FOXPRO's Jon Collins discusses his experience with hunting educated coyotes. Jon goes into detail on what he feels educates coyotes and gives you some tips to get those coyotes on the ground.
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welcome to the Foxpro podcast
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brought to you by Foxpro game calls
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hunting educated coyotes at their topic
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of discussion on this episode I'm John
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Collins welcome back to the Foxpro
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over the years I've heard many terms
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thrown out there such as educated coyote
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condition coyote and call Shy coyote
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I've used those terms and I've heard
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several other people people use them as
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well now I don't know which term is the
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most accurate but I do know that coyotes
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can learn from being hunted but there is
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actually several people out there that
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will tell you that there's no such thing
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as an educated coyote I'm definitely not
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one of those people coyotes are a pretty
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intelligent Critter and I've got a lot
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of respect for them and to think they
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can't be educated conditioned or made
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call Shy is just plain ridiculous now
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that being said that doesn't mean a call
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Shire educated coyote can't be called in
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they most certainly can you'll just have
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to change things up a bit a coyote can
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definitely be made more difficult to
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hunt but not impossible to hunt like
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some may believe
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first things first we've got to Define
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what an educate Katie coyote is and what
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actually educates a coyote how I Define
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an educated coyote is a coyote that has
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had a traumatic experience while being
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hunted and in return has learned from
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the experience
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in my opinion the worst thing that can
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happen is for a coyote to smell you
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while you're calling whether it be
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before you start calling during or after
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for example if you've got a coyote laid
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up downwind of you and you start calling
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well your hunt was over for whatever got
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started it's a good chance that coyote
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has been made call shy of the sounds
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that you played it's possible that he
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now Associates those specific sounds
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with Danger
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another example are coyotes that have
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circled downwind and you weren't able to
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get a shot off on them or get them
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killed you know actually you need to get
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them killed if they're going to get
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downwind of you that's why we say it's
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so important for you to be able to shoot
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your downwind side while coyote hunting
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and then probably the most damaging is a
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coyote is being called all the way into
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the Foxpro practically tackles the call
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gets a nose full of your scent and then
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you mag dump on that sucker as he's
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running off without ever touching a hair
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I guarantee you that coyote has learned
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a valuable lesson especially if he was
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all over the call just to find out that
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the sound coming out of it was false and
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then he got shot at that's a pretty
