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Author Topic: calling mikeyc PAKMAN Member # 2145 posted December 26, 2007 09:53 AM                    I live out west and im having a problem on how long to make a sit at a stand.. what are the preferred lengths of time to sit and watch?? I have heard everything from 15 minutes to 1 hour.. and what type of call to use around this time of year??? Posts: 2 | From: utah | Registered: Dec 2007  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted December 26, 2007 10:11 AM                       That's right. You will get opinions. Do what feels right. However. I can tell you this much. Most of the coyotes I see, respond withing 3.5 minutes. I start losing interest in a stand past 7 minutes, and generally break it off somewhere between ten and twelve minutes. I would have trouble staying awake for an hour, much less staying alert? For every coyote you snag past twenty minutes, you will kill ten within the first seven. This tells you something about stand selection, I would think? What do others think? Let's find out. Good hunting. LB -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 31474 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged TA17Rem Hello, I'm the legendary Tim Anderson, Field Marshall, Southern Minneesota Sector Member # 794 posted December 26, 2007 12:59 PM                    I have to drive a long ways to call coyotes so i will stay on stand for 15 min. on avr, and maybe a little longer if its a good area that has produced in the past. At home i have been staying on stand for 30 min. to and hour. No takers, but thats fine ! I'll be back with some friends and then well see how smart they are then. -------------------- What if I told you, the left wing and right wing both belong to same bird! Posts: 5082 | From: S.D. | Registered: Jan 2006  |  IP: Logged Locohead World Famous Smoke Dancer Member # 15 posted December 26, 2007 01:35 PM                    Once my lower back starts making want to fidget, I try to hang in there another couple of minutes then I give. I believe Lance has a similar stragedy. Actually, for me every stand is different. It depends on the size of the country (visibility). Some stands where I have a high perch and can see coyotes for 1/2 to a mile a way, I'll wait atleast 20 min. maybe 1/2 hour or more. Often, on the way to these big country spots, I'll spot a great spot weith very little visibility, and call quietly and wait 5 minutes before walking to the good big spot with lots of visibility. (T.R. style, I know he does that too) I got the idea from Quinton. He does a lot of that kind of stuff. (not sure if he ever sits at a stand for 30 minutes or more though)I think he calls the technique "Sit then Split" or "Chirp 'N Go" or "Scream don't Dream" or "Sit and Squeek" or "Squeek and Run" or some such other term. I havn't yet mastered the technique like Q has. But for me, I'll often be walking to a stand and pass a great little spot on the way that I just have to sit and call for a second or three hundred. -------------------- I love my critters and chick!!!! :) Posts: 2219 | From: CO | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Locohead World Famous Smoke Dancer Member # 15 posted December 26, 2007 02:58 PM                    I think I got it now..."Sneek and Peek" no, no, no, that's not it...would you believe..."Peek and Squeek"? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhh something like that! -------------------- I love my critters and chick!!!! :) Posts: 2219 | From: CO | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Kokopelli SENIOR DISCOUNT & Dispenser of Sage Advice Member # 633 posted December 26, 2007 05:10 PM                      On my stands, 4 to 6 minutes seems to be the golden window of opportunity with another response period between 12 & 14 minutes. After 15 I generally call it quits. I am of the opinion (feel free to disagree) that most late arrivials, after 10 minutes, are not even with-in hearing range of the call at the start of the stand. They work their way into the sound pattern and apon hearing the call, respond. -------------------- And lo, the Light of the Trump shown upon the Darkness and the Darkness could not comprehend it. Posts: 7584 | From: Under a wandering star | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged

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