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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: pashok23 on January 21, 2016, 08:08:26 PM

Title: Coyote Decoy
Post by: pashok23 on January 21, 2016, 08:08:26 PM: Have any of you used a coyote decoy to hunt coyotes during breeding season,and if you had any luck.Thanks
Title: Re: Coyote Decoy
Post by: Jerry malbeck on January 24, 2016, 09:20:56 PM: Yes I have a full size mounted coyote, Call him deek. Problem is he does not move sooo most of the time they dont see it .
Title: Re: Coyote Decoy
Post by: AWS on January 25, 2016, 09:06:54 AM: I have a silhouette by Montana decoy that I've used a couple of times. I lay a mojo critter on the ground in front of him for some motion. The couple times I've used it results were great but feel that just the MC would have worked as well by it's self and leave it in the truck, (it fits in an ammo can) I just might find a spot that just tells me it needs a çoyotes decoy.
Title: Re: Coyote Decoy
Post by: WAPatriot on January 25, 2016, 09:15:10 AM: Anyone ever use a coyote decoy for calling in Cougars? Kinda a like a Herron in the duck spread.
Title: Re: Coyote Decoy
Post by: jasnt on January 25, 2016, 09:38:22 AM: I have used a coyote decoy but I don't think it did anything to help. I never use it any more. Sits in my closet collecting dust. Would be happy to sell it for cheap. Looks similar to this
Title: Re: Coyote Decoy
Post by: jasnt on January 25, 2016, 09:40:43 AM: Quote from: WAPatriot on January 25, 2016, 09:15:10 AM
Anyone ever use a coyote decoy for calling in Cougars? Kinda a like a Herron in the duck spread.
i have never used a decoy for calling cougar but I have often thought that a deer decoy would help a lot at keeping there attention off me. But packing a deer decoy would be a pain! Especially where I call cats.
Title: Re: Coyote Decoy
Post by: Okanagan on January 25, 2016, 10:33:17 AM: I have a coyote decoy like the one pictured, got it as a gift. I have not used it much and don't call coyotes much anymore, but FWIW here is a bit from my experience.

First time I used it I set it up on the spine of a low ridge in low sage, where any coyote within 400 yards could see it. It was 20 yards crosswind to where I was hidden on the downwind slope of the ridge doing jackrabbit distress with a hand call. A fat youngish (maybe two year old?) male coyote came in at a run and stopped to stare at the decoy, then back at me. He stopped once 300 yards out, then paused 30 yards out to look back and forth from the decoy to the source of the sound where I sat well camoed. He was smaller than average bodied but did not look like a young of the year to me.

If you use it I would place the decoy facing toward the call sound. My observation of coyotes makes me think that a coyote facing away with its tail toward the source of a sound is a warning posture telling other coyotes to escape a danger.

I use a motion decoy for bobcats sometimes, and had a huge ancient old male coyote come to such a stand and stare at the decoy so intently that he did not notice when I finally decided to shoot him and raised my rifle. I was about 30 degrees out of line with the decoy from his perspective, inside of 25 yards. I think most coyotes would have noticed my small movement but he was locked on the decoy. I wasn't after a coyote but he stood around too long and showed me an exceptionally nice extra large coat which I decided to have tanned for myself.
Title: Re: Coyote Decoy
Post by: AWS on January 25, 2016, 11:07:14 AM: Like Okanagan I've had them sit on the ground and look up in a bush at my motion decoy and never even notice me raise the gun. But twice now I've had the decoy up in a bush and the caller just under it about four feet off the ground and had coyotes jump up in the bush and rip the CALLER down and not go for the decoy(small Minaska M-1 Bandit).
Title: Re: Coyote Decoy
Post by: Bofire on January 25, 2016, 02:49:26 PM: Only decoy I have ever used is just a feather on fishing line, to flutter in the breeze. I hunted with a guy using a decoy deer before, did not seem to help.
Carl
Title: Re: Coyote Decoy
Post by: Swag on February 01, 2016, 03:02:30 PM: I have used both a full stuffed one "Freebie" and the one shown above, I can’t say I have had definitive results that indicate they are very beneficial. The decoy on my shockwave has had better results. Plus When using “Freebie” it possess some interesting results depending on the placement prior to the stand. Especially after a long dry stand when your buddy gets up and drills you stuffer… It has happened more that once... :dunno: :dunno: :dunno:
Title: Re: Coyote Decoy
Post by: Jerry malbeck on February 01, 2016, 08:47:56 PM: Funny you mentioned that swag, I almost shot the dang thing one day.
Title: Re: Coyote Decoy
Post by: pashok23 on February 03, 2016, 01:17:23 PM: Quote from: Okanagan on January 25, 2016, 10:33:17 AM
I have a coyote decoy like the one pictured, got it as a gift. I have not used it much and don't call coyotes much anymore, but FWIW here is a bit from my experience.

First time I used it I set it up on the spine of a low ridge in low sage, where any coyote within 400 yards could see it. It was 20 yards crosswind to where I was hidden on the downwind slope of the ridge doing jackrabbit distress with a hand call. A fat youngish (maybe two year old?) male coyote came in at a run and stopped to stare at the decoy, then back at me. He stopped once 300 yards out, then paused 30 yards out to look back and forth from the decoy to the source of the sound where I sat well camoed. He was smaller than average bodied but did not look like a young of the year to me.

If you use it I would place the decoy facing toward the call sound. My observation of coyotes makes me think that a coyote facing away with its tail toward the source of a sound is a warning posture telling other coyotes to escape a danger.

I use a motion decoy for bobcats sometimes, and had a huge ancient old male coyote come to such a stand and stare at the decoy so intently that he did not notice when I finally decided to shoot him and raised my rifle. I was about 30 degrees out of line with the decoy from his perspective, inside of 25 yards. I think most coyotes would have noticed my small movement but he was locked on the decoy. I wasn't after a coyote but he stood around too long and showed me an exceptionally nice extra large coat which I decided to have tanned for myself.

If you use it I would place the decoy facing toward the call sound. My observation of coyotes makes me think that a coyote facing away with its tail toward the source of a sound is a warning posture telling other coyotes to escape a danger.
Goood point
Title: Re: Coyote Decoy
Post by: pashok23 on February 13, 2016, 08:34:48 PM: I bought this decoy,cant wait to get out.