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.