Filming and Calling Coyotes ( Try a"stalk")

Filming and Calling Coyotes
( Try a “stalk”)



Well, we all know that the idea of calling is to get the animals we are calling to come to us, however, that is not always the case, if conditions are right, trying a “stalk” might improve your take on coyotes.

I got out for a few calls on the morning of December 5, I was in an area where I had seen coyotes in the past. This area is open grassland about a mile square, with about 300 acres of sage in the middle. To the north, it rises up about 400 feet and has a series of ravines running down. To the east it rises about 200 feet and this is where I set up in a small patch of sage. I always glass an area before I start calling because coyotes can be just about anywhere. I glassed the area and had seen nothing. I then gave my first series of deer in distress calls and glassed the area again. My next series, I did the same. On my third series, I was glassing when I spotted a coyote. He had just come out of one of the ravines about 600 yards out, was looked in my direction, then started to slowly walk away. I called and he looked back, then just kept walking away. Guessing he was not going to come in, I waited until he dropped into the next ravine, got up, went down the hill and out of sight. I was able to walk within 150 yards of where I had last seen him. As I walked up the hill, I began to glass for him with every step I took. Finally, spotting him, only 150-yards from me, sitting down looking the other direction. Kneeling down, I readied my gun but when I got up to look for him he was gone. Where he had been sitting, the ground dropped off and I figured he was just below and out of sight. Going down on the ground, I crawled about 20 yards, to get a better shot location. He had been lying down, if I’d have walked up any closer, he would have spooked for sure, making for a much harder shot, at least for me. When I got to where I wanted to be for the shot, I gave a “woof-woof” and he pooped up. I put the crosshairs on his chest and the 17 Rem 29 gr did the rest. I am really liking this caliber. When skinned, there was only a ¼ inch hole and that was it. He only moved about a foot from where I hit him. So if the condition is right, try a stalk on coyotes.
T Martin