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traumatic experience for a coyote being
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seen and heard can have a very negative
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effect if a coyote watches you make your
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way into the stand watches you walk out
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there and place your call watch as you
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walk back get set up settled in then you
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start calling guess what Hey Coyote
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ain't gonna come to any kind of sandwich
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you're going to play he already knows
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it's you out there whatever sounds you
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play on that stand again it's possible
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that he will associate those sounds with
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danger resulting in an educated coyote
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condition coyote call Shy coyote or
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whatever you want to call it
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if any of these type scenarios occur
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lots of times what happens on your next
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trip in
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you're going to be met with a booger
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barking coyote now you might be asking
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what in the world is a booger barking
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coyote well it sounds like coyote
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challenged barks and halves but it's
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repeated over and over and over and over
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and over and over again there's nothing
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worse and when you start calling seconds
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into a stand and I coyote starts booger
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barking at you guess what it's a pretty
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good chance you ain't gonna call that
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coyote on that huh he already knows
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something isn't right that's the reason
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he's doing that
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every coyote Hunter that's ever hunted
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long enough has experienced this in my
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opinion if you hear a coyote start
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booger barking
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just and you stand in it end it right
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then and there there's no sense in
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playing any additional sounds trying to
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get that coyote to break
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what you're doing is just taking the
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chance of further educating that coyote
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now that being said
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I know all too well it's pretty hard to
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walk away from a coyote and there is a
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chance that you could do something that
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would make that coyote break you know
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you might hit the right sound that
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triggers him and and he actually comes
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running in you get a good shot
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opportunity but the chances are actually
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pretty slim if you believe you have
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educated a coyote or a group of coyotes
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then it's time to change things up
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repeatedly going back into the property
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doing the same exact thing over and over
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and over again is a huge mistake like
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sitting in the same exact spot every
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single time to make your coyote stand
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playing the same exact sounds and
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sequences every single time at the same
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exact volumes you have got to try
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something different what you've been
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doing has not been working it's time to
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change things up and see if you can't
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get those coyotes called in we'll give
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you guys a few suggestions that you
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might want to try in the future on
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educated coyotes might pay off for you
