Latest and greatest sounds?

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It’s been about 10+ years since I’ve had the time to get out and call coyotes with any regularity. Back in those years, the FoxPro Fury was pretty much the best call on the market, and at $600 my friends thought I was crazy for buying it. I’d regularly average a coyote every 3-4 stands, and the most stone cold killers seemed to be DSG Cottontail and Pup Distress 2. Just trying to give some context for how I used to call them.

After the well seemed to dry up, and I educated them (along with the sport taking off), I only called a couple of days per year. I tried downloading whatever the “new” sounds were from FP or TT or whatever I could find. I just have not been able to have any luck at all when I go out anymore.

I’ve tried mixing up sounds, vocals only, distress only, mixes with birds, rabbit, etc. Got permission for new property a couple of times.

Long story short - I’m running out of ideas. Curious to know if people have a strong opinion on that *one sound* that you would never want to be without? Is there a really good one that you seem to get a trigger from when nothing else is working, or the dogs have been pressured?

I hunt out east, mostly near woods or even in the woods, very rarely ever draw them too far out.

My preference would be .mp3 format if you have opinions! .24B would be second choice.

Thank you!! 🙏🏼
 
I wish someone would post the magic sound, lol!!!
I think I’ve read it here that coyotes will respond to just about every call at some point, it’s just finding that one sound and catching them in the mood.
One night a single howl will produce multiple groups sounding off. A different night nothing on the caller will produce a sound. I consider that just hunting.
 
Spurchaser said:
I wish someone would post the magic sound, lol!!!
I think I’ve read it here that coyotes will respond to just about every call at some point, it’s just finding that one sound and catching them in the mood.
One night a single howl will produce multiple groups sounding off. A different night nothing on the caller will produce a sound. I consider that just hunting.
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I appreciate that…. I’d disagree to a certain extent, though. Pretty much every coyote hunter I’ve known has 1-2 sounds that seemed to get their highest # of responses compared to others. Meaning actually pulling coyotes out to charge the call. Wasn’t magic of course, plenty of times failing. But certain sounds seemed to have a certain cadence or reality:urgency to them that made it a top choice that they’d notice that was their “killer sound”.

Back when I was getting after it regularly, I played almost every sound my FoxPro had to offer, and there’s a ton of them that never called in a single dog. But a few that called in a bunch.

That’s all I was asking. With advances in sound clarity, so many new sounds on the market, what were people pulling even the toughest coyotes out with.
 
Kino M said:
If you've been out of the game that long Lightning Jack and Johnny Stewart Grey Fox Distress should be back in style!
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Lol. Thanks for the help. I’m sure those top the lists of today’s sounds in terms of clarity and realism after 15 years of advancement.
 
The same couple sounds I've been using for more than 20 years are still working. My go to, every stand sound, is pretty poor quality. There is some wind noise, some distortion, and in one spot you can even hear my partner cough. It's odds and ends of different rabbits I recorded. I picked the most emotional, desperate parts of five or six different jackrabbit recordings and put them together into a two minute clip. I call it Greatest Hits. Most of that two minutes, the recording quality is too poor to use commercially. So it never has been, nobody else has that sound. Although, thousands of people have the better quality portions of those same recordings on their Foxpros. This one, way too poor of quality to sell. But, that sound has been working real good, for a real long time, and I'm not going to stop using it.

- DAA
 
Those types of sounds change from time to time for me, but there are a couple that seem to work more than they don't. Those sounds for me are FP Nutty Nuthatch and MFK Cotton Chirps. I have also had some great call ins to MFK GoodyWoody. I usually mix one of those sounds into my sequence and typically call something in. This time of year when we are getting into denning season, I will still play one of those sounds for 2-3 minutes in the beginning of my stand before going into my coyote based sounds.
 
Proximity to coyotes:

one night we placed the call at the end of a fenced pasture about 50 yards from the edge of the woods. we started with a nice loud howl and the woods went wild with coyotes howls IMMEDIATELY

i think they were sound asleep just inside the tree line. they never did come out. i think we scared the ba-ge-bees outta them :)
 
Lightning Jack and Jackrabbit in Distress are probably responsible for more coyote deaths every year than any other sound. I couldn't tell you how many coyotes have came in while one of those two sounds were playing. It's in the hundreds I'm sure.

Adult Cottontail or Snowshoe Hare as well. I've killed a bunch using those too.
 
I think the sounds that folks have the most success with are sounds that have produced results in the past. If they produced results, they get played again and again. In a nutshell, they just get played more than others, so the odds are such that they produce more. If you have a favorite, play it, but if it isn't getting responses, try whatever.

MFK Boo Roo Pair howls has been a solid one for me, but my holy grail is Foxpro Pup Distress 3
 
Cal Taylor said:
I recorded Pup 2, Pup 3, and Coyote pup Screams, for Foxpro. All mentioned above. I would venture a guess that Pup 3 has probably called in more coyotes than any other single sound ever produced. I suppose there is no way to prove that, but it has sure been a killer.
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You won't find anyone who been at this long who will argue with that. I don't care how many amazing sounds mfk puts out, I still use those three pup sounds every time I go out. I've joked that if I ever thought I was close enough to another hunter that we were calling back and forth to each other, I'd play pup 3 because every coyote hunter in America knows every second of that sound.
 
One thing that I find odd is typically sounds are universal but there are some that work great in certain parts of the country and don't in others. One particular example is Tony Tebbe's "cottontail candy", its super popular in the west, particularly southwest but i literally can't buy a coyote in the east with it and believe me, I've tried! I can't tell you how many nights where I've been piling them up and tried it, slow nights, nothing matters, never killed a single coyote with it east of the Mississippi.
 


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