I wouldn't be so paranoid....

[k9]

..if everyone was not out to get me.

Gotta be how a coyote feels sometimes.

So how many of you experienced callers believe that a coyote or other animal can "sense" it when a human stares at them. I know accomplished callers who have told me not to stare directly at an incoming coyote as some may "sense" that they are being watched.

I have had that feeling before, and it turned out to be true. I think coyotes are more in touch with thier "inner" feelings than humans, so I can't help but think there is something to it.

[jrbhunter]

I think thats BS.

[MRussell]

I believe that it is however that particular yote has been conditioned.How many times called,where it falls in the pecking order,etc..
I have seen several come barreling in. I have seen them come in nonchalantly. Not wary just not in a hurry.
I try not to look any yote,deer or turkey square in the eye when it is getting in really close.


MR

[Wiley]

Nah, they usually have a stupid look on their face which says, "which way did he go, which way did he go". After that it's "pop/flop" as Glen Sterling Sr. used to say.


~SH~

[qwagoner]

No, I can’t say I have ever thought that but I have had other strange feelings while out coyote hunting. Many times in the past I would think of a certain stand and would feel an intense urgency to go to that “one” stand. I can honestly say that I can’t remember a time when the stand didn’t pan out for me. Coincidence? Luck? Devine intervention? I don’t know but it was strange.

Good hunting.

Q,

[trappnman]

While not strickly a calling debate- interesting.

Heres one sense that we know animals have that is highly developed to the point it mystifys us poor humans- and thats directional ability.

Take a cat or dog 2000 miles away from home- and the lucky ones- make it back home.

I've see it happen with a cat. I went ot a one room school, and the teacher had a cat that wandered at will. AS the teacher became older, she had allergies to it.
So- I bet she tried 5-6 times to give that cat away- all to homes from 10-50 miles away through the boonies and the hills...within a week, 10 days- there old Socks would be.

Or look at the precise flight dates some birds have- leaving and returning exactly on time over centuries...
so animals certainly DO have so senses much more highly developed than ours are.

Who's to say....?

Observations can only be made on the dumb ones....

[k9]

When I heard this theory I thought of time when I felt like I was being watched. You ever get that feeling, and then in a crowd of people you look around and somehow look right at the person who is looking at you. I know I am not nearly as in touch as a coyote, with my senses.

Q I know what you mean. I have had many times at work when that little inner voice tells me to do something, and it is often right.

[Rich Higgins]

A legitimate question. I don't know what the American Indians called extrasensory perception but they did believe that the coyote possessed it.. These people lived in close harmony with the coyote and developed strong beliefs about certain qualities and traits of the coyote.
As to the other subject, this past year on a contest hunt, my turn to call, my two partners set up in a line with the downwind about 50 yards between each of us. Coyotes almost always approached from the same wash on this stand and would wind up in front of the downwind stands, because of this I just concentrated on my calling, a calling contest was coming up and I spent my turns on the call doing my entire contest routine. I set my rifle on the stix and set the butt in my lap, closed my eyes and ran an entire series. Some where before the finish I dropped the call, brought the butt up into my shoulder and scanned the brush . About 80 yards out standing between prickly pear
clumps a coyote was broadside looking straight at me. Neither partner had seen it. I couldn't have heard it because of the racket I was making and I certainly couldn't have seen it approach. I suddenly knew I had to have my rifle up. Quien sabe?

[SteveCraig]

Welcome to the Board..Rich. Good to see you here.

You actually use a rifle!!!!! It must be about to snow here! ;D

Welcome,
Steve

[Rich Higgins]

Hi Steve. With mods like you three this place has got to be hell on wheels.
I enter about a dozen contests a year to support my boy, who still has the blood lust. I think I only had to shoot three coyotes this year. Tyler didn't need me on any of the others.

[richc]

SteveCraig,
Mr. Higgins only had to SHOOT those two coyotes because he uglied the rest of em to death.

[Wiley]

Welcome to the board Rich Higgins!

Guys, Rich is a life long student of coyote behavior with some great experiences to share.

Glad you found the place!

Want to start a discussion, jump right in. Things are a little slow right now. Let's "over analyze" something. Haha!



~SH~

[richc]

Wiley,
We could tell everyone about higgins sleeping all night at a campout, with a dead coyote buried under his bed. Nah, we best leave that one alone. ;D

[mmwb (Andrew Parker)]

I don't know about the effects of staring at animals but the directional ability is uncanny.

Some cool studdies they did with homing pigeons indicated that they used the sun as a primary guidance reference and magnetism as a secondary. Attaching small magnets and electic coils to the pigeons had no influence on sunny days, but totally disoriented them on cloudy days or when the pigeons had translucent contacts "installed", when they could normally navigate on cloudy days. The nuerologists have pretty much concluded that humans are also sensitive to the earths magnetic field, though it is much less developed. Some are more sensitive than others. I've hunted with some guys that you could take into areas where they've never been, with no distant land marks visible that could always point directly to where the truck was, while some of us would get lost in our own back yard without landmarks. People who spend alot of time on the road, sleeping in motels, report much better sleep whe the motel beds are oriented the same as their bed at home.