What is the most coyotes you have called in on a single stand? Tell us about your favorite memories.

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hm1996

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An outstanding video recently posted by Infidel 762 in which he called 6 coyotes on one stand near a dead pile brought back some very fond memories & begs the question, what is the average number of coyotes called in per stand?

I've hunted the same three large ranches in S. Tx for 20 years. Mostly thick brush cut with some roller chopped pastures, oil patches/roads, senderos and pipelines. I can only recall three times I've called 5 coyotes on a single stand. The first time was obviously a female teaching her YOY to hunt shortly after denning season, three survived that encounter. The other two times, linked below, were both near a dead pit which paid off regularly over the years w/a number of pairs, and many singles.

The pit is located on the south side of a large roller chopped pasture which, in drier years provided good visibility from the brushline, some 300 yards to the north with heavy brush separating the pit from a two track running east to west just to the south of the pit (satellite pic in link.) Shot multiple doubles from brush to the north at first light, and as many many as three out of five called into roadway to the south.
Five Called, Three Down

Remembered the last stand well, as it was one of the last hunts made with my lifelong hunting buddy before his passing.
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Share your stories with us here; what is the most you have called in on a single stand and what would you estimate to be the normal response?

Regards,
hm
 
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Called 2 quads and was only able to get a single both times. Night time. Called a triple last night and only got a single. I think a good partner would help when multiples come in.
 
Heymartay said:
Called 2 quads and was only able to get a single both times. Night time. Called a triple last night and only got a single. I think a good partner would help when multiples come in.
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Nothing like a good partner to increase the odds!
 
One winter I was calling in South Dakota. I was setup just before light, and waited till shooting light to howl. I was facing east in a long creek bottom, wind from the south. After the 1st couple howls, I saw a pair on the top of a distant bowl about 600 yards away, then a third, then 3 more, all hauling ass my direction.

When the leader got to 30 yards, I got winded, he bailed heading straight away, so I moved to #2 in line, and piled him up, then proceeded to make a lot of noise. The rest all departed with fur intact.

I could have used a smoke after that stand.....
 
I typically think and remember more about how many killed on a stand, but my personal best of coyotes killed was 10. I shotgunned 4, rifle shot 5, and a buddy who was with shot one, on one stand in a matter of a couple minutes. Last year at the National Coyote Calling contest, my partners and I shot 7 on one stand en route to winning that contest. In south Texas on a large ranch I used to get to hunt, I called in 8 on a stand, and shot 4, with a bow. I couldn't begin to count the fours and fives on a stand, but have only killed 6 a couple of times.
 
I think the most I have ever called on a stand was either 6 or 7, not sure. Me and my partner did not agree as to how many there were. It was a rodeo and we only killed 2 between us. Calling at night with thermal it seems more likely to call higher numbers of multiples than during the day. At night it is very common for us to be calling around either wheat pasture full of cattle, or fallow peanuts fields. Both of those situations are magnets for coyotes and lend themselves to higher numbers. A few nights ago we were stalking pigs out in a big peanut field that had been harvested a couple weeks before. As we were stalking the pigs there were 8 coyotes out in that field with us. We walked past one 90 yards away, let him go so we could get n the pigs.

One night last year a lady from church called and asked if I could take her high school nephew out during Thanksgiving. I said sure, and took my 15 year old daughter along too. I put them on the guns and I did the calling with mouth calls while running a scanner. First stand we called up 5. They were not used to trying to count down and shoot at the same time and we got all crossed up. Only ended up getting one. But the next stand we called up 5 again. Different place, 6 miles away. Got 2 that time.

But yeah at night, around here it is not uncommon to have 3-5 coming in at once. Especially Feb-early April.

Daytime I can think of one time we had 5 come in at once. A couple times 4 at once. Much more common though is to have a pair come in, and a few minutes later another pair or single. One day we called a single that came quick and my daughter shot it. She was 11 at the time. I kept calling and a few minutes later a double came hard and fast, I killed both of them. 3 in, 3 dead.

Another time I was calling by myself on my FIL's land, first stand of the morning. Had a pair come in and stop about 140 yards. Shot the back one, front one ran at me. Missed it once then rolled it up. 3 minutes in, 2 down. Kept calling and 5 minutes later here comes another pair, taking the same route as the first ones. Stopped about the same place. I told myself I would handle it the same way. Except I counted my chickens before they hatched. When I was pulling the trigger on number 3, I was already thinking about 4. So y'all know what happened there. At the miss they split different ways. One bailed out and the other circled a loop away where I missed it 3 times. I was livid, screwed up a pair and a chance at a quad. Then I saw that first one just sitting way out there. I guessed it a little under 400. Almost no wind. I held 1 MIL high and maybe .1 on wind. let it rip and punched her right through the throat. So at least ended up with a triple.
 
I told myself I would handle it the same way. Except I counted my chickens before they hatched. When I was pulling the trigger on number 3, I was already thinking about 4. So y'all know what happened there.
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🤣 I sincerely believe at least 90% of all my misses could be attributed to loss of concentration....even when there's only one coyote. Overconfidence can be a bugger.
 
https://www.predatormasters.com/forums/threads/cold-days-mean-hot-hunting.331554/

No idea if this link will work but this is the most I have seen and killed on a calling stand. Called 7 killed 5. Was able to watch the coyotes come from an extremely long ways which probably is what let me catch my breath and keep my cool when the shooting started. The -30 temps also helped 😂
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There is some very far out middle of nowhere feedlots and small cow calf operations that I have seen some pretty legendary deadpits.
Last year we had huge amounts of snow which brought coyotes to deadpits even more than usual. Witnessed 2 different locations with over 20 coyotes in the area. Naturally in both spots I only killed one each haha.
 
