Stand-offish coyotes

[coydog]

Your at a stand, you have a visual, but the coyote just wont commit and come into range or is just sitting there looking at you (your direction). Lets just go with, he hasnt seen you, but is focused on the area where the sounds are coming from.
Any tips on persuading (sp?) stand-offish coyotes to come.
Is there a point where youd be better off to leave and come back another time/different angle?

[SteveCraig]

I know what I would do, but I want to hear what others would do in this situation.
A very good question, and one I deal with all the time with clients/students.
Lets talk about it.
Give me an idea what YOU would do.
Steve

[Clinton]

Get a bigger rifle.

[Wiley]

In that situation one of a few things could be happening.

1. The coyote saw or heard something that he/she didn't like.

2. He/she has been called before with similar sounds and missed.

3. He/she may have got their ass kicked by another coyote in a similar situation.

4. You are trying to pull that coyote towards an area that it might associate with danger for whatever reason which could be related to #2.


Two things you can do:

First, try a few different vocalizations that you have not tried before.

Second, quit calling altogether and wait him/her out. Sometimes the best call for these coyotes is no call. Consider that this coyote might think that a bigger coyote was there and may now have left. Curiousity can sometimes kill these coyotes when they believe the source of the sound is now gone and there may be scraps left behind.

If you are calling with a partner and if one guy can sneak away, leave one guy there to entertain the coyote while the other person sneaks in for the kill. We have done this many times.

If none of this works. Try the same area on a different day with a different sound from a different direction.


~SH~

[richc]

Coydog,
I see that you are from central Iowa. The coyotes here in Iowa simply HATE to cross very much open ground to approach the sound of a call in day time. If the coyote you mention has come to the edge of the cover to look for source of the sound, he expects to see something. If the coyote has no cover to use as approach route, your chances of calling him closer are very slim. I have seen this happen while calling the brush in daytime also. My caller is hidden in a small grass clump, out in a small clearing. Coyote comes to edge of the brush and stares at that clump of grass where the sound is coming from. Sometimes the coyote is within thirty yards or less, and all I can see is coyote ears. I go in to the coyote's living room to call them. I have to choose my hidey hole very careful like. Even then, the coyote will sometimes win.