Filming and calling coyotes( Mix thing up a little)

Calling and Filming Coyotes (Mix things up a little)

January 23, Friday morning, just going down the road to one of the local rancher’s place to call for a few stands.
Had some rain last night in the form of ice pellets, a little slick out and crunchy. It’s just light enough see well and film. My first call of the morning was three lonely howls and waited 3-4 minutes then made 2 more lonely howls and waited 4-5 minutes. My next series, I went to the cottontail distress cries using my green critter call, nothing showed after about 10 minute of calling, but I could hear a coyote howling way out there to the south. Got back to the truck without falling on my butt and off to the area where I think that coyote is. The snow drift, that was blocking the road before, has melted enough so that I could drive through and get to the spot I wanted to call from. If the coyote I heard was around, it would be able to hear me. I used the lonely howl just as I did with the first stand. Before I got to the second series, a coyote started to howl back and began to threat bark at me.
I gave it two more lonely howls and waited for about 4 minutes. The coyote was about a half mile away, was still in the same spot and was still threat barking. Using my green critter call I started the ki-yi, or hurt coyote, distress and went into the deer in distress call, then back to the ki-yi and deer in distress for about 40 seconds. I then waited for 30 seconds and did the whole sequence over again. I did this for about 4-5 minutes and then did the deer in distress about every minute and a half. The coyote had stopped it’s verbal cussing at me for being in its territory, so I figured it was coming in. I always like to look at the positive side of things. At the 15-minute mark, I spotted the coyote about 80 yards below me coming through the rabbit brush. Boy can they blend in! I was having a hard time finding the coyote in the camera. The coyote was now out in the open and coming toward me. I was snugged up to some rabbit brush to breakup my outline, The coyote was at 40 yards, when I woofed, it stopped. I put the crosshairs on the chest and squeezed the trigger, the 17 Remington and 29 gr Wood Chuck Den bullet did the rest, the coyote never new what hit it. Another one bites the dust! So, try mixing things up a bit with the calls, it surely did the trick this time!
T.Martin