Anyone here ever combined deer/coyote hunting?

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Anyone here ever combined deer/coyote hunting?

Today was the first day of 2nd shotgun season here in Iowa and I'm hunting out of a tree stand and I was considering taking my little electronic caller out with me each afternoon so when I get into the stand I can let loose a few calls to start off with just to see what might happen. There are definitely coyotes in the area and I'd happily down a yote first and foremost, I've already got my "meat" deer for the year when I shot a small doe during an early "bonus" season over Thanksgiving w/e and I don't really care if I ever get a buck or not, I'll take a really nice wallhanger buck if I get lucky enough to have one come in on me or I'll just shoot another "meat" doe to pass off to my buddies who want some more deer meat. (I'm not antler crazy by any means, as a matter of fact I've never shot a buck)

I figure if I don't see anything the first 15-20 minutes with the caller, I'll just shut it off and settle in for a chance at a deer. I go to get into my stand about 3:15-3:30 each day so I'd think the timing would be good for possibly getting a yote to come in to me. Just curious if anyone else has done this and I wondered if the calls might affect the deer at all, not that it would really matter all that much to me if it did.

Thanks,
Trevor
 
I do. I use a bulb squeaker tough. I use it every hour or so while I'm on stand in hopes a coyote is near. I haven't seen anything yet but it is worth the try. I don't think it will affect the deer too much.
 
Fist yote I ever called in, I was finishing up my evening deer hunt and sqalled a few times and he came on in and I took him. This years deer I was out trying to call in a yote and something came in behind me. Not sure of what it was but think it may have been a doe. I went to turn real slow to see if I couldn't see it and looked down the tree line to my left there stood a buck looking at me. An 80yrd shot and I brought home the meat. I've never seen calling scare off deer but, Ive sure seen it bring them in. Brad
 
This Deer season I was coyote/deer hunting, Dad got a coyote I didn't get a deer. I did learn Deer hunting aint for me, I spent 3/4 of my deer season lookin for coyotes when I was supposed to be lookin for deer. So now I'm havin my uncle load me up some 110 grain v-max for my 308. The deer are safe and now my 308 will be my long range coyote barrel instead.

t/c223encore
 
I called in two doe, a spike buck, and a nice buck with one antler this Thursday afternoon. It is a little frustrating but also kind of neat to call in deer. I also called in a momma cow and a really young calf, who would stick his toung out at me every time he got within a couple feet of me trying to figure me out. I should have grabbed his ear but it was too interesting to see that every time he would run off, I could get him to come back with the call.
When I was 15yrs. old I called up my first ever coyote with a bag of antler sticks, trying to rattle up a buck in Mason County, Texas.
Trashcan
 
don't worry i do it all the time up here in michigan. i've found that a lot of deer come into distress sounds. besides that mid day is slow up here. oh ya i shot my biggest buck while calling for yotes durring deer season.
 
I've never called during deer season, but almost every time we have been out calling we have seen deer. Doesn't seem to bother them at all.
Saturday night we sat up in a huge field that had a clump of trees 100 yards from the wood line. We started calling and about ten min. into the call, two deer came out right below us. My 8 year old went nuts as this was the first time he had seen eye shine...And it took several minutes to get it into him they weren't yotes.LOL
 
All most every time I sit in a deer stand I wil finish or start my hunt with a predator call. In the mornings I usually wait intil I am about to leave the stand, in the evenings I usually get to my deer stand a little early and try a distress first. This year I have killed alot of Coyotes this way. The day I killed my Buck I got out of my stand found my deer got back in my stand waited about thirty minutes and turned on the FoxPro, within ten minutes I had called in a nice Bobcat. I would have posted pics of that hunt but the Buck had come in early, I thought it was a bigger Deer that had been seen out of that stand and I had seen the night before. It was not and I burned my tag on a 2.5 year old 8 point. I should have looked a little closer before I shot. He was 300 yards and leaving and I just got trigger happy. Thought I would make myself feel better by calling in a predator. Was awsome to see the cat. Had him at 100 yards when I shot. I knew the .308 found its mark but saw the cat trot off. Kept the caller running another 15 minutes thinking an eight point, Bobcat, and Coyote would be a heck of a pic. The Coyote never showed so I went to pick up the Buck and Cat. Drove my fourwheeler to the spot I shot the cat looking for a Blood Trail. Followed it for about thirty yards to find he had layed down under a tree right where I had just drove past. Must have spooked him out and lost his trail. So I lost the Bobcat and wasted my tag. Guess they arent all glory stories but yeah I call predators from my deer stands all the time.
 
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