how long to stay on stand.

nightwatchman

nightwatchman

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ok ive tried using the electronic caller and my screery cottontail screamer, quakerboy, and an assortment of other screamers and squeakers but to no avail. ive sit on stand as long as 30 minutes calling my head off. ive been listening to them atleast 2-3 nights a week screaming there heads off but when i try to hunt them im falling short. all of the ridgetops are fields and the bottomland is field. ive sit up in every field on my land accounting for wind and everything else. but still nothing. any advice would be great. i know they are in the area constantly but have just struck out calling. i dont overcall either. i call maybe 1-3 times a month at different locations with diff. calls so i dont know right now. i need help.
 
nightwatchman,
I have forgotten what state you are calling in. Are the crops all out now so you could see any coyote that you called? The crops are being harvested here in western Iowa, so calling should be a little easier real soon. After the crops are out, the coyotes spend most of their daylight hours in what ever cover they can find. Day time coyotes can be found where game birds and rabbits love to hole up. Night time will find the coyotes out in the open fields.
 
You may not be doing anything wrong.
The cover is thick here in Pennsylvania and I would speculate also in Ohio.
You may not see 'em coming in.

Placing a partner/shooter downwind (distance would be dictated by terrain) from caller may help.

The time you spend calling maybe the time the 'yotes AREN'T THERE. Know what I mean?
Try getting after them a bit more. Like 1-3 times a week.
In my area the Coyotes are here today and gone tomorrow. Some times gone for 4 or more days.
When deer season starts they may be gone for 3-4 weeks.

Sort of hard to help in cyberspace without looking at you property.
 
if you guys read my other post i did smoke one the other night but as for calling most of the morning and in the late evenings. our crops are in the process of being harvested too. i have just been getting frustrated that im not doing something right bc i know the dogs are in the area close. i will just keep trying. thanks
 
Had a place in eastern Oregon that I hunted for a couple of months to no avail. Tracks everywhere, I would check it right after a new snowfall and find tracks, but everytime I called, nothing.
Finally figured it out and killed six coyotes in three nights. Yes, nights. Seems there was a lot of human activity in the area between the local rancher rounding up cattle and the local dirtbike fanatics all day, the coyotes where using the area only at night. Didn't hurt my feelings, just gave me an excuse to stay out longer.
Don't know if that will help you, but might be worth a try.
As for how long to stay on stand, I usually stay about a half hour, if I'm getting a lot of movement I'll stay longer, if I shoot one I have switched to a pup in distress call and give it another half hour.
 
If it helps any.
I been snooping around Batavia Ohio (near cincinatti)lately.

I am working close to a place called "East Fork Rec Area". So in the evenings to kill some time, I roam around and do some calling. I have called up a couple fox and one coyote so far. I have to go out there again next week, and maybe try a little more calling. I think once the fur primes up, I may tote a gun eventually. I usually get out there the last week of every month.

But here in the east, sometimes less is more.
Try backing off your calling a little, and give a few more minutes of pause between sequences.
 
I think Hern hit a little closer to your problem than he thinks.Calling when they are'nt there.

These are strange creatures we hunt, unlike the prey animals, we don't know their habits that well.A deer might range a mile from it's bed with definately marked trails and feeding areas easy to find. A coyote on the other hand may go as far as seven miles one way to a field to feed and the only sign you might find is a few droppings on a trail telling you what they are feeding on not where. To top that off they change bedding areas ever so often. It kind of sounds like there is no pattern or ryhme or reason to their movement does'nt it?

It takes some foot work and time to learn how and where they are likely to travel. Learn the prey habitats, take a few guesses at bedding areas then look at the terrain in between for the travel route. Somehwere along that route is where you will get lucky sooner or later. Jimmie
 
Maybe I'm old school but I like to stay 2+ hrs. at stand or as long as my @ss don't get numb and about fall off. I've tried different seats & carry cushons, but inevitably you have to move. Might as well use that time to warm up the blood and track, scout, ro go to your next favorite stand. Sometimes you think your all set up, but after an hour you can't help but feel an edge of a rock or branch cutting off blood flow, or your leg starts to fall asleep. How many of us have hardly slept the night before a run, and then get all to comfortable in stand. More then once I've caught myself dozzin off. A new trick I use to combat that is do some calling if I feel drowsey.
 
jimmy i think you had posted to me once before that you had hunted in ohio years back. do you notice any difference in the way that the coyotes respond in southern ohio compared to the ones in kentucky. i know the land really opens up in kentucky and it just seems that you dont hear of many guys killing coyotes in this area of ohio. i know if the northern parts of ohio it is more flat and pockets of cover. they seem to be alittle more callable there. when i do get one to come in they always seem to be skiddish or sneaking in not running at a full tilt like im accustomed to seeing on shows and videos.
 
Sorry Nightwatchman but I've never hunted Ohio.

One thing I can tell you about such hill country is that getting them to hear the calls can sometimes be more dificult than you would think.

A for instance, last march I hunted another member of the boards ground with him in another county to the west of me.We basically hunted the same hollow all afternoon making stands every 400 yards or so because of the wind conditions.Winds were at fifteen miles an hour in cutover timber. The place was thick to say the least. It was noisy enough that where I positioned him was close enough the third setup that he heard the pair of dogs get up and start running to me right after I started calling. He did'nt see them until they jumped a ditch between us. Where they came from was just a shade over 500 yards from the second setup in the same hollow!! I took the smaller of the pair and never even saw the larger animal at all.

The point I want to make is when the cover looks good and the sign is htere work it hard. Make several setups in the area. DON'T make just one stand then move to another farm. Wind and terrain make a big diference in success in this game.Jimmie
 
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