Predator Calls - What's the Best?

 
A couple young enthusiasts (trainees) with their first coyote of the season. This particular coyote was called in with a mouth call and put down at thirty yards with a 22 mag. (Erie county)
 
Coyote hunting, one-on-one,  is without question the most challenging of all game hunting. If you believe you're an accomplished hunter and can collect big game at will, go get a coyote. A very humbling experience is headed your way. Not because coyotes ain't plentiful or just found in secluded areas either.
Hunted coyotes nation-wide and each state varies in tactics and fire power,Pa Ohio new York, heavy snow, 22 MAG 12 gauge will put coyotes down more often then not. Reason being coyotes will hunt rabbits the same as any hunter and your favorite bunny spot has just become a good place to call coyote. Big woods, a triple duce or better works fine. I use a 243 with the 45 grn. varmint express. Holds a good pattern up to 200 yards and I have a couple sitting around,you don't need any thing special just  gun with what you shoot good with.
Calling coyotes is allot easier than most hunters are lead to believe, in fact plenty of spring turkey hunters will incidentally call a coyote in.
What call works the best? We've used them all and no particular mouth call stands out from the rest. Stay away from the electronic calls. I have every one ever made and it comes down to evolution of ones skills.
This will be hard to swallow for most but many avid predator hunters go to the dollar store pick up a couple squeaky toys for a buck fifty and head out.  I'm not bashing any store-bought predator call, its just evolution, in the years of hunting bobcats, fox, coyotes Ive came to know a squeaker from a pets toy is one of the best calls a predator hunter can use.
 
No special or expensive gear needed, dollar store, squeaky toy, $1.50 big lots white sweat pants and white hooded sweat shirt,$10.00 Hunting license and a good hunting partner, this is quite possibly the hardest thing to come by.

Recent down south cat action, called in with a squeaker pried out of a plastic dog bone,

those sons a biches!!!!!!!!!!!  thats my dog Fluffy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Nice kill guys. I agree with the electonic call sucks therory. Use the squeakers they work!!!!!!!!! Havent gone coyote hunting in a long time, ready to get back in the swing. I got a toy for dogs that rolls around all crazy and has a big bushy squirrel lookin tail on it. Ive been wantin to use it for a decoy.

i use a mouth coyote howler and a old rubber ducky thing that i painted black, made a decoy out of a rabbit skin and some toy my little brother let me use that shakes and flings the rabbit skin once i attatched it (call me macgyver)...i have one of the johnny stewart things, its garbage....the volume screws up when it gets too cold...shot 12 of those dumb things last year....ill probly go out a few times this year to see if i can call some more coyotes in but i dont know if i will have time...

tippy toe,
 
I expected you to come with some off the wall sh**. Just made a couple nice hats a good set of mitts. hoping to bag a couple for some moccasins.
 
It's OK for you and your good Buddy's to post every thing from spooks in your closet to who's afraid of the booger man. but when its not a good Buddy you talk crap. There is a group that has turned this board into a mockery of any thing that resembles the out doors hunting fishing sportsman ship.
I can just see T.T. now WHATS YOUR MOTIVE I QUESTIONED IT BEFORE AND I"LL DO IT AGAIN.
Whats you point tippy toe?
Merry Christmas and God bless

My point is that you should have posted it on the hunting thread.
 
The question about what you do with them was not sarcasm.  The last time I talked to a "coyote hunter" it was in New Hampshire, and my buddy ask him "what do you do with them"?... and the guy said, "kill em".
 
Thats what they did...they just shot them took pics with them and then dumped them at the trash dump.....and I thought that was despicable.
 
So now ...since I'm talking crap..I'll ask you, whats your motive???

Wow, thats alot of hats and mittens, and you probably have enough meat for a couple of years right ???

that guy that does the coyote huntin seminar says he kills an average of 200 per year. I forget his name, he did a show for maurers trading post 5-10 yrs ago. Anyone know who im talkin bout? Regardless, was a very educational seminar. What do you do with dead coyotes?........You use them to bait in more coyotes. How big was that yote in the pic, 40-50lbs?

nightowl, I think you're talking about Tom Bechtel.

ive never seen a yote past 44lbs, most in waterford (pretty close to erie) are 35-40lbs...The ones in NY (Findley lake area) are a little bigger usually..

i would guess that guy goes all over to shoot them though, i doubt you could even shoot 30 out of one area....and no doubt that guy probably sold fur and made some cash doing it....do the math

a well put-up coyote brought around 15-30 last year at epler....

say if they were all prime (highly doubt it though) and with minor fur damage from the shot could bring around 3500-3900...nice amount of money but its not easy work...

no telling how many of the yotes he shot had mange, it depends on his areas...

I like this thread here.  I don't hunt or even own a gun so I like the read.  There is something to learn here an it sure beats some of the usual crap that passes for a post many times.

 DON"T KILL MY CUZ'S...............LOL

Best Call !! Here it is. Get a pair of good leather work gloves a rabbit from the pet store and squeeze away. . Just kidding around guys, dont go calling PETA !!  I never predator hunted, but find it interesting, might give it a try this winter. Got a family farm with lots of foxes and yotes on it. See there scat all the time.