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another thing that may help is to watch and listen more than call. that way its harder for them to get a bead on your position.
I'll offer a different viewpoint and respectfully disagree with ya swampwalker. Here is why I disagree. When that coyote you are calling to cannot get a bead on your position what will they do? I'll tell ya what, they'll cast downwind to catch the scent cone from the general area they last heard the calls. Coyotes will scent check the area they heard the calls coming from if they get the slightest bit suspicious.
I like to keep a coyote coming hot and heavy; I want his ears full of sound and his eyes looking for the source of that sound and/ or locked on my decoy. I want his mind fixed on what he hears and is trying to see. The LAST thing I want a coyote to do in thick cover is swing wide downwind of my position and go to work with his nose. Most likely that is a coyote that I would never know I called. Before I figured this out too many times I’ve walked out from a stand and cut fresh coyote tracks where one circled around behind me. I never knew they were around. When I hunted a lot with my dad I would string him out downwind as my “tail gunner.” Dad killed about 40% of the coyotes I called. He got the ones that were swinging wide downwind to scent check what they had heard. The same principle applies when you use an e-caller crosswind of you. In essence, you are the tail gunner waiting for the coyote to swing downwind.
Too long in the pauses will only cause you trouble IMHO. Now, the exception to this might be heavily called areas with a lot of hunting pressure. I call mostly virgin country and don’t worry about educated coyotes. For the ones that get hammered at all the time then softer calling tactics and unique sounds might be the ticket. In that case though, I would certainly be thinking of that coyote scent checking the stand on the downwind side so your set-up should be adjusted for that.
another thing that may help is to watch and listen more than call. that way its harder for them to get a bead on your position.
I'll offer a different viewpoint and respectfully disagree with ya swampwalker. Here is why I disagree. When that coyote you are calling to cannot get a bead on your position what will they do? I'll tell ya what, they'll cast downwind to catch the scent cone from the general area they last heard the calls. Coyotes will scent check the area they heard the calls coming from if they get the slightest bit suspicious.
I like to keep a coyote coming hot and heavy; I want his ears full of sound and his eyes looking for the source of that sound and/ or locked on my decoy. I want his mind fixed on what he hears and is trying to see. The LAST thing I want a coyote to do in thick cover is swing wide downwind of my position and go to work with his nose. Most likely that is a coyote that I would never know I called. Before I figured this out too many times I’ve walked out from a stand and cut fresh coyote tracks where one circled around behind me. I never knew they were around. When I hunted a lot with my dad I would string him out downwind as my “tail gunner.” Dad killed about 40% of the coyotes I called. He got the ones that were swinging wide downwind to scent check what they had heard. The same principle applies when you use an e-caller crosswind of you. In essence, you are the tail gunner waiting for the coyote to swing downwind.
Too long in the pauses will only cause you trouble IMHO. Now, the exception to this might be heavily called areas with a lot of hunting pressure. I call mostly virgin country and don’t worry about educated coyotes. For the ones that get hammered at all the time then softer calling tactics and unique sounds might be the ticket. In that case though, I would certainly be thinking of that coyote scent checking the stand on the downwind side so your set-up should be adjusted for that.