Coyote Hunting Tips...

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Please let us know your tips to bag coyotes. This section would be a great learning area for newbies (like me, lol) and veteran alike.

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Calling Coyotes - Here's 5 Quick Tips For Putting More Fur in the Shed By Kevin L Webster



I'm going to give you 5 quick tips here for calling coyote

1) Scouting

I know this is time consuming and hard work. But I can honestly tell you that it is a major key to successful coyote calling. Scout the areas you plan to hunt and know that there are coyotes there. If there is not significant sign, don't waste your time...move on. Find yourself 10 or so places to hunt that do have good coyote sign. After you have called those areas, go find yourself 10 more. Don't just continue to hunt the same areas over and over again.

2) Use The Wind To Your Favor

Coyotes have a great nose. You must use the wind to your favor if you stand even a small chance of calling coyotes. My personal favorite set-up is when I can get myself in a slightly elevated position looking out over where I expect my coyotes to come from and have just a slight breeze blowing in my face and taking my scent directly away from that area. Sweet I'm telling you....that is sweet!

Now I also know that that old dog is going to try to get down wind from where he hears the call coming from just so his nose can confirm what his ears are telling him. So, I make sure that I or my hunting partner can see and get a clear shot to our down wind side as well.

I'm happy to tell you that my hunting partner is usually my 21 year old sweet little daughter that loves to hunt coyotes just as much as I do! Makes hunting even that much more fun for me. Ya I know it's not a tip...I'm just bragging.

3) Use Camouflage That Blends In With The Season

Now I have read articles that say coyotes don't see color. I have no idea whether it is true or not. But my theory is that when I wear camo that blends in with my surroundings I fit in better and am less noticeable when I move a little to get in position for a shot. It just makes sense to me that if it is fall and everything around me is green and brown that I fit in better if I wear green and brown camo. Same goes for winter when there is snow on the ground. I wear white camo to blend in.

Even if coyotes don't see in the same shades as we humans do, it just makes sense to me to be the same shade of color as my surroundings.

4) Use A Decoy

Took me a while to come around to the idea of using a decoy when calling coyotes. Now I love them. I have used many, but my personal favorite is rabbit decoy. When a coyote sees this decoy he becomes laser targeted. I think the reason is that his eyes now confirm what he is hearing when I use that decoy in conjunction with a cotton tail rabbit distress call.

5) Add Emotion To Your Call

If you are using any type of distress call, put yourself in the shoes of the animal you are imitating. If you are using a rabbit distress call imagine yourself as that small critter in the clutches of an old hawk. Or maybe you are tangled up in a barbed wire fence. You see what I mean here. Your a small dying varmint...do your best to sound like one.

Open and close your hand over the end of the call if you are using a mouth blown call. If you are using an electronic call, vary the volume from time to time.

Well I know I got a little long winded here. Hope this helps you in the field when you go calling coyotes.

Good Luck And Great Hunting!
Grizz

Kevin "Grizz" Webster is an avid outdoorsman with over 20 years experience hunting coyotes and predators of all kinds. Visit his blog for more Tips on Calling Coyotes as well as other predator hunting tips and techniques. http://www.coyotecalling.blogspot.com

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