tuffcrk14
Lil-Rokslider
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- Feb 11, 2015
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I went out coyote hunting at last light on some thick brushy/wooded river bottom private property that has bobcat, fox, and coyote. A very mixed batch of critters. I started out with low volume rodent distress and mouse squeaks, then went to baybee cottontail, then to pheasant distress in 3-5 ish minute increments kind of running the gamut of sounds. I didn’t want to commit to adding coyote sounds yet due to the fact that I could have a fox or bobcat coming in to my sounds and didn’t want to ruin that potential opportunity. The next round of sounds I went with a really raspy high pitch jack rabbit, baby bobcat distress, and red fox distress. Nothing. I’d been there calling for 30-40ish minutes when it got dark and then a whole pack erupts in the river bottom several hundred yards off. Well within earshot of my sounds. I howl, I go into coyote distress sounds and nothing shows up. These critters make you question your existence! I thought I had a decent game plan, but it didn’t work for me yesterday. Curious to hear how you guys might call densely wooded areas vs wide open areas, or if you just keep the same strategy regardless. I generally hunt open country, but tried to add a few extra sounds to the mix. Curious how guys that hunt heavily wooded areas successfully do things. I feel like I’m missing that one thing that could have brought them in…. Or maybe not. I was able to sit on a cut bank that looked down into the river bottom that also had a 1/2-3/4 acre clear cut below me and could see my down wind and had clear shots out to 100 yards. The wind was light, but hitting me in the face and taking my scent away from the river bottom into the crop field behind me, which I could also cover.
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