Breeding season calling sequence

BBK

BBK

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No need to be specific on sounds, keep that your secret. But how do you guys run a stand during breeding season? Do you start with a female howl 2-3 times then go into submissives and invitations? Do you start with a male challenge and try to pull out a male or the alpha female? Do you just use fights? Kiyis or distresses and try to get them fired up and responding? Everyone does it differently, just wondering what you have found to be the most successful approach.

By the way, the correct answer is always cottontail distress 😂
 
My game plan would be to start with a lone howls and wait 5 to 6 minutes and then answer my howls . I will wait again and if nothing has come in or responded I will use some types of prey distress . Sometimes after the howls I will go into some female whimpers like a male is trying to mate a female , but usually I keep it to this plan and if the prey distress doesn't work. I will end with some pup distress . Im usually on my stands 30 to 45 minutes that time of the year .
 
A few lone howls then a minute or so pause. Pair howls. Sometimes fight, sometimes whines/whimpers next. (I haven’t seen that it matters which is first) End with pup distress.

I’ve heard from a good source that success can be achieved by closing with social interaction sounds instead of pup distress. I plan to try it more often.
 
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I’ll introduce a coyote into the area with a couple howls. After that, I’m pushing buttons like a maniac—volume up, volume down, mute, recall—throwing as many sounds as I can at them over the next 20 to 25 minutes, hoping one of them flips the switch. I’ll mix simple distress with pup fights, then work in some mid- to low-volume social sounds between the full-blast sequences.

If I notice coyotes really responding to a certain sound or sequence, I lean on it and run it on every stand for the rest of the hunt.
 
Infidel 762 said:
I’ll introduce a coyote into the area with a couple howls. After that, I’m pushing buttons like a maniac—volume up, volume down, mute, recall—throwing as many sounds as I can at them over the next 20 to 25 minutes, hoping one of them flips the switch. I’ll mix simple distress with pup fights, then work in some mid- to low-volume social sounds between the full-blast sequences.

If I notice coyotes really responding to a certain sound or sequence, I lean on it and run it on every stand for the rest of the hunt.
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This is my new game plan for this time of year! When Infidel or Derbyacresbob speak, I listen to every word. They kill more coyotes in a month than I kill all year.
 
I might start with 2-3 howls, then break out the Sceery Cottontail or Primos Jackrabbit ti finalize the stand.

Normally though, I still use prey-in-distress calls, from October through late March/early April.

December is my toughest time to get coyotes to come to the call. In my areas, Colorado, this seems to be the time of year where coyotes begin to pair up for breeding season, and they seem to have less interest in food.

For 2 years in a row, in December, I was waterfowl hunting the same property, and I noticed coyotes way to the N of me, laying on a snow covered hillside. There were 2 packs of about 5-8 in each pack, and they were maybe 50-100yds apart.

When I looked through the bino's, I could see 2 additional coyotes laying near each pack. Every once in awhile, a coyote from a big pack would get up, walk over and around the 2, then rejoin the larger pack.

This went on all morning, both years, and they would not come to a distress call. The best I got was for a couple of them to stand up and look in my direction when I howled.

I have no way to prove it, but I think the 2 coyotes were females, and the packs were the males. When a male got up, he circled the females, doing a 'sniff' check to see if one was in heat.

Thinking back to my high school years, I would have starved before I gave up an opportunity for sex, lol. Perhaps these males thought the same?
 
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