Originally Posted By: 4949shooterThere is a great video posted here by soreloser, which gives a good example of what happens when a coyote hits your scent trail.
http://www.predatormastersforums.com/for...963#Post1342963
Guys often ask about using an e-caller and decoy. One thing I always tell them - kill the coyote BEFORE it gets to the decoy/caller! I've seen this happen way too many times when I first began using an e-caller and decoy set-up a lot. Coyotes will get there and then smell you at the spot you laid the caller/decoy down and bug out super quick. You can see it in their body language. I've watched them come hard on the run, just flat out aggressive hard chargers, eyes locked on the decoy, ears forward, mouth open to bite, front end drops for the bite – and then the ears slam back, the front end comes up and the rear drops as they spin and turn on the afterburners. I lost the biggest coyote I have ever seen waiting for the perfect shot. I later called this coyote King Kong Coyote as he was just simply a massive animal. I had the caller set up to my left about 30 yards away and was up on a ridge top intersection. I saw this big coyote loping hard on the run from my right to my left to the caller/decoy. He ran 25 yards in front of me and I had him right then dead to rights in the scope of my .243 BAR. This coyote was so locked on he never knew I was anywhere around. I tracked him through the scope as he ran by thinking that he would pause for a second or two at the decoy and give me a better shot. No way, he hit my scent at the caller and displayed the body language I described above and ran at an extremely hard angle behind me on the left side away and off the ridge. I never even got on the trigger. A couple of days later the same scenario happened a few miles away with another coyote. It will happen every time unless you take that shot before the coyote gets to the caller/decoy.
