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.
 
i think some coyotes remember what happened and some are just dumb as a box of rocks. we have killed coyotes and went back to the same stand later and killed another one.

one night we killed 5 doing just that. 5 came in, we managed to kill 2. we went to a different spot and realized in our excitement over killing 2 and seeing 5 and hearing others in the distance we forgot the call. we left it in the field where we killed the first 2.

40 minute drive later we arrive back at the spot where we left the call. get ready and scan the area and see 3 coyotes in the field near the call. the wind was still in our favor so we waited. the coyotes went down over the hill, we moved in and got ready, leaving the call in the same spot.

we spotted the coyotes in a neighboring field, we called and they eventually came back and we killed all 3. here are the 3 before the shooting started.

mike and ron coyote double_Moment.jpg


we did a 3,2,1 count down and dropped two of them, the third one ran a short distance and stopped to see what was going on and limbhanger10 dusted that one.

so....do they remember ? this was in the same field, same spot we killed 2 in about 2 hours before. they should have smelled us on the call, maybe smelled where we walked...I dont know.

these are the first 2, i killed this one as it was smelling the one limbhanger10 killed about 10 minutes before

mikes coyote_Moment.jpg
 
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I learned the hard way. Never turn the call on before you are 100% ready to shoot. Things work better if you can wait 3-5 minutes after you are really ready to shoot, then turn the call on. Of course, you are scanning the area while those minutes are ticking away.
 
Haha, learned that the hard way as well. Set up rifle on tripod and turned scope on then walked out and set up my caller. On the way back to tripod I went ahead and hit the call. By the time I got on the scope to get everything adjusted I got to see a coyote with his nose literally in the cone of the Icotec!! Never got a shot because within a second he was gone!
 
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