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number one try hunting those coyotes at
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a different time say you mess up on
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those coyotes in the morning maybe try
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come in the afternoon sometime or at
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sunset or vice versa if you missed upon
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those coyotes sometime in the afternoon
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or on a sunset stand try them in the
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morning try Sunrise stand try mid mid
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morning another great option is try them
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during midday we got a good friend Mark
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Clarice down in Tennessee that loves
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making midday coyote stands you know
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he'll go in at 11 12 1 o'clock right
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there in the middle of the day when the
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sun's up high what he likes to do if he
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if he knows where some coyotes are at
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he'll he'll get to win right
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slipping around those coyotes you're
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right in her bedroom right there with
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them and get to Colin usually kills them
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within a couple minutes it's an awesome
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tactic
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another option if your state allows it
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try them at night coyotes are very
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susceptible being called in at night
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time and just in the same thing for a
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night Hunter if you're a Night Hunter
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you got a group of coyotes it's uh just
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been whooping up on you try them during
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the daytime do not be scared to make a
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daytime stand trust me coyotes can
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definitely be called up during the day I
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do it every single week number two
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make it easy for the cow to come to the
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call just like we was talking about with
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Mark Clarice if possible sit up closer
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they lay up get in there and crowd them
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as much as you can make it where they've
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almost got to come to you
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another option is give them an Avenue to
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approach downwind if you can make it
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easy on a coyote you know if you can
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give a coyote just a little bit of wind
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to work with it seems like they tend to
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call a little bit easier the big thing
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to remember in those situations you have
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to be able to kill those coyotes before
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they get to where they can actually
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smell you got to be able to get them
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killed number three try different stand
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locations on the property sometimes all
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it takes is calling from a different
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spot even if you only moved a short
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distance from your normal stand location
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little moves like that can pay off big
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number four this one can this one can
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really pay off especially if you're
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hunting ground that you share with other
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coyote hunters and that is try not using
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the most popular sounds I know I know
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that might sound crazy but listen
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everyone knows how effective sounds like
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pup distress number three coyote pup
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screams coyote pup three one four cagey
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Cottondale Mrs MC Cottontail mfk table
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scraps pound town and the list goes on
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you know all those sounds that were
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always talking about it it's almost a
