Changing calls during a stand

[hunt0168]

Wait what...you guys don't howl for 10 minutes straight ?

...I've actually heard people howling (a very popular FXP sound) for 35+ minutes straight ... I say 35 minutes + because they were still running that sound when we got back to truck ...and probably never stopped..

Not sure which sound it was, but it may have been someone that was trying to replicate a true invitational set. I have personally only witnessed this once and it was from my driveway after finishing up a hunt for the night. It was off on property I couldn’t access so I stood for 15-20 minutes listening to a coyote make lone howl after lone howl nonstop the entire time. It wasn’t constant, but anywhere from 15 seconds to a minute apart and from the same general location. It was a year or two later on a FoxPro podcast that Torry Cook was saying that this was a true invitational howl. I don’t doubt him at all. The timing of my experience was correct for that possibility.

I haven’t ever tried to replicate it. I don’t think I ever will. Perhaps someone heard the podcast and decided to burn the ears off some coyotes?

 

[K-22hornet.]

you can bet I'll be digging for different sounds, different pitches, different cadences in an attempt to trigger something.

That's another spot where hand calls have the edge over ecalls-I can change pitch and cadence whenever I want, and with the different materials each call is made from, the sounds change as well.

My calling sequence is about 15-20 seconds of sound, then go quiet for 3-5 minutes. Repeat.

Most of my coyotes come in after the second sequence.

 

[LONEHOWL]

I have a difficult time staying on stand for more than 15 or 20 minutes for coyotes. Thats only because Im a western caller and always had lots of ground both public and private and always itching to get to the next stand or look at new country. My response to people telling me to stay for an hour or longer was that yes..I could stay longer...I could sit there for a week and Im sure Id see something...but aint doing it.
If I didnt have the ground Id probly be doing what most of yall are doing. Tough calling smaller parcels of private that everyone else is fighting over. My hats off to you guys for sure.

 

[bohunr]

i have a recording on my cell phone that goes on for MINUTES, maybe 5 or more. i was using fawn distress, when i turned around i got caught by a coyote that was very, very close. it ran into the woods and just barked and barked and yipped and yapped at me non stop, i would love to get that on my foxpro some how and see what i can call in with it.

it was definitely ticked off at me.

 

[hunt0168]

i have a recording on my cell phone that goes on for MINUTES, maybe 5 or more. i was using fawn distress, when i turned around i got caught by a coyote that was very, very close. it ran into the woods and just barked and barked and yipped and yapped at me non stop, i would love to get that on my foxpro some how and see what i can call in with it.

it was definitely ticked off at me.

I wouldn't personally run that sequence, bohunr. Classic booger barker. Their job is more to alert other coyotes that something isn't cool rather than get them to come running in.

 

[Jasonc78]

stay at least 30 to 40 minutes. we have stayed LONG on stands where we get replies and they start coming in. one time we got one lone howl, just inside the tree line, then the coyote went quiet, so did we.

65 minutes later 3 coyotes walk out into the field, we let them come in close and all 3 died in that field.

I have limited spots so there’s no sense in my hurrying and getting impatient so yes I am an hour guy pretty often. I don’t think everyone agrees with that but if I had 15 farms or properties to hunt I may speed it up.
Few More minutes of lone howls breeding season. Mixing up 4-5 minutes ish of a few distress sounds. A couple minutes of silence in between each. Get a little more aggressive at the end after maybe whimpers or soft social I get to a fight (or distress or pup fight) but I am no expert. And this is taken from stuff I’ve read here and there and what seems to work for me. Just two weeks ago it was getting late and as soon as I was wrapping it up at 55 minutes after a fight… one came in. Last breeding season had a pair show up at 65 minutes. They had been vocal early on too, but still took their time.

 

[Jasonc78]

Not sure which sound it was, but it may have been someone that was trying to replicate a true invitational set. I have personally only witnessed this once and it was from my driveway after finishing up a hunt for the night. It was off on property I couldn’t access so I stood for 15-20 minutes listening to a coyote make lone howl after lone howl nonstop the entire time. It wasn’t constant, but anywhere from 15 seconds to a minute apart and from the same general location. It was a year or two later on a FoxPro podcast that Torry Cook was saying that this was a true invitational howl. I don’t doubt him at all. The timing of my experience was correct for that possibility.

I haven’t ever tried to replicate it. I don’t think I ever will. Perhaps someone heard the podcast and decided to burn the ears off some coyotes?

One farm I got and lost when it sold I was at a friends house nearby and we listened to a coyote carrying on almost repeating itself but not quite exact same howling but definitely some repetitiveness to its howl sounds. I got to reading and I assume it was female invitation looking for mate she was lonely and didn’t stop. And yes I’m sure it wasn’t some jackhole out there e-calling hahaha. for 25 minutes. It is what lead me to ask permission and I got it… until it sold. So I don’t usually do 20 minutes but instead of 4 minutes or so I do defiantly do lone howls longer that time of year… I am a mere scab on some these hunters asses so take what this newbie says with a grain of salt. I’ve been at it as long as some these guys nap