Calling Sequences

K22-hornet said:
can say, I have been hunting other game, wishing I were coyote hunting, but, it's very rare for me to be hunting coyotes wishing I was hunting other game, lol.
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Same man. Every one of my deer hunts this year turned into a coyote hunt at the end. I’m just not into competing for deer anymore. Calling elk in is a whole different story though. Maybe it’s just the art of calling that does it for me now.
 
Spurchaser said:
When using vocals, do y’all play more female vocals or male?
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Admittedly, I used to think there was a difference because the call files were labeled as male, female, young etc. Now I try to run more with the inflection of the sound than what the name of the file is. By that I mean sounds that are aggressive, excited, non aggressive or passive, high pitched, deep, etc.

Tory Cook has mentioned that it doesn’t matter what the file name says with regard to the male female thing. He thinks it just sounds like a strange coyote that other coyotes will investigate. I tend to agree. As he has said, and I have seen with canines in general… They don’t know the sex of another until they sniff it’s ass!
 
I don't have the WT disc. I like the remote and call with the calls it came with, same as any other caller I.use... In fact I'm not all that impressed with the sounds but they work. I've never bought sounds.for.any of my callers, the ones that come on them seem to work well. I believe that 95,% of a successful stand is stand location and stand management. It works for me.
 
Newpond0 said:
To put it in context it’s been my first year hunting and I’m no expert, but is it possible the challenges were a little too strong, and that a weaker, smaller sounding male vocal giving could have brought up the alpha in that/those elk? Sounding like you should be no problem for him to handle?

Edit: if a person comes across like peewee Herman looking for a fistfight, he might have a lot more takers than if he looks like prime Rambo, especially in front of his woman
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I tried to emulate a smaller bull, by calling softer, facing away from the herd, higher pitch on the bugle (a 'pipe' call from the 60's), no 'roar', smaller tube pretty much everything I could think of. In every case, the lead cow took off with the herd bull following.

I did call in satellite bulls though, just not the herd bull.

Have you also read we should not over call, whether it's elk or ducks? I will call continuously sometimes, and it works.

With coyotes, using handcalls, my usual calling sequence is 15-20 seconds of sound, then I'm quiet for 4-5 minutes. Repeat 3-4 times, then move on.

Other guys will switch on the e-caller and let it run the entire 15-20 minutes on stand.

I'm pretty successful, and they are pretty successful. Who's right, and who's wrong?
 
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