Calling Coyotes Around Cattle

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So there is an article in the latest Predator Xtreme magazine that talks about calling around cattle. It sounds like great strategy the setup he describes and the sound series he recomends. The main question I have is how do you keep the cattle from coming in to the call? We have done sets by cattle a number of times but the cattle always come in too. It has been our experience that when you use calf distress noises they come in pissed off. Then you have to stand up to keep the cattle from stomping your Mojo and Foxpro into a million pieces. Horses are worse. I can't imagine a coyote is going to be excited about calf distress calls with the prospect of angry aggressive cows waiting around for him. How does the saying go? Mess with the bull get the horns. Any input or experience with this from anyone else? What experiences are other people having calling around cattle?
 
If your gonna use calf distress .Set up on opposite side of fence from cattle. And don't use calf distress unless you don't mind cattle comin in.
 
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I only hunt 2 places with cattle. I have not used calf in distress on either of those places. I have not had any problems with the cows coming in to my call.
I do have to watch the bull on one place though. He wants to get a little frisky some times. If he's in the pasture, I have my Scorpion turned on and set to Elephant Trumpet. He's not sure what to think about that. I may mess with him using Loin Roar. The Lion Roar works REAL well on the "Trick-r Treaters". HEE HEE HEE. ROFL.
 
our ranch has cattle on every field i call in. i usually just set up in places where they are not at. but we have really big pastures. some as big a 2,000 acres. but if i get to one of my good spots and there are cows there i just call like i always do. coyotes will run right thru a herd of cattle if they think there is a meal on the other side. if the cattle arent just super close i will use calf distress from time to time. i have just always had better luck with other distress calls than calf.
 
Coyote vocals will get the unwanted attention of mama cow around here. So I tend to skip that part of my calling seq when around cattle. I have had more than one conversation with mama during night hunts after they were thinking of putting the boots to me.
 
Originally Posted By: SHamptonOnly use calf distress if your suicidal or want to fix fence.

crap scott, you will have to come back down and we can go to the pastures we keep the crazy cows. if you just stand ur ground they will finally leave............... or atleast that is what the bossman says as you are diggin your spurs in your horse trying to get the he!! out of the way. and of course he has a good laugh if your mount is too stupid to move.lol
 
Originally Posted By: doggin coyotesbtech29 refuses to call unless cattle are near.

Some refer to him as the "bovine whisperer".

Lol! You know it. The more crazy, wild eyed, high headed SOB's the better. Thats what I always say.
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i too have called in horses and cattle and they are pissed!!!! stand is ruined...out of all these times i didnt know the cattle were right there, sure there was sign, but didnt know they were there because i didnt hear/see them...now here is what i cant figure out.... even in a "honey hole" or other promising stand(and this has happened literally hundreds of times)if i could here cattle mooing/moaning/moving to water or feed hundreds of yards away or more, i never had shizz(that i saw)respond to the call, any call...now if i let out a call, any call, and hear a cow moo in the distance, i pack it up...seem to me your canceled right then....wish i knew why....
 
i hunt 99% of the time within sight of cattle. sometimes they are real close. sometimes they come to the call and other times they ignore it. i have had coyotes run through the middle of 100 cows and come right into the set. so i guess i have just learned to adapt.
 
Calling around cows..no. i usually spot and stalk around them [beeep]. I have great luck picking a miserable cold day with sun and no clouds. Usually a coyote or two are moving threw. I do call before going out and find out if ranchers are moving cows elsewhere. The next morning seems to produce my best results. Bottom line, i look for pastures that USED to have cows recently. Not too hard since i hunt something of 100,000 acres in Nebraska.
 
I have called while in the pastures with cattle and watch coyotes meander through them mousing or flipping patties over. I just used light barks & lip sqeaks since most of the time there are 3-4 of them within the cows during calving season. I'll do that when I can get an opening without a cow walking towards me to see what Im doing or a cow behind the coyote who just stands there so I cannot take the shot.
The coyotes dont get bothered in them to much unless they get close to a calf from what I have watched. Took me a 45 min stalk on one as it would not come to my sqeaking or yipping so I used the cows and walked next to them to get closer to the coyote. I had to wait a while for the cows to get used to me laying in the pasture to finaly clear the way for a fairly close shot.
Cows seem to like to gather around a human thinking they are getting something which dont help for any kind of shot at a coyote in a calving pasture.
There have also been a few times we have set up and have had coyotes come running full blast through the cattle to get to the food cource they want.
 
Originally Posted By: jglynnour ranch has cattle on every field i call in. i usually just set up in places where they are not at. but we have really big pastures. some as big a 2,000 acres. but if i get to one of my good spots and there are cows there i just call like i always do. coyotes will run right thru a herd of cattle if they think there is a meal on the other side. if the cattle arent just super close i will use calf distress from time to time. i have just always had better luck with other distress calls than calf.

What he said!

I love to call around cattle! Now Bulls? That's another story!

Some of my best hunts have been in cattle filled pastures.......
 
most of the times the cows will let me know when a coyote comes into view. alot of the time i will see the cows that were looking my way all of the sudden start looking off another way. alot of the times it is a coyote that is running in.
 
I agree about using the cows as an early warning device to help you know if a coyote is coming in. It is just always such a crap shoot whether or not the cows or horses will come in to investigate and ruin the whole thing. We use a Foxpro and Mojo so I am not really worried about my safety but I don't want my equipment to be stomped out. This article is by one of the Predator Strikeforce guys I think. I hope. I don't have the article right here in front of me at home so I hope I am not giving unfair credit to the wrong person. Anyways he says he like to set up within eyesight of cattle and then he puts together a series of sounds with calf distress calls, magpie/crow sounds, and I think he said some coyote fighting sounds too. It sounded like a recipe for getting your stuff ruined to me, but I was curious what others thought. He said there are always coyotes hanging around cattle eating crap and afterbirth and generally looking for opportunities. I know there are always coyotes hanging around but how to get them without getting the cattle?...
 
jglynn said:
most of the times the cows will let me know when a coyote comes into view. alot of the time i will see the cows that were looking my way all of the sudden start looking off another way. alot of the times it is a coyote that is running in.[/quote

What he said again!

So true jglynn! Horses and cows can help your kill rate once you start to learn their body language, they will tell you when something is coming for sure..........

Come on SNOW!!!
 
Calling with bulls in the pasture can get interesting. I have found "elephant trumpet" from the FoxPro confuses the bulls and they tend to move away. If they don't move away they leave me alone. I'm gonna try "Lion Roar" and see how they react to that. That should be fun.
One of these days... one 'o them bad ole bulls just might get me. In the mean time I'm gonna have a lotta fun with 'em.
Sometimes, I have more balls than sense. I probably should have been dead along time ago.
My Paw Paw once said: "He's the luckiest Kid I've ever seen".
 


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