Good post SULLIVT and HOWLER!

as these are true in the east. I once called a dominant male coyote within 30 feet of me as I was standing there talking to my buddy who was smoking a cigerette and we were 5 feet from the truck. It was at night and we were doing some locating. It came in dead silent and the only reason I knew it was there was because I flashed my sure fire out into the field to retrieve my E-caller and BANG there it was staring at us. I said very loud OH SH!&, there is a coyote. It let us look at it for a good couple of minutes before calmly walking off.

As far as distress calls, YUP they will respond to the same sounds but I THINK westerns will respond more often and faster due to the lack of food sources in the desert or plain states where in the east, more plants, people trash and so on. A coyote does not know what sound you are playing, it just hears lunch. You can play a rabbit cry or Martian cry, it don't matter it just sounds like easy pickins. Did you ever wonder why coyote pup distress works, some people use it to call coyotes, some use it after they shoot #1 and are trying to get #2 to come back, coyotes don't come to the call to "help" a wounded pup or help a fellow pack member, they do it because that hurt pup or coyote is now an easy meal. If a pack goes out hunting and then return to the den and one is wounded, it won't be long before the rest of the pack kills the wounded coyote, that coyote is no longer of any use to the pack.

Coyotes don't know what guns, bullets or scopes are either, the thought of educating coyotes is touchy with me. If you call a coyote and shoot at it and miss, do you think that the coyote thinks " holy crap, that boy is trying to kill me" all it knows is it was walkin along and a noise that was not an everyday occurance was there, so it ran out of confusion. Now if your calling is good enough and your setup is good to, you SHOULD be able to go back to that same spot and call that same coyote within a couple of days.

If you want to hunt coyotes in the east where they are in alot of places, far and few between, as I wrote earlier, go out and locate at night. You don't even have to get out of the truck. Just go and howl and wait for a response, when you get one, go back to that spot and get as close as you can to where you think they responded to and get em where THEY feel comfortable and don't make them do things that they don't want to, don't try to force them in open fields and don't invite them to wind you. good camo and stay still.

The most important thing to know about coyote and coyote behavior is NEVER underestimate them, Just when you think you know them and their behavior, they go and change up everything.