I actually started calling coyotes in probably 1981 when I was 14 years old. Although I really don’t count this as my starting point. I knew a couple old timers that were calling and killing coyotes for their fur. I was immediately drawn to it. So I bought a wooden hand call and went out to make my fortune. Well needless to say it didn’t work out how I thought and after a dozen times out calling without success I gave up.
I went back to what I knew how to do, duck and goose hunting along with deer and elk hunting. With a lot of walleye and catfishing.
Fast forward to 1988 and again I got the coyote bug. Started reading some books about it, namely “Varmint Hunters Digest”(1977) by Jim Daugherty and “Professional Predator Calling”(1979) by Ed Sceery. Again I was hooked and this time I started to get it. Ever since I called and killed that first “called coyote” in 1988 that’s all I’ve really cared about.lol
Then I really got hooked a couple years later when I bought my first howler(Sceery howler)
Now thousands of coyotes later, I still can’t get enough. Hopefully that stays with me until I can’t physically hunt them anymore.
