Latest and greatest sounds?

When i first started out i was strictly distress....but over the years i play less and less of it. I rarely start a stand with it. I have learned that studying coyotes and learning more about them has been the ticket to calling. I am 85% vocals now.
Learning more about the time of year, and the coyote yearly cycle has helped me trigger more of them. 2 years ago I would walk into a field i knew coyotes were near and I could play PT "Bad Brother" and if they were there, they were on the way! This year i dont know if i have had 1 dog show up to it. Such a weird and interesting thing to me and thats what keeps me doing it.
Last year we hunted a tournament here in Michigan and we killed 12 dogs in 2 nights on 3 sounds....We only played 3 because the dogs would show up on the 3rd sound every time! It was mind blowing to us! 3 weeks later we couldn't buy a dog with those sounds!

My point is that maybe playing the wind more, knowing more about where the coyotes are at, getting closer to them, knowing more about the food source etc. may be helpful. And my favorite line "Dare to be different"! I've killed a lot of dogs on fawn distress in January...ALOT! And ive played chicken distress in the middle of a cow pasture before and had success. Sometimes you just have to find that tone that triggers them.

Get into some of the podcasts out there. FoxPro podcasts (Especially the episodes with Torrey Cook), Overdrive Outdoors Podcast, Etc. There is a lot of great information to be had there. Its free to listen to them and some of the information is gold! Especially to a predator hunter!

Good Luck!!
 
jmeddy said:
SSSPinate-I gotta ask why you didn't play the 3rd sound FIRST,woulda saved a lot of time in your tourney :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
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It seemed to be the "sequence" they were interested in....Im not sure. But if it works... you stay the course! LOL

Its really crazy you say that because the last stand of the 2nd day we were in a very large cut bean field. We could see 2 dogs in the distance (500 to 600 yards out). We set up and started with the sequence. The first howl they stood up and took some interest, maybe trotted our way and then sat down. We played the 2nd sound and another showed up from the woodline and the 3 of them grouped together with a light serenade back at us. The 3rd howl we played activated them and they came on a quick pace right to us and we harvested 2 of them. But it was pretty awesome to see their responses to us and how much their body language changed. They didn't seem to come aggressively, just with a bit of hardcore curiosity.

Im not sure if playing that sound first would have done it for us..... but maybe 🤔
 
It's weird, but Prarie Dog in distress is a go to for me. Here is the kicker, we don't have any Prarie dogs where I live. I usually save that one till late in the season after they have quit coming into rabbit calls. Lately, grey fox screaming brings them in. Nutty Nuthatch is another good end of the season call. Towards the end of the season, many of them have seen their friends go down to more popular calls. You really can't avoid it. Gets to March and I find myself flipping them off after an uneventful day. Anyone ever have any luck with domestic animal calls?
 
Not the latest and maybe not the greatest but squirrel distress does well for me here in the Ozark timber.
 
Kino M said:
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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