Wildlife Callers

This predator hunting decoy cured my brother’s “hang-up” problems with open prairie coyotes near Boise Idaho and didn’t break his budget. 

Has the $30, $40, and sometimes $100 price tag kept you from calling with decoys on your predator stands?  Here’s a how-to guide on building an effective visual enticement, with wind powered motion, for all types of predators, and it can be done on the cheap.  We’ve included a complete parts list on this post. 

The Budget Bird Decoy w/ Goose Feather Attractor

Like most do-it-yourself projects, the Budget Bird idea started as a solution to a problem.  My brother, Mike Healy, lives near Boise, Idaho and likes to hit a few coyote stands in the afternoon near his home.  Most of the area around Boise is rolling grass prairie covered with lava rock, grass, and short/small stands of sage brush.  There is plenty of hunting pressure and there are plenty of predator callers in Boise. 

There were lots of coyotes everywhere he went, and he wasn’t having any problems getting the coyotes fired up.  However, once he had them all hot & bothered, he’d hit the prey distress and the coyotes would come just close enough to see the area/source of the sound and stop.  Some would work their way downwind, but many would just look for a few seconds and leave.  Very few would commit themselves to anything closer than 250-400 yards. 

Sound familiar?

His first stand with the Budget Bird was in a place that he’d called before and had coyotes hang up.  He and his son Carl called in two hard charging coyotes to under 30 yards and both were fixated on the Budget Bird decoy.  One even came running in from the downwind side! 

Here’s how he cured the hang-up problem:

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