Locating coyotes with a howler at night

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Dooger

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Just wondering how successful it is?

I went out for two hours tonight howling every mile with the truck or so and never got a response. I called a lot of places in those two hours.
 
Try the mini siren. You can find them on the internet and I think they are advertised in predator magazines. Those dogs will howl back quicker with a siren than with a howl. I was in Canada last year using a howler with no response when a train a distance off came rumbling through sounding the whistle. The sound from the train whistle got a wolf howling nearby. Kinda neat for an Ohio boy.
 
If you howl to locate in areas where you hunt, you are screwing yourself up. A lot of times coyotes don't howl back to a howler, they just come in to kick some butt. If you are standing there beside your truck, you are eduating them. They'll hear you talking, getting into the truck, starting it up. etc etc. Get the siren.
 
I'm not willing to spend $50 on a call. We don't have enough coyotes to warrant that. We have too many wolves and that keeps the yote numbers down. I found a few sirens for under $10, but don't know if they're a gimmick or a POS. Anything cheaper than $50 that anyone can reccommend??
 
Dooger, it's an old person thing. We never used howlers or sirens for night hunting years back and never had much of a problem finding coyotes, bobcats, gray for etc.
With all the new equipment people use to night hunt with now, the sport has changed.
 
When we went hunting at night we always tried hunting with a partner, it was safer plus you had an extra set of eyes and someone to hold the light and help guide you into the animal.

All we took was a light, a rifle and a call. No camo, no sirens or howlers, no $200 lights, no night vision etc.

I see some of these guys with there rifles with lights and camo all set up that look like some kind of Special Forces or Navy Seals in a movie or something, does all that really help?
 
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I see some of these guys with there rifles with lights and camo all set up that look like some kind of Special Forces or Navy Seals in a movie or something, does all that really help?




I think it has to do with every thing at your fingertips and some guys are just gadget freaks (like myself, although I'm a thrifty gadget freak.

I would say some things help quite a bit since you do get what you pay for, take a $20.00 spot light and it will be huge and just as bright as a very tiny (in comparison)$120.00 light that you could mount to your rifle with a presure switch. Ease of use and packability is important to many...


Bill
 
If I was night calling, I wouldn't use the locator. If I was locating coyotes for future hunts (say a contest), I would use a siren or group howl a few hours before sun up every mile to 2 miles. Mark on a map or GPS where the responces came from. Then come back in the AM and get close to those areas before calling. When using a lone howl as a locator, many times you will not get a vocal responce. Instead you get a physical resonce by them coming to the call silently.
 


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