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guarantee
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that the more famous sounds
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those sounds that we're always talking
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about on Facebook Instagram and on his
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podcast are being played by
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every Hunter that's going in there and
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calling those properties
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I tell you what though there's many
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sounds out there to consider trying that
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might not get as much AirPlay that could
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really pay off in a big way it might
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seal the deal on a call Shaco
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fond of stresses
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Foxpro has one and a half dozen
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different deer families houses to choose
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from and mfk has a handful more that you
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can throw into the mix
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bird distresses bird distress is often
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overlooked but are extremely extremely
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effective Fox pro has around 80
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different bird sounds and mfk has around
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another 15 more that's like 100 close to
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100 bird sounds that you can be throwing
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out of your Foxpro that could be calling
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coyotes in
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that you might be looking over as well
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Fox distress sounds I've called several
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coyotes in over the years on various
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different fox sounds Platinum gray being
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my personal favorite again Foxpro has
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close to 30 different fox sounds and mfk
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adds another half dozen to that list
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squirrel distresses those are definitely
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some sounds you don't hear much about
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but they can be killer especially when
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calling close to the woods or when when
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you're wanting to crowd those coyotes to
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get right there in the woods with them
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jackrabbit and Snowshoe sounds
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lots of times when coyote callers are
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taking a rabbit sounds or thinking
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Cottontail hey I'm one of them I love
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Cottontail distress sounds I'm very
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Cottontail distressed heavy in the fall
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and winter months but don't sleep on the
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jackrabbit and Snowshoe sounds I've had
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some awesome call-ins on playing
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different jackrabbit and Snowshoe sounds
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all across the country on coyotes and
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bobcats have even called Foxton as well
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two of the three biggest bobcats I've
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ever caught up came to Old School Fox
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Pro Jackrabbit mysterious and Foxpro
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Snowshoe hair HP
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raccoon sounds man that that's a sound
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that I I don't play a ton but I've heard
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many stories from mfk's Tori cook about
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them going in calling for raccoons and
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using raccoon sounds and guess what they
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have coyotes running in get them killed
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um my good friend Jeff Ryder that's one
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of his secret weapons he's always
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talking about mixing in some raccoon
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distress and raccoon fights and stuff
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like that to get uh educated coyotes to
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come in coyotes that are hung up to get
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them you know to get them to run on into
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the call he loves them might give
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raccoon sounds a little bit of a try
