Best Tips for using an Electronic Caller

Strap that thing down! Having the remote straped to my right leg just above the knee when standing accomplishes a couple of things for me: it keeps me from dropping it when the old coyote appears, it is always right where I need it, in the dark you don't play hide and seek with it after you have set it down.
 
Set your ecaller up in a relatively open clearing, but near enough to an edge habitat cover that the terrain will allow a predator to have some confidence of getting to within 20 yards of it without being busted himself. This will work a lot better on bobcats and grey fox than putting an e-caller out in the middle of a large open field.

Remember, too, that the parallax error will be greater the closer a predator is to the caller, meaning you're often less likely to get busted 50 feet from the caller in close quarters (or hand-calling, for that matter) than you might be 50 yards from a e-caller set way out in the open-- provided of course, that there is parallax, ie that you're off to the side and not in a direct line with the e-caller in the direction the animal approaches.

Both of which get to the issue of stand selection--IMO the most critical factor in all of predator calling, ecallers or handcalls alike.

LionHo
 
Even when using an electronic call, always take a hand call. If you forget to turn it on, or batteries die, you can just go to the hand call instead of blowing the stand. Been there, done that, more than once. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif

Never done the boat plug one though. Only a matter of time, I'm sure.
 
Thanks LionHo, good points as well as bringing it all together for us. That part about not being in line with the approach routes and caller is a key ingredient that should be considered more often. I know I should!
 
LionHo,

Can you explain that one more time, I am not getting a clear picture of what you are meaning, I don't want to sound ...well....dumb, but I was always told to place they speaker in some brush.
 
He means don't put the speaker directly between you and the area you expect a coyote to come from. Otherwise the coyote will be looking towards the speaker, and you will be right in the background possibly exposing yourself.

Instead, put the speaker to one side or the other, depending on where you expect coyotes to arrive from. That way, the coyote is looking at the speaker, and you are off to one side instead of directly behind the speaker. Make sense?
 
I'm not talking about just coyotes, though. If you're in an area that contains bobcats, too, you'll miss alot of them if you don't set up your caller in an area where you can see around it on all sides. They sneak.

Sure, prop up or hang your caller on some brush (preferably a few feet up off the ground so the sound travels better, as will the radio signal from your remote if you have one). But you'll do a lot better nearer an "edge", e.g. with it in a bush set in the middle of a small cove or clearing 50 feet from the lip of a canyon with heavy timber containing fox and bobcat, than you will in the middle of a large field.

Especially true if there are also coyotes in the area.
 
I understand not putting the speaker in front of you, Lion I was wondering more aout the first part of your post, where you were talking about 20 yards from cover.

Heres what I do, I try to find a fence row or woods edge that I can watch my 6 ( or have someone looking in that direction) and with fields around it. then I place my speaker 80' in an angle in the opposite direction then I think the yotes will come from, and then we sit in the fence row using the brush as our cover.
 
Sounds to me like your already doing something similar? Perhaps you're calling over farmland with only fencerows and windrows--not the kind of country I call over too often (my calling areas are most often openings in oak savannah, interspersed with heavily timbered canyons and dense chapparel), but hopefully the same sort of rule of thumb--that of allowing the natural cover to help funnel or draw the critter in yet make an appearance at the edge-- will still apply.

What I am suggesting is to not expect predators to confidently cross over large bare expanses by daylight to come to your call. Bobcats and gray foxes particularly will be reluctant to do so, at the other end of the spectrum are YOY coyotes (though educated coyotes may be even less bold about this than bobcats, sometimes).

My 20 yards from the edge is rather arbitrary limit, but a rough approximation.

LionHo
 
ok thanks, as a general over view I guess is what I do is use the fence rows or a pocket of brush that has a fence row leading out to it or even cut corn on one side and say wheat or beans on the other( worked great the other day). Yes it is all farm fields and river bottoms here.

I am learning a bunch everytime I call. I did however get my longest kill last night. Hung up at 225 yards, and he died at 225 yards.

Felt great after missing 4 yote so far.
 
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