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Has anyone else noticed if you are getting set up to call coyotes and a deer "blows" at you (even once), you might as well pack up and go somewhere else? I've had this happen 4 out of 6 times this year. No luck in those four times but I saw coyotes the other 2.
 
Well my experiences tell me when I have wild turkey around I do not call predators. I know coyotes hunt them as I have seen them kill cripples with slipped feet but the calling usually spooks the birds and and they make a racket getting out of the area and I believe the nearby predators if any key in on the alarm and move out as well.

Remember they stay alive by always being on the lookout. I can not remember the two African species in particular but there is a small type of hoofed animal (impala?) that hangs near a type of primate (baboon?). The primate has better sight while the hoofed animal has better smell. So when one specie is alarmed they are both on the move.

It could have been the coyotes that stayed around knew you where there before the deer spooked and felt safe enough not to run but also not to come!
 
More than likely the deer were there because they knew there weren't any coyotes! Same goes for the turkeys.
Here in open corn country I stay on stand a long time by most standards(up to an hour) and I've been busted by deer and still called in coyotes. This is mostly due to knowing the coyotes travel patterns and when they move thru an area. The deer will move out when coyotes are near!

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I dont think the turkeys are aware that much out here atleast between Jan and March 1st. They are just plain old dumb. On one of my last morning stands I walked under 30 or so right a first light and they didnt flush. Often times I can walk up to within 40yards in the woods and 70 in a field. They seem to get so distracted on feeding they are oblivious to their surrondings in the dead of winter out here. We have only had a season for alittle while out here so this may be the key to their relaxed state around people.
 
I saw something strange a few weeks ago. I was driving home when I noticed a coyote mousing in a harvested corn field. It was about 5:30pm, mostly cloudy, with about 3 inches of fresh snow on the ground. I stopped and watched it for about 45 minutes until it was too dark to watch. It worked that field pretty good going back and forth filling up on mice. About halfway into this I noticed about 4 deer standing in the treeline at the back of the field. They knew each other was there as the coyote got to within 20 yards of them. They even looked at each other before a couple of the deer decided to walk away (slowly at that and only about 30 yards further up the tree line). That coyote ignored them and was content with mousing. I figure it was a lone young male and the deer didn't consider it a threat.
 
When I hear deer do that I usually take off on a dead sprint for the animal tackle the crap out of it.. stick my fingers in its nostrils and yell to it "THERE I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO SNORT AT, NOW KEEP YOUR BUTT SNIFFER SHUT!!" Depending on the time of year, after the tackle I will eat some of the velvet. :\
 
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