Tips and Tricks

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Tips and Tricks for
​(The Tips and Tricks will be updated regularly. Check back often.)

• Coyote Hunting
• Deer Hunting (coming soon)
• Fishing  (coming soon)
• Turkey Hunting (coming soon)
• Trapping (coming soon)
• General Outdoor info (coming soon)
  
  

Coyote Hunting :

• Be something the coyote wants to:
  
  • eat
  • fight
  • mate with
  • investigate
    
• Coyote pup distress calls work all year long
  
• After shooting a coyote, switch to a pup distress sound. There may be other coyotes that will come to see what is going on.
  
• Know how to make different coyote vocalizations
  
  • Interrogation howl
  • Challenge howl
    
    
  • Female invitation howl
    
  • Pup distress
    
• Sound like what is active at the time
  
  • Fawn bleats - spring and summer
  • Pup distress - especially spring and summer
  • Female invitation howl - late December/January
    
• Use availabel cover to get to calling site
  
• Call the same area from different locations
  
• Switch up the calls you use.  Coyotes can pattern hunters also.
• Use differnet route to get to calling area
  
• Use a decoy for the sound.  Fawn for a fawn bleat, a coyote for pup distress or stufffed rabbit.
  
• Adding motion to decoys works well.
  
• Set the decoy where you can see it.
  
• Carry extra batteries for calls/lights/decoys/etc.
  
• Have extra ammunition for your firearm.
  
• Work with the wind.  Call into or across the wind.
  
• Keep the sun at your back or yourself in deep shade.