Adui13

Greets,
My hunting partner and I went out yesterday, set up in an area we know there are coyottes. Niether of us has a caller persay, so we used his portable stereo and my tape, a Johnny Stewart woodpecker distress call. ( picked that tape to buy for my first because although I am told there are some cottontails in the area, I have been hunting around there for 6 years now and have seen only one rabbit.
Anyhow, soon after we set up it started to rain, just a light drizzle, but the wind was pretty nasty too. Should we have bagged it for the day, or did we do ok sticking it out? also it was early afternoon, we were there from around 2:30pm to close to 4pm. Was our timing ok??
Just some dumb questions to edumicate this begginer.

Just my uneducated opinion!
Terry

halcon

How well did you do should answer part of your question . Friday was a lousy day all over the state with all the wind . way to much for any calling around here .

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coyoteseeker

the drizzle wasn't or isn't a factor but the wind is.10 mph wind is ok,15 is questionable depending on the lay of the land,20 mph wind you can stay home.in the 12 to 15 mph wind range i have noticed that a predator(coyote)will circle to the down wind side of a caller at farther distances.the wind is carrying the scent farther allowing them to maintain greater distance to straighten things out.on a dead calm day in thick terrain they will circle in much closer trying to pick a scent.unless its near zero temps(or at least cold with snow on the ground) 2:30 is a little early and you deffinely don't want to sit a stand for that long.some callers only sit a stand for 15 minutes if nothing shows they move on to another stand.i like to sit for 20 to 25 minutes unless i know i'm working call shy critters then i might stay for 30 to 35 minutes.it depends on the time of day,weather and the time of year.if your target is bobcat then you need to stay 30 to 45 minutes maybe longer sometimes.

jmac33

yeah, way to long to sit for yotes, but u live and u learn!! get em next time!!!!<img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

Adui13

Thanks guys, I figured it was the rain. I didnt count the wind, actually we thought that was a good thing, it was pretty windy and the direction kept changing. As for the amount of time in one place, I figured that was too long, but the area we like to hunt wqas closed up, so we only had that area and maybe one other usable spot around 300 yard away.