For you eastern hunters: Do your coyotes howl during the daytime?

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I know this topic may have been discussed before but I have thought about it for sometime and still wonder. With all the talk about using howlers alone to call in coyotes, I can’t remember ever hearing a coyote howl during daylight hours although I have heard them at night, dawn and dusk. The areas my partner and I hunt are not heavily called locations but still the coyotes seem to be real quit and sneaky. As I am always open to new calling techniques, I have used a mouth blown howler occasionally during the day as a stand alone locator call and also as a confidence/challenge call in conjunction with distress sounds. Using these methods, if I have howled in a single coyote I did not know it. I have better luck with distress calls than anything else. It may just my lack of experience using a howler, as I have only used two different types for the past year. I wonder if I may be doing more harm than good using these methods. I know there are some who swear by howlers and others who like myself maybe just blowing in the wind. My question: Do any of you eastern hunters have luck calling in coyotes during the daytime using howlers?

coyotehunter
 
coyotehunter,

I have had a pack that has been seperated from each other do a lost howl to each other to get back together. And I have seen, while deer hunting, a pack chasing a deer herd that had split up howling to get back together.

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Any sound after sunrise is rare. I have never heard one after 8 o'clock.And rarely before sunset. But using a howler during the spring near a denning area is a pretty sure bet.Jimmie
 
I realize that Iowa is west of the big mississippi river but our coyotes seem to act a whole lot like like the eastern variety. To hear a coyote howl in daytime is rare, but they will still come to investigate the sound of a strange coyote in their area. I also agree with Jimmie in that a howler in the spring is pure poison on coyotes.

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Hey Rich Cronk,
I hope you got my email bout receiving your howler. I have run off a few family members already and my dogs can't figure me out. I have practiced a lot while listening to your tape and I am starting to sound better. I sure do like the beutiful job you did on my cow horn howler. It is pure quality and downright eeeerie sounding.

I am hoping to use it quite a bit very soon as it is springing here in Tn. Plan on using it today as a matter of fact. Thought I would try howling, then follow up with rabbit gone mad calls. Even gonna use my new rabbit decoy.
 
Doc,
I'm glad that you like that howler. I am going to do some serious coyote control around here beginning in May. Howling and pup squeals will be the sounds of choice. I hope to get some good photo's at that time also.
 
I've heard coyotes many times during the day, and at many different times. Just during this past deer season, I heard coyotes around 9 AM, 11:30AM and 3:30 PM. I would tend to think that the night is their "favorite" time to howl though. You could hear them calling all night long on some nights. MI VHNTR
 
MI VHNTR,
Is your area sort of remote, meaning very few people to shoot at the coyotes and keep them spooked all of the time? An area in texas where I used to hunt a lot was kind of like your area in that the coyotes were howling in middle of afternoon. This area had no people living around there for several miles. I have often wondered if it was the lack of people intrusion that made the coyotes more vocal in daytime. Something to ponder anyway.
 
I was wild hog hunting today and at 8:30 A.M. a group of coyotes began howling about a quarter mile away on a ridge top. A few hours later I found myself on that ridge and discovered an old logging trail covered with coyote scat and scratching post. I think I'll take my new Cronk Howler there very soon and see what happens!

Normally, I don't often hear coyotes howl much after sunup, or much before sunset. The area I'm hunting is in the National Forest and is remote. I figure these folks where howling due to the season. Probably some change-up in the order of the mating pairings/pack going on. It's rained heavily here for a couple of days and late through the night also. So this morning dawned clear, cold, and damp. Pretty fair conditions to be in the woods.

Now, if only I could locate the hogs! I have a .45-70 I'm itching to put to work on hog control!

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You guys should try that 45-70 on fox. I did with my contender this fall, BOOM just a tail and some fir, That hollow point reload set him back, That should stop a old Boar,
Rich you need one for them loooong shots on the yotes LOL

And I only heard these yotes howl 1 or 2 times during the day and it caught me off guard, it was a few yrs ago and I did not think we had any around here at the time,
till my fox started comeing up dead in my traps and I caught one, Man I love that sound at any time of day CALL OF THE WILD!
Foxhunter

Keep your battery charged

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The only time i heard them howl is when we would get busted trying to call,it was 4-5 short barks and a short howl and then they were gone.
 
I've heard them "pack howl" two times this past deer season. They were calling back to the 12PM siren that rings in town, about 3 miles from my place.
 
Rich,
This is off topic and I'm sorry for basterdizing the thread, but the .45-70 is THE STUFF! For woods hunting of large game IMHO, there's no better. My rifle is a Marlin 1895 with the straight grip stock and lever as offered in 1974 when this rifle was manufactured. I sent the rifle to Fajen stocks and had the original finish stripped off the stock, checkered in a classic pattern, a nice classy recoil pad installed, and refinished in a satin oil finish. It has an Emerson outdoors peep sight. With a 300-400 grain .45 caliber bullet pushed @ 2,000 fps from the 22" inch barrel, it'll fold-up anything within 200 yards! Sorry, I just had to brag about my Marlin Darlin!

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GC,
I believe it was me that started the thread going off topic anyway, LOL. I think maybe you should send the .45-70 up here to me and I will see if it works good on Iowa coyotes. Every time I howl one in and shoot it with your Marlin I will post my report here. That way the thread is back on topic again. I just don't see any other way to do this.
 
It's strange because where MV lives and hunts coyotes can be heard any time of the day or night. He lives about an hour and a half north east of me yet i can only hear yotes during the last few hours of daylight and i consider myself to be more in the "country" than him. I just wish i could hear them more inmy area as it would be a heck of alot easier to locate a huntable group.

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Rich, I live in a subdivision near a town of about 8,000 people, so I'm far from being isolated. As far as people shooting at coyotes, it's a common thing for people here to shoot any coyote, anytime they see one. Further, when small game season starts here, the woods are full of hunters until the end of bow season Jan. 1. There is no scarcity of people in the woods here, that's for sure. I've heard lone howls during the day and pack howling during the day. It's been like this since I can remember. MI VHNTR
 


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