Other animals coming to your calls

track said:
Coyotes in Southern Alberta are over populated and are nest robbers and kill many migratory and upland birds.
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A lot of people don't take that into consideration when it comes to predator hunting. For example I never used to hunt fox. A friend of mine would shoot them when we'd see one while grouse hunting. I always thought it was because he was after the fur. But it's also because they pound the hell out of the grouse and duck population. Wolves here in northwestern Ontario are hard on the moose population. We have seen several half eaten moose calves on the way to the ice shack. That's what got me started on wolves. I hunt coyotes because I fn hate em'. They come right into town to hunt people's cats and dogs. I'm convinced they got my one cat.

Sorry for going off topic.
 
Adrian J Hare said:
Fisher came in on a DST Rabbit and another time I called in the Farmer with sleep in his eyes and a shotgun in his hand, as he said "The Old Lady " went nuts and got me up to go see what hell was suffering !
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Thats funny. Reminds me of the time a guy who we did not see until the shots rang out crawled up on his belly and unloaded three rounds into our goose decoys. OH BOY
 
Let's see, I've had a few odd visitors come to calls. The stranger ones over the years was a man who had stopped along the road to relieve himself who came to my fawn bleats(I was ghillied up in a fence row), the odd farmer, a man gathering firewood and two COs.

No matter what animal call you are using when the people show up to investigate, standing up with the ghille suit causes an immediate Bigfoot sighting.
 
Had a buddy, who in all the excitement, shot his own decoy... I wasn't there, but he's doesn't live it down to this day!
 
I've had quite a few interesting non target animals come in, like a cow moose when calling coyotes with some crow sounds mixed in.

Lots of deer, with the biggest bunch being a winter herd of 32. Got a picture of that somewhere. Mulie does seem to be hardwired to come to rabbit sounds, and the odd time a buck follows them in. I've had whitetail does come to stomp my taxidermy coyote decoy and they are hard to chase away. There was also a time when a bachlor group of 3 whitetail bucks came to kick some coyote butt. They came all bristled up until they cut my scent stream then left just as fast, still in a tight group.

There was also a time when my son and I were howling coyotes and someone in a farmyard ran a clip of rifle shells into the air.At least I hope it was in the air. We moved.
 
Brutus said:
Have seen one of these type of weasel a few times up here. Which one is it that moves and looks like an overgrown mink??
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That would probably be a pine martin...


I forgot one close call situation that happened about 25 years ago... I was calling yotes across an overgrown beaver meadow... the spot was about a mile from a good size town, but over the hill a developer had started a subdivision... I didn't know that any of the houses were occupied... anyway, I was backed into a spruce tree and called for about twenty minutes... all of a sudden, I heard crunching in the snow to my right and behind the tree... peering through the branches I could make out the outline of a good sized coyote... it started to move and I came to fulldraw... it cleared the limbs and was about 20 feet infront of me, as the string just started to slip forward I heard a tinkle and my brain screamed "STOP"... I grabbed at the string and letdown... the tinkle was a collar bell on a dog that looked more like a coyote than any other dog I had seen before or since (some kind of shepherd/collie mix)... about a minute later the owner came strolling along... I stayed back in the tree and he walked on by without ever knowing I was there... I was sweating... that would have been a real nightmare scene, if I hadn't heard the collar bell! Over the years, I took a number of coyotes in that beaver meadow...
 
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