You can start with random howls and barks, or go right to the serenade call. The dogs know that the game is there and they are near enough to guard it from other packs, so all you have to do is convince them that other coyotes are moving in on their kill. Don’t bother with wounded game or mating calls. If you are hunting over a kill, you should start right away with the actual coyote sounds. We haven’t even used half the features on the unit, even though we have bought several of the accessories. The speakers may be turned in different directions as well so that you can cover more of a radius, as opposed to a direction. The Alpha Dogg is loud and clear, and doesn’t distort even at its highest volume. It comes with 75 sounds and the new ones even have whole progressions of calling sounds called “hunts” programmed into them. If you aren’t on a tight budget and you view your caller as a long term investment, the best caller by far is the Alpha Dogg from Primos, MSRP $319, at retailers generally under $250. Inexpensive callers will have the basic sounds you need for coyotes, but beware of the volume level because they tend to distort. In the future we hope to have some head to head comparisons of the many callers. The night is long, and the kill won’t last for more than a few days, and certainly not long enough for you to monitor the comings and goings of the coyotes with a game camera. You should assume that you will have to call the dogs in with an electronic caller. Just leave your scope on 1x power and only suck in the magnification if and when you need it. Many coyotes hunters keep a shotgun with buckshot across their lap just in case the dogs come in close from behind them, but hunting with a quick and light AR-15 style carbine in our experience makes that unnecessary. In our experience, coyotes almost always come in crosswind to their destination, not from downwind as you would expect. There is always a chance that the dogs may come from behind you, but more than not they will come in opposite you, and this will give you a chance to see how many dogs are coming in before you take your shot or shots. If you have a fence or thicket (where you are sure there is no coyote den) located 30-50 yards away on the crosswind to the kill, set up a ground blind parallel to the location of the rotting carcass. Apparently coyotes have iron stomachs, because they will eat a large kill for several days, even though the meat has long spoiled. If you are not a sport hunter and you just need to get rid of coyotes, this is often the best way to kill off problem animals.

There are few more despicable creatures than the coyote, so you should never be afraid to hunt them in what we would normally think of as an “unsporting manner.” In our experience the most gauranteed way to hunt coyotes is at night over one of their kills. While the mother is disabled in the birthing process the coyotes pull out the partially born calf, then they kill the mother cow from the inside. On the ranches, the coyotes watch for cows to give birth, and during labor they attack. You have to be no less than that if you expect to eradicate them from your property and hunt coyotes successfully. The Creator in His infinite wisdom made the coyote a ruthless, heartless, killing machine that is extremely suspicious and careful. More of Dwayne’s clients miss coyotes than all the other types of game combined. They don’t give you a lot of time, even on the easiest day. She or he who hesitates is lost when hunting coyotes. Make sure that your rifle is zeroed and that you shoot really well, really fast. There are times when you won’t be able to lure them out, and others when they will stand 30 yards in front of you and let you shoot at them. We have hunted these creatures during the day, at night, when the ground is wet and when the ground is dry, when it is hot and when it is cool, and there is almost never a time when coyotes do the same thing.

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