carvercalls
Custom Call Maker and Retired PM Staff
A least 10 minutes max is 15.
How many minutes for your stands?
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spotstalkshoot
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Sometimes I just go by when I get uncomfortable, if you can't sit still that's a big problem.
DoubleLungRage
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I think that I have been hurting myself lately b/c I'm leaving after 15 minutes or so. Knowing that I usually have the best results waiting at least 30 minutes.
I'm an all daytime, all public land caller. Crosswired coyotes are common, because, public land. But I'm not one to waste any time on them. I'm one to look for other coyotes.
The few times I've hunted at night, on private ground, I saw even less reason to waste time on uncooperative coyotes.
- DAA
The few times I've hunted at night, on private ground, I saw even less reason to waste time on uncooperative coyotes.
- DAA
bohunr
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went groundhog hunting today, also took the call and tried for daytime coyotes
2 groundhogs, no coyotes i left around 3:15pm later on the landowner sends me a trail cam pic of a coyote in the same field i was in an hour after i left.
was it there when i was ? did it hear me and just decide it wasnt interested ? who knows...hope it found the groundhogs i left for it.
2 groundhogs, no coyotes i left around 3:15pm later on the landowner sends me a trail cam pic of a coyote in the same field i was in an hour after i left.
was it there when i was ? did it hear me and just decide it wasnt interested ? who knows...hope it found the groundhogs i left for it.
hunt0168
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Kind of reminds me of a few years back… I was successfully removing a few coyotes a season from a farmer’s dairy operation. He told me that I should go ask farmer so and so about possibly hunting coyotes on his property. I went and talked to Mr. So and so and was immediately told no. He was an agricultural farmer growing crops only. He held no livestock at all. He said the coyotes were about the only thing working for him by taking out all the things that were working against him. AND, he didn’t have Woodchucks anymore, which was a good thing!
I could not argue with his logic. I thanked him for taking the time to talk to me and left. Before leaving, grinningly, he told me I could hunt woodchucks if I wanted to. Gotta love a farmer with a sense of humor!
Megalon
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Totally agree. A lot of coyotes have died due to patience.
BBK
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Have you ever tried calling whistle pigs? Ive been told it actually works
alf
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Reminds me of the time I was bowhunting for elk in Montana. Half way up the mountain, the morning urge hit. Just got comfy with my ass hanging over a log, when thundering hooves came roaring down the mountain towards me. The cow stopped so close in front of me I could almost touch her. As she stared back up the hill for whatever spooked her, her eyes met mine and about bugged out of her head when she realized what was staring back at her. Exit then was at warp speed !!!
Geez, can't a guy take a dump in peace anymore?
The amount of time I spend is as variable as the sounds or sequences I might use. I agree that there is no wrong answer. As a generalization earlier in the season, daytime hunting a dry stand will take me about 25 minutes to think I've covered everything it might take to call one in. As they are more pressured throughout the season that usually increases to 30 or 35 minutes or more depending on the stand. Mostly because I call less and watch more.
They sell about 2500 out of state rifle deer permits and probably twice that many resident and landowner permits just in the hunting unit I reside in, in Kansas. Pressure is heavy in the end of November and December.
Then when we get into pairing, breeding times, it is also night hunting in Kansas. When the coyotes get more vocal so do we. Coyotes seem to respond from much greater distances at night here, so stand length at night under those circumstances can easily go over an hour.
They sell about 2500 out of state rifle deer permits and probably twice that many resident and landowner permits just in the hunting unit I reside in, in Kansas. Pressure is heavy in the end of November and December.
Then when we get into pairing, breeding times, it is also night hunting in Kansas. When the coyotes get more vocal so do we. Coyotes seem to respond from much greater distances at night here, so stand length at night under those circumstances can easily go over an hour.
Hard for me to sit more than 15 unless I have seen something or in a good area with a good view. Like others have said, I have call more in under 10 minutes than over, bobcats included.
bohunr
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yep...sometimes it works and they come out of the hole, stand up to look around. sometimes they dont.
spent 3 1/2 almost 4 hours sitting just inside the wood line watching that field tonight. tried to ambush the wiley coyote. it didnt work. i called sparingly, played a sound every 20 minutes for about two minutes...
did see 3 groundhogs, 1 turkey, 5 doe and 3 small bucks
Made the first set last night at ~ 8:30 across from the house in the bottom of the hollow. They answered within 250-300yds. 90min later they still hadn't moved so I left. Coming home at 1:30 I scanned this same 40yd wide bottom pasture from 400yds away and see 2 dickin around OR dickin with me. I am pooped and figure 'why get frustrated again'. I get out of the car and before I shut the garage door the b**tards let go with a serenade from basically the same 200yd circle they have been in since 12:30 yesterday afternoon when the local prison siren went off on its daily test.
. I am pooped and figure 'why get frustrated again'. I get out of the car and before I shut the garage door the b**tards let go with a serenade from basically the same 200yd circle they have been in since 12:30 yesterday afternoon when the local prison siren went off on its daily test.