hunting for the first time. My Jone's calls sounded great for the first little while but then started to freeze up. It was about minus 10 out. It was a real pain undoing and doing up my coat to try and keep them close to my body. I was tempted to throw them in the air and blaze away with my 12 guage. Needless to say, it was very frustrating. Any advice for a new Coyote hunter is greatly appreciated.
Check out one of or all of Randy Anderson's coyote calling videos they sometimes come in a package deal with a DVD, Ki-Yi injured rabbit call and a howler...
After watching a few of his videos I have used his howler and Ki Yi calls with amazing success...
After watching a few of his videos I have used his howler and Ki Yi calls with amazing success...
X 2 on the Randy Anderson DVDs, he's got a few of them out there including the Calling All Coyotes series. His DVDs are really informative for new coyote callers and he explains what he is doing very well. They also include a lot of good wildlife footage.
I'll give myself as an example I used too hunt coyotes 20 years ago but never called just spot and shoot type hunting.
Just over a year ago I bought one of the Randy Anderson "Calling All Coyotes" series DVD's that came with the Ki-Yi and howler callers watched the DVD several times and doing a little practicing calling when my wife wasn't around.
I headed out on a trip and had the opportunity to do a coyote calling set up near 150 Mile House in BC. I set up along the edge of a huge pasture that was about 900 yards across and behind the first line of popular trees and there was about 1' - 1 1/2' of snow on the ground.
I started calling on the Ki-Yi caller doing a call for about 20 - 30 seconds then stopped for about 1 minute then I would call again and then stop again. After the 3rd call I noticed a grey looking stump out in the pasture about 600 yards away I thought it was a popular tree stump but when I got my binoculars onto it is was a coyote sitting there.
I didn't call again but started ranging the coyote with my laser range finder as it constantly worked its way closer too me maybe 100 to 200 yards at a time by the time it was 100 yards away I had my rifle up and popped it.
Yes the DVD's help a lot and are kind of fun too watch as well.
Calling coyotes and other predators is fast becoming my favorite type of hunting.
Just over a year ago I bought one of the Randy Anderson "Calling All Coyotes" series DVD's that came with the Ki-Yi and howler callers watched the DVD several times and doing a little practicing calling when my wife wasn't around.
I headed out on a trip and had the opportunity to do a coyote calling set up near 150 Mile House in BC. I set up along the edge of a huge pasture that was about 900 yards across and behind the first line of popular trees and there was about 1' - 1 1/2' of snow on the ground.
I started calling on the Ki-Yi caller doing a call for about 20 - 30 seconds then stopped for about 1 minute then I would call again and then stop again. After the 3rd call I noticed a grey looking stump out in the pasture about 600 yards away I thought it was a popular tree stump but when I got my binoculars onto it is was a coyote sitting there.
I didn't call again but started ranging the coyote with my laser range finder as it constantly worked its way closer too me maybe 100 to 200 yards at a time by the time it was 100 yards away I had my rifle up and popped it.
Yes the DVD's help a lot and are kind of fun too watch as well.
Calling coyotes and other predators is fast becoming my favorite type of hunting.
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Chemainus B.C.
Have thoughts of getting into something similar myself, however, no yotes on the V. Island but there are Wolves. Anyone tried similar tactics on Wolves?
Where do you live? If you're in Ontario or further east, get any rabbit call (closed or open reed) and give it a go. I don't think howlers are useful enough in the east to worry about them in your first attempts. Rabbit calls are easy to run, and there is plenty of other stuff that needs learnin' before you will start killing the 'yotes.
If you live west, then I hear howling can be very useful as well, at times.
I have a FoxPro and I think the biggest advantage of the electronic callers is getting the sound out away from you/you're scent trail. 2nd most useful advantage would be the realism and selection of sound choices. I was out last Saturday and so was a friend. I have a FoxPro, and have been having good luck this season, and he had a hand call (rabbit distress). I saw nothing and he called out 3/shot 1. So, it just goes to show that both methods work and an e-caller is not a magic weapon.
If you live west, then I hear howling can be very useful as well, at times.
I have a FoxPro and I think the biggest advantage of the electronic callers is getting the sound out away from you/you're scent trail. 2nd most useful advantage would be the realism and selection of sound choices. I was out last Saturday and so was a friend. I have a FoxPro, and have been having good luck this season, and he had a hand call (rabbit distress). I saw nothing and he called out 3/shot 1. So, it just goes to show that both methods work and an e-caller is not a magic weapon.
I think stand selection, watching the wind, and keeping your movement to a bare minimum are far more important than which call to use.
That being said I notice a lot of people advocate changing calls in the same area so coyotes don't get "call shy" to a particular call. This may be true but I never see enough coyotes here in a season to verify this.
I own a digital caller and probably 30 or so hand calls, but i do have a few calls i have confidence in.
That being said I notice a lot of people advocate changing calls in the same area so coyotes don't get "call shy" to a particular call. This may be true but I never see enough coyotes here in a season to verify this.
I own a digital caller and probably 30 or so hand calls, but i do have a few calls i have confidence in.
What about mountain lions I have been trying to call them this year without any success yet.
Vancouver Island has some of the largest cats and a very high population compared to the BC mainland.
I understand that you drive around until you see tracks and then set up, wolves will come to the same calls as well.
Vancouver Island has some of the largest cats and a very high population compared to the BC mainland.
I understand that you drive around until you see tracks and then set up, wolves will come to the same calls as well.
