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06-25-2006, 10:40 PM

A11en

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First time out!

I shot my first coyote this past year while deer hunting.We were driving small sections of our property and spoked one. The 00 buck took him down.

I'm looking forward to taking one the "hard way". I'll be shooting a .243 with 100 grain Serria Gamekings BTSP, which group sub MOA in my rilfe. I've downloaded several call-sounds from various websites and have read a great deal about set-up.

I have a couple questions:

[ul][*]I live in North Carolina and we do not have jackrabbits here. Can I use a jackrabbit distress sound? Will they be curious or spooked?[*]I plan to set-up a squence of calls on a CD including 2-3 minutes of silence between 1 minute calls. I plan to play the cd in a battery operated CD player wrapped in camo mesh. Has anyone tried this?[*]One of the fields we have on our property is about 300 yards long with scattered clumps of brush. I planned to put the CD player in one ofthe clumps of brush and set-up cross wind about 150 yards away from a elevated stand. [/ul]
Any concerns with this set-up or any recommendations? This is the only field on our property. The rest is mostly wooded with very small openings. Any recommendations for setting up in this type of terrain?

Thanks

06-26-2006, 12:19 AM

petrey10

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RE: First time out!

how long is your CD?? I am thinking about doing the saem thing with my setup...good thread post

06-26-2006, 05:09 PM

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RE: First time out!

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ORIGINAL: A11en

I shot my first coyote this past year while deer hunting.We were driving small sections of our property and spoked one. The 00 buck took him down.

I'm looking forward to taking one the "hard way". I'll be shooting a .243 with 100 grain Serria Gamekings BTSP, which group sub MOA in my rilfe. I've downloaded several call-sounds from various websites and have read a great deal about set-up.

I have a couple questions:
[ul][*]I live in North Carolina and we do not have jackrabbits here. Can I use a jackrabbit distress sound? Will they be curious or spooked?[*]I plan to set-up a squence of calls on a CD including 2-3 minutes of silence between 1 minute calls. I plan to play the cd in a battery operated CD player wrapped in camo mesh. Has anyone tried this?[*]One of the fields we have on our property is about 300 yards long with scattered clumps of brush. I planned to put the CD player in one ofthe clumps of brush and set-up cross wind about 150 yards away from a elevated stand. [/ul]
Any concerns with this set-up or any recommendations? This is the only field on our property. The rest is mostly wooded with very small openings. Any recommendations for setting up in this type of terrain?

Thanks

1. A critter in distress is a critter in distress. Yes to the 1st one. 2. Yes the CD player will work. No concerns with setup; just setup as quiet as possible and try not to spook one going in there.

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06-26-2006, 10:09 PM

A11en

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RE: First time out!

petray10 - the calling sequence will be about 15-20 minutes with only one third of that time actually calling - the remaining two thirds will be silence (breaks between call segments)

I plan to go out Wednesday evening - I'll let you know how it works.

06-26-2006, 10:25 PM

A11en

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Hardcorehunter - thanks for the feedback. Do you have any experience hunting in relatively thick cover, and what set-up might work?

At our club - we've got another small rectangular field (about 1/4 acre) surrounded bypine trees and thick brush on three sides and some hard woods and tall grass on the fourth side. The hardwoods (forth side) is on an incline with a deer trail coming from that direction. Within a mile, there is a pig farm and coyotes are very common in the area. We have a 15'ladder stand over looking the field (35 yards from the field) and it is enclosed from the chest down to conceal any movement. I would like to set-up in the ladder stand and use the same CD player method I decribed in my original post - but I'm concerned I won't see the coyote approaching in time due to the thick cover and the volume may spook them? Any recommendations for this scenario?

06-27-2006, 07:00 AM

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RE: First time out!

Getting up in the air in thick cover and watching the downwind sign should work for you, or get a shotgun and sit on the ground.I hunt a pig farm too. They take their dead pigs and throw them in compost piles. Yotes everywhere. Don't overcall is my suggestion. I think that my failures in the early years of doing this was from over-calling.

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06-27-2006, 08:32 PM

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RE: First time out!

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I have a couple questions:

I live in North Carolina and we do not have jackrabbits here. Can I use a jackrabbit distress sound? Will they be curious or spooked?

I don't have priarie dogs, sheep, or goats anywhere near me, but that doesn't keep me from using those sounds, either. Not a lot of people use those calls, and they give me a shot at bringing in some of the wearier coyotes. Coyotes are opportunists, and if it sounds like something edible, they will investigate. I even have some kitty sound recordings.

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I plan to set-up a squence of calls on a CD including 2-3 minutes of silence between 1 minute calls. I plan to play the cd in a battery operated CD player wrapped in camo mesh. Has anyone tried this?

I used a CD/cassette player with some cassettes I purchased for a while. It's wasn't in the same league as the FoxPro I have now, but it worked o.k. The cassettes were pretty much continuous, which worked on some coyotes, but not coyotes that had been educated. When I use hand calls, I usually stick to a 10-15 second sequence every 5 or 6 minutes. Predators have quick ears.

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One of the fields we have on our property is about 300 yards long with scattered clumps of brush. I planned to put the CD player in one ofthe clumps of brush and set-up cross wind about 150 yards away from a elevated stand.

When I set up my FoxPro, I usually try to stay as close as possible. If the wind is blowing hard, I'll set up about 100 yards away. If not, I'll set up 20 to 40 yards away. I try to set up so that if something responds, the shot is a gimme.