I doubt sleddog meant to offend anyone. I don't think I can ever remember any post of his in which he did so on purpose. Looking at it from another point of view, maybe the "lazy" statement only applies if it fits. Like many of you I work for every coyote I kill. There aren't any farms and fields around here. Nothing but hundreds of thousands of acres of rough, steep sided timbered ridges and brushy creek bottoms in the hollers. Often I walk anywhere from 3-6 miles cross country and sometimes in some pretty good snows. I average about one coyote to six stands early in the year and that tapers to one to a dozen later in the season. I understand what sleddog is trying to say and made a swat at saying the same thing in another thread. It is aggravating to read a post from an impatient new caller that wants instant success and expects that because he has seen a couple video's, read a magazine article or two, and bought the greatest new caller in the land. This guy ignores what I call "woodsmanship" and doesn't scout, hunts close to his truck, makes noise setting up, sets up in poor places, forgets the wind, moves around on the stand, and generally bungles and fumbles his way along - then doesn't understand why he can't call a coyote. Then he gets on the Internet and ask for a magic answer to be posted that will get him out of the red and into the black stacking up the body count. Keep the post short though as he doesn't want to bother reading through a bunch of useless stuff. It happens all the time and for old hands that have been around awhile it does get tiresome and takes a lot of patience to keep trying to direct them to good information (that they could find on their own if they bothered to look). I can't speak for sleddog, maybe he is just venting, maybe he is trying to provoke some careful thought in some readers, perhaps he wasn't perfectly clear in the wording. And maybe if it doesn't apply we shouldn't take it personal. If an honest inner look reveals something in his statement, then a good hunter is going to reflect on that and do better with his next stands. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
