Coyote hunting at night

[fatrobber]

So Friday night me and a buddy went hunting at night on his property.  We were sitting on his second story balcony that overlooks the back yard and a lake with more property beyond the lake. From the balcony to lake it was maybe 50 yards. And the far side of the lake was roughly 150 yatds
After a while of sitting  we started to hear the dogs off in the distance. And they progressively got closer. From maybe 6 or 700 yards so we  tried a distressed fawn. They came in to 200 yards. Then went quiet. Then roughly 20 minutes later we heard them again off in the distance but this time instead of the barking it was mostly location howls. And again they got progressively closer this time to like 150 ish yards. So we tried a location howl and they went silent again. Another 20 or 30 minutes and they were off in the distance again getting closer tried distressed fawn again and silence yet again....

What are we doing wrong? Why the silence? Why do they go so far out and come back?

[Bofire]

you got busted

[Trapper John]

Three things I would say.
First I would not of used a location call.  Reason is you told them that this area is another dogs area and they might of taken that as the "Boss Dog"   

Second they might of been sneaking around trying to see who (you) were and you didn't see them but they seen you.  Night hunting sometimes is to hard because you can see them way off but they see you.

Third .............................. they knew you were at the house.  Fawns don't feed or stay around homes and they differently don't cry out from a second story balcony.  You need to hunt them on the ground away from the house.

JC