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Just got back from hunting some of the most frustrating coyotes I’ve seen. Spent 7 days/nights hunting. I’ve been hunting over 25 years and have never seen so many animals come on a dead run to 400-600yds and just stop and would never take another step closer. Watched some for over an hour but no dice. Threw every call I have at some. Every volume every trick I know but nothing. I was well hidden. I even was dropped off with no truck around. I’m guessing high pressures coyotes. Does anybody have a trick that might get them in? 400 yds is at my max for a shot on a calm day. I like to call them in close if I can but I’m out of tricks. Any help would be much appreciated.
 
Coyotes have rangefinders too now.
Normally I would just shoot but wind can take a guarantee downwind.
After trying many sets like you describe, I realized it was a long range teaching session of all my sounds and tactics.
Short of dragging in some prime dead beef I've found the simplest method is to call in a bowl or draw that may be less than 300 yds across.
 
Pretty much the same thing going on here too. This is only my 2nd year night hunting but it got really tough last year around the same time. Not sure if its just because all the people out educating them or if it has something to do with breeding being done with also?
 
I'm having somewhat the same results if I can see them at a distance they are really tough too.

BUT, hunting in cover where they don't have to expose themselves it is much easier, getting a shot is the tough part. In places where I can't see anything coming more than 30 yards I have good responses, 4 on 6 stands, 2 on 3 stand alot of times responses of around 30%. Most of these are coyote peeking around a bush of booking right through the stand, kills run maybe 1 in six stands.


I've said for a long time "it is easier to call coyotes in the cover than try and call them out of it".

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I hunt alot of this stuff, mesquite flats. If you look close you can see small openings out beyond the bike. I set up in these openings and hope to get a coyote to step far enough into and wait long enough for a shot, most the time I just get a look before they book. It is exciting though.

This is what I call mesquite dunes again you can't see them most of the time until they hit the area between the dunes where you are set up. You can find lanes when the spaces between the dunes line up and spot them coming in from a longer distance and at least have some idea where they are going to poke out.

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I think they are seeing or smelling something they don’t like, too much movement, daytime you can’t move. Someone with aftershave or pit juice on. That’s along ways a way to hang up, I think movement.
 
I would agree with Tripod. My favorite set ups force the coyotes to show themselves under 300 yards just to get a look at what's going on. I hunt nearly 100% public pressured coyotes. That's what works best for me.
 
I set up or at least try to set up where anything I see come in is killable if possible. Can't always do it that way but I try to. Ain't no telling how many hang up on out there where I can't see. Unless they start barking and raising heck I won't never know a lot of times.
 
Are you using an e-caller, or hand calls?

With hand calls, I can add emotion to the call, which an e-caller cannot duplicate.

New coyote hunters, with new e-calls, educate lot's of coyotes for each one they kill.

New hunters sometimes leave the area to early. The package on lot's of calls suggest calling for 15-20 minutes, and then go to the next spot.

So, the New Guy, calls for 15 minutes, doesn't see anything and stands up. A coyote coming in see's him and leaves. The next time that coyote hears that sound, he comes in and stops at 4-500yds, waiting for the New Guy to get up.

Try staying on stand for 20-30 minutes.

I had one coyote appear at the top of a hill at about the 15 minute mark, and just stand there, about 1,000 yds out. It took another 20-25 minutes to get that coyote to come in. Twice, on the way in, he stopped and stared for several minutes. Finally killed him at 30yds.

As soon as I sit down to start a stand, before calling, I glass the area. I have seen coyotes way out there looking at me already. When that happens, I stay silent until that coyote leaves, then wait a few more minutes to start calling. I don't want to have that coyote associate seeing a human then hearing calls.

Before I stand up to leave, I will glass the area again.
 
I've had the same problem with coyotes hanging up this season on multiple occasions. I also believe these coyotes are likely educated by other callers already. The could have seen, heard or smelled something they didn't like or just don't want to cross into another coyotes territory. I have had good luck with pup distress, bird sounds and howls to get hung up coyotes to come in closer but some of them don't seem to come in regardless of the sound I use. I'v also found better results by calling areas that coyotes have to get close either due to hills or vegetation to investigate the noise. In pressured areas I do seem like I have better luck when I call in areas that have more cover for coyotes to sneak in close without being seen.
 
It could be a covid year thing. Campground and lakes are crowded even on weekdays. So, weekdays are not so quiet in the country these days.
 
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