hii Jay here new here
 

28 yrs old live in North Ga.. been heavy coyote hunting for about 6 months now...(after they killed my favorite squirrel dog)...

I am shooting an Daniel Defense 5.56 with a 16" 1:7 twist barrel wish it was 18" ... shooting 63g soft points... my thermal scope is an apex50a and boy do I love it...

I do most of my hunting out of the back of my truck.. hunting most hay fields... Sadly no corn farmer will let me hunt..

Been a good season for me so far around 40 coyotes down since 2016 has started... aiming for at least 100 this year..

I would post up pic of the awesome coyote bone yard I had going until someone cleaned it up =/...

Here is my youtube channel.. There is many thermal hunt videos thru my scope... like and subscribe there will be plenty more to come!!!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChY...zj_g_-uUhkG-lw

I use all hand calls.. I feel all these eastern coyotes seem to know the caller loops.. But I do not have a 500 dollar fox pro either so that might be why!!!

If you have any question of anything I would love to chat.. Its hard to find actual coyote hunters around here.. Lots of talk and no action...

Sounds like you're serious abut it if you already have 40 under your belt this year! Hope you get every one you see, as they take a lot of game birds and animals, especially newborn fawns this time of the year.

Keep stacking them up Jay. Welcome to HNI.
-Jake

If you can, please consider posting some of your hunting strategies for other members. We can always learn something new and it builds up the website's brand. :D

So far this year all I have been using is mouse/vole hand calls..

but that seems to be drying up.. no luck last 3 hunts..

maybe I will start trying more pup in distress..

It is so hot and muggy here in Ga... It seems they are doing all their hunting during the day and at like 4 am

I also built me a redneck turret with a bass boat seat and I welded up a gun rail lol.. I will take and post up some pics...

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome look forward to get to knowing everyone!!!

$3,500 optic on top of a $1,500 AR, then complaining FoxPro's are too expensive? C'mon now! :p :p

Sounds like you're whacking and stacking out East, hard to complain about that!

dont forget the 150 battery pack and 200 dvr in there hehe!!!

I know Nomercy I dont know what it is i just cant drop the money on the fox pro...

I guess I just dont have faith in e callers in the east.. Never seen anyone do any good with them

but Most of the time I feel Like my hand calls sound terrible also... Soo who knows =/ lol

and thx

ICO Tec calls have very good reviews and do not cost 500.00.


GC500 - Programmable 185.00 from the factory.


GC350 - Programmable 135.00 from the factory.


I own the GC350 and it has worked out very well here in Michigan.


I don't have 40 kills but I have not been out 40 times this year yet. Today is 60 days I have been laid up Recovering from TKR.
Just installed 24 new sounds on a SD card yesterday.




:D Al

I have an icotech gc300.... and down here in Georgia it seems to be useless... To many coyote hunters buying them and running the exact same call.. in my opinion...

I have been tending to do best with really random sounding vole/mouse sounds up to now(really slowing down gonna stop using it probably)

then an open reed that is really raspy and just make random distress calls.. I dont really aim for any perfect sounding cotton tail in distress or anything.. more of just something getting destroyed...

I may try the eco tech... when mating season comes around.. but then again... I still think a female hand caller would work better...

I also do a lot of day scouting.. I run different calls if I think its just more of a runway.. or if they are using that path to go to a den..

I don't buy the whole premise - no matter how popular it seems to be online these days - that e-callers aren't as productive as hand calls, just because "everyone has the same callers..."

Remember - there's only one company in the USA which makes 100% of the internal reeds for hand calls, and they only make a handful of models of reeds.

So technically, there are more different sounds available on E-callers than there are in hand calls!


In reality, it's all about set up. Either can be successful. I've called predators from Maine to California and Florida to Washington, both with handcalls as well as e-callers. As they say - it's a poor carpenter who blames his tools.

And of course, it's pretty easy to see how productive e-callers can be when you take count at tournaments. Most of the top spots are held by e-callers, simply because of how the tournament rules work out - focused on productivity.

It doesn't take a $500 foxpro to be successful either. I called boatloads of dogs over a Foxpro Spitfire which was under $200 when I bought it. He11, I called lots of dogs over a RECORD PLAYER with an old Edison type phonograph horn when I was a kid (later upgraded with magnetic speakers and 100ft of wire to move the sound away from my position). Call collecting, including E-callers, is a hobby of mine, so I have a lot more than $500 into E-callers, but I have a WHOLE LOT MORE than $500 into my handcalls (I have a couple individual calls which were that much!).

I'd say if you feel like you're topping out, it's time to try that next level. maybe a lower priced Fox Pro with the ability to tape actual yotes in your neck of the woods and use their actual calls in an ecaller?

I am not disagreeing with you.. I just tend to call many more dogs in with hand callers... I could go to the same set and set up with an e caller and then come week or 2 later and have better success with a hand call..

I also put my e caller out anyways so if I think the coyote busted me I turn it on to try to pull attention away from me... and yes I am sure the spitfire sounds much better than my Icotech300...
I will get a fox pro one of these days.. and yes you can call dogs in with anything ive had them come running in when i am just calling my dog in from outside..

maybe I am just bias against e callers until they get more work done for me... I just feel like Icotech300 loop is so short seems so obvious its not real.. but each to their own..

happy hunting

May be the case of you using the same sounds in your E caller as every one else in the area uses. Nice thing about the GC 350 and 500 is the removable SD card so you can buy extra cards to use sounds no one else uses. We do not have many wild pigs here, very rare to sight one yet we use that little piggy call to great success.
Until recently I use a MP3 player and a home made call, would never have boughten a store call if I could have been smart enough to figure out a remote for my home built unit.
I also can control the Decoy AD400 attached to the GC350.


:D Al

welll yall have talked me into it.. when i get alil spare cash.. I will probably buy a lower end fox pro with an sd card... after all it would be nice not having to call... which will equal a lot less movement...

Hard to find reviews comparing the calls on a price point. Example 100 to 150 dollar calls.
Figure you can get what you want when you compare a 500.00 unit against a 80.00 unit.


:D Al

ya I just dont need a mega phone.. Its hard to pick one out lol.. too many choices!

I wish you lived closer so you could teach me how to call them. 40 coyotes a year? Heck, I've only ever killed two in my lifetime, and I know there are plenty running around here.

Its basically a 2nd job at this point I spend probably 40+ hours a week if I can in the field...

I am also probably in one of the best coyote areas in Ga... and I have More sets than I can handle...

But June owned me.. I got 2 coyotes and then ive been dry for over 45+ sets...

Hoping July the lil Needle tooth pups are out.. then we should all get some down..

Jay, gotta go with varmintterror on this one. You dont need the top end foxpros in the east. They provide more volume than you need. I yhink a wildfire or inferno will do you well.