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Topic: How Smart or Educated are these coyotes?
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SD Howler
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posted December 21, 2010 04:42 PM
I remember a deer and coyote hunt from years ago where I started the day at sunrise by shooting a 4 X 5 mule deer buck. Then I thought that I should also try and call up some coyotes from the same area. I only moved about 100 yards from where the deer was laying and picked a spot with good visibility in some river break hills. I made several howls with my open reed call and to my surprise, had responses from three separate family groups of coyotes. Now the fun was only beginning, since I had to watch three different directions to see which coyotes would be spotted first, coming in to my howls.
Watching back over my shoulder to the northeast, then to the west, and next to the big draw to the south, which coyotes would I spot first or which ones would see or scent me FIRST? Finally after several minutes of glassing and watching, I spotted some movement close to a mile away to the south. This turned out to be six coyotes coming in to my stand from the southerly direction. I kept watching every few minutes to the northeast and west, but never did see the other coyotes that answered my howls.
As the group to the south got to about 400 hundred yards, I made some rabbit distress cries with my call and four of the coyotes continued their approach and two remained back. As they came into my stand, they went out of sight on the front side of hill I was using for my stand. I made a few squeaks with my lips and noticed a coyote to the south jumping up through the yuccas as it approached looking for it’s hopeful meal. Finally it got close enough for a full shoulder shot and my shot connected. I blew a few kiyi’s and noticed a coyote on a west ridge at about 150 yards, my second shot stopped this coyote. I still hadn’t seen two of the other four coyotes that had come in from the south. Hence I started to move to the south to look at a blind spot over the hill, where the coyotes made their first approach.
Finally I went far enough to view the draw where the coyotes had made their approach and down on the lower edge of the hill were the two remaining coyotes. One was standing and the other was in the sitting position. I put the crosshairs on the standing coyote and fired a shot, putting an end to the third coyote. The remaining coyote stood up looking at its dead partner, I quickly chambered another shell, shot and hit the coyote in the front leg and now the departure was on. I took a couple more running shots but didn’t make contact.
The rancher heard the multiple shots and drove out to see if I had any luck? I was picking up the first coyote when he arrived and he was happy to see that I killed a coyote. Little did he know what a FANTASTIC morning hunt that I had. We went on to pick up the second coyote and the rancher was really smiling and when I told him we had one more to go, he was in disbelief. After I picked up the last coyote, I looked at their teeth to see how old they were from the wear on the incisors and the canine teeth. These three coyotes were all pups. If you remember my story, I had six coyotes approaching from the south and two coyotes stayed back and four came into my call. I can only presume that the two adult coyotes sent the four pups in for breakfast and as it turned out, three of the pups had their first and last education.
I could have shot a limit of both pheasants and grouse that day also. I have often thought back what a picture and memory that would have made with the mule deer buck, three coyotes, and limits of both grouse and pheasants all hanging from the rancher’s wood corral fence.
[ December 22, 2010, 11:19 PM: Message edited by: SD Howler ]
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Steve
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posted December 21, 2010 05:24 PM
great story ![[Wink]](wink.gif) my brother and i in one day(from 8am to 2:30 pm shot 15 coyotes. all but a few were y.o.y. the few adults we did take non appeared to be older ones. gotta love the young ones ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Clay Reid
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posted December 26, 2010 05:52 AM
Thats awesome . Mans loves it when a plan comes together especially when theres witnesses .
In a contest 2 years ago I killed 12 from daylight 10 oclock .
1st coyote was accidental . I was getting ready to shoot and he was coming into the left of me and had to lean back to avoid a mesquite tree . the gun went boom and hit him dead in the head .
Next yote I got my butt chewed out for killing him . Me and my partner were in a lil grassy patch in a wheat field . he had a yote coming slowly to the call and was waiting on him to kill it when all the sudden a yote came running by me at 20 yards . i dropped him with my 22.250 and my partners starts on my butt . "what the heck you shoot for " I replied ti him "he was getting away"...." Getting my butt" he says . I said "what does it matter hes dead" . LOL he thought I was shooting at his dod he never saw the one I dropped .
Next call I killed a triple ,next call I killed a double , next call a single .
The next call I was on the phone with a buddy who was wanting to know how I was doing . I told him i had 8 . He called me a liar ...I said I really do thats when I looked up and there was a yote at the caller . I dropped the phone ...shot the yote ...and said now I have 9 ..he was pissed . LOL
Dry call on the next ..then a single and a double . This was a 10 yote limit but the last double I shot because I thought they might be big yotes .
Like I said its really great when a plan comes together . Whats funny is my partner that hunt was one of the coyote huntin sum bucks we call him the Godfather of it around these parts .
He shot 1 for the day . He did not like it until we split that check . LOL
Thats Awesome SD keep it up I enjoyed the rundown .
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TRnCO
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posted December 26, 2010 07:55 AM
So Steve, see if I got this straight,...you're thinking that of the 6 coyotes coming to the call, 4 were pups and the other two were the parents? Then once you switched to distress the pups, being uneducated and all, came while the two educated parents stayed back probably because they were smart enough to remember a bad experience from last season where they may have responded to that sound at that spot and got shot at, so send the kids because they remember a bad experience from last season?
I assume the parents hadn't been called since last season? SO, you beleive that they can remember the sounds from that stand selection from one season to the next?
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SD Howler
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posted December 26, 2010 09:51 AM
I feel that the rabbit distress that I blow with my open reed call does sound authentic and I have had great success using it with my calling:
Rabbit Distress
Coyotes are just like humans, we all live and learn from our past experiences.
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Steve
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Leonard
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posted December 26, 2010 10:14 AM
I used your calls up north, SD. I have a nagging suspicion, but still have one bag to unpack and check all the pockets. Can't find that bite call?
Clay, that's one that has escaped me, thus far; dumping a coyote while chit chatting on the phone. That tells me all I need to know about Texas.
Good hunting. LB
edited for spelling
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Clay Reid
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posted December 26, 2010 10:27 AM
Man I do like that sound SD . Ill bet that a coyote getting son of a gun .
I wish it was that easy all the time leonard .lol Thats just why I live here its great .
SD you makin those calls I suppose . if so I just might have to have one .
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SD Howler
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posted December 26, 2010 09:03 PM
Leonard:
Did you find that bite reed call? Did you have any luck with the bite reed or the open reed howler that I sent you?
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Inoculation
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posted December 28, 2010 05:28 AM
Shooting a coyote while chatting on the phone happens in CA from time to time too Leonard LOL!
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Leonard
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posted December 28, 2010 07:54 AM
Hey, Ino~ why don't your considerably more handsome brother register?
I can't claim a cell phone kill, but I got one while reading the LA Times standing in the hatch, one afternoon. Made a double, actually.
Good hunting. LB
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posted December 29, 2010 05:36 AM
Hey Leonard,
Jimmy never gets on these internet forums. I don't think he is registered on a single one.
He is a handsome devil I guess. I will tell him to sign up, but I'm sure it will go in one ear and out the other.
Matt
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