Ok well i have just recently started coyote hunting in Pennsylvania. And im pretty sure i found a good are but I don't know where to hunt from. Its a big field that wraps aound a patch of woods. I'll try to get pictures to help but where would be a good place to go

For coyote hunting a vantage point it always nice. Somehting coyotes will do is sneak around you to get down wind. If you can find a spot with barriers so they can't continue, and get wind in your favor, you have a good chance.

yes, a vantage point is always nice. Try to get a tree climber and get up off the ground, you will see so much more than on the ground.

if you can't get one and must sit on the ground, use the wind to your advantage. have the wind in your face. complete camo from head to toe. be still. the smarter coyotes will try to wind you so try to sit with something at your back so they can't get around you, water or anything else that will deter them from winding you. set up so you are in the shade. They have crazy vision so you want to hide as well as possible. try to determine where you THINK they will respond to the call from and look to that direction and remember, coyotes are hesitant to come into open fields during daylight, watch the tree lines. A good trick is, the night before or a couple nights before, get out near that spot and howl. listen for their response and remember that area because that's where the most likely will come from when you hunt them.
If you do howl to locate at night, when you howl and if they howl back, they will move after the first response to find the source of the sound. so if you howl more than once and get responses from different areas, it is probably the same group.

If you hunt that area and shoot one or not, don't hunt it again for at least a week. In this part of the country we call more coyotes than we see BUT they see us so give them time to forget about you, your smell and your calls. Good luck

Thanks guys

If you can't find a barrier that prevents them from getting to your downwind side, then set up with the wind from your back side, while you're facing the large open fields. Most coyotes want to smell the source of the sound, so most times they will try to get downwind, so force them to come out into the open fields to smell you. Sometimes they will stay in cover, and come without trying to smell the source, if so, then at least they will be close enough in heavy cover for you to see them.

Around here, Good luck gettin a coyote to come into an open field for any reason during the daylight!!

and by putting the wind at your back you are forcing them to come into gun range to smell the sound source. But now your inviting them to come take a sniff and they will probably be gone before you ever see them. Isn't it more logical to have the wind in your face so you will spot them when they begin to respond, and then it's just as simple as shooting them BEFORE they wind you rather than Making them wind you??

My experience with hunting predators in the east... are that they really do not show them selves in an open field very often during the day. What I like to do is setup my caller on the edge of the field and sit ~50 yards downwind into the woods.

thank you sullivt.

It is hard to do in my state to!

I don't think people understand how great a coyotes senses are. In a place where people are tripping over coyotes, maybe different tactics work. But around here a person must really be able to fool a coyote and asking them to wind you is not the best approach, at least in my experiance.

Do ya want to rethink that? Seriously, re-read it? You can't have the wind in your face and shoot them before they smell you, because if the wind is your face, they are behind you smelling you and leaving without you even knowing it!
If you want the coyote to come to you in thick cover, and if you think you can first see it, and then get a clean shot at it, in thick cover, then by all means, call with the wind blowing your scent into the thick cover. If it is fact that they won't come into an open field during day light hours, then why not set up with the wind blowing your scent into the open field any ways? Then they won't smell you at all!

The area I do most of my calling has very few trees. BUT, they still try to use the available cover. We set up so as that if a coyote wants to get downwind and smell us, he has to go into the open to do so! In other words, they have a choice, to come to us and stay in cover and not have a chance in smelling us, or go to the downwind of us, but expose themselves in the open. It seems the older coyotes like to hear, and smell something, where as the pups tend to come the shortest route, expecially if it helps keep it in the cover! Many times, no matter the age of the coyote, they will use all available cover, until they get with in 50 yards or so, then they make the move to get downwind! BUT if your calling thick heavy cover, can you see a coyote 50 yards away. They have better smell ability then do deer, and I've seen them catch our scent from about 200 yards away!
I've heard that those eastern coyotes are harder to call.

Maybe the eastern coyotes ARE harder to call, we can debate that forever but, as far as wind direction, Thats why I said get something behind you such as water so they cannot wind you. We don't have very many open areas, a big field would be 300 yards, and I don't think the majority of these critters will walk into an open field EVEN to wind you. But then again, I use all REAL animal and coyote vocalizations when I call so they always make a bee-line right to the speaker. HEY, you use your ways if it works. But I think if you ask some long time coyote hunters, MOST of them will tell you to have wind in your face.