Lucky Duck Revolt Volume ?

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tanker4lyfe

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So I'm still fairly new to yote hunting and just recently moved to Kansas. I just got a Revolt and am curious as to what volume(s) are preferred for certain sounds i.e. rabbit distress and coyote howls. Days with no wind and days with 5-10mph wind?
 
days 5 to 10 wind = full volume

no wind = 80% to full volume.

volume that would hurt the ears of you and me does not seem to bother coyotes. many times seen em put their head right up next to an ecaller playing full blast.
 
My strategy is quite different then that slickerthansnot dude but that doesn't make him, or me, right or wrong.
When considering how much volume you use, there are several questions you need to ask yourself.
1) how far will you travel to the next stand
2) what's the coyote density in the area
3) how is the sound traveling at the moment?
4) how long will you stay on stand?
5) do you believe that if a coyote hears the sounds and maybe guns shots, but isn't close enough to come to the call, will this affect that coyote if you move closer to it and call again?
6) how much is the wind and terrain limiting sound travel and if there is a lot of wind, you have to consider how much additional noise that creates as it blows through trees, or tall grass. etc.

With all that said, with no wind I rarely run my call over 1/3 volume. Even 1/4 volume often times.
It takes a lot of wind before I get anywhere close to full volume, and usually when it gets like that, I throw in the towel and wait for a better day. But I hunt in country that most would consider high coyote density. I rarely sit for more than 15 minutes and I often move 1/2 mile, sometimes less, sometimes a bit more. And the terrain I usually hunt doesn't have a lot of big hills and no trees so the sound travels quite well on cold days. I don't want coyotes that I am not targeting on any one stand to hear the call. Maybe it doesn't affect them, maybe it does, but I don't want them to hear my tricks before I am trying to trick them.

Over time will come experience and you'll figure out what works best for you. Not one method works for all, you just need to find your grove.
 
I call a lot like Songdog. I don’t use a lot of volume. Over the years I have noticed my best luck is using half volume or less. Even on smaller calls that don’t have a lot of volume.
 
I have never seen coyotes shy away from high volumes. I use two speakers and a 12 volt battery to power my Foxpro callers so they are very loud.

All of the coyote vocal sounds I play on full blast volume. Coyotes and dogs do not scream softly when they are in pain, fighting or making challenge sounds.

On every stand I make I end up playing a sound on full volume sometime during the stand. Quite often a coyote shows up within 2 to 4 minutes after going to full volume.

Even a slight breeze will keep you sounds from traveling as far if you are calling against that breeze.

I do call coyotes in country with hills, mountains, canyons and ridges quite a bit and quite often I have to move a mile or more to make another stand.
 
Bob, personally I'm not worried about coyotes shying away from the call with too much volume, what I do worry about is the coyotes that aren't coming to the call, listening to the call, then the gun shots, and I just don't want them to hear the call until I am targeting them. If I were making stands a mile plus apart, I probably would be using more volume.
With that said, I don't worry about howls as much as I do everything else.

I mean after all, how does a coyote get educated? It comes to the call, gets shot at, or not. BUT do the coyotes that don't come but do hear the commotion equate to being called/educated. I surmise that at least some of them do.
 
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