Hunting at night
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Hunting at night
My friend and I go hunting for coyotes every chance we get, but it's always seems to be at night because of our work schedule.
I can get a few to call back, but when I go directly to the rabbit distress call they never seem to come in to us! I am using an electronic caller for the distressed animals, and a knight and hale coyote howl'r. Now granted we don't have the amount of coyotes running free like you guys do out west, but we do have quite a few here and I've seen them! I have found several tracks, droppings and a few other signs to indicate to me that they are using this old gravel pit as a main road of travel. Does anyone have tips or tricks for evening hunting, when is best and when it's not? Should we hunt them during the day?
Any help will be appreciated, since we have had no luck so far this season.
I can get a few to call back, but when I go directly to the rabbit distress call they never seem to come in to us! I am using an electronic caller for the distressed animals, and a knight and hale coyote howl'r. Now granted we don't have the amount of coyotes running free like you guys do out west, but we do have quite a few here and I've seen them! I have found several tracks, droppings and a few other signs to indicate to me that they are using this old gravel pit as a main road of travel. Does anyone have tips or tricks for evening hunting, when is best and when it's not? Should we hunt them during the day?
Any help will be appreciated, since we have had no luck so far this season.
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Its real hard to give a guy some tips when you aren't there to witness it yourself. as jamie mentioned before they might be hearing you come into your stand. Are they seeing the truck? Are you sitting on top of the hill and silohueting (sp) yourself on the hill? Read up on some coyote vocalizations and it will take more than one reading too. Watch randy andersons mastering the art DVD and just try to figure out what those coyotes are saying to you. The more you know the coyote in general the better your reactions to what they are doing will become second nature. Good luck!
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To be honest, personally I have not found one answer for any of these questions. Its trail and error. No one has these coyotes figured out, you have to try till you succeed and when you fail, get back up till you succeed agian.
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When you say they are answering you, are they barking a lot with short howls or long drawn out howls? If there is a lot of barking with the short howls, that means your more than likely busted. They do that as a warning to other coyotes. Especially if they are doing it right after you do your distress.
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