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Topic: Toward the roads or not?
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stevecriner
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posted February 24, 2009 07:58 PM
What is your opinions on calling towards the roads. Heres mine.
Out west I tend to do more "stop the truck walk a hundred yards and call stuff" and i do that here as well. But I think due to pressure and the time of year helps me decide what im going to do. Early season I dont pay much attention and through outthe year I go ahead and start bending toward the in deep stands. Not always in timber and such but off the road and I imagine this is dictated by pressure in the given area also. Whats your opinions on this, and do you alter through out the year or hold true all year long? Does terrain dictate this for you, it does me. Just ponderin.
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RagnCajn
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posted February 24, 2009 08:13 PM
Hey Steve, In my area the road is a non issue. Do you remember the coyote we called along the highway. Yeah, that one. The one you missed because the scope mount had come loose.
Well here is another one I posted a video of last year. He doesn't seem to be too upset by the traffic.
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Leonard
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posted February 24, 2009 10:00 PM
This is counter productive, but I will share a little nugget. I have heard of a certain place where there is no point in leaving the highway, at night. That's where the coyotes hang out, usually no further than the telephone poles. The further you get away from the pavement, the fewer coyotes you will see.
On the other hand, I might be a bullshit artist?
LB
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Andy L
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posted February 25, 2009 04:11 AM
Steve, some of the places I hunt around here you have no choice. The roads are a mile apart and you are calling fencerows and ditches anyhow.
Ive called coyotes along I44 as well. Just walk out a ways and call. Works pretty well.
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DAA
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posted February 25, 2009 04:23 AM
Some roads, some places, some of the time, some coyotes, won't be likely to come to a call coming from the direction of that road. It's a pressure issue. "Most" of the time though, the places I hunt, they are as likely to come trotting right up the middle of the road, coming to the call, as not.
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Possumal
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posted March 11, 2009 07:43 PM
Around my neck of the woods here in central Ky., I always avoid calling towards roads, houses, barns, where they encounter people, some with rifles and shotguns. They know where all the danger is on these smaller farms from big dogs, farmers who shoot, and road hunters. The odds are way more in my favor going to the trouble to plan my approach and setup where I avoid calling them toward those types of areas. There are so many fences and noisy gates to put up with, I sometimes have to go out of my way a good deal to avoid what I think is a bad setup.
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TA17Rem
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posted March 11, 2009 09:20 PM
In a area i hunt some of the coyotes hang out close to the roads so i will hit these areas first and then later on move in farther. You can tell where they are by locateing and then hunt accordingly...
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xtremehunteraz
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posted March 11, 2009 11:49 PM
I know an area close to the Mexico border that the only area you can call in the dogs are within 200 yards of the road. Any farther they dont come in to you.
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3 Toes
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posted March 12, 2009 04:42 AM
Never say never. Everybody is always calling towards a road somewhere. May be 500 yds or 50 miles, but unless you are on the beach calling into the ocean, you are calling towards a road. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Jrbhunter
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posted March 12, 2009 06:57 AM
BS on that "never" stuff Cal.
Coyotes never come from somewhere they aren't, and they always head to where they're going. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
DAA hit the nail on the head.
In my country- it depends on the confidence and security a coyote feels in the given situation. Sometimes they hangup at 400 yards because their uncomfortable with the location of the sound source in proximity to a roadway. Coyotes 2 mile down the road may barrel down the centerline of a highway. (I've seen this exact scenario)
Light levels have the biggest impact with roads for me. Day/Night, Sunny/Cloudy, Big Moon/Small Moon, Ambient Lights/thickness of cover. I have called MANY coyotes down, across and under heavily travelled roadways this season... even called one over an interstate overpass. I called one coyote across 2 county roads and a 2 woven wire fences at 12:15pm because that's what he was willing to do.
For cookie-cutter advice on daytime stands, in Midwestern terrain and populations, no I don't like to call toward a heavily travelled roadway. Why? Because the ODDS are that the coyotes I'm calling are sitting in a comfort zone that doesn't include that trafficed area... so by calling them toward the road I'm asking them to do something they don't want to do. Not all roads, not all days, not all coyotes- but statistically, no.
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Leonard
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posted March 12, 2009 09:39 AM
I mean, this stuff is basic. I couldn't count the number of times I have called from the side of a road, even while I am taking a leak on an offramp on the Interstate. Nine times out of ten, I kill nothing. A coyote approaching human activity, around a vehicle along the side of a highway, won't always spook. In fact, many of them don't perceive at threat and they are curious, with the sound and all. Countless times, a bedded coyote will stand up within a few hundred yards and watch us change drivers or get a drink out of the back, routine stuff you do while traveling. Turn on the sound, you might be surprised. Some places are more developed than others, so this may be of little value in (say) Seattle? Or Rapid City?
Good hunting. LB
'course, that would probably be "calling AWAY from the road"?
At night, hunting along pavement, just pulling off to the side, with not another vehicle for twenty miles in either direction; it is very important to keep an eye on the reflectors because the coyotes will cut in from out in the weeds and approach along the shoulder of the road, either side, fore or aft and it can be very difficult to pick them out between the road markers.
[ March 12, 2009, 09:42 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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