What's your "dead zone" distance?

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Rhett Steele

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Where I hunt, Southern Indiana, the coyote are like gobblers, if you don't get in the "zone" they aren't coming in. I watch western hunting vids and the coyote come in from a long way off. Here, an answer from1/2 mi away equates to a no show. A ridge, creek, even fence row seems to prevent the finish. I am blessed to have a lot of hunting permission, so in some areas I can move to them. Other areas its move on down the road. Too much topography and cover in my neighborhood for the long rangers to come in.

What distance can they answer and you know you have a chance?

One of these days I'd like to head west and see what it's like to see one come in from a long ways off.
 
I'm curious to see the responses. Where I live (upstate SC) I have a similar situation. I don;t have a lot of properties but a lot of public surrounded by posted land so I'm kinda stuck with where I can setup.
 
Same on the other end of the state. Iv called in multiples during breeding season from a 1000-1500yds before but its rare. Heck Iv had dogs keep yapping from 100-200yds in cover and never show themselves. If they are 100-800yds I usually have a chance. Seems they are very smart and wary around here compared to the dumb ones in the west especially Texas. Here the second they see a truck or even the edge of a halo when we used lights at night they would turn inside out. I see a handful out during the day time in a year and have never called one across an open field during the day. Took a few years to figure that one out way back in the 90's.
 
Getting them to cross even a gravel road at night is tough. If the graders haven't been out to clean off snow and expose the road, I have had them cross otherwise they stop where they can see the road(checked for tracks afterwards).
 
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