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alf

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Setup was at the fence line facing SW, cornfield behind me for cover, beans beyond the hay, divided by the field road.

Light wind to my right out of the NW. Started with several howls, waited, then onto the bunny sounds.

Didn't take long and I had a pair on the way. Lost sight of the trailing coyote, but the lead one was on a string towards the caller.

Just when it was time to shoot, he did a 180 and beat feet out of there. Last I saw of him he was over 600 yards away & still hoofing it.

The caller was shut off, wind was in my favor, I'm at a loss what blew him out of there.

Thoughts?

 
Dang! Something changed it’s mind? So hard to say? They hear, see and smell so much more than we’ll ever know. Hard to comprehend what their senses are capable of? It didn’t blow out at mach level speed so you may get another chance at another time alf?

Better luck next time!
 
Lazer32 said:
Seems like he stuck his nose in the air and got a whiff of something he didn't like. Swirling wind, maybe? Other than that I got nothing.
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I have a plastic electric fence post cut down to hang the Foxpro on to get it above the grass, hay, vegetation, etc.

1st thought was scent, so the next couple times out I spritzed it with scent killer. Never did in the past, so I stopped.

I do have several pieces of reflective tape on it, not sure if they look abnormal to their eyes or not.

Or maybe it just looked out of place to him, who knows.

Like I said, he never broke stride for over 600 yards till he went out of sight.
 
Did you ever scan the other way to see if something bigger was coming in?
Had one crossing right to left one night and stopped and did a 180. Scanned to the left and a much bigger coyote was coming in hot.
 
Spurchaser said:
Did you ever scan the other way to see if something bigger was coming in?
Had one crossing right to left one night and stopped and did a 180. Scanned to the left and a much bigger coyote was coming in hot.
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Once I saw him coming, I quit scanning to my right. Doubtful that another was coming from that direction, with a main highway there and my truck was parked just in the corn field on the field road. I'd not rule anything out though, they don't follow all the rules.....;)
 
You said it, they all act differently at different times. I’ve had some act like the caller was the devil and others that I thought were going to take the caller with them. If it was easy everyone would be doing it and there wouldn’t be any coyotes left.
 
Trailing coyote was female. Told male to “Get your tail back here right now or else!”

Sometimes the male listens. Sometimes the male begs you to “Please, just shoot me”.
 
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