rivervalley
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Here ya go this stuff will fool them completely!!?? LOL
Calling with cover scent
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AWS
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I don't use scents and had numerous close encounters with coyote, when I say close I mean bayonet distance. I've had coyotes jump up in a bush and pull the caller down twice, quite a few have grabbed decoys and run with them a ways an even more walk up to a caller and investigate it, walk around it, sit and stare at it, or just stand and look at it and the decoy. I wrote about one a couple weeks ago that stood and watched the decoy and caller from just a few feet away, long enough to clear two misfires and get a fresh round from the butt bag all while I was 28 paces away at nearly noon. If I'd been using scent killer I'd attribute it to that but I don't. This is in a pretty heavily hunted spot. I got checked by the BP and he said the hunters hang the coyotes on the cattle guard by the station.
Coyotes are strange animal, most of the time cautious to the point of paranoia, then so intent on something that all caution gets thrown to the wind.
Don't let your experiences with deer influence your coyote hunting. My favorite method of hunting deer is tracking, you can get on a deer track ând after awhile know how he thinks and how he is trying to elude you and use that to kill him. You can't do that with a coyote unless you have dogs.
Learn to hunt all directions of the wind. Hunting with the wind in your face has its limitations also. How far out is the coyote going to circle. I took a newbie out and there was a mound in a sage flat we sat back to back with the caller in front of me and him looking down wind. The first coyote circle just far enough to jump over his legs the next time a pair 200 yards out. If you always set up in a place where you can see all around you for long distances your going to miss a lot of good hunting spots.
Coyotes are strange animal, most of the time cautious to the point of paranoia, then so intent on something that all caution gets thrown to the wind.
Don't let your experiences with deer influence your coyote hunting. My favorite method of hunting deer is tracking, you can get on a deer track ând after awhile know how he thinks and how he is trying to elude you and use that to kill him. You can't do that with a coyote unless you have dogs.
Learn to hunt all directions of the wind. Hunting with the wind in your face has its limitations also. How far out is the coyote going to circle. I took a newbie out and there was a mound in a sage flat we sat back to back with the caller in front of me and him looking down wind. The first coyote circle just far enough to jump over his legs the next time a pair 200 yards out. If you always set up in a place where you can see all around you for long distances your going to miss a lot of good hunting spots.
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I've never fooled w/scents for same reason ^^ but have no doubt scents, especially near your call could be beneficial. I have witnessed a number of coyotes alerting and shying from scent off call and/or decoy.
I hunt a lot of Sonoran desert washes with heavy cover both sides . I need to get them close to call to even know they exist.
In open area with good visibility
or snow coupled with good wind
Not necessary.
I keep my scents in vapor barrier bag. So odor not an issue for me
transporting.
In open area with good visibility
or snow coupled with good wind
Not necessary.
I keep my scents in vapor barrier bag. So odor not an issue for me
transporting.
Softpoint
Active member
A dog cannot smell drugs submerged in gasoline inside a metal tank. Total myth! Dogs smell VOCs just like humans. (Volital Organic Compounds) They can detect down to one part per trillion. I probably shouldn't reveal this but dogs can smell human oils left on surfaces (touching) and if that human ingested or handled drugs the dog will smell it in the oils left when touched.
If dogs could smell drugs inside tanks they would hit at gas caps only. Steel doesn't let VOCs pass through it.
As for "cover scents" they don't stop the coyote from smelling you. You can absorb VOCs with baking soda and break them down with hydrogen per oxide but that only reduces your scent as your body is constantly producing VOCs mainly out your mouth. Reducing your scent cone is helpful but not a cure all.
Remember, don't drag your scent out in front of you on your boots, decoys and callers. An intense smell like skunk essence will reach a downwind coyote long before a human scent.The rate of release and spread of VOCs from humans is far slower than a drop of skunk essense but still doesn't cover the human VOCs. It might however cause a coyote to show itself before your scent is detected.
When you do the math you realize just how little VOCs humans emit and how good a coyotes nose really is.
Also realize your scent cone is increasing every minute you are calling and cold weather is your friend as it slow the release of VOCs.
VOC, Volatile Organic Compounds with out them we would live in an odor free world. The cover scents mentioned here will continue “off gassing” long after you’re done hunting. How long depends on temperatures and other environmental conditions. I have been around more than a thousand different dogs certifying in tracking, narcotics and explosives. I also had an explosives detection dog. I have seen dogs show odor recognition from 200 yards plus.
I have also seen some show no recognition from 10 yards do to air currents or training. The only training the coyote gets is from the environment he lives in.
Public hunting areas,cities, golf courses etc.
Cover Scents are not for every one or even needed at times. But will always be part of my hunting whether mature Midwest Whitetails or Western coyotes in cover.
I have also seen some show no recognition from 10 yards do to air currents or training. The only training the coyote gets is from the environment he lives in.
Public hunting areas,cities, golf courses etc.
Cover Scents are not for every one or even needed at times. But will always be part of my hunting whether mature Midwest Whitetails or Western coyotes in cover.
Austin Laughlin
Well-known member
Rich Higgins used to use a scent spray at every stand. It was a mixture of Fox, Coyote, Rabbit, and Coon urine. If I remember that right.
Curiosity kills. And I’ve personally watched what I’d say it most likely hundreds, fall to it.
I’m not saying you need it. I’m not saying it’s a game changer. All I’m saying is, you’d watch a downwind coyote stop and try to figure out what just came across his sniffer. It was really cool actually.
Curiosity kills. And I’ve personally watched what I’d say it most likely hundreds, fall to it.
I’m not saying you need it. I’m not saying it’s a game changer. All I’m saying is, you’d watch a downwind coyote stop and try to figure out what just came across his sniffer. It was really cool actually.