Arkansas coyotes

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17man

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i know there are some guy in here from arkansas so can you help me. i am new to the calling business and was wonderin some good sound to use on a farm that has never been called and has 2 or 3 packs of coyotes in the surrounding areas and on the land itself but just wondering some good techniques for calling. i have an electronic caller and wonderin good tapes for it. the terrain is rocky and hilly with alot of pasture in the bottoms a few good open hillside.
any help woul be greatly appreciated.
 
I have success with the higher pitch rabbit distress.
However the woodpecker is good also.
Keep the wind in your face and stay hidden.

If you know they are close to chicken houses or rural houses where there are cats, puppies, and
other pets, then try those sounds.

Just about any good distress sound will draw them in.
 
Welcome to the board.

The main thing is try to be in an area where they can hear the call and have patience on the stand. 20 min's at least. That way you may see a bobcat or two. If they hear it, they will come. Any of the distress sounds should work that were mentioned. High-pitch cottontail would be where I would start. Woodpecker next.

I have found it much easier to get results with a remote caller such as the FoxPro. In brush areas using a e-caller or mouth calls, predators usually wind you before they are seen. Remote caller with a decoy 50 to 60 yards out in front of you allows them to circle down wind and still come out in front of you for a shot. This system really works well. If you have wide open areas such as out west, the opposite applys, doesn't matter. Good luck and let us know how it goes.
 
It's good to see a few other Arkansans on this site. I don't post much, but I look around quite a bit. Hoping to get on some Ozark coyotes this year myself.

Let us know how you do and what works/doesn't work.
 
i just moved up from Texas and am living in the Lonoke area and am hoping to nail a few running around the fish farms and rice paddy's.
 
BeaverWeb,

I live just a little north of you in Austin (east of Cabot), but I am originally from north central AR.
 
Hi dont think u scare a predator off if u use a snowshoe rabbit in distress or a jackrabbit the coyotes and greys and cats like the sound of them and the closest jackrabbit is about 300 miles so dont think the distress sound has too be from the area one i stay away from is the cottontail in distress u think about it everybody use's it if u dont have any chickens around still u it it's a new sound in the area they will come to see what it is try yellowhammer woodpecker tape and the whitetail fawm in distress tape VM

ONE SHOT ONE KILL :eek:
 
I would have to agree with everyone else cottontail distress is the way to go here in the central part of the state it works better than anything else I have tried (chicken,pig squeal,etc)I use the johnny stewart cottontail distress tape. Seems to work fine for me last one I called in stuck his nose in the speaker so he definately heard something he liked.One shot in the airpumps and he fell right on my caller.
 
Beaverweb,

That would be great! Have you gotten any local areas yet? I have permission to hunt one 40 acre area just down from my house, but that's a single stand and hope for the best.

I have another wooded area that is 80 acres in Independence county, and potential areas in Cleburne, Stone, and Fulton counties. I've got to work the angle on those to see if I can get it all worked out.

I've not had a coyote stick his nose in the speaker, but a buddy of mine covered the speaker with a mink skin once and a hawk must have liked what he heard and saw. He swooped down to within five feet of the speaker before pulling up and landing in a tree about twenty yards off. Pretty cool to watch.
 
I'm in the Conway area right now attending school but coyote hunt mainly around Russellville...

I'd love to get together with some of you guys and go out shootin yotes someday if any of yall got a good spot and need a buddy to tag along.

I'd drive a ways too...anyways, back to the question...

Right now in Arkansas it is still warm enough to where yotes can go out and find food rather available, I've had more luck here recently by using a "coyote pups, yips and barks" tape, instead of the cottontail in distress. I think that the rabbit distress tape will work better on in the later part of the winter when it's harder for them to find food.

I just have an electronic caller with tapes, I don't have any manual calls as of yet...good luck huntin!
 
Bill B -- i have one place on a beefalo ranch up near el paso (north of cabot) that the rancher would love to see some fur in the back of a pick up. also i am working on some places near lonoke, hazen, and carlisle. e-mail me some time at professionalpirates@juno.com and i will give you my phone # and maybe we can talk.(anyone can e-mail me from Arkansas or Texas)
 
BeaverWeb,

You should have an e-mail from me. By the way, I just got a line on a few thousand acres of private ground around the Greers Ferry Lake area that the owner may want the coyote herd thinned on. I'll keep you posted.
 


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