Quote: Sleddog, I'm not to sure how big your woodlots are, but how deep are you entering your lots? Say you have a great tree stand spot overlooking a saddle with a deer trail through it, 1 mile in. Do you walk that far in and risk laying down all that scent or pick a workable stand location closer to where you parked? Are you using decoys? In your av. you have a foxpro, how often do you use it and how do you set up with it. Up wind of you or cross wind and how far? I cant get your .wav files to play on my computer. What software do I need, quicktime? Are you using the tweety call?
Hey Bob
I love the hunt primarily wooded terrain as the season wears on, as the coyotes are alot more comfortable traveling there. My woodlots range in size from a couple acres to many miles deep.
You gotta give up something unless you can fly. So to disrupt things as little as possible, I try to enter with the wind in my face, blowin my smell from where I came. Sometimes crosswind is the best you are gonna do.
I concentrate on not blowin my smell TO the animals.
If I am hunting smaller woodlots, I many times go in only 75 yards or so as stealthily as possible, AVOIDING logging roads and deer runs, as these are most likely how the coyotes will get to you. Especially after snow falls big.
Hunting rain is great to cover sound. Entering using streams as cover is one of my favored tricks, and I have an old set of Rangers with felt soles installed to aid this entry style.
For big woods, I travel by foot, quad, or snowmobile cutting the big woods into sections and use the same "minimal damage" entrance routes everywhere.
As far as the ecaller goes, I use it often when I hunt from treestand to treestand. I use it like this ...... I walk in using the prevailing wind as much as possible. As I walk, is simply set the ecaller down and double back downwind exactly as I came in, only far as I lose sight of the caller. Usually 40-60 yards around here. I blow a loud short series on my Tweety ..... then swith the ecall on low with a constant Vole sound playin. Coyotes respond initially to the Tweety, and then are drawn to the mouse sound on the e call. Many times I get a shot, .... many times I don't. Thick cover or wind may defeat me. Thats hunting, and one reason I shoot a 243 @ 4x. Big punch, for fast shooting, and maybe marginal hits.
Not sure why you can't get my sounds up .... too bad as some folks have loaded them and shot some dogs.
I could get by with my Foxpro just havin a mouse or lipsqueek. I just use it as described above.
Silly, but works pretty good.
Lastly, I have tracked coyotes back after a kill in snow. I have called them out of a sidehill bed on a calm day 600 yards away. You have more "wiggle room" than you think with a low wind day.
On a windy day, probably cut that distance in half or less depending on wind mph. I tend to not call much with wind over 20 mph in the woods.
Hope some of this helps !!