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last group of sounds that I'll mention
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are new sounds that hit the market if
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you've got some brand new sounds that
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coyotes have never heard on your Foxpro
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it can turn those calls shy
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educated coyotes back in the hard
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Chargers number five another tactic that
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can pay off is calling quieter and using
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pauses
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listen if if you're somebody that is
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running your Foxpro and say the low 30s
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or high 20s most of the time when you're
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calling
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dial it back a little bit try the high
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teens and low 20s it could make all the
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difference in the world if you're
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somebody that never pauses your call
0:11:29.820,0:11:34.140
maybe start mixing in a few pauses just
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something that bustes up the monotony of
0:11:34.140,0:11:37.800
how you call might trigger those coyotes
0:11:36.480,0:11:41.220
to come on in
0:11:37.800,0:11:44.040
or if you do make pauses run your call
0:11:41.220,0:11:45.660
constant or if you make pauses maybe
0:11:44.040,0:11:48.660
space them out a little bit further
0:11:45.660,0:11:51.000
another another great tactic could be to
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take advantage of fox pitch on your Fox
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Pro Fox Peaks Fox pitch is one of those
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features that we don't talk much about
0:11:55.860,0:12:00.839
but man that's a cool feature out there
0:11:58.140,0:12:03.480
you can actually change the pitch of
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every sound that's on your Foxpro right
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there I mean you can make it a higher
0:12:05.100,0:12:09.000
pitch lower pitch whatever kind of turns
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into a whole new sound and that could be
0:12:09.000,0:12:13.500
all it takes to have an educated coyote
0:12:12.000,0:12:16.500
come on in
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number six and the last one I'll suggest
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if you share ground with other coyote
0:12:18.779,0:12:25.320
Hunters it may pay off not to use the
0:12:22.260,0:12:28.140
most obvious stand locations if you hunt
0:12:25.320,0:12:31.620
a piece of property that you know other
0:12:28.140,0:12:33.839
Hunters call and there's that perfect I
0:12:31.620,0:12:37.019
mean absolute perfect pristine beautiful
0:12:33.839,0:12:39.600
calling location that you know every
0:12:37.019,0:12:40.920
single coyote coyote collar in the world
0:12:39.600,0:12:42.060
if they come in there they're not going
0:12:40.920,0:12:43.680
to pass it up that's where they're going
0:12:42.060,0:12:46.380
to be calling from
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walk right by that spot find yourself
0:12:46.380,0:12:51.060
your own calling location you know walk
0:12:49.440,0:12:52.500
by that spot that you know that people
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you know they come in there brand new
0:12:52.500,0:12:55.680
spot you're going to hunt they're going
0:12:53.700,0:12:58.920
to hunt they see this little high spot
0:12:55.680,0:13:00.959
in the field that looks down over this
0:12:58.920,0:13:03.600
little Valley that's you can see every
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coyote running in from every direction
0:13:03.600,0:13:07.860
pass that spot up go find another spot
0:13:06.540,0:13:10.620
past that and it could make the
0:13:07.860,0:13:13.019
difference little things like that can
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make the difference in a dry stand and a
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successful stand when you're talking
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about educated call Shy coyotes in my
0:13:17.459,0:13:21.779
opinion the number one best medicine for
0:13:19.560,0:13:24.180
an educated coyote is to give back
0:13:21.779,0:13:25.320
coyote or group of coyotes a pretty good
0:13:24.180,0:13:27.600
break
0:13:25.320,0:13:29.880
give them a good stretch of time on that
0:13:27.600,0:13:31.860
property without being harassed now I
0:13:29.880,0:13:33.959
know it's a lot easier said than done I
0:13:31.860,0:13:36.600
I'm I can be the world's worst about
0:13:33.959,0:13:38.220
pressuring coyotes too much and and and
0:13:36.600,0:13:41.040
just keep going back and hammering them
0:13:38.220,0:13:44.279
but giving those coyotes some time can
0:13:41.040,0:13:46.500
really pay off if I happen to mess up on
0:13:44.279,0:13:49.019
a set of coyotes I'd like to give them a
0:13:46.500,0:13:51.420
good break and then try hunting them in
0:13:49.019,0:13:53.459
a total different time of the year for
0:13:51.420,0:13:56.399
example if I screw up on a coyote or
0:13:53.459,0:13:58.440
coyotes in July I'll leave those coyotes
0:13:56.399,0:14:00.660
alone until October or November
0:13:58.440,0:14:01.740
if I mess up on them in the fall I'll
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wait until they're breeding season
0:14:01.740,0:14:05.880
before I try them again if I mess up on
0:14:04.079,0:14:07.920
a coyote and a breeding season or or a
