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Leonard
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posted March 30, 2014 08:32 AM
How many bumped coyotes are you able to call in and how did you do it?
Good hunting. El Bee
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted March 30, 2014 09:11 AM
Good question.
This is my personal approach when this happens. First, I just bumped a coyote. Should I just go ahead and do my setup as planned? Chances of calling the coyote I bumped aren't good, but there might be others in the area that are still in play and unaware of my presence. If I do, am I giving the bumped coyote an opportunity to becoming conditioned to my presence and my calls? If he's been bumped and nothing bad happens afterwards, will the coyote connect the dots and consider the situation to be dangerous down the line? Probably not. Getting bumped from their bed isn't uncommon, I'm sure. To me, the worst possible reaction is to start flailing away with low percentage shots at a runner. That will teach him for sure.
Often as not, I will simply watch where it goes to and retreat from the area quietly. Go someplace nearby but out of ear shot to call another setup and either return after an hour or two, or try to approach the area the bumped coyote went into hoping that it has either forgotten my intrusion "over there" or simply won't make the connection between then and now.
I have called a few bumped coyotes in, but they were generally early season young of the year.
[ March 30, 2014, 09:13 AM: Message edited by: Cdog911 ]
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Fur_n_Dirt
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posted March 30, 2014 05:15 PM
Last season..
Just as I got out of the truck, my freakin wife called my cell (I had forgotten to put it on mute)
As soon as I got off the phone, a coyote started barking at me!
It's one of those that get real pissed and follow you around ..
I immediately put the ecaller 10 yards from the truck and started a coaxer at low volume..
Sure enough, that yote eventually did a drive by at 165 yards and showed himself for a split second.. I free handed it, and nailed him with a .223. :-)
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted March 30, 2014 06:56 PM
Here's one I passed on.... I'd been trying to call a buddy all morning and had hiked in to set up in a fallen over pile of old hay bales. No sooner had I gotten everything set up when my phone started to buzz. I sacrificed the set up and took the call. We spoke for most of fifteen minutes and I hit the "end" button and stuck the phone back in my pocket. Literally, seconds later, a mangy coyote burst out of the fallen hay bale pile not ten feet to my right and ran like hell toward a thicket of nearby brush. He'd sat there the whole time listening to me talk and just couldn't take it anymore. Laughed my ass off at him.
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