Makes sense. Many a deer hunt of mine has ended prematurely when I came upon a good coyote stand. We don't have hogs here, but if we did, I'd whack them while deer hunting, no problem!
Did you call?
That's a fact. Fawn distress works, but sometimes not like we would expect. Several years ago, I set up on an outer ranch fence hoping to entice one into our pasture for a shot. Thick brush on our side, but good (for S. Tx) visibility on the neighbor's side. Started fawn distress and shortly a coyote appeared across the fence according to the plan
. He was trotting straight toward our fence, but the call had drawn the attention of three different does running interference between the coyote and the call! They put on quite a show for me. The coyote would try to make an end run around one doe and the other two would head him off. Before long, the does closed in and drove the coyote back into an oak mott never to be seen again. No shot but quite entertaining to say the least.
I try to distance myself from cattle for that very reason. I once set up and immediately called an unseen herd of cattle out of some thick brush from which I had hoped to call a coyote w/fawn distress sounds. Those suckers quickly surrounded my call and to keep them from stepping on the call I hit mountain lion in heat at full volume. That proved to be a huge mistake; it turned western real quick and for a moment I was afraid the call was doomed. How they managed to not step on it in the resulting stampede I will never know.
I thought about playing mountain lion, but decided cats and dogs would be better
Darn cows walked right up on the call just like you're saying.
While we're off topic, I learned that lessons years ago. I dropped a trailer in a pasture and left it for a few days. When I finally got back around to picking it up the steers had chewed off every light and all the wiring that they could reachA little off topic, but once on a pronghorn hunt I parked my truck in a wide open pasture with a small herd of cattle. We headed over a small rise to glass for goats. When we returned a few hours later, all the cows had surrounded my truck and licked every square inch of it. I don't know what they found that tasted so good, but that pickup was a slimy mess!
. Good thing they taste good, otherwise....
I've only used mtn lion call twice when calling coyotes, the other time I used it to scare off a javelina that was eyeballing my decoy. Scared him off, but also spooked a coyote that had come in on my partner's side and kept him from getting a shot. Decided against using it again.I thought about playing mountain lion, but decided cats and dogs would be better