Any daytime hunters?

I think from using a decoy a lot elevation takes the possibility of it being another predator out of the equation.

Here's the thing I did on decoys a while back.

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Decoys TIP of the Month

Packing around a placing a decoy. Another thing I've found that decoys can surprise and spook coyotes if they start spinning in their face. I like to place mine high so they can see them from a distance I convert a trekking/snowshoe pole to a decoy holder and they are very versatile not only...
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Here's one of my set ups. The coyote from this one came in and walked around the decoy and caller looking up at it.
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I don't have a lot of pictures as I leave my phone in the truck but here's another decoy story
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He was just meant to die

I finally got out again today and am hunting an area I've never hunted before. I made two blank stands in more open country and the moved down in the mesquite bottom. One minute the coyote comes in out of the mesquite about seventy yards out. I let him come in until he stopped , put the...
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Day time hunting is all that is allowed where I hunt. My most successful stands are usually in the morning till about 10 o'clock and then at last light. Midday usually isn't that productive but sometimes pays off. With daytime hunting you are mostly calling to animals that are bedded so choose likely bedding areas to make your stands. Always play the wind. I've had mixed results with decoys. Sometimes they bring them charging in and sometimes they scare them off. Camo is good to have but not as essential not moving and using the environment for concealment. Always try to position yourself in the shadows with something behind you to breakup your outline. If possible, get the sun at your back.
 
I'm in N.W. Ohio and used to use NV, but ran into too many people problems. So, I sold all my NV stuff and started hunting in daylight hours with a MOJO Critter and my Icotec caller. I enjoy watching them run to the decoy, stop about 10' short of it and look around, knowing they've been tricked. That's when I squeeze the trigger. I've shot them with 22-250, 243 and 25-06. (y)
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I hunt exclusively day time. Break of dawn is great, but the golden hour for me is the last hour before sunset. I usually save my best set for then. Prey sounds and coyote vocals are what I use. I know you said any advice but wind and camo but for me camo is key. Out on the great plains, you don't always have that tree to use for cover. I have shot a lot of coyotes just laying on a slight rise in a field by proning out in the snow with good winter camo. Dig into that snow and get low. However, it requires a lot of being able to sit still . You have no leaway for movement in those situations. When there is no snow, I love my ghili suit. I have had coyotes come in to within 50 feet of that ghili suit in the the high grass. That being said, they don't always come in the way you want them to. You have to be patient, play with the call and keep them searching. As far as decoys, I don't use them. I like to shut the call off when they start coming in. It slows them down and they go into search mode. For me that is when they are most vulnerable. Now, would I like to own a night scope and go night hunting? Heck yeah.
 
I only day hunt. I’m another one that can’t seem to pull the trigger on thermal. Plus my bedtime is 2100 to 2200😬

Wind is pretty important out where I’m at, except for the early September coyotes that are young and dumb. They will sometimes come in with reckless abandon. I’ve had them walk by me close enough to hit them with a fishing pole.

As far as decoys go, I’ll use them early in September and October, then I put it away. After that they just don’t seem to work for me.
 
It really doesn’t take a $4,000 thermal to get into night hunting. The last 5 coyotes I’ve killed have been with an old ATN x-sight ii that I use as a back up. My thermal scanner only cost a few hundred on market place.
 
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