What priority do you place on finding unpressured coyotes?

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dave3006

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How important is it to you to find locations to hunt where coyotes are not likely to have been called before?

Most of us would agree that coyotes that have not been called before are easier to call in. However, stand selection, wind, calling technique, and many other factors also play a huge role.

How big of a factor is an uneducated coyote?
 
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A pocket of unsophisticated coyote is one of lifes great pleasures. Pretty rare anymore though. It's as much fun looking for them as finding them too though, so I continue to search :D .

- DAA
 
I would love to find that mythical spot that has never been called :ROFLMAO:. It seems that no matter how far into the wild that I go somebody has just about always been there before me o_O. Instead, I just try to find the places that fewer people have managed to get into, but even these seem harder to find 🤬.
 
Drive five hours just to look at the country. Coyotes being a bonus.

An hour around here barely even gets you out of town. Actually only gets you out of town in one direction. Three hours in that direction gets you to where almost everyone goes to call. Five hours gets you to where all the people coming from the other direction go to call.

Finding virgin ears is mostly just a myth, these days. But I'm way more about the journey than the destination and just love wandering the high desert seeing what I can see. And, once in awhile, we do stumble across a nice pocket. But it's a one trip thing. After we've hit them once, they aren't virgin anymore and by the next time we get there, they might be all gone for any number of reasons. Get while the getting is good. Don't sweat it if the getting really isn't that good. I just don't care how many I kill anymore. I mean, don't care, at all.

But I'd rather wander a wide swath of country and get skunked. Than be trapped on a thousand acres and kill five.

- DAA
 
When I was in Illinois I had around 20 spots in a 15 mile radius. I would usually call 5-6 spots depending on the wind in a few hours and would almost always see a coyote. I would call around 50 in a few months.Think there were a lot of transients going through, this is cornfield country pretty flat and in the winter all plowed so cover is where they were at. Much better to call than Montana as far as time per coyote. 2-3 times a week. Call them into my cousins back yard cause had a swamp with corn by it. My hot spot, walk past the garage setup on the edge of some pines and have at it. Suppressor would have been nice back then.
 
I have very few places that only "i" have permission to hunt. Many places farmers let anyone go. Places i used to hunt and had all to myself now are getting pounded. This time of year it gets real hard to see a coyote.

I like uneducated yotes
 
It's awesome to find uncalled coyotes. I have several spots where only I am allowed to call and the first couple stands of the year always produce at least a sighting of a coyote. I would say that my calling techniques have also gotten much better. I've gotten better about stand selection, call placement, and sounds to use. It took me several years before I got my first one but ever since my success has increased. At least I get to see them, lol. My shooting has also gotten better but I always have a plan until I see them running in the thermal and the adrenaline dump takes over. It never gets old for me and it's part of the reason I chase those wily coyotes.
 
I wish I had other places to hunt them. I'd have to drive hours. We have plenty of coyotes where I'm at but they're mostly in areas where you can't hunt. To many houses to close together or larger property tracts that have been bought up by NYC tree hugging transplants that say absolutely NO when asked. Local coyotes dine heavily on free roaming house cats. The "Have You Seen Mittens" posters nailed on telephone poles attest to that. :)

The club I belong to is 200 private acres (heavily wooded) but it has a decent population, but little by little I'm thinning them out and they must be wondering where all their buddies are disappearing to. How much longer before they say stay away from that bait pile.

I'm going to check out the open access NYC watershed property around me and see what that turns up. But it's all thickly wooded also, good deer hunting but not sure how it will be for spotting approaching coyotes.
 
Impossible here in NW PA...for the most part. There are places that no one else hunts...but the properties are 1 to 150 acres for the most part and very segmented.
In NY I have over 3000 acres to myself for coyotes...but they still roam all over the place so they are always getting shot at.
 
dave3006 said:
How important is it to you to find locations to hunt where coyotes are not likely to have been called before?

Most of us would agree that coyotes that have not been called before are easier to call in. However, stand selection, wind, calling technique, and many other factors also play a huge role.

How big of a factor is an uneducated coyote?
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I save the uneducated coyote for newcomers looking to get into the sport to get them hooked.
There's no challenge hunting uneducated coyote.
SJC
 
I don't worry about pressured coyotes I love to find places they feel comfortable and don't expect anything but a meal.

When everyone is trying to call them out in the open go to places they can come and take a look without exposing themselves.
 
Finding coyotes that’s never been called to happens every Fall doesn’t it?
Sorta like trapping a place that’s NEVER been trapped nor anywhere around it has been trapped. You can make a LOT of money those first couple of years and think you really know what you’re doing, then it plateaus and you realize you’re really not as good as you thought you were, 😂
Right now I’d pay money just to hear a coyote sound off. Hoping around my Christmas break to go hit some pecan orchards that haven’t been called and another property that hasn’t been called in the last 6+ months.
 
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