0:14:05.880,0:14:10.620
group of coyotes I'll leave them alone
0:14:07.920,0:14:12.540
until the dinning season when I do go
0:14:10.620,0:14:14.279
back in after coyotes after I've screwed
0:14:12.540,0:14:15.959
up on them what I'm going to do is I'm
0:14:14.279,0:14:18.360
going to use a total different set of
0:14:15.959,0:14:20.820
sounds and I'm going to make my stands
0:14:18.360,0:14:22.740
from a total different location from a
0:14:20.820,0:14:24.480
total different spot on the farm as if
0:14:22.740,0:14:26.880
the train allows
0:14:24.480,0:14:28.260
now it's time for a hunting story I want
0:14:26.880,0:14:30.060
to tell you a story about a particular
0:14:28.260,0:14:32.459
pair of coyotes that I'd hunted a couple
0:14:30.060,0:14:35.100
seasons ago that I messed up on in early
0:14:32.459,0:14:37.139
summer and then went back in late fall
0:14:35.100,0:14:38.880
and got them killed all right it was
0:14:37.139,0:14:41.639
late June and I had a pair of coyotes
0:14:38.880,0:14:43.560
located in a large draw system it's a
0:14:41.639,0:14:45.720
depauler with a crop Field Ridge on the
0:14:43.560,0:14:47.940
North side and a pasture Ridge on the
0:14:45.720,0:14:49.260
South Side by wind direction for the
0:14:47.940,0:14:51.540
following morning had quite a bit of
0:14:49.260,0:14:53.639
South in it so I decided to call from
0:14:51.540,0:14:55.620
the crop field that field had been
0:14:53.639,0:14:57.540
planted in corn which was about chin
0:14:55.620,0:15:00.000
high at the time just a little bit less
0:14:57.540,0:15:01.199
than knee-high there's a small pond
0:15:00.000,0:15:03.720
right out there in the middle of that
0:15:01.199,0:15:06.000
field it has several saplings kind of
0:15:03.720,0:15:07.740
just grown right into the pond dam it's
0:15:06.000,0:15:09.600
one of those places you can actually sit
0:15:07.740,0:15:11.339
on top of the pond dam and not be
0:15:09.600,0:15:13.380
silhouetted the the saplings were tall
0:15:11.339,0:15:14.880
enough to give you a good backdrop and
0:15:13.380,0:15:16.680
it's just a nice little elevated
0:15:14.880,0:15:19.139
position to call from you can see really
0:15:16.680,0:15:22.380
well from there I started my standoff
0:15:19.139,0:15:24.540
with foxpro's female d-pass waited about
0:15:22.380,0:15:26.699
two minutes and went right into 10 Town
0:15:24.540,0:15:28.620
pubs I must have been set up right on
0:15:26.699,0:15:30.360
top of those coyotes because in no time
0:15:28.620,0:15:33.600
I got a pair of coyote I'll turn a field
0:15:30.360,0:15:35.160
with me both route within I don't know
0:15:33.600,0:15:37.800
something like 40 or 50 steps of the
0:15:35.160,0:15:40.380
x-24 now like I said earlier that corn
0:15:37.800,0:15:42.120
is just tall enough where I can only see
0:15:40.380,0:15:43.740
the neck and head of these coyotes you
0:15:42.120,0:15:46.380
know it's it's a little bit less than
0:15:43.740,0:15:47.820
the knee-high so I knew I was going to
0:15:46.380,0:15:49.019
be able to see the coyotes in there I
0:15:47.820,0:15:51.000
just didn't know how much and sure
0:15:49.019,0:15:53.220
enough all I could see was there was her
0:15:51.000,0:15:54.000
head and necks I settled in there on
0:15:53.220,0:15:56.760
them
0:15:54.000,0:15:58.980
should I shoot one cow Drops Out of
0:15:56.760,0:16:00.839
Sight and other coyote Burns off in the
0:15:58.980,0:16:02.579
same direction it come from
0:16:00.839,0:16:05.100
I'm thinking I got coyote on the ground
0:16:02.579,0:16:06.899
right and I'm pretty confident I call
0:16:05.100,0:16:08.760
that second coyote back up so I started
0:16:06.899,0:16:10.680
hitting my presets I start running
0:16:08.760,0:16:13.440
through a few fights and pup distresses
0:16:10.680,0:16:15.779
Pound Town table scraps Den Heist pup
0:16:13.440,0:16:17.040
three coyote pup screams
0:16:15.779,0:16:19.560
nothing
0:16:17.040,0:16:20.339
coyote never comes back never see it
0:16:19.560,0:16:22.560
again
0:16:20.339,0:16:24.779
so you know it's early in the morning I
0:16:22.560,0:16:28.079
figure make a few more stands so I jump
0:16:24.779,0:16:29.639
up go to collect my coyote
0:16:28.079,0:16:31.860
guess what
0:16:29.639,0:16:33.720
sucker ain't there he ain't laying there
0:16:31.860,0:16:35.399
nowhere I search all around and all I
0:16:33.720,0:16:37.199
find is a couple small drops of Blood on
0:16:35.399,0:16:38.759
the corn you know right there where the
0:16:37.199,0:16:40.380
coyotes are standing
0:16:38.759,0:16:41.759
we were filming that morning so I went
0:16:40.380,0:16:43.380
back to the camera and jumped on the
0:16:41.759,0:16:45.720
viewfinder and played it back so I can
0:16:43.380,0:16:48.360
see where I hit that Coyote Well I
0:16:45.720,0:16:51.600
practically missed a thing I shot high
0:16:48.360,0:16:53.579
and dead centered it's left ear all I
0:16:51.600,0:16:55.380
done was give it a good ear piercing now
0:16:53.579,0:16:56.519
that hauler holds coyotes every single
0:16:55.380,0:16:58.500
year it's one of those spots that
0:16:56.519,0:17:00.360
coyotes just absolutely loved so I was
0:16:58.500,0:17:02.339
pretty confident coyote won't stay in
0:17:00.360,0:17:03.899
there I tell you what I was tempted to
0:17:02.339,0:17:06.179
go try them again on several different
0:17:03.899,0:17:08.579
occasions throughout the summer but
0:17:06.179,0:17:10.919
man I talked myself out of it I made
0:17:08.579,0:17:12.540
myself hold off I wanted to give him a
0:17:10.919,0:17:14.339
pretty good break and give them till
0:17:12.540,0:17:16.439
sometime up in the fall before I tried
0:17:14.339,0:17:18.179
them again well finally the first week
0:17:16.439,0:17:20.520
of December rolls around and guess what
0:17:18.179,0:17:22.740
we're hit with an early dusting of snow
0:17:20.520,0:17:25.699
and a cold North Wind you know some of
0:17:22.740,0:17:28.679
that perfect calling weather conditions
0:17:25.699,0:17:31.380
and man I was itching to get out make a
0:17:28.679,0:17:33.780
coyote stand I knew the exact spot I
0:17:31.380,0:17:35.280
wanted to call from it was time to see
0:17:33.780,0:17:37.140
