Originally Posted By: derbyacresbobOriginally Posted By: john300excI backed the truck up about 300 yds out of sight and quietly walked to the valley. I entered the valley on the slope containing scattered short pines.
What should I have played on my Foxpro Fusion?
I am asking because I failed to call in a single coyote when there were multiple coyotes close by. I'm very frustrated!!
Driving out into the open and then backing the truck up 300 yards to hide it is not a good way to try and call in coyotes.
Were the coyotes alarm barking to each other, challenging at each other or just howling?
You can get on Foxpro's web-site and listen to their sounds. You need to know what challenge sounds and howls sound like.
If those coyotes were challenging each other or just howling back and forth you could have just quietly got out of your truck and made a calling stand if the wind from you and your truck was not going towards the groups pf coyotes.
If they were challenging each other I would have used Foxpro's "Male Coyote Challenge 4" sound or "Pup Distress 3" sound first thing on full volume.
If they were alarm barking at each other, that sounds just about like a dog barking I would have just drove on and found a spot I could sneak into to make a calling stand that I didn't already drive into.
I have "Male Coyote Challenge" sound as one of my pre-set sounds on full volume so I can instantly challenge coyotes back that challenge me. Quite often when I start out with a distress sound I will get challenged by a coyote or coyotes.
Getting challenged by a coyote or coyotes is a good thing! The coyote or coyotes that are challenging your distress sound think a coyote is causing the distress sound that you are playing. So if you can push your pre-set button and challenge them back instantly it really pi$$es them off.
http://www.predatormastersforums.com/for...rue#Post3259106
Check out the above link. It was a coyote hunt we made last year. A coyote challenged us after we had just killed a coyote. The quicker you can challenge them back the more it pi$$es them off!
Around here the wind is almost always blowing up the draws and canyons so I almost always approach canyons and draws from the top of them.
Early in the morning or late in the afternoon when the wind or breeze is blowing down the canyons or draws is the only time I will go up the canyons or draws to call coyotes. If there is no cover in the canyons or draws there is a good chance the animals on higher ground will see you down below them.
Bob's got some great advice and a lot of fur on the ground because of it.
I like to throw their calls right back at them. I try my best to match theirs in volume, pitch, etc...if that doesn't work, sometimes I'll throw something that they don't often hear at them...that can throw them off...