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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2750133" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>There is so much to do with control work that the average person doesn't even need to consider. When you get a call that lambs are being killed you want to check the lambs and make sure it was a coyote kill, skin the neck and see how large the canine teeth were, how far apart they are spaced, I then walked in a widening circle around them checking for tracks. That starts to give me an idea of where the attack started and then I can start to figure out what direction they came from to kill them. It's hard to kill a specific animal if you don't know where that animal is! Yes, I can call in air support go out and kill a bunch of coyotes and hope that I got the offending animal or animals, but I have seen where that didn't work with animals that, laid down, hid or ran for cover at the sound of a helicopter or plane flying low and slow. So then tracking tells me better where I need to focus my efforts, hit the trails find the tracks, move out a distance look for tracks, as with people their feet aren't all the same, see if I can find where they crawled under a fence set up snares there and other places in that fence line. After time spent doing it you get a feel for where you want to look as they tend to use areas that are similar from place to place. Then you also need to look at the time of the year why are they killing, is it to feed pups, are they old and not in good health, in the winter, fall, or early spring are they just leaving home and getting out on their own, the tracks will help you figure out if you are dealing with young, adult, male, female or a combination of the above. I put a lot of miles on my feet learned to travel light, a rifle, hand calls and some water OZ'S equal LB'S equal PAIN. The time of the year and the animal or animals doing the killing tells you what calls you will try first then you're tracking and the number of tracks, directions of the tracks coming and going ect. start to tell you how close to the animal you are. that's what tells you when to set up to call. You left your truck a little after sunup now it's noon, so you can figure that both mom and dad are home if you're out in the spring and figure you have a pair with pups, or you did your foot work yesterday and it got late before you found out what you needed to know mostly, and you came back this morning to let the coyotes tell you exactly where they are and if they have pups that want to do a sunrise serenade. So now I know where they are and I don't want to be too close to the den but not too far from it either, I choose my stand location so now what sound do I want to use, myself I want just a long lone howl then wait for several minutes to see if mom and dad answer and show up on a hill then start my way to tell me to get out of their area. If that doesn't do it then I want to change it up just a little two medium length howls, two barks and another medium howl, set still and wait just observing the country, are they setting on a hill just looking my way, are they coming my way silently slipping along in some low places till they get close to me then laying down to see what I am going to do am I going to go to their home and mess with their pups, am I just out exploring a new area ect. . Did I mess up and get too close to the den so then they run out away from the den and start to bark and do short sharp howls and decoy me away from it. That's the tip of the iceberg for the number of things that the person doing control work needs to think about and learn about which the average person doesn't need to know when they are out doing their thing and having a fun day of calling coyotes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2750133, member: 91783"] There is so much to do with control work that the average person doesn't even need to consider. When you get a call that lambs are being killed you want to check the lambs and make sure it was a coyote kill, skin the neck and see how large the canine teeth were, how far apart they are spaced, I then walked in a widening circle around them checking for tracks. That starts to give me an idea of where the attack started and then I can start to figure out what direction they came from to kill them. It's hard to kill a specific animal if you don't know where that animal is! Yes, I can call in air support go out and kill a bunch of coyotes and hope that I got the offending animal or animals, but I have seen where that didn't work with animals that, laid down, hid or ran for cover at the sound of a helicopter or plane flying low and slow. So then tracking tells me better where I need to focus my efforts, hit the trails find the tracks, move out a distance look for tracks, as with people their feet aren't all the same, see if I can find where they crawled under a fence set up snares there and other places in that fence line. After time spent doing it you get a feel for where you want to look as they tend to use areas that are similar from place to place. Then you also need to look at the time of the year why are they killing, is it to feed pups, are they old and not in good health, in the winter, fall, or early spring are they just leaving home and getting out on their own, the tracks will help you figure out if you are dealing with young, adult, male, female or a combination of the above. I put a lot of miles on my feet learned to travel light, a rifle, hand calls and some water OZ'S equal LB'S equal PAIN. The time of the year and the animal or animals doing the killing tells you what calls you will try first then you're tracking and the number of tracks, directions of the tracks coming and going ect. start to tell you how close to the animal you are. that's what tells you when to set up to call. You left your truck a little after sunup now it's noon, so you can figure that both mom and dad are home if you're out in the spring and figure you have a pair with pups, or you did your foot work yesterday and it got late before you found out what you needed to know mostly, and you came back this morning to let the coyotes tell you exactly where they are and if they have pups that want to do a sunrise serenade. So now I know where they are and I don't want to be too close to the den but not too far from it either, I choose my stand location so now what sound do I want to use, myself I want just a long lone howl then wait for several minutes to see if mom and dad answer and show up on a hill then start my way to tell me to get out of their area. If that doesn't do it then I want to change it up just a little two medium length howls, two barks and another medium howl, set still and wait just observing the country, are they setting on a hill just looking my way, are they coming my way silently slipping along in some low places till they get close to me then laying down to see what I am going to do am I going to go to their home and mess with their pups, am I just out exploring a new area ect. . Did I mess up and get too close to the den so then they run out away from the den and start to bark and do short sharp howls and decoy me away from it. That's the tip of the iceberg for the number of things that the person doing control work needs to think about and learn about which the average person doesn't need to know when they are out doing their thing and having a fun day of calling coyotes. [/QUOTE]
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