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How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« on: March 02, 2012, 07:33:47 PM »
Sorry if this is a newbie question, today I called in one coyote that cam up from behind me. It freaked me out and when I turned it took off.
Other than a blind or sitting up against a fallen stump, what do you guys do?

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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2012, 07:41:22 PM »
Or do I need to just get used to it?

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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2012, 08:02:55 PM »
I try to set up so the most likely aproach is from the front or side using the terrain and wind.  I seems to work for me.  I used to use my dog to cover the up wind side of me, he'd lay at my side and tell me the first scent of a coyote coming from the up wind side leaving me to cover the other three but WA in it's wisdom has outlawed my dog on the stand.
After the first shot the rest are just noise.

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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2012, 08:12:42 PM »
2 shooters really helps with this. All you can do is pick a direction that you think they are most likely to come from.
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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2012, 08:16:42 PM »
If you don't have a partner, get a tree. If you don't have that, get over that. When they creep up on you and you suddenly twitch from being startled they will too. Then you just gotta shoot them. (My advice means nothing. Bigfoot and coyotes hang out together in my book, as well as everything else but the psycho squirrel.)
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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2012, 08:46:28 PM »
Thanks guys. I will start looking for better cover and better yet  I will try to find a hunting partner

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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2012, 08:56:46 PM »
wipe??
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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2012, 09:26:20 PM »
Ill tell you what i have learned from years of sitting a stand
Coyotes will always use the path of least resistance.  If you make your stand with that in mind you'll get back doored a lot less.
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Know the ground your calling intimately.
 
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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2012, 09:30:46 PM »
Good tip. The area I was hunting I have been to twice before, but I was not looking for places to make stands. I know there are coyotes making home there as there is lots of scat and quite a few tracks

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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2012, 05:08:19 PM »
When hunting new areas I hunt the most logical stand and then afterward hike around lookiing for something better.  I have found that just a slight change can turn an average producing stand into a honey hole.
After the first shot the rest are just noise.

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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2012, 05:11:32 PM »
Just wait till a bear does it.;)

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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2012, 05:17:13 PM »
Just wait till a bear does it.;)
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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2012, 06:41:43 PM »
 :) :chuckle:    Thats why I said.    WIPE!!
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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2012, 08:13:43 AM »
I believe if they come in from any direction it's a good thing!
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Re: How do you protect your backside when calling in Yotes?
« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2012, 06:20:10 PM »
I called in one coyote that cam up from behind me. It freaked me out and when I turned it took off.

Had this just happen to me yesterday.  :yike: I should of brought my shotgun with me.  Sure gets the heart pumping.
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