walking quietly

COYKILL

COYKILL

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What do you guys do to walk to your stand quietly when it is so cold out. The cold snow makes that squeek sound under your feet and it drives me crazy. I think someone makes some kind of a "slipper" that goes over boots to stop this noise but I have no idea what they would be called.
 
It is best to have a high hill between you & where you think the coyotes are hanging around. It is also best to be traveling in a cross-wind towards your call area.

Not a whole lot you can do to make the noise go away. But you can reduce the amount of noise by trying what I have done.

Walk on the front ball of your feet[tip toe]. Rather than heel to toe. Doing so, you just reduced your total walk in noise by 1/2. Walking on the front ball of your feet.

Slowly firmly stab the deep breakthrough hardpack snow. With the toe of each foot & slowly walk with bent knees.

I've also crawled a long ways. Useing my lower legs[knee to ankle] like snow shoes/[feet pointed inwards]. Useing my fists & out stretched arms to elevate my head & torso if need be.

Also you can walk on the lee-ward sides of snow covered hills. Where the snow is wind blown & shallowest[less breakthrough noise].

Another thing I do once I get out in the country. Is test snow "loudness". Testing the varying colors of snow, to find which one is quietest. Sounds abit odd, but some snow is louder than other snow on the same day. In the same field.
 
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Originally Posted By: kirby
Another thing I do once I get out in the country. Is test snow "loudness". Testing the varying colors of snow, to find which one is quietest. Sounds abit odd, but some snow is louder than other snow on the same day. In the same field.

+1
 
I put my toes in first.
Snow shoes help sometimes, but use the rawhide laced ones, those neoprene ones sound like snare drums at minus twenty.
I've heard that deer skin (fur out) overshoes work, but I've never tried them.
 
I agree with you bluebunny, those new aluminum and neoprene/plastic snowshoes are really loud. The colder it gets, the louder they get. Up here, I figure if I slowly walk in and don't snap any branches, it won't spook animals off. They're used to hearing moose walk in the snow, so it's not a foreign noise to them. The pace and other noises made by a human is what will key them into something not being natural. We had a rainstorm about a month ago and it left a horrible crust on the snow. The following week I went calling and could not sneak into an area quietly. I would just take a series of steps and stop until I got to where I wanted to set up. I called more animals that day than any other day calling. Some of them responded pretty quick too, and I'm certain that they could hear the crunchy snow and ice. I think by going slow, watching the wind (as usual) and not adding any more unnecessary noises won't mess up a stand for you.
 
2+ on kirbys post..
Also if you have other guys calling with you make sure they take the same path as you or the leader in tell you have to spread out or separate on top of that it keep the human sent down a little by not have foot tracks every were a long with the noise...
I have learned in the past in are area anyways if the coyotes of fox hit human foot tracks 99% they run like the with and your chances of getting a shot is slim to none...

Hope that helps a little..

Chris
 


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