First Stands of the year....Blanks
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YoteslayerWA
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Sometimes it can be like that. December is a tough month for calling. Keep at it. Your next trip out might be your best one yet!
Spurchaser
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Those are rookie numbers, lol. I have more blanks than successful stands. That makes the successful stands mean even more!
hunt0168
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Yeah… 3 stands with nothing showing up is nothing to get worked up about. Lol… Just ask anyone from the eastern U.S. I’m at 8 blanks since my last successful call in. It is possible that 8 more are in store before the next successful one! 
If it ever stops dumping snow here I’ll give it a shot! 
We are taking a beating with Lake Effect snow off Lake Ontario.
You gotta keep at it or it just doesn’t happen. One good stand makes you forget all about the blanks.
If it ever stops dumping snow here I’ll give it a shot! We are taking a beating with Lake Effect snow off Lake Ontario. You gotta keep at it or it just doesn’t happen. One good stand makes you forget all about the blanks.
hunt0168
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It's situational for me. If I know I boogered up a stand and got busted, or even had success and one of a pair got an education I give it a decent amount of time before going back in. Like weeks to a month or more. Now the one caveat I have for this situation is during breeding season and I kill one of a pair, and the other escapes. On a couple occasions I have successfully gone back a day or two later and called in (what I assume?) is the one that escaped with coyote vocals. lone howls, whimpers etc..
If I'm fairly certain that a blank stand was just a case of no coyotes in the vicinity, and I am fairly certain that I wasn't busted getting in and setting up, I will go back in sooner.
When I go back in either case I try to setup completely different than the previous time. Different calling position, different sounds etc.
derbyacresbob
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Buy a electronic caller so you can play really good sounds for most of the time you are on a calling stand and you will have way less movement and the coyotes will be looking towards your e-caller not at you.
With hand calls when you stop calling to catch your breath, if no coyotes heard your calling you are no longer calling, you are just sitting there taking a break.
I went 3 years of calling before I got my first coyote, sucked but once I figured things out my success rate improved. I am probably seeing a coyote once every 15 stands and hearing them probably every 7 or 8 stands. I think they get harder to call as the season progresses and pretty much impossible during deer season here; too many humans in the woods at once. I have started to have success with mating calls this time of year. I would probably wait 4 to 6 weeks before calling the same place. Also stay longer on stand. The last 2 coyotes I have had a shot at came at the 45 minute mark and 100 minute mark. The first one didn't make a single sound until he came out of the woods at 50 yards (pup distress sounds) and the other was part of a group that made a ton of noise and came in to to investigate a mating fight sound.
struggling_hunter
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Keep trying
I got my first yote last year with 1 week left in the nighttime season. I called them in a few times over the course of the season but they were running and hiding behind trees most of the time. 1 week left and I went back out there and one came straight down the clearing and I shot it.
I got my first yote last year with 1 week left in the nighttime season. I called them in a few times over the course of the season but they were running and hiding behind trees most of the time. 1 week left and I went back out there and one came straight down the clearing and I shot it.
struggling_hunter
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Are you in Northeast US? I am in NH and was thinking late January I would start using mating calls but not exactly sure when to start mating calls here, I have been using mainly rabbit in early January. Had one come in but missed
I'm in Michigan. They are mating now and are answering to mating calls; curious and coming to check things out. DesertRam I was calling a piece of property where the owner had them on camera so I knew they were there. Also they answered my howls and vocals throughout that whole time. They didn't just light up at the 100 minute mark. They were moving cause they were answering from different locations. A mating fight sound finally made them break cover on the edge of a field and gave me a shot.
bohunr
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100 minutes ....LOL100 minutes? Dude, that's staying power. I sat one stand for 55ish minutes because it looked real promising for a mountain lion. I couldn't do that routinely. Hats off to you for that kind of patience.
you guys obviously havent hunted with limbhanger10
if a coyote answers we wont leave until we have exhausted every thing we can think of, that can be almost 3 hours later some nights. thats how stubborn coyotes get killed.
one night we got a single lone low howl in response. coyote went quiet, we went quiet. 65 minutes later 3 coyotes walk out into the field....all 3 died