Hunting spot rotation!

How often do you hunt a property

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Man. A video would be so much easier than the typing. 😂

I don’t set anything on a hard and fast time limit. For example, if I call a spot and kill two. Best of my knowledge I didn’t educate any and two days later I’m driving by and see a coyote heading in there, I’m calling it again.

Now, if I had the same result in responders and missed them both or had 4 coming and killed two, I’ll let that spot cool off for at least a week but, generally more like two or three weeks.

Or depending on the type of spot. I have some spots that will hardly, if ever hold resident coyotes. Just transition type areas. Could be different coyotes on any day or different times of the same day for that matter. If they’re moving heavy and I call it with no success, I’ve gone back and called again hours later and been successful.

I would say on average though, I’m on roughly a 3 week rotation. I have enough good ground that I could go pretty easy and do like 5 sets a day, 30-35 sets a week (if I had the time) and not have to hit the same spot twice in a month.

I’m really lucky. I haven’t counted in a long time but, I’m blessed with a pile of private land access. Not to mention the public. Just one spot is 45,000 contiguous acres. I hardly ever hunt that particular area anymore. Despite killing hundreds of coyotes out there when I was without a drivers license and relegated to two feet and a heart beat.

I really went on a tangent there. Sorry guys.
 
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I have a little list of all the different places I call. The majority of it is private land that no one calls on except me. I have one spot on a little lake that I have to walk a half mile into. I usually take someone with me because they usually come running across the lake 3-7 at a time. I won’t call any place more than once every 3 weeks.
 
Usually every couple of weeks I’ll hit the same area, not necessarily the same spot, but definitely close enough. Much of it depends on the wind direction and where I feel like I’d have the best chances when I got out. If it happens to be where I just hunted recently so be it. Sometimes it pays off. Sometimes it doesn’t.
 
One of the ranches I get to hunt coyotes on is a little over 40,000 acres. It takes me right at 3 full days of calling to cover most of this ranch. I try not to call the same stands more than 2 times, but some stands are just to good to not try them a third time if no shots were fired on the first two stands that I made there.

So on this one ranch I can hunt 6 to 8 times all day long and it will take me about 8 to 10 weeks to do it.
 
Wow, sounds like you got some large properties you guys have out there, where I am located in Southern Ontario Canada, just one hour North of Lake Erie we only have farmlands that are maybe a 100 acres with 200 being super huge properties around here. So going back to the same farm a few times a month is very common as there are only so many landowners around here that allow hunting and definitely no crown land,
 
fratri said:
where I am located in Southern Ontario Canada, just one hour North of Lake Erie we only have farmlands that are maybe a 100 acres with 200 being super huge properties around here.
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I'm in the same boat living not far from you. But I have found it's not difficult to gain permisson when you tell them you arer coyote hunting.
 
This being my second season back from a long break has meant I have to acquire new hunting ground all over again. As mentioned above it's not hard to do but to find the right properties can mean gaining permission, hunting it a few times only to find it's not so good so I move on. Currently I only have about 8 places, all of which have good habitat that are likely spots to hold coyotes and this season I have rotated through them once a week.

It would appear after reading my notes that that's not an unreasonable amount of time to rest a spot. One particular farm is a good indicator of this, I've called coyotes in on three different occasions so far, spooking two by being winded and then shooting the one on another occasion. Another property is similar, where I called a coyote in but he busted me, then three weeks later called another in at that same farm and shot it.

My conclusion is either they are there or they are not! If they happen to be close enough to hear the call and want to come, they will. I'm starting to also believe that things like how much snow is on the ground matters too. This year we had a ton of show in our region and you didn't see many tracks. As soon as we had a melt and a fres hlight snow their tracks are everywhere. Breeding season probably effects their response as well.

I wish I opportunities like derbyacresbob but not here, so I have to hit my spots more frequently. So far it doesn't seem to hurt success. One thing that may help me is there aren't a lot of people that call predators around here.
 
RSG223 said:
This being my second season back from a long break has meant I have to acquire new hunting ground all over again. As mentioned above it's not hard to do but to find the right properties can mean gaining permission, hunting it a few times only to find it's not so good so I move on. Currently I only have about 8 places, all of which have good habitat that are likely spots to hold coyotes and this season I have rotated through them once a week.

It would appear after reading my notes that that's not an unreasonable amount of time to rest a spot. One particular farm is a good indicator of this, I've called coyotes in on three different occasions so far, spooking two by being winded and then shooting the one on another occasion. Another property is similar, where I called a coyote in but he busted me, then three weeks later called another in at that same farm and shot it.

My conclusion is either they are there or they are not! If they happen to be close enough to hear the call and want to come, they will. I'm starting to also believe that things like how much snow is on the ground matters too. This year we had a ton of show in our region and you didn't see many tracks. As soon as we had a melt and a fres hlight snow their tracks are everywhere. Breeding season probably effects their response as well.

I wish I opportunities like derbyacresbob but not here, so I have to hit my spots more frequently. So far it doesn't seem to hurt success. One thing that may help me is there aren't a lot of people that call predators around here.
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I believe that you’re 100% correct about the quantity of snow being a response factor. We had a lot of snow early this year. If you were not close, they weren’t expending the effort to cover much ground to come. We’ve had years where they were only travelling on their trails and the roads. Find a packed trail and there were coyotes close. It was super easy setting up as they would not leave those trails. We experienced much the same as what you described with the melt too. Opened up a whole lot more opportunity for easy travel. Calling success reflected this dynamic heavily.

I don’t bother much with short bursts of cold anymore either. I’d rather hunt the back side of a front. In deep sustained cold too, I’ve learned that you’ll do much better getting as close as possible and waiting longer on stand. I think they are just like me. If I sprint in -40C, I burn my lungs. Can’t see why it’d be all that much different for them. They’ll come but, just might take longer than would be the norm. And I don’t blame them one bit. It hurts.
 
Been thinking about this question again!

After shooting that coyote yesterday on the same property I shot one last week I'm convinced they forget fast. it's that or new ones are constantly moving in and out of an area. I've called this property once a week this entire season and have seen coyotes three times, two of said groups I've shot a coyote from each group.
 
Dogs and coyotes have very good memories.

Coyotes move around quite often. I have seen coyote scat with grapes in it and Juniper Berries in it that were at least 4 miles away from grape vineyards or Junipers. A coyote at a slow trot could travel 4 miles in one hour.
 
I've killed them the same night...consecutive nights and the same week on same property.
If the yotes are there...I will try to as many as possible in as many days I can.
Generally I only get out once or twice a week weather pending.
 
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