if I could get some revenge on my
0:17:35.280,0:17:39.600
cornfield coyotes that I screwed up on
0:17:37.140,0:17:41.760
back in June this time with the north
0:17:39.600,0:17:43.320
wind I was able to call from the pasture
0:17:41.760,0:17:44.340
Ridge side on the other side of that
0:17:43.320,0:17:46.080
holler
0:17:44.340,0:17:47.820
on the pasture side I have a little
0:17:46.080,0:17:49.320
cluster of locust trees I like to call
0:17:47.820,0:17:52.380
from right up here on top of the bank
0:17:49.320,0:17:54.419
and about 150 yards below them below
0:17:52.380,0:17:57.059
that cluster of trees is a small draw
0:17:54.419,0:17:59.100
that runs up into the field from that D
0:17:57.059,0:18:02.039
polar that holds the coyotes
0:17:59.100,0:18:04.080
man I had that June coyote stand burned
0:18:02.039,0:18:05.880
into my mind and I remembered exactly
0:18:04.080,0:18:08.100
which sounds I played and I knew I
0:18:05.880,0:18:10.500
wanted to stay away from those and play
0:18:08.100,0:18:13.740
something totally different right before
0:18:10.500,0:18:16.320
Sunset I ripped out a set of C5 young
0:18:13.740,0:18:18.299
coyote house gave a pretty good pause
0:18:16.320,0:18:20.039
about four to five minutes maybe even
0:18:18.299,0:18:22.140
six minutes and then went right into
0:18:20.039,0:18:25.140
cagey Cottontail decided to play some
0:18:22.140,0:18:27.539
prey distress at about 50 volume just a
0:18:25.140,0:18:28.980
couple minutes into Casey here comes a
0:18:27.539,0:18:30.000
coyote right out of the right edge of
0:18:28.980,0:18:31.620
that draw
0:18:30.000,0:18:34.260
comes right up there gives me a good
0:18:31.620,0:18:37.020
shot opportunity got a coyote down with
0:18:34.260,0:18:39.419
a center punch I immediately hit nutty
0:18:37.020,0:18:41.280
nut pump in my presets and around I'm
0:18:39.419,0:18:43.440
about a minute later I have a second
0:18:41.280,0:18:45.840
coyote come running in this coyote come
0:18:43.440,0:18:47.460
from the left side of the draw it runs
0:18:45.840,0:18:49.200
right up here past my call I mean it
0:18:47.460,0:18:51.299
actually ran right past it which I had
0:18:49.200,0:18:53.340
muted muted the call trying to get it to
0:18:51.299,0:18:55.860
stop and it finally stopped after I
0:18:53.340,0:18:59.160
whooped at it
0:18:55.860,0:19:00.960
guess what I got a coyote double laying
0:18:59.160,0:19:03.240
on the ground I had just cleaned up at
0:19:00.960,0:19:04.980
pair of coyote side messed up on back
0:19:03.240,0:19:06.539
earlier in the summer
0:19:04.980,0:19:08.280
now is it possible I could have called
0:19:06.539,0:19:09.960
that pair of coyotes back up sometime
0:19:08.280,0:19:12.660
throughout the summer
0:19:09.960,0:19:14.039
yeah it's definitely possible but it's
0:19:12.660,0:19:16.020
also possible I could have put a little
0:19:14.039,0:19:17.520
too much pressure on them and then turn
0:19:16.020,0:19:21.120
those coyotes into what I would have
0:19:17.520,0:19:24.299
called call shy or educated all I can
0:19:21.120,0:19:26.720
tell you is what I did absolutely worked
0:19:24.299,0:19:28.740
I gave those coyotes a five month break
0:19:26.720,0:19:31.140
hunted them from a total different stand
0:19:28.740,0:19:33.080
location on the property hunted them
0:19:31.140,0:19:35.880
with a total different wind direction
0:19:33.080,0:19:38.220
hunted them at total opposite times of
0:19:35.880,0:19:39.059
the day and gave them a different set of
0:19:38.220,0:19:41.400
sounds
0:19:39.059,0:19:42.780
now you're probably wondering how do I
0:19:41.400,0:19:45.720
even know if it was the same pair of
0:19:42.780,0:19:47.820
coyotes right well guess what that big
0:19:45.720,0:19:50.640
male Had A dime-sized Holdings left here
0:19:47.820,0:19:52.679
I got revenge on my pair of coyotes that
0:19:50.640,0:19:54.840
I screwed up on earlier in the summer in
0:19:52.679,0:19:57.780
closing it's best just to prevent from
0:19:54.840,0:20:00.360
educating coyotes now I know it's a lot
0:19:57.780,0:20:02.520
easier said than done I do my fair share
0:20:00.360,0:20:06.000
educating coyotes myself I do it every
0:20:02.520,0:20:08.280
single year it just happens nobody is
0:20:06.000,0:20:10.799
immune from it if you if you hunt enough
0:20:08.280,0:20:12.480
it's just going to happen I tell you
0:20:10.799,0:20:14.640
what your number one chance to kill a
0:20:12.480,0:20:17.039
coyote is on your first attempt at
0:20:14.640,0:20:20.820
calling at them all right Make It Count
0:20:17.039,0:20:23.700
use your woodsmanship make smart coyote
0:20:20.820,0:20:25.919
stands be mindful of your approach going
0:20:23.700,0:20:28.320
into a stand make sure you're always
0:20:25.919,0:20:30.780
hunting the wind that's crucial always
0:20:28.320,0:20:33.360
keep that at the top of your list be
0:20:30.780,0:20:35.520
proficient with your shooting platform
0:20:33.360,0:20:37.440
and kill those coyotes that you call in
0:20:35.520,0:20:39.360
don't let none of them Escape because
0:20:37.440,0:20:41.340
guess what they probably learned they
0:20:39.360,0:20:43.200
probably learned from that call-in
0:20:41.340,0:20:46.140
space out your stands on the properties
0:20:43.200,0:20:48.240
that you hunt run proven sounds in
0:20:46.140,0:20:48.960
sequences that match the time of the
0:20:48.240,0:20:51.720
year
0:20:48.960,0:20:54.299
the good news is there's two events that
0:20:51.720,0:20:56.520
happen every single year that tends to
0:20:54.299,0:20:59.760
reset the crazy in a coyote that's
0:20:56.520,0:21:01.320
dinning season and breeding season seems
0:20:59.760,0:21:03.059
like you could mess up on those coyotes
0:21:01.320,0:21:06.720
throughout the year and then when those
0:21:03.059,0:21:09.000
two seasons hit the crazy gets reset and
0:21:06.720,0:21:12.000
they turn back into a very callable
0:21:09.000,0:21:14.460
coyotes no matter how Elusive and cause
0:21:12.000,0:21:16.200
shy they previously were we hope
0:21:14.460,0:21:17.580
everyone enjoyed this episode we hope
0:21:16.200,0:21:20.360
you join us again right here on the
0:21:17.580,0:21:20.360
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