Where are all the big name callers at

I always thought of PM as an online deer camp a place to look forward to to going to 365 days a year. In the late '90 and early 2000's I went to deer camp in Maine. As soon as I left heading south to Mass., the anticipation started for next year. The same with coming to PM, I always looked forward to hearing a story or picking up a tip. I wish the guy's in the eastern section posted more tips and tricks, because they sure seem to know what they are doing, especially if they are doing it during the day, no light in Mass, can't afford night vision.

I don't post much only because I am bad, really bad at at calling. I don't want to make a post just saying "nice", since it will push my post count up and seem like I know what I am doing when I really don't. The only thing I have called and shot at is a Jackal on my honey moon in 2011 with a borrowed .30-06 ( not fur friendly ). Called a few owls, and lip squeaked 1 or 2 weasels while deer hunting that's it. I love hearing all the stories and I love the format, better than FB, you can pick out something that interests you and follow it. Do wish we had a like button though, could show a little love.

I will try and get better and post more. Hopefully before I go [beeep] up, I will be able to post at least 1 hero pic.

So to everyone that is here and post great stories and pics,
Thank You, You are the big names.
 
I found this site a long time ago, and I learned many things about coyote hunting here. I enjoyed reading posts from some really great hunters. Guys like GC, Rich Cronk, jimmy in Ky, and many others contributed to my education, and I thank them.
As the years have passed, I've lost a lot of my prime calling spots to developments, farmers removing fence rows. abandoned RR tracks being turned into walking trails, and land owners passing away, and their land being sold off. I also grew more and more interested in hunting deer, so I don't even begin calling coyotes until the deer season is over in the first week of January.
Now we have guys thermal hunting all around many of my best spots. I don't want to invest in the equipment needed to night hunt, so I just take what I can get, which is much less than I was gettng twenty years ago.
 
Originally Posted By: coyote6974I found this site a long time ago, and I learned many things about coyote hunting here. I enjoyed reading posts from some really great hunters. Guys like GC, Rich Cronk, jimmy in Ky, and many others contributed to my education, and I thank them.
As the years have passed, I've lost a lot of my prime calling spots to developments, farmers removing fence rows. abandoned RR tracks being turned into walking trails, and land owners passing away, and their land being sold off. I also grew more and more interested in hunting deer, so I don't even begin calling coyotes until the deer season is over in the first week of January.
Now we have guys thermal hunting all around many of my best spots. I don't want to invest in the equipment needed to night hunt, so I just take what I can get, which is much less than I was gettng twenty years ago.


Wonder what happened to JimmieinKY?
 
I had three of the best hunts of my life this winter. I didn't shoot anything but had a couple howling and two were coming in. Watched one for 1/2 hour while playing with him using different sounds.

I was way back in the hills each time, alone with my jeep and thermal equipment. Watching the sunset before starting the caller it truly hit me how lucky I was to be alive and able to hunt in beautiful country.

Not being able to hike as far as I'd like to due to an accident has greatly diminished my success in killing coyotes but being grateful for what I have makes every hunt special now.

If shooting a coyote is the only measure of success you are really missing out on what predator hunting offers you.

Sometimes you need to slow down a bit and look at the world a little more carefully. Your not just missing coyotes.
 
It's not just about the killing. I do appreciate all that the Good Lord has laid out in nature for us to experience. If it was just the killing aspect I have more than enough rabbits in the yard for that or I could spend the my days in Maine just driving the roads looking grouse instead of going in and beating the bush for them. About 15 years ago while sitting on a deer stand I spotted what looked like a porcupine waddling in my direction, turned out to be a young fisher that had so many quills in him he looked like his dinner. Another time a weasel was hunting along a stone wall I set up on. Wonderful site to be hold, But sometimes you just need a little validation that you are doing something right, be it being barked at or a coyote blowing through at 100 MPH. Triger time comes after.
 
The greatest coyote hunters in the world cannot kill coyotes where there are none. Scouting, then baiting with cameras is your first steps.

I never bring out the thermal equipment until I know coyotes are in an area.
 
Years ago, I considered myself a purdy good coyote killer.

But I traveled 1000s miles a year to get into good #'s.

I lost that lust and am OK with not traveling and killing way smaller #'s.
 
Originally Posted By: bigcI haven’t posted I’m a while, had some life stuff to deal with.

Does that mean you're touting yourself as a "big name"?
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Jeremy,
Great job and happy to see you post. I miss the old guys, but I am still learning from everyone regardless of how long they've been on this site.
 

Originally Posted By: Softpoint If shooting a coyote is the only measure of success you are really missing out on what predator hunting offers you. Sometimes you need to slow down a bit and look at the world a little more carefully.
My feelings exactly. I do very little calling these days, but spend a lot of time prepping a coyote bait site. Setting up my 8x12 foot hunting shack has been an adventure unto itself, from insulation to heater, bunk, solar lighting and all the rest. It has been a work in progress over a period of years and has become a great get-a-way place where I can relax, have a hot bowl of chili beans and cup of coffee, and even watch a Clint Eastwood western on the DC powered TV. Videoing coyotes coming to the bait site has taught me a lot about their behavior. Squeezing a trigger is just icing on the cake.
 
Big Al Morris in Town or bamit here, I've been AWOL from PM for quite awhile, mostly busy, some from sponsor treatment from admin, I stay out of the FoxPro sponsor deals with PM but some of my friends were PM loyal sponsors for years and went to every hunt and gathering and were sidelined for other businesses that showed up and we're in the same categories... loyalty should trump back door deals and it's not my place to call it out....so I just go silent. Garvin Young and myself are the only 4 time World Coyote Calling Champions "Bill Countess rules" it has to be prefaced as that as now the hunt with that name is more of a participation medal hunt and with a completely different set of rules it truly should be called something else. We are most proud of finishing in the top ten of that hunt 17 of the 20 yrs we competed nobody else won it as much or finished in the top ten as much. Hunting that contest in the 5 different states over that period of time was extremely challenging and a great platform to learn on. Everyone has a " home field advantage" but a true traveling championship limits that and makes you become a better caller to excel wherever it happens to move too and whatever state it happens to be. With the FoxPro Furtaker show on the Outdoor Channel for 8 years, and the FoxPro Hunting TV show now out on YouTube, Amazon prime, Roku, Carbon TV. My entire professional career is basically on film. I started filming in in 1999 for Hunters Specialty TV Primetime Bulls and the Operation Predator DVD series through 2010, when I left HS for FoxPro. I've put as many coyotes on video as anyone, probably as many elk. If you watch the videos I'm pretty much the same person in person, not much changes, I really never cared if anyone ever "knew me" as for me this journey has always been getting paid to put elk and coyotes on film and I helped put 3 girls through college and built a home and live a good life doing what I love every time I "go to work". As I get older and I get tons of emails saying I help inspire someone to start their own journey called this predator calling addiction and I know this place called PM is one place to help learn and fuel that fire. I will try and stop by this fire place more often as Not many have the "experience" I do and I love to share what I have learned over the last 45 yrs I've been killing our favorite quarry the canus latrans or commonly known as the coyote. I promise to stop by more and kick in when I see a place to add to the flames.
 
Nice to see you back Al. I have always enjoyed seeing your posts and only wish I knew as much as you do about hunting coyotes. Looking forward to seeing your posts.
 
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