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Coyote calls

NMSbowhunter said:
Check out MFK Gamecalls. Torry has a YouTube channel full of coyote content. I.ve ordered his mouth calls and been very happy with them. He also has full libraries of electronic calls. This guy is a coyote killing machine.

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X2 You'll learn more about how to setup and kill coyotes from MFK than anywhere else on Youtube.

I had a real problem with them in the area I hunt ~5-6yrs ago. Never hunted them before. Soaked up all I could from MFK. Was already pretty good calling and killing turkeys with a mouth call. Bought a few of their mouth calls. Killed 9 coyotes my first season after my deer season was over. ~Nov-Feb.

If you can turkey call well with a mouth call, then it's all $ you need spend to kill them in IMO. They get wise to an electronic call quickly if your hunting same area. A motion decoy wont give you an advantage either unless you are hunting wide open terrain.

Kill a few with a gun first before you worry about taking one with the bow. Check your laws/gun laws for what is legal. No night hunting and rifle no larger than .22 cal or shotgun where I am.
 
Pic1 said:
X2 You'll learn more about how to setup and kill coyotes from MFK than anywhere else on Youtube.

I had a real problem with them in the area I hunt ~5-6yrs ago. Never hunted them before. Soaked up all I could from MFK. Was already pretty good calling and killing turkeys with a mouth call. Bought a few of their mouth calls. Killed 9 coyotes my first season after my deer season was over. ~Nov-Feb.

If you can turkey call well with a mouth call, then it's all $ you need spend to kill them in IMO. They get wise to an electronic call quickly if your hunting same area. A motion decoy wont give you an advantage either unless you are hunting wide open terrain.

Kill a few with a gun first before you worry about taking one with the bow. Check your laws/gun laws for what is legal. No night hunting and rifle no larger than .22 cal or shotgun where I am.
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Thank you for the advice. I already have the e-caller so I am going to run with that for now.

I've been out for 2 short afternoon sits. No success yet but I am gaining experience in all that is involved in the process. Choosing a setup is more challenging than I thought. Also, I watched a video from MFK regarding locating coyotes. That will be my next goal. I learned very quickly how valuable it is to locate turkeys instead of commiting to a piece of land blind calling. I expect that will carry over with coyote hunting as well.
 
If you’re on a budget ico tech makes an ok call it’s just not crazy loud. A mouth call will get you no where unless you’re on top of coyotes. Can you sound loud and in pain like a dying rabbit with a diaphragm call? If you’ve never heard a rabbit in distress than I’ll assume you don’t know the answer to that and I’ll let you know that you cannot. For relatively cheap (under 150) you can get the ico tech and a primos decoy and be pretty set as longer as you’re hunting where there will be coyotes. I didn’t notice a change in calling until we started running a fox pro but of course now you’re talking money. It’s not an easy sport and certainly not for the faint of heart. It’s much like deer hunting and you’re gonna have more disappointing hunts than you do successful ones. It’s nothing like the tv makes it seem (unless you’re out west) coyotes are smart animals. There’s a reason there’s so many of them and it’s not because we don’t kill them
 
You really have to play the wind and watch your downwind edge in relation to cover. I try to point my speaker with the wind direction and I’m watching the parallel downwind edge with cover. They will skirt the edge trying to work downwind of the caller. I’ve had more success on coyotes calling intermittently instead of just running the call non stop. That works better for fox doing it that way with softer calls. Coyotes around here just seem to skulk in the late season. Early season during dispersal the young ones will come to anything.
 
woodsdog2 said:
You really have to play the wind and watch your downwind edge in relation to cover. I try to point my speaker with the wind direction and I’m watching the parallel downwind edge with cover. They will skirt the edge trying to work downwind of the caller. I’ve had more success on coyotes calling intermittently instead of just running the call non stop. That works better for fox doing it that way with softer calls. Coyotes around here just seem to skulk in the late season. Early season during dispersal the young ones will come to anything.
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The only place I’ve ever seen coyotes just blatantly not give a **** about anything is a cow farm I hunt. In a state where coyotes are open season. The farmer kills 2-3 cows every Saturday and those dogs are thicker than thieves around there. Yet another strange phenomenon is it seems to not have any affect of the deer at all. I’ve killed deer down there 10 minutes after a dog comes through. But if you kill a deer on that property you better act quick if you plan on eating it yourself. I’m not afraid of the dark but it’s a rather un easy stand to walk to in the morning haha
 
woodsdog2 said:
You really have to play the wind and watch your downwind edge in relation to cover. I try to point my speaker with the wind direction and I’m watching the parallel downwind edge with cover. They will skirt the edge trying to work downwind of the caller. I’ve had more success on coyotes calling intermittently instead of just running the call non stop. That works better for fox doing it that way with softer calls. Coyotes around here just seem to skulk in the late season. Early season during dispersal the young ones will come to anything.
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That seems to be the most important part of the setup, the down wind side. It is like learning to deer hunt with a bow and turkey hunt with a mouth call all over again. I do enjoy the challenge.
 
My recommendation is to be painstaking about your setup, make it right! Also, spend time at each setup, I would recommend at least an hour... This advice is based off your location, and my experience hunting eastern coyotes! I really didn't use much of the western advice once I figured out how to be successful. Primarily NJ, NY, and PA...
 
bowhunthard88 said:
My recommendation is to be painstaking about your setup, make it right! Also, spend time at each setup, I would recommend at least an hour... This advice is based off your location, and my experience hunting eastern coyotes! I really didn't use much of the western advice once I figured out how to be successful. Primarily NJ, NY, and PA...
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couldn’t agree with this more! Wanna learn how to hunt? Always come east!
 
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