Tips and Tactics

Searching for coyotes in the wide-open desert country of the west can be a daunting task. There’s a lot of country. In some places the vegetation is so scarce and the land is so flat that you could put your head on the ground and see a horse turd sticking up 10 miles away. I have made many “blind” stands over the years in hopes a coyote would respond to my call. Somewhere in the midst of this country there are usually coyotes, but finding out where they are is normally the [click to continue…]

The wind poses different challenges you have to consider when wanting to know how to hunt coyotes. A few questions to consider are, how strong is the wind, what direction will you be facing in relation to the wind, how will you be entering the stand location? When out hunting coyotes the wind can make or break you. When I first started calling I didn’t worry about the wind. More times than not I called with the wind at my back. The concept [click to continue…]

For those of you that are just getting started with the exciting sport of hunting coyotes here are some of the fundamentals of how to call coyotes.

Calls

First things first, you need a call. The cheapest way to get started is to purchase a mouth call which you [click to continue…]

Last fall I took a week long coyote hunting trip to Nevada with the intention of calling and killing a lot of coyotes. I went with my long time hunting partner. We also had another hunter join us on the second day. We setup a wall tent as a base camp and started calling in areas we had never previously been before. It was early October and our hopes were high to call in multiple coyotes. For whatever reason, calling was slow and we weren’t having [click to continue…]

We quietly rolled up to our calling location, shut off the truck and got our gear. 200 yards later we slipped over the small ridge line and we each found a place to setup. My partner began calling and before he got done with his first series he had a coyote in his lap. Being prepared is another topic for another day, but this coyote got past him before he even got a shot. I couldn’t shoot as it was right between us, so I got up and followed it over the ridge. [click to continue…]

We eased over the railroad tracks and setup on the slope of the tracks just below the ballast. It was a beautiful winter morning overlooking a sea of sagebrush. The stillness of the morning was interrupted by the low rumble of a freight train coming down the track. My partner began his rendition of a dieing rabbit. The train continued to get closer and closer until [click to continue…]

What kind of coyote hunting partner do you have? Do you have one you just started hunting with or have you been hunting together for years? A great partner can aid tremendously in your success; whereas, a bad partner can send you home in frustration. With a good partner you can reached the point where you hardly have to say anything to each other, you just know what each other is going to do. No matter what stage you are at with your [click to continue…]

Have you ever had a coyote come in only to have it leave because you couldn’t get a shot? Has a coyote snuck in from behind and slipped back out with you only knowing it was there because you saw its tracks on your way back to the truck? Have you had a coyote come up and lick your boots, laugh in your face, and get away because you left your shotgun in the truck? What about the one that just does a drive by and you wonder what just [click to continue…]

Are you looking for the right coyote call to go hunt coyotes? We have tried many calls over the years looking for just the right one and have acquired quite a collection of closed and open reed calls made out of many different materials. After trying all of these different calls we have settled on one call as a favorite, the open reed call. You might ask, what kind is the best with all of the different calls out there. The best advice that we can give [click to continue…]