What Is The Best or Favorite Sound To Use?

Generally the sounds of whatever coyotes eat in the area will work until they get educated. Coyotes are territorial so howls of other coyotes will sometimes drive them nuts. One area I tried every call with no luck, then I watched a coyote nearly a mile away pouncing on mice under the snow so I tried the field mouse sounds on the caller on my next set.....and it worked !
If you have really thick cover you might consider taking a shotgun along too.
be sure to start your calling in a very low volumn as there might be a dog close to your ! after I use the locator call , I switch to a hurt rabbit call in low volumne for about 10 minutes and then increase volumne and if that doesn't work I change locations !
 
Change it up if you are not having success. We called in a big male using pup distress at the tail end of a December Elk hunt, never thought that would happen.

Also be patient and start out at low volume so you do not blow close dogs out of the country by starting too loud. We sometimes do not get to full volume until 30 min and then whoaa! here comes a dog, that has worked on several occasions.

either way its fun and when you are all camoed up you look cool too!

My Son shot these at 16 and 21 min on june 14th a few years back while we were calling for bear. Thomases first Coyotes.JPG
 
Don't be afraid to throw in the Pup distress call either... especially around the 1st week in June! and put 1 man right in the woods or brush in front of the caller,they will still try to come in down wind,but they still feel safe in there comfort zone!Good luck
 
Rabbit in distress (mouth call) and Bird , Calf or Rabbit in distress (electronic) all work well for me. One interesting thing I read in Feb. 2019 issue of Predator Extreme, page 58, is that human baby cries/wails are supposed to be excellent sounds to use. I had never heard of this before and it does seem a little strange. You can download these type sounds on the iTunes store for $.99. I am going to try this out over the next month and will update this thread if I have any luck.
 
For me, calling coyotes in late February and March works best. I use the long range female yips and yelps. Mating is going strong so they seem to work best. I almost always get a response during that time of year. Distress calls for me are about 80/20. 80% of the time I move many times before getting a hit. With the mating mouth howls I get about 70/30. More responses than not. Once I get a commitment and the yote stops and won't comitt to coming closer, the mouse squeeker always seems to get another 100 yards.
 
Digital calls usually educate more dogs than they call in because the user usually plays it to loud and to long. I have better luck with exposed reed mouth calls..once you get the hang of them they are hard to beat. Closed reed calls freeze up and you can't vary the tone ...
 
I've watched a couple videos and that was one point the guy made. 45 seconds is a pretty long, then wait at least three minutes.
 
I've tried for years to call coyotes with the old Berman Brothers cassette call...I think in all the years I've called in three one day bowhunting, but never called another one in. It worked great though on Foxes.

I've scanned a few threads that I thought might lead me in the right direction, but they are all about the caller itself.

Any way I upgraded to a electronic call and needed to know what "sounds" you guys like to use especially now. I plan to call some in the afternoon and just call turkeys in the morning...unless one just wants to commit suicide!

So...the sounds and why...the "why" might be the best tip I might get out of this thread!

Thanks guys!
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I have found that coyotes almost always come in to pup distress calls.
 
Pup distress calls in the spring. Dying rabbit or pileated woodpecker in the fall or early winter. Challenge howl or the kiy yi ( dominate dog fight) late winter. If you are using an electronic call don't play it to loud or to long...
 
Using fox pro shockwave.

Rabbit distress any of them are good.

Good luck with pup distress as well
 
Thanks guys for all the tips!

I was able to call one afternoon over the weekend. I set up three times and as luck would have it with a north wind. Just as I was getting him in my scope he hit my sent trail over 100yds out. He made a 180 and was gone!

MAN! It doesn't take them long to get out of town!
 
Need to have the wind coming straight at you so they can't smell. They will still try to circle around but usually they get close enough as they circle. If they start running away switch the call to something else.

I like to start with coyote howling then go distressed rabbit. After I shoot if there is another one or if I missed I will switch to pup distress. Doesn't work all the time but sometimes you can suck them back in
 
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