So When a Couple Coyotes Answer Your Howls?

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shankbone

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So, I managed to slip out tonight because school was cancelled to due freezing rain. I slipped into a spot I have not called very often and I know sees relatively little pressure.

After blanking on my first two stands of distress calls, I hiked a little further into the property and threw out some howls. Which howls? It's hard to say.
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I'm just learning how to make coyote vocalizations, so I made three lone howls with some yipping thrown in. I don't even know what I was saying in coyote, but the valley lit up with a group of coyotes.

The coyotes that responded yammered away for a good 30-45 seconds and I was howling back at them the best I could when they just faded away. I stayed on the stand for another 20 minutes, transitioning to a coyote distress vocalization after a good silent spell. The yotes never showed up.

What should I have done? Or what do you do when you're howls are answered by a couple of yotes yipping and howling at you?
 
I have been in that situation more than once.

You can either try to finesse them in gently and give it plenty of time, or get aggresive with the barks.
You will either spook them, or have them running in as fast as they can run.

The latter works for me at times.
 
Thanks! Can you be more specific about the "aggressive bark"? I (think) I can make my howlers bark, but how many and how often equals aggressive barking? Thanks again!
 
I've only been in that situation once when I did a couple of lone howls on my diaphragm call and when they started yip howling I immediately went into pup distress. That pulled one out of the woods within seconds and it was quickly followed by a another pair which ended up charging my decoy and taking a few loads of BB shot :)
 
A challenge bark is probably what you should use. Go to the top of the page and use the search engine. Just type in what you want to learn about. There is a lot of knowledge in there from all the guys here. You need to learn about coyote vocalizations. Also you could look up coyote challenge barks etc. on you tube. Mr. Cronk has good sounds on this sight also. Do your homework, we all have and you we learn more every season. Good luck, hope this helps.
 
I've never developed enough confidence in howls to use them regularly for calling coyotes in. I do, however, have great confidence in howls as a scouting tool get a fix on general coyote locations when calling in new country. I either make notes and come back at another time or let everything quiet down for a while and start up with standard distress calls.

Good thread topic. I'm sure there are guys here who could teach courses on proper use of howls. I hope they'll add to the discussion.
 
Calling tactics and sounds - type that into the search engine you will find Rich Cronk and many others to help you out.
 
I have to agree agree with the challenge howls, especially this time of year... check out YouTube and search Randy Anderson coyote calling, he does I think six parts of calling with the Primos gang that is the most instructional video I've ever seen, and there's a couple of hunts thrown in there for examples... make sure you watch all six parts, good stuff!
 
Originally Posted By: Kentucky_WindageI've never developed enough confidence in howls to use them regularly for calling coyotes in. I do, however, have great confidence in howls as a scouting tool get a fix on general coyote locations when calling in new country. I either make notes and come back at another time or let everything quiet down for a while and start up with standard distress calls.

Good thread topic. I'm sure there are guys here who could teach courses on proper use of howls. I hope they'll add to the discussion.

Thanks! Last week I had one I was howling with one. I initiated and then I copied ever sound he/she made as best I could. The coyote didn't come into shooting range until I switched to distress sounds, but that could've just been timing.
 
I think I own all of Randy's calls, wish they worked as good for me as they do for him, ha ha. There is no doubt he lives in coyote heaven but the man is very good at calling the coyotes. Excellent videos he has made over the years.
 
Any chance they were there and you didn't see them? You certainly had their attention. Without hearing the response it is tough to say whether they had you busted or liked what they heard and moved in.

In your set could they wind you? If so you may have done everything right except they busted you and you never saw them.

After watching a buddy on an opposite side of a draw (your type of country) and seeing how the coyote worked right around him and he never saw it I'd say we call in many, many more than we see.

Good luck and keep after them.

Sendit
 
I could pick out their general location, which was on the opposite hillside. They didn't come in and stayed on the opposite side of the draw. The draw is filled with three-acre pond that has an old road running to it. I would've seen them slip over the road, which I was watching. The pond buts-up against the highway, so they didn't swing around the top end.
 
Originally Posted By: mejeremybI'd say you got busted.

Probably, I'm learning to use my howler, so I probably sound like a drunk dog and the yotes were just telling everyone within earshot to stay away!
 
Watch some videos. Short barks are aggressive longer barks are not affressive. Start out with a female invitation. Its a drawn out higher pitched howl thats non aggressive and get them to come in. I will use a challenge this time of year if i get a group to answer me. It peeves them off.
 
Originally Posted By: Widow maker 223Watch some videos. Short barks are aggressive longer barks are not affressive. Start out with a female invitation. Its a drawn out higher pitched howl thats non aggressive and get them to come in. I will use a challenge this time of year if i get a group to answer me. It peeves them off.

Now I know what in doing on my lunch break. It sounds like Randy Anderson has some useful instructional videos on YouTube that I will have to watch. I saw a clip of his upcoming TENTH movie in his series through Primos and he was shooting over the Alpha Dog.
 
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