I hunt public land almost exclusively and usually in tight cover so rarely see multiples and usually shoot the first one that gives me a shot so have no idea if there were more behind it. I've had a few sands where 4 have come in over the length of the stand. and a few with 3 but most of mine are singles and doubles. The quad stands are memorable though.

I was set up in a mesquite thicket and had a pair come in from behind me and I rolled one with the shotgun barrel (shooting a combo gun) a few minutes later one came from beyond the caller and I knocked it down with the shotgun barrel, it got up and charged straight at me and I killed at six feet with the rifle barrel. Two dead out of three and three shots fired I figured the stand was done and set my combo gun down on the stool and went to pick up the caller, just as I got to the caller here comes number four from yet another direction, memorable stand.

My nephew and I were overlooking a brush filled canyon that dumped into a grassy river bottom pasture. Jon said 4 were coming across the pasture heading for the canyon. I couldn't see them but Jon started shooting and wounded coyotes stumbled out of the brush, I finished one, one died just as I was about to pull the trigger and Jon said there was another down that we couldn't find. We hunt these canyons from the edge with the caller down at the bottom right below us and they come out of the thick stuff right to the edges by the caller, we've take a few delayed doubles this way.

I took my nephew and his newbie buddy out, I'd put one in front of him the day before for his first coyote. We hunted a brushy corner of a pasture sitting on the road berm over looking the little corner and the pasture. I left my rifle in the truck and just called for them. The brushy corner wasn't very wide, 10 yards maybe. Well, the boys were watching both sides of the pasture and I had to say "Jon there is one right below us next to the caller" and he dropped it. The I told them there was one on the other side of the caller and his buddy shot it. Then another came in and sniffed the first dead one and Jon couldn't see it so it bailed . So now they are both looking down in the brush for coyotes and one crosses the pasture about 50 yards out and I said "there's one out in the pasture", they doubled up on it. Again three down but we only found two. But it was one fun rodeo.

I did have one coyote come in and I missed, it turned and ran about 70 yards then turned and came back to the caller and I missed again, I'm shooting a combo gun, so I have to reload the rifle barrel between shots and missed again, this time he ran out to the end of the playa and again turned and headed back to the caller about halfway back he stopped and I got my doodoo together and killed him. Does that count as a triple.
 
I have killed 4 coyotes on one stand 3 times with a shotgun.

One time I took a guy on his first coyote calling stand and he only took 3 shotgun shells out to the stand with him.

He used all three shells to kill the first coyote, when the second coyote came in I yelled at him to shoot and he replied back that he was out of shells, LOL. I shot the next 3 coyotes that came in. We should have killed 5 coyotes on this stand.
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The above picture is the new guys first coyote a split second after the shot hit him.
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This picture is the new guy with the 4 coyotes we shotgunned on one stand.

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The above picture is 4 coyotes that I got on one stand in the fog.
 
That's great shooting, guys. Three shells!? :ROFLMAO:

Years ago, my hunting partner (who knew better) and I walked in before daylight one morning to set up overlooking a dead Zebra across a dry lake bed. Sure enough, as darkness faded, we could see motion around the carcass, as we had hoped. When we had enough light to see clearly, we each picked a coyote and shot on 3; both dropped but one jumped back up and lit out, circling the lake bed, headed for a tree line off to the right. My partner was shooting a bolt gun and I had an AR. We proceeded to try and put it down before he could get to the cover. Partner had run out of ammo somewhere along the line but it was must have just been that coyotes day to die, as my last shot actually hit him behind the first bush as he disappeared into the brush (about 200 yds out).
We decided to stick around and call a few minutes, but not until my partner walked back to the jeep to get more ammo. To my knowledge, he never ran out of ammo again in the last 15 years or so after that. :)

Most of my hunting is two tracks, senderos or at best a bit wider power or pipeline so doing really well to even get a double; they don't take long to get out of the clear in the brush down here.
 
Infidel 762 said:
my pb is 7 in one stand
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I suspect the reason I seldom see more than two coyotes responding to the call is due to the terrain I hunt. 90% thick brush, cut by two tracks, senderos, oil and power line senderos with a few dry lake beds (w/o any underbrush). Have to shoot quick when first coyote appears in any of the senderos/2 tracks so I'm guessing the multiples are reluctant to show themselves. May call a lot more groups than I thought.
 
hm1996 said:
I suspect the reason I seldom see more than two coyotes responding to the call is due to the terrain I hunt. 90% thick brush, cut by two tracks, senderos, oil and power line senderos with a few dry lake beds (w/o any underbrush). Have to shoot quick when first coyote appears in any of the senderos/2 tracks so I'm guessing the multiples are reluctant to show themselves. May call a lot more groups than I thought.
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I would bet you are calling in a lot you dont see that circle downwind in the brushline.
 
Most called is 7. A group of 3 standing a few yards off to side of a group of 4, about 200 yds out. Sadly only got 1 of them. Most killed on a stand is 4 out of 4. 1st one killed at about 75 yds, other 3 shot as dispersed all over cornfield, looking around (had my suppressor by then) longest shot was a measured 330 yd. Kinda long for NV scope.
 
They weren't all called but I had 7 of them within sight in less than a minutes time. I whacked a triple out of the 7. First one facing me at 200 yards while his buddy was ducking under the fence at about 20. Got that one on the run at about 320. One of the remaining 5 decided he would give me a good coyote cussing by barking at me at about 400, but I was able to get him to come through a thick fence row and smashed him at 300. You could say that things go a little bit western there for a few minutes. I had 5 come on a stand in South Dakota a few years ago. Two pair and a single coming from 3 different directions. I only got the lead one of a pair out of that deal.
 
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