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Coyote Pair Called on Video – Mouse Squeaks & Crow Sounds Bring ‘em In

Posted June 15, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 2 comments.

While in Chillicothe, Missouri this past January for a few days of coyote and mixed-bag predator calling, I captured this pair of winter coyotes coming to the call.

These coyotes responded in about 7-8 minutes to a mixture of mouse and vole distress squeaks combined with sounds of crows mobbing food and excited crow calling from my Wildlife Technologies Mighty Atom 21 electronic wildlife caller. I’ve used this technique successfully many other times. I play the sounds continuously and vary the volume from medium to medium/loud. Once the predator is spotted coming in, I drop the volume to keep it/them moving toward the speaker.

Unfortunately, the shooter hit the coyote too far back to be immediately effective.

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Mark Healy

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Categories: Predator calling, coyote, wildlife technologies

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Second Chance Coyote – Coyote Called In, Shot & Wounded, then Called In Again

Posted April 28, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 7 comments.

Field Tactics: Quick changes to your location, and the addition of new sounds can bring coyotes back in – even in these extreme circumstances.

Predator callers, especially the newer guys, often wonder when a stand is “burned” and what if anything can be done when a coyote has winded them, or they have fired a missed shot at one. The short answer is yes, something can be done. Here’s a video that demonstrates that a coyote can be called (in this case, called and wounded) and then immediately re-called if the caller reacts quickly, changes positions, and gives the coyote a new scenario and sound picture that gets its attention back.

Does this tactic work every time? No – but, then again, nothing works every time. However, it’s one more tactic for a coyote caller to use in the field. Let’s face it, coyotes have no idea what a gun is or what sound a gun makes. You always have a fair chance at re-gaining control of the coyote’s behavior if you change its mind.

Coyotes aren’t always easy to find and we always try to make the most of the ones we’ve already located. We believe that most unproductive stands are unproductive simply because we’re calling and there’s nothing close enough to be listening, or close enough to care. Finding coyotes and knowing exactly where they are is definitely more than half the battle of successfully calling them. Once you have one or more coyotes located, exhaust all opportunities to put ‘em in your truck.

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Mark Healy

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Categories: Predator calling, coyote

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Video Blog – Barking a Coyote to a Stop, Bad Shooting, & Anti-Hunter Comments

Posted March 16, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 6 comments.

In this video blog Mark Healy attempts to bark a coyote to a stop with horrible results. We’ve analyzed the scenario and believe we know why the coyote hit the afterburners when he heard the bark. Take a look for yourselves and give us your thoughts.

We also take a few minutes to read a pair of reader comments from the dozens we’ve received over the last several weeks. We provide some insight, intellectual analysis, and a rebuttal to each based on professional consultation we solicited from outside the company.

We’ve all seen it before. A called coyote comes running in, the camera guy or the shooter need it to stop for a second or two, and someone barks. In the dozens of times I’ve done it, the coyote usually pauses just long enough to make a clean shot, or get some photos. Occasionally, like in this video, the coyote looks like he’s been poked with a cattle prod and getting any shot at the running dog is akin to skeet shooting.

If you click on the video a second time you can view it in full screen at YouTube.

We are always amazed and amused by the number of people who take time from their day to send us pointless personal attack emails. Now I know firsthand what Howard Stern meant when he said “Why don’t they just change the channel. No one is forced to listen to me”. Although, it would be nice to see a lib wing nut try to make a coherent argument rather than offering a simpleton death wish laced with profanity. If only…

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Categories: Predator calling, Wildlife Photography, coyote

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Coyote Howling Techniques – Northern Iowa Callers Jim and Justin Blauwet Turn the Tables on Wary Dogs

Posted February 12, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 1 comment.

You’ve just dropped a bunch of money on a new caller. People around town tell you that the local coyotes just won’t come to a call anymore – “they’ve all heard a call a dozen times”. What do you do? Jim and Justin Blauwet use coyote vocalizations and leave the screaming rabbit sounds alone. Here’s their tactic that’s worked several times.

If a regular dog comes a runnin’ when it hears a can opener in the kitchen (a conditioned response), then it stands to reason that a coyote can also be conditioned by fooling it with a prey distress call, and then allowing it to barely escape with it’s life amid a hail of bullets.

That lucky coyote might still come to investigate a screamin’ rabbit sound, but the chances of it running in full-blast time and again are diminished with every negative encounter or impression – simple conditioning. Because of Mother Nature’s mixed message – sometimes the screamin’ sound is natural and associated with food – sometimes the screamin’ comes with smelly lumps of camouflage shaped like humans and loud bangs from predator rifles – coyotes naturally become conditioned to be cautious.

Justin Blauwet and His January Iowa Coyote

Using their new Wildlife Technologies Mighty Atom 15 electronic predator call, the Blauwet’s have called several of the “uncallable” coyotes. If you own Other Brands of Predator Callers you most likely have a series of sounds that will allow you to recreate this sequence.

Here’s how they do it:

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New Year’s Resolution – Introduce Kids & Adults to Predator Calling

Posted February 3, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 4 comments.

Since a peak in the mid 1980′s, the number of hunting licenses sold in the United States has been on a decline. Source: ESPN Outdoors. Anti-hunting groups are relentless in their legislative attempts to take away our legal & ethical American pastime. Our best defense is to make sure our voter ranks are filled up with new/ethical hunters every year. Take a kid or neighbor predator calling and get them addicted too!

I’ve always had the hunting bug, but my father was not a hunter – not even a little bit. He used to take me deer hunting and tell me to “go look for some over there” pointing to a mountain. He’d nap in the truck and I’d wander around aimlessly. Then, a local teacher and predator caller, Ken Brink, took me hunting in 1986. Bang!! Three coyotes on the first stand and I was forever hooked. After a good day calling, there was never a string of bad days that could deter me from going again – I always knew my next good day was eventually coming.

Here are a few predator callers who are passing the fun and addiction to people who can spread the word and keep the fire burnin’.

Ned and Liz Burris spent a cold November Sunday calling together, and Liz called in her first bobcat. Liz could have been discouraged after 5 gray & rainy stands without seeing anything (she didn’t even see the coyote Ned shotgunned on the first stand until it was dead & down), but Ned kept her spirits up and it paid off. What an outstanding day calling!