I have a lot of coyotes at my deer lease. With 4 cameras watching 4 feeders, I see coyotes almost every day on camera. With that said, I bought a foxpro and was all but certain, I would call coyotes out immediately despite no experience doing so. Well, I have tried calling on two different days with no success.

My lease is pretty heavy with mesquites and but there is a crop field that starts at the road and goes 200 yards in and is 300 yards wide. After you go 200 yards in from the road, the crop field ends and mesquites start up and are about 200 yards thick before you reach a clearing that is roughly 75 yards by 50 yards. This clearing is where I see a lot of coyotes. Is this clearing big enough to hunt them?

I have tried calling from the crop field, set up along the fence line with the wind blowing from the call to my position. I have been setting the call up about 40 yards from the edge of the mesquites and about 100 yards from my location. Once I went straight into rabbit in distress and turned it all the way up. I called for about an hour. The other attempt I tried using a little what I have read and started with a locater call or pup howl then rabbit in distress, then I think I used pup in distress but I am not sure.

How far should I set the caller from my position? Which calls should I be using and for how long and how loud? How far will coyotes hear and respond to calls? Basically, any tips on calling these coyotes? I am going next Monday and hope to have a better game plan for round three.

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Gotta fool their nose too, make sure your call is not downwind of you.

So in one day, I called in a coyote in morning but he looked right up at me in my deer stand and I was blown.

Then in the evening the same day, called one in and shot at night and some how missed. I verified my gun was dead on the days before and I was dead on the coyote but he ran off when I shot. When we were looking around for blood, we happened to shine a light 10 yards into the mequites and saw both eyes staring right back at us. I am not sure why he hung around after getting shot at and then the commotion of us looking around.

Either way, I feel I should give the caller a rest for a while to not further educate them than what I already have. The coyotes are all in there just waiting to get popped. How successful are hunters who put out dog food or maybe hunt over a dead carcass etc?

Don’t run it full blast. That’s mistake number 1. I always assume there’s a coyote within 100yards of me at any time. Start the call out around 20, not sure what call you have but on my X24 that’s about half way, and don’t leave it running for more than a minute or two. Animals in the wild don’t howl or cry for an hour straight. Run it for 1 minute of rabbit distress then wait a few minutes while glassing, then run it another minute and wait. I do this for 3-5 attempts, then may jump to locator howl or some other howl depending on time of year. Don’t be afraid to throw the entire call book at them, you never know what will catch their attention.

Also, if you hear them howling, they aren’t hunting, so don’t play wounded animal sounds. Go into other coyote sounds as a challenge or if it’s mating season use female vocals.

I’d come call with you if you’d like some hands on tips. I’m always itching to coyote hunt.

I would bet they are hearing or seeing you......before you get you gun out

Very. We trapped 18 pigs the other day. Put the carcasses in the pasture yesterday morning. My so shot one coyote this morning, and he's still at it right now. There will be coyotes out there for a week until the carcasses are gone. 90% of the coyotes we kill are killed this way.

Get yourself a hand held mouth call too, they are not hard to learn and you can really vary your tones and cadences to fool those more wary coyotes.

I agree on using coyotes sounds too if they are talking to you.

Ypu got thermal scope? Different world 🌎 at night time

I am on my rural property a lot. Seldom see or hear one, Even on cams.

What do pro did you get im looking to get in to coyote hunting. And have seen tons of calls in all price ranges.

Coyotes are tough, and IMO, the most challenging game to hunt. Great advice has already been given above on the calls, so nothing to add there. I'd challenge you to focus on the three basic hunting principals you've always known - sight, sound and smell. They don't call him Wiley Coyote for noting, so you really have to be on top of your game here.

Sight - good camo is important. Very important. Get a face cover, and wear gloves, and be wary of the reflection off your sunglasses and scope. Maybe even more important than the camo is your position. Sitting on a hilltop is great for your field of vision, but you cannot allow yourself to be silhouetted. Try to put your back to a tree, even backing up between branches if possible. And don't move. Bringing your gun up is probably the easiest way to get busted, so keep it propped on your rest as stated above.

Sound - silence your phone, and be wary of loud fabrics like gore-tex rubbing together on your clothes.

Smell - to be honest, I haven't figured out the best way to use the wind hunting yotes. Conventional wisdom is to hunt downwind, but coyotes are predators too, and that's the way they approach prey. But not always. Seems like every time I try to figure out how they will approach, they surprise me. I set up one time at the edge of a wheat field with a road running along one side and a gully on the other. Decoy was placed upwind of the gully, figuring the yote would use the gully for cover and wind. I was sitting at the edge of the road, with wind blowing over my left shoulder. Called in a yote, and I actually saw him enter the gully as I predicted. Then nothing. Then heard him barking and he had circled around behind me and was coming up the road behind me. Wind was over my left shoulder, and I was sitting under a cedar tree on the left side of the road. The yote passed literally within 10 yards of me but I could not move. Halfway between me and the decoy, he winded either me or the caller and bolted back down the road. I had been sitting on a rock and my leg had fallen asleep, and I nearly broke my ankle trying to jump up and get a shot off while he ran away.

Which brings me to my final tip... get yourself a decent chair or stool so your leg doesn't fall asleep from sitting on a rock.

Good stuff. I have only had my fox pro out one time and had one howl back at me but he did not come in. As soon as we get a little warmer weather, I am headed back out to try again.

I'll add on noise, make sure to hide your vehicle, and shut the doors softly.

If using standard e-caller, turn off the caller when predator gets a visual of your decoy. This relieves the liability of risking making an unnatural sound; the decoy should bring him in. If the responding critter hands up when using the standard e-caller, "lip squeak" or make a "kissing sound". This is the first truly realistic sound that the animal has heard as this sound produced by a hunter will go approximately 50 kHz and should get the critter to move closer.
Gunfigher rules, sun over your shoulder, breeze in your face or a crosswind; aim slow, shoot fast.
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Gary