Finding a spot

[navylawdog]

This might seem like a stupid question but I have been wondering about it for a while. I have coyote hunted with my dad a few times and I watch coyote videos from Primos but nobody has ever told me how to pick a spot to call from. I know it has to do with the wind but how do you know the direction that the yotes are going to come from? Help me out if you can. Thanks ahead of time.

Navylawdog

[iiranger]

Long winded old Geo. Herter made a point I did not believe until I tried it. People, walking on their back legs, drive animals "nuts." It is just too freaky for the 4 feet on the ground animal. I was stalking ground squirrels and decided to try it. I would approach until the squirrel went into the hole. Then I would sit down. Plain sight but seated. Little rat would come out of the hole like everything was peaches and cream. I could, at reasonable distance, get up on hands and knees without much reaction, but stand up... Scared!
#1). is the wind. They can smell like it is shoved up your nose only 100 times stronger. What is it? They say a dog's brain is 2/3's nose. If the "dogs" live in the city, say under the interstate, you will not smell as bad/wrong to them as some man with aftershave way out in the country.
#2). Animals are not stupid. They will look for the "easy path" and if you think real hard, you can see it too. They are not as large as most humans and can go under things... Think like the furballllll... Then you will pick up sign of the "track" the animal takes... Little practice and you can come awful close.
#3). You set up with your outline "broken up" by something AND the wind doesn't "scream" that some odd smelling creature is up ahead ... Then you wait, patiently, silently... No humming. No smoking...
#4). You should have scouted enough to have some idea when the animals travel? From bed into hunting fields in the am. Back in the pm. Or do these hunt by night... Leave at dusk?  You set up ahead of time, well ahead, and be quiet.
Obviously this is the reason for tree stands. You put the thing out and the animals get used to it. See some poor tree being leaned on by that funny looking thing... The person climbs up to another level of air currents and unless so foolish as to sing and smoke up there... Ground blinds are a similar compromise. luck

[Ponydog]

I don't know what kind of country you live in Navylawdog......but use the terrain you are given as well...as iiranger states....they will take the easiest path.......it may be cheating.....but in addition to the stick I put out a few hundred yards from my setupwith the wind blown turkey feathers....., wherever it may be, I also save ever single scarp of meat.......from all summer long...cookouts, take out rib bones....old burgers, barb que, pork steak bones...you name it......I frreeze them in the deep freeze.......late summer, Sept Oct, I start going out on the four wheeler....and dropping a bone here, a bone there.......but in reguar places I see coyote scat............a week later...I come back through , nothing left of course.....and there is no promise a coyote got the scraps........but I continue to "make a trail"    of discards......so after the first hard freeze......i go in before daylight......I hunt from the ground.....and I have several ground blinds I have also made during summer...I set up , and glass the "trails"  I know I have made......and no, I do not toss scraps out, during or ommediately before my hunts.....I use all of them in summer....all I am looking for, is a way to create a habit for some coyotes....to improve my odds.....I have not even gone to the areas I normally hunt yet....weeds are still too tall, and too green...but the last two weeks , have chilled off alot, and there is alot of deadfall , so as soon as these deer guys get out of the woods....and gun season is over for them .....it'll be full fledged coyote time.......I dont see if any differently than guys who hunt gut piles , or toss a carcass out to hunt over.......just something zI started doing a few years ago .....the way I look at it, there is a ton of time to coyote hunt....more than any other season ,,,,,so why not try and experiment while you can ....and see what works best...best of luck to you