2 day coyote, well kind of

[fratri]

I got a phone call from the landowner this morning. He shot a coyote and asked me if I could skin it out and tan it for him. I did one in the past for him and he really liked it.... So I said yes of course I would..... He said he left the coyote in the fence line....
So thinking I needed to go get the coyote after work at the farm that I might as well go home and bring along my coyote gear and give it a try myself, why waste the trip right?
I got to the farm around 4:15 and setup close to his dead coyote. I call for about 20 minutes or so then decided (as the sun was going down) to walk over to the other end of the farm (500yds?) and call toward the other farmers bush in hopes of calling one in.
I setup the caller and decoy and started screaming out... after about 15 minutes or so this female coyote comes out from the fence line and starts making her way toward the decoy and the low volume dying rabbit sound....
My gun was resting on my shooting sticks pointing right into the middle of the field, all I had to do was wait for her to get lined up (walk across right in front of my setup). Once she reached the crosshairs, I wolfed her to stop and with a 75 yd broadside shot she was down....
Then the real work began, taking them home and skinning them out, his is the one on the left (spine shot-will have to do some sewing) mine is the one on the right. Both females and both about the same size, looks like this past spring pups..
The setup

How it played out

The pose

Two coyotes

Both skinned out

[dilly]

Nice pair right there. Good going.
Do you stitch with dental floss Frank?

[fratri]

Nice pair right there. Good going.
Do you stitch with dental floss Frank?

I have in the past but I got some brown thread specific to leather from work a while back so been using that.

[bdog]

Good job, and story, looks like there's no shortage of them hanging around there

[brisuther]

Nice job. You seem to have the right calling technique. Could you tell us what your "go to" calling sequence is. I was out on Saturday and had coyotes howling around me but did not have any come close.

[fratri]

Nice job. You seem to have the right calling technique. Could you tell us what your "go to" calling sequence is. I was out on Saturday and had coyotes howling around me but did not have any come close.

No specific go to sound that's for sure but I do use hand calls a lot....dying rabbit screams..... I usually turn on my ecaller and decoy and let them play continuously throughout the set. I leave the caller on a low volume so I can barely hear it and scream out with my hand calls for 40-60 seconds, wait about a minute and repeat the process until a coyote shows up or too tired of screaming out, then crank up my ecaller, dying rabbit and coyote distress sounds as my finishing sounds for a set... With that being said............. I think it's more about the setup than the sound that is being played that brings in coyotes...

[brisuther]

Thanks for the tips

[Big Jack]

Good shooting