coyote tactics when they are eating juniper berries

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mountain luke

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hunted 3 days and only 1 coyote. Moon was half full and came up at midnight and was up half the day. scat had juniper berries in it no hair. what tactics and sounds work with these circumstances?
 
I'd hunt as much of the day as possible, getting out as early as possible to be set up once you can see to shoot. I hand call, and use distress sounds, so I'd stick with that. I'd think they'd rather have meat than juniper berries. Some days they respond some they don't. I've had killer days where it seems like they come in on every setup, and then go many days that are all blank.
 
Originally Posted By: mountain lukehunted 3 days and only 1 coyote. Moon was half full and came up at midnight and was up half the day. scat had juniper berries in it no hair. what tactics and sounds work with these circumstances?

The best calling season we have ever had almost every coyote we shot was full of juniper berries. It was the second year of a drought. The coyotes did not have very many mice, rats, squirrels, birds and rabbits to eat so they ate what they had to eat to survive.

Just because the coyotes are eating juniper berries does not mean that they don't want to eat some meat. I really don't think a coyote's first choice of things to eat are juniper berries.

We killed 5 coyotes last Sunday and the scat that came out of 3 of those coyotes had seeds, brush and sticks in the scat. We are in the second year of a drought again and the coyotes are again eating whatever they can find. The sound of a rabbit screaming seems to sound pretty good to them.
 
Have you tried FoxPro's newest sound? Juniper Berry Distress!

Full moons suck serious do do!! Never have luck around a full moon!!

Keep after them and it will eventually break lose for you!
 
Originally Posted By: Mr. PoppadopalisHave you tried FoxPro's newest sound? Juniper Berry Distress!



Hey I was going to say the same thing.
 
Had the same thing happen a few years back at the World's. I agree that they will still come to normal distress calls even if they are eating berries, but you might try some different calls. They are naturally curious animals so if they start hearing calls that are different, like woodpecker calls, or fox distress they might come to take a look. My buddy Smooth shot a coyote that I called in when I was using a fox/bobcat fight sequence. The coyote did not come right to the call, but hung up about 125 yards out to take a look.
 
dan, we hunted all day long 1st light to dark. I think it was prob the moon, but none of the scat had any hair in it. the area we hunted covered approx. 100 mmiles and the scat was found near juniper tree areas. No scat in sage brush where rabbits were.
 
the drought here isn't bad , plenty of mice and rabbits. The moon was out during the day from 1st light till 2. anyone hunt with success with moon up during the day.
 
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