Calling Sequences

TheDoc

TheDoc

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Forgive me if this topic has been discussed over and over: calling sequences. I’m in a coyote drought, and am needing to expand my knowledge and mindset on sequences. My area does not have a great abundance of coyotes and the dogs we do have are very pressured. Lots of deer hunters and weekend warriors with FoxPros in their back pockets don’t help the cause. What are some sounds you guys would say fall under “sequence 101” and you hardly leave a stand without using? Sequence order? Any thoughts? Much appreciated.
 
TheDoc said:
Forgive me if this topic has been discussed over and over: calling sequences. I’m in a coyote drought, and am needing to expand my knowledge and mindset on sequences. My area does not have a great abundance of coyotes and the dogs we do have are very pressured. Lots of deer hunters and weekend warriors with FoxPros in their back pockets don’t help the cause. What are some sounds you guys would say fall under “sequence 101” and you hardly leave a stand without using? Sequence order? Any thoughts? Much appreciated.
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If things ain't coming together or I think they're call weary I'll use something different like a ground hog distress, or prairie dog distress. Call 3-4 minutes wait 10-15 minutes, then hammer down on a lone male call for 3-4 howls. Just keep switching it up and don't over call, sometimes they just ain't there and ain't comin in, I don't want to make them call weary, stealth ain't a bad thing.
 
Hunter55 said:
If things ain't coming together or I think they're call weary I'll use something different like a ground hog distress, or prairie dog distress. Call 3-4 minutes wait 10-15 minutes, then hammer down on a lone male call for 3-4 howls. Just keep switching it up and don't over call, sometimes they just ain't there and ain't comin in, I don't want to make them call weary, stealth ain't a bad thing.
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Do you start the set with a howl, and use any coy distress or other coyote sounds before jumping into prey distress ?
 
TheDoc said:
Do you start the set with a howl, and use any coy distress or other coyote sounds before jumping into prey distress ?
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personally I always use a LOW volume distress call in the event one is close. The exception being, when I'm waiting and hear coyotes blow up, then I'll go back to them with a lone howl, etc. There's ALOT of variations and sequences that work, and depends if they've been hunted, early or late in the year.
 
"Lots of deer hunters and weekend warriors with FoxPros in their back pockets"...

Use a handcall.

I harbor no ill will to Foxpro, or Lucky Duck, or any E-call out there, but I am convinced that when an inexperienced caller does not set up right, and gets busted using 'Cottontail Distress', that particular coyote might be very difficult to call in again with that particular sound.

On one stand, many years ago, I was on a small rise overlooking a large sagebrush flat. All the sagebrush was short enough that a standing coyote would be visible. I started with my favorite handcall, a Sceery AP-6 Cottontail. After 15-20 minutes, I switched to an old Weems wood barreled Cottontail call. Almost immediately, a coyote gets up out on the flat, about 300yds out, and comes my way.

I know he heard the Sceery, but it did not interest him. My calling sequence was the same, both calls were Cottontail, but one worked and the other didn't.
 
if they arent there when you are. make note of the time, they may be there earlier or even later. we have circled back around and stopped at places we called earlier in the night with nothing happening only to actually get responses and kill a few later in the night.

coyotes travel looking for food, it also doesnt hurt to have permission at several properties that border each other so you can approach at different times, different spot and use different sounds. DO NOT....hit the same spot at the same time each night and use the same sounds / sequence, they'll get use to it.
 
TheDoc said:
Forgive me if this topic has been discussed over and over: calling sequences. I’m in a coyote drought, and am needing to expand my knowledge and mindset on sequences. My area does not have a great abundance of coyotes and the dogs we do have are very pressured. Lots of deer hunters and weekend warriors with FoxPros in their back pockets don’t help the cause. What are some sounds you guys would say fall under “sequence 101” and you hardly leave a stand without using? Sequence order? Any thoughts? Much appreciated.
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Welcome to the forum Doc. I’m no expert either, but are you sure it’s your call sequences? Can you describe for us in as much detail as possible your routine from opening the truck door until walking back to the truck after the set? and how you set up at your stand? And with all that hunting pressure are you coming down the same trails they do and calling the same openings? Or what adjustments are you making to that hunting pressure?
 
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I've hunted some heavily called areas and found that finding spots no respectable coyote hunter would call and use small sounds far more effective than trying to find a sound that will draw them into what they view as a danger zone.
 
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