| Coyote Hunting: Types of Coyote Calls Calls - Mouth blown While I like to think I'm a pretty proficient caller with a diaphram type turkey call -- for turkey -- I don't use a diaphram call for coyotes much. Reason being is that the squalls required with a diaphram call to imitate a dying rabbit tickles the hell out of the roof of my mouth. But it works really well as a squeaker, or to make puppy yips.
While I was waiting for my order to arrive, I stopped by a local, Albuquerque sporting goods store. They had a Circe P5 on the shelf and I bought it. Immediately I liked the call. Very gravely, raspy voice, and you could really wail across some territory with it. First day I used it I called in several dogs and they all came in close at high speed. I noted on the Circe package that Lohman Manufacturing also made the Circe calls (they bought the rights to them several years ago, I'm told). So I ordered a couple more, along with the metal, replacement reeds.
Ed Sceery brand calls are easy to use and produce good tone. My partner Dave, uses a Sceery jackrabbit call. I still use a Sceery coaxer on a regular basis also. But Sceery's prices are getting a bit steep, at $25 per call, by the time you add postage and handling to them. Calls - Howling
I'm very much convinced that howling should be in the repertoire of all coyote hunters. From the standpoint that on several occaisions, I've had a coyote come in to a howl when they didn't come to the squalls of the dying rabbit calls. I haven't had the opportunity to have one come screaming in, ready to fight after issuing a "challenge howl," but I know it'll happen someday. Howler calls also work great to stop a spooked coyote. Make a couple of yips or whines and they will always stop and look back. Giving the shooter another chance.
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| Calls - Electronic While electronic calls are used by many, I personally have not had much success with them at all. My hunting partner, Dave, owned one of these for a number of years. I borrowed it on several occaisions and spent countless hours in the field using it. But to no avail. I can tell you this about electronic calls from my experience though. They are heavy to lug around in the boonies all day; they are expensive to buy, and expensive to maintain (battery replacement, handwarmers for improved battery life or component operation in cold weather, etc.). And the cassette tapes are not cheap either. I have noticed that a number of various calling tapes, no matter what their titles may be, sound very much alike. I had occasion to buy a distressed woodpecker tape some time back and I was amazed at how closely it resembled a baby cottontail distress tape. Call it coincidence but... You can rightfully presume that I'm not a proponent of electronic calls. |
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For many years, I
only used an old set of Lohman hand calls. Originally these calls, with plastic reeds came
as a set. There included a long range jack rabbit call, a cottontail, and a coaxer. About
a year ago my truck was broken into, and those calls along with a long range call by Ed
Sceery were stolen. Lohman folks told me that the particular short barreled calls were no
longer available and I'd have to settle for the newer type that were currently being
manufactured.
Whenever I go calling now, the
Circes get used first. I carry both a P1 and P5 with me. The Lohman, wooden barreled calls
(I've forgotten now their model designations) are along as backups to the Circes. They
call in just as many coyotes, but the Circes are my favorites. Being metal reeded, the
Circes do suffer from slobber-rot, as Jerry Blair refers to it. A long day of calling and
they have to be set aside to dry out. The plastic reeds in the Lohman models are much more
forgiving to spittle. Except in sub-zero temperatures when they --along with metal reeded
calls-- freeze up.
