Blown Stand

FlipMarine

FlipMarine

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A few nights ago I had just set up on my first stand of the night and I had coyotes pretty far off in the distance howling. I tuned my caller on to a baby cottontail and was finishing setting up. Not ten seconds after I started calling, a coyote came out of a tree-line around 70 yards to my left at a full run right at the caller. It ran to the caller and was on top of it before I realized what was happening, almost knocked it over and retreated the way I came. It looked like a police K-9 after a crackhead. Haha.

It drove home a very valuable lesson. When hunting at night, things happen so much faster and to always be 100% ready for the unexpected. My question is, did I ruin that coyote by educating it to that call sound, and how long should I wait before returning to that set?

Thanks in advance for any input y'all can give me.
 
Oh yeah… that lesson has been learned by many! Lol… it can be that you start a sound before you are completely focused at the beginning of a set. It can happen at any time during a set if you get lax and lose focus. Been there, done that!

Nobody but that coyote knows the answer to your question. Seeing how it sounds like there was no negative experience other than maybe smelling human at the caller, it may not associate the encounter with a high degree of negativity. If it were me, I would not rush right back in there. I would wait a couple weeks minimum, but probably more. I would definitely use different sounds and from a different setup spot altogether if possible.

Good luck.
 
hunt0168 said:
Oh yeah… that lesson has been learned by many! Lol… it can be that you start a sound before you are completely focused at the beginning of a set. It can happen at any time during a set if you get lax and lose focus. Been there, done that!

Nobody but that coyote knows the answer to your question. Seeing how it sounds like there was no negative experience other than maybe smelling human at the caller, it may not associate the encounter with a high degree of negativity. If it were me, I would not rush right back in there. I would wait a couple weeks minimum, but probably more. I would definitely use different sounds and from a different setup spot altogether if possible.

Good luck.
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Thank you for your advice.
 
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