How often to hunt a stand.

2 to 5 times from October through March. Many times I have called in coyotes just one day after not calling any in on that stand just one day before.

I don't plan on calling the same stands or country two days in a row but sometimes traveling to fresh country it's hard to pass up a great stand if it is on the way to some great fresh stands.
 
I am fortunate to have several different locations to hunt, from 45 acres to 1800 acres in size. I try to rotate around so as to not put too much pressure on any one location. If I don't fire a round I will come back sooner if there is coyote activity.
 
For me it all depends on how long I'm going to hunt an area. If I'm spending a week in an area we might hit the same stand if it really looks good three times, but then I might not be back for years. I like to take trips and hunt different states. I always have a license for the adjoining state so I can meet my nephew halfway for a week of hunting and camping.

Like DR I have a lot of public land, 10,000 square miles within an hours drive any direction from the house. I rarely hit the same stand twice in a year. I enjoy cold calling new ground.

You can mix up sounds and approaches to the same piece of property, you can increase the size of the property by calling the fringes but wait till they cross on to your ground.
 
Rarely more than once a year anymore. Public land though. So, lots to choose from. But also anyone and everyone else calls the same places I do.

- DAA
 
Back East here most properties are small in my area. According to the USDA the average farm size in PA is 144ac., in my Co. it is 158. Average rural land parcel is 15+ acres here in Greene Co.. There is 13,000+ acres of State Game Lands and more than that of coal/gas company land that some of is open to hunting. And over 60% of my ground is wooded according to USDA and I think that is a low estimate--almost no crops other than hay.
I mainly hunt my County plus the one N of me and have just at 150 permissions--only a few of them are exclusive. I try not to hit a place within 2-3 weeks of my last time BUT might go back the next night sometimes OR later the same night if "respondents" didn't "play" on the first visit or I killed 1 of a pr..
And as said, I know I am not the only one hunting most of these places.
 
Out here in the wide open West, I've called from the same stand, or very close to it, on the same day and had action on the second try.

Coyotes do travel quite a bit out here, and if nobody was home earlier in the day, perhaps one just moved into the area since my first attempt.
 
I've hit the same spots twice in one night.
...two consecutive nights.
...two consecutive weeks.
...even 3 consecutive weeks.
If I kill everything called in(with coyotes nearby)or leave the spot "undetected " but know they are there.
 
Like many have already said… It depends. In a nutshell, for me, it’s much like has already been stated. I’ll go back soon if nothing shows up, if responders never came in and kept their distance, if I killed one of a pair etc. If I totally booger up a spot, get busted or miss… I’ll give it a decent amount of time before going back. I’ll then try to setup differently and use different sounds.

Mostly smaller properties here, so it can be challenging to setup where they can’t get around you and bust you from a property that cannot be accessed. Many of these spots rely on a very specific wind direction to even attempt a setup. I don’t press my luck on such properties.
 
I wish I knew the right answer even after reading this thread. I think it depends on the size of the area calling to, and how many set ups different spots you have based on the wind direction. Im not sure if it matters firing rounds or not. Someone mentioned that, and it may. What stresses me out is the the ones that wind me that don’t see while I’m calling because many spots so close to the woods. I’m afraid they get educated and I have limited spots.
 
I have fewer and smaller properties to hunt so, I hunt different. I may go night #1 and really get into the ecaller, and then setup some nights afterward and never use the ecaller, just still hunt for awhile. Some nights I let the coyotes take the lead, IF the howl, then I'll get back to them. Last night there was a deer hollering, so the deer took the lead and I waited. There are a lot of ways to skin the cat.
 
I agree. I get impatient sitting out there, but you’re right, a few times I’ve killed them during setting up. If they are in the area, no need to burn their ears off with the e caller. Just wish I was better at practicing as I preach it here though haha.
 
I just read your other post about acquiring more properties and you mentioned that you’ve been night hunting for a while now, and that you have had success. That is ultimately what it takes to know how often to hunt a stand. It can vary a lot depending on what went down when you called it.

Per the thread title it says “stand”. If that is accurate I would wait a bit between hunts. To me a stand is the same place exactly. I personally would try to setup completely different if I were going back to a property soon after a hunt. I probably mentioned that in my previous post.

I will say on smaller properties you really have to work on setting up to favor yourself rather than give the advantage to the coyotes. Don’t hunt it if things aren’t in your favor. That takes discipline. You also shouldn’t “worry” about the coyotes that “may” have winded you unbeknownst to you. They “may not” have. There’s no way to know for sure without a visual or a booger barker downwind of you.

Put your time in. Take your lumps with your successes. The coyotes are going to teach you way more than any of us on this forum. Get after them and good luck!
 
Ya just never know. 2nd one I've taken in this field, about 2 months apart. This time sitting in an office chair at the right side of the barn. One just appeared 75 yds out! No calling, just sitting. I did miss one while back, same field. Shot the hog right behind it. And I was sitting on the ATV! Jeans and T shirt. Hay is only crop around, some cattle a ways away. This place is mostly new pine.
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I try hunting my spots as little as possible, when I run out of stands I start over. I go out scouting a lot to find more spots, when stands don’t produce I will remove them off my map.i have one that seems to never run out of coyotes, I’ll call it 5-6 times a year
 

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Very little public ground here, most of it small, under 200 acres. Some get bird hunted almost daily it seems mid Oct to new years so 0 to several times. A good private spot I may call 2-3 times if I kill. Marginal property where coyote spend less time, could be totally dependent on weather/snow conditions. Property where I have had a bait out and I see sign of coyote traveling several miles, I have actually called 5-10 times(coyote vocals) at night. Sometimes it's an hour from last howl until one or more show up. I don't think survivors( shoot one the others scatter) of these hour + from calling to shooting connect the calling and shooting as danger. Like when caller is running and shots are fired.
Often I have shot one and had the other(s) run a few hundred yards and than started calling to the missing one (or trying to rally the group?). Those I think are very susceptible to calling the next night( or even in 15-20 minutes), especially during the pair bonding and during breeding season. So many factors/ conditions play parts in this, wind, time of night, moon phrase. Suppressor equipment/caliber of rifle. Snow depth. During the day just a completely different game.
 
I mostly hunt southern NM and occasionally other western states. I have more places to hunt than I have time to call every year so generally don't call a place more than once per year or sometimes don't even call them for a few years. I do have a few favorite stands close to home and sometimes call them 2-4 times per season (October to March). When I do call a place within a month or two, I'll often try different sounds and if wind and topography permit, I'll call it at a different angle and set up 100, 200 or 300 yards from the previous stand. I know many other people call these same areas so I think part of the trick is to do something different than everyone else to fool the coyotes.
 
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