Psych Warfare!

[nastygunz]

I conducted an interesting experiment, interesting to me anyways. The other night I heard a pack of coyotes howling out in the woods behind the fortress, not an unusual occurrence. So I took my fox Pro E caller and cranked the volume all the way up and hung it out the window and let loose the sound of a pack of timber wolves howling.

Dead quiet from the coyotes after that. I have done it a few more times and since then have not heard a single peep from the coyotes, I am wondering if I scare them clean out of the area with the wolves howling sound.

I may have just invented a new livestock protection technique 👍

[Okanagan]

Very interesting.  You may be onto something, though wolf howling may make cows go dry and chickens quit laying !!!

I had kind of the opposite experience in northern BC, which makes me curious.  We need to do more research! 

One winter a friend who lived in the area and I were driving a snowy logging road when we came across the tracks of a mama wolf with three big young of the year pups.  We stopped and howled with my e-caller from right beside my vehicle, hoping to get a howl in reply that would locate the wolves for us.  The call sound was a recording of a big male Alaska wolf.  After a couple of minutes a wolf howled in return, from near the road about two miles ahead of us.

We waited for a bit, hoping the wolves would come closer but the next howl was farther away. 

Then, from within 150 yards in the timber, a coyote started barking and howling at us.  We wondered if it was a suicidal coyote!

As I think back on it, I wonder if the coyote had sneaked in and identified us as humans and was barking his "you-can't-fool-me" derision, though it didn't really sound like that, which I have heard a good many times.

[nastygunz]

I was out crow hunting in a cornfield that had a railroad track running through the middle of it one time and I had my caller out on the edge of the field when I saw these two spandex clad guys coming down the railroad bed on mountain bikes. I waited until they got a little bit past my foxpro and then I let loose with a mountain lion snarl. They hit the brakes and stopped and we're looking all around and talking to each other so I hit the mountain lion sound again and they jumped on their bikes and hauled ass at top speed out of there  

[FinsnFur]

I'd be willing bet a coyote or two snuck around and investigated your sound box howls.  Nothing abnormal thats just what they do.
With all the generations of Coyote hunters in the world today, and all the discoveries of behavioral responses and activities, I can almost guarantee you aren't the first person to ever throw an electronic wolf howl at em.  

[nastygunz]

I can guarantee that I'm the first person at my house that did it 😉, cutting edge field research!

[FinsnFur]

I feel like maybe Mountain MaMa may have beat you to it. No?

[nastygunz]

Although a fine fly fisherwoman in her own right she is not a practitioner of the art of the rifle. Shes a purist, she only fishes for native brook trout with dry flies. There are a lot of trespassing critters who have left the yard alive because of her . Although last year she was a little hostile at the big fat woodchuck that mowed all her peas down

[1snafu]

I conducted an interesting experiment, interesting to me anyways. The other night I heard a pack of coyotes howling out in the woods behind the fortress, not an unusual occurrence. So I took my fox Pro E caller and cranked the volume all the way up and hung it out the window and let loose the sound of a pack of timber wolves howling.

Dead quiet from the coyotes after that. I have done it a few more times and since then have not heard a single peep from the coyotes, I am wondering if I scare them clean out of the area with the wolves howling sound.

I may have just invented a new livestock protection technique 👍

I believe it. My state has few transient wolves that pass through. Some are alone, some are in pairs. One day many yrs ago. Myself & another caller. Stopped at a few farms. On a 2x2 mile very hilly timbered section. We spoke with a farmer in his late 50's & also his son. They had both seen a large grey wolf in their section. That wolf hung around for awhile. Anyway we got permission on the son's land to call coyotes. We also gained permission on some land on the opposite side of that 2x2 land mass. One evening about an hr before sunset. We walked in around 1/4 mile & set up along a grassy fence line on a hill side. We started coyote howling. soon some farm dogs & 1 coyote started howling & barking. Moments later, a wolf howled. A deep base lone howl. Which made the hair stand up on our arms. When that wolf howled. All of the other canines went quiet. We never laid eyes on that wolf. And we didn't call in any coyotes.

[nastygunz]

Next im gunna hit em with my Bearmanric cowhorn howler !