howling for Coyotes

[big_shooter02]

When does everyone start howling for yotes? During breeding or all year? Is it only for locating, or calling also? What kind of a call sequence does everyone use?

[Tim_Anderson]

We've learned most of what we do by watching Randy Anderson dvd's. "Calling all Coyotes". He uses the howls year around. We primarily only hunt during the winter months, and usually use a combination of coyote sounds and distress sounds.

A typical sequence would be some howls, several sets of rabbit distress, then some coyote pup distress, and then maybe a challenge howl to wrap things up.

[Dave S]

this time of year, you want to include the female howl also.

[picksbigwagon]

Howling has only helped me once, It was just about this time of the year and I called in a pair (male and female) with a young coyote howl...

[HunterLee]

I do a lot of howling for them. First it gets the sound out there farther and second its something that alot of people can't or don't do. I have called in quite a few so far this year. The last moon we called in 10 and got 5, all with some type of howls. They respond for a lot of reasons either for a friend, enemy or curious. They tend to come a little slower, but that could be due to the distance they are coming from. I never challenge unless i get it first or hear a big male.

[Tim_Anderson]

It's interesting to see how the coyotes respond from year to year. It's kind of like fishing... what do they want to eat, or in muskies case, follow?

A couple of years ago, we made a trip to Montana, and had some incredible success with the howl, and with the Kai-yai. We would sit down and start our set, and they would come running. We used very little rabbit distress.

This year we were in South Dakota, and the coyote sounds didn't seem to do us much good. Not sure if the dogs we were hunting were heavily pressured or not, but what did work was the rabbit distress. Though most were pups, the distress call accounted for every one we shot.

I guess the moral of the story is that you just have to keep trying different sounds, and go with whatever is working. And like Randy always says, "never give up!"