Coyotes 2, SD Handgunner 0

[SD Handgunner]

I went out calling late Saturday afternoon. I went down to a spot on the west side of Mud Lake southeast of town.

I set up on the end of a shelterbelt that runs east & west between two vacant farm yards. To the east of me is a combined corn field that leads up to the cat tails on the edge of Mud Lake.

I did my best impression of the Dying Rabbit Blues on the Crit'R'Call Open Reed Mini Predator for about 30 seconds, and then glassed for 3 to 4 minutes. I did about 3 series of screams and all of a sudden spotted two coyotes out on the ice of Mud Lake (better than 1/2 mile away).

I just watched them and when they stopped and sat down I again started in with the Crit'R'Call Open Reed Mini Predator and here they came. About the time the Coyotes disappeared into the cat tails on the west edge of Mud Lake some farm dogs started barking to the north and east of the Coyotes and me. I stuck it out for another 30 minutes or so, calling on and off again without ever seeing those two Coyotes again.

Not really sure what went wrong today. There was no wind at all. I thought it was odd that I never saw the coyotes again after the dogs started barking. I never did hear any Coyotes barking or howling.

Larry

[Thebear_78]

Thats the breaks, sometimes things just don't come tegether.   At least you know there are a couple coyotes hanging out there.  Head back and give them another try.

[Swift One]

That's too bad SD.  You will get them.

[Glanceblamm]

The Coyotes will bark when alarmed and I have personally heard them do so on two different occasions. Once was in the early day's of using a howler to see if they would talk back and I was standing by the truck in the dark and had one bark rapidly within 60 yds of my position.

On another occasion I was flat on my belly in the stubble and had been working on a small group of Coyotes with the howler with those yotes being a good mile away. Much to my dismay a pickup truck showed up around 600yds ahead of me and perhaps two hundred yds to my left as the two locals started clearing a plugged culvert back flow trap...I had quit calling but stayed in place hoping that they would leave soon as dusk was approaching but then heard that rapid barking again coming from beyond that pickup.

SD...I know that your experience is great, You obviously had the Coyotes attention but do you suppose that they interpreted the dogs barking as being an alarm in your situation?

[SD Handgunner]

You obviously had the Coyotes attention but do you suppose that they interpreted the dogs barking as being an alarm in your situation?

That is what I am thinking happened. In talking to a buddy of mine from Missouri he said he has had that very thing happen to him many times when Domestic Dogs started barking. However this is the first time I have had it happen to me.

Larry