Contest..........and a chance for a free call

[HaMeR]

I want on that headnet ProStaff!!! 

:roflmao: :roflmao:

Whatever works & apparently it worked rather well for you. Again,, Congratulations!! 

[Okanagan]

Coyote101, your coyote came in so fast that it must have been well within hearing range when you set up and sat down.  How did you approach your spot?  Through the open field, slip in from the river side...?  You must have been pretty quiet, and I'd guess that even then the coyote heard you and was listening, curious as to what you were and what was going on.  So your first note of distress answered it's question and launched it toward you.

That is really fast to have one so close.  I can only remember one that fast and I knew the coyote was nearby before I called.   My elk hunting partner saw it cross a road a couple of hundred yards from us as we were glassing peaks on a sleepy afternoon.  I slipped into the timber on the side the coyote entered, went less than 30 yards and when I came to a living room sized open I sat down and did a soft moan on my call.  The coyote must have been coming our way because he was inside of 30 feet within seconds.  I was back at the road with a dead coyote less than 2 minutes after leaving.  My partner, who had never called coyotes, asked, "How did you do that?"  He hadn't heard the soft moan from the call, only the shot.

FWIW I use a three legged stool also, with adjustable leg length and height, but it set me too high in the low sage yesterday.   I flattened my almost empty day pack on the snow, laid my closed cell pad on it and sat on it to keep my rear out of the snow.  That put me at ground level, with only my head sticking out above the sage.

[coyote101]

Okanagan,
My truck was parked where the yellow square is at the bottom of the picture. I walked in along the tree line to where I set up at the green dot. The wind was steady out of the NW at four or five MPH. I moved as quietly as possible, but it was near 20 degrees so the leaves and ground were kind of crunchy, and I was far from silent. The coyote came out of the woodline about where the red dot is. It is only about fifty or fifty five yards from where I was to where she came out of the woods. It happened pretty fast, but I'm not complaining.

Pat

[Okanagan]

Yeah it looks just like home .

pitw, tilt the picture till the ground is level and get rid of the mountain side background with photoshop.  Voila!  Just like home!    

[Okanagan]

Pat, thanks for the details.  I'm always trying to figure out critters.  With the noisy frozen leaves, if the coyote was on the move in the timber hunting for itself, which is likely, it would be making noise enough to maybe keep it from hearing you.  Sounds we make ourselves are close to our ears and drown out more distant sounds.  That is especially true when animals are feeding because the sounds, even small ones, are so close to the ears.  It can't hear sounds of us sneaking in as well while it is crunching food, or even sniffing along through crunchy leaves, etc.

Anyway, you did super.  You have Ninja stealth to get that close to the critter without spooking it before you called.  Excellent stand all the way!  Interesting that both of our coyotes were within shotgun range.  

[Frogman]

Is the traffic on the highway noisy??  I have a spot near the house that is not far from the Interstate and the the traffic is so noisy, I don't hunt it much.

Jim

[HaMeR]

Hunt it when the leaves are off & use it for a backstop to your position Jim.

[coyote101]

Is the traffic on the highway noisy??  I have a spot near the house that is not far from the Interstate and the the traffic is so noisy, I don't hunt it much.

Jim

That is just a part of the bypass around town. The traffic is usually pretty light and with the wind from the west the noise is really not an issue.

Pat

[KySongDog]

Pat, don't tell them that the secret to getting close is the hat.    We'll keep that to ourselves.   

[Okanagan]

Pat, don't tell them that the secret to getting close is the hat.    We'll keep that to ourselves.    

                 17 step hat.                                        30 step hat.

[HaMeR]

 :roflmao: :roflmao:

[golfertrout]

good job 

[pitw]

So who is paying what for this contest?  I've enjoyed the heck out of it to this point and want to enjoy just one or two more barbs .

[JohnP]

Okanagan said:  "I'd called 8 stands in soggy snow near home, five of them in pouring rain on snow, two in falling slushy snow," 

That's why God made TV's, easy chairs and cold beer.  However if'n you should ever decide you want to sell that 600 I would like a crack at it. 

Frogman said:    "I have a spot near the house that is not far from the Interstate and the the traffic is so noisy, I don't hunt it much." 

You may be missing out on a great place to kill some coyotes.  One morning many years ago as I was pulling off a hardtop road into a hunting area I noticed a dead jack on the roadside.  Paid no attention to it and continued on my way another mile of two and started calling with no critters in sight.  Made a few more stands without any success.  On the way out I noticed that the jack had disappeared.  Parked the truck, walked about 50 yards from the roadway and started on jack distress.  With a few minutes I had a coyote on the ground.  I have made it a point to call close to well used roads using distress sounds and have been pretty successful at it. 

Congratulations to both you guys, job well done.

[pitw]

John P I have to agree with hunting close to a highway.  It could be different other places but here I call a lot within a 1/4 mile of our highway[no where near the traffic you guys have I'd guess] and it's a great spot.  Coyotes[and deer] have trails along the highway just out of sight and are so used to the traffic they don't even look over unless a vehicle slows down.  The highway is like a smorgasbord for coyotes with road kill, sandwiches, tossed out town cats and other goodies to numerous to mention.

[Bills Custom Calls]

I am taking my call to the LBL and hopefully get a pic of it with a dead coyote 

Jim a few years ago I was driving up I 77 just south of Parkersbug and seen a pair of coyotes laying inside the gaurdrail watching over the Holler and sunning themselves.They never even looked at the road as traffic went passed

[HaMeR]

If you put the window down on the hi-way & blow that call Bill I'm gonna use the window control on my side to keep your head out there!!  :roflmao: :roflmao:

[clynn]

Where can I get one of these calls they look great and I bet they sound as good as they look.

[Okanagan]

Where can I get one of these calls they look great and I bet they sound as good as they look.

The experts below thought so.

[KySongDog]

Where can I get one of these calls they look great and I bet they sound as good as they look.

Welcome to FnF, clynn.