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All of the coyotes I have killed have been targets of opportunity, usually while hunting something else. I'm going to be using an electronic call in Southern KY for the first time. I've researched the forum on the subject of using scents (attractant) and mostly found useful info on cover scents for personal use on clothing. What about using coyote attractants around my call, do they work, are they necessary or am I just wasting my time and money and should focus on other things. Your opinions are appreciated in advance. Thanks,
J.:)
 
Cover scents are a scam. They don't work on coyotes or deer, (except nose jammer, but I'm not sure what's actually happening there). If a coyote has your wind, you are busted, that's it. If you bathe yourself in cover scent, he will smell a human bathed in cover scent..
 
wolverines said:
First and only time I ever used that junk I had a shooter buck bust me from almost 100 yards away.
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I've had some strange experiences with it, and so have some of my buddies. Twice I sprayed it into the air randomly and had a mature buck come sprinting in from downwind with his nose in the air. Ive got two buddies that have had similar experiences. I can't explain it, and I'm not claiming it's a deer attractant, but it does something strange to them..
 
i always thought a drop or two of rabbit urine at the call would work to hold them or bring them in closer. but then again if they get to close they can smell where you walked or smell your scent on the call..
 
I've done something similar that had decent response but not enough to make it worth the hassle.
I would spray bobcat urine around the call to stop the ones that ran straight to the call. They would usually check up a few yards past the call to process.
Wasn't worth the sink in my vehicle.
 
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jbylake said:
All of the coyotes I have killed have been targets of opportunity, usually while hunting something else. I'm going to be using an electronic call in Southern KY for the first time. I've researched the forum on the subject of using scents (attractant) and mostly found useful info on cover scents for personal use on clothing. What about using coyote attractants around my call, do they work, are they necessary or am I just wasting my time and money and should focus on other things. Your opinions are appreciated in advance. Thanks,
J.:)
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A labrador can smell cocain in a hookers buttcrack from across an airport. Trust me the coyote is smelling you/caller no matter what. Just need to find the ones that are uneducated and arent alarmed by this smell. No cover scent/attractant is going to help.

Be advised if you are going to call for the first time now, its the hardest time of the whole year to call a coyote by far. If you wait until late june youll have more success. Right now they are done breeding, they have found den areas, and are usually fully nocturnal and not willing to move far. Not to mention theyve probably been hunted somewhere in the area for the last 4 months straight. Give them time to calm down and get their pups going, then hit them in june/july/august with pup distress 3. The weather SUCKS and you can only hunt pastures/hay fields for the most part but the calling is easier.
 
BBK said:
A labrador can smell cocain in a hookers buttcrack from across an airport. Trust me the coyote is smelling you/caller no matter what. Just need to find the ones that are uneducated and arent alarmed by this smell. No cover scent/attractant is going to help.
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When I saw the state drug enforcement agents have their drug dog sniff out cocaine dissolved in gasoline, I gave up any illusions of fooling a canines nose. Play the wind. And yeah, sometimes you get a dumb one or one that just doesn't seem to care about your scent. Those don't usually pass on their dumb genes.
 
A drop of coyote gland or fox gland at the caller couldn’t hurt, don’t know if it’ll have the same effect as trapping though due to totally different circumstances.
Yes a coyote knows you’ve been there, but every coyote is different in his response to human odor. If they were completely wigged out about it, we’d never have first night catches on sets.
 
Your scent is all over the place and on your equipment regardless of what cover-up you use! Adding a cover scent does nothing to remove yours, the coyote will just smell both. What it does do is give a false sense of being hidden from them which will trip you up. Like others mention work the wind instead!
 
when hunting around farms there has to be human scent all over the place. i think coyotes learn the difference between fresh strong smelling human scent and weak lingering scent from hours ago. fresh scent and they take off, lingering scent and they are very cautious but wont run or leave.

during hunting seasons the woods are full of people, coyotes learn to hide, just like pressured deer.
 
BBK said:
A labrador can smell cocain in a hookers buttcrack from across an airport. Trust me the coyote is smelling you/caller no matter what.
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BBK, I got a chuckle out of this! :ROFLMAO:

I can't add anything to what has already been said. The best advice, these guys have already told you. Be methodical with your stand and play the wind. Once you show up to an area, everything downwind knows you're there and once you leave, they'll know you've been there. I use to open a bottle of skunk gland call lure I used for trapping and set it on the ground near me while calling. I quickly realized that just because it brought lots of coyote to a set didn't mean squat when you paired it with an out of shape hunter hiding in the brush. I eventually abandoned the idea of using it as a cover scent, partly because I could never open and close the little jar without somehow getting the stuff on my hands and also because I could never tell that it made a difference. Coyotes playing the wind on me would still flare once they hit my downwind side. I never expected them to investigate the skunk smell, I just hoped it would mask mine enough that they would maybe stop to try to figure it out rather than haul ass.
 
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