What happened when you originally called in the 3 dogs at that spot?
Did you get a crack at them? Did they wind you?
If either of the above, you'll need to consider changing tactics - both the location and the call.
Are you using vocals or just distress?
What happened was a comedy of stupid, rookie mistakes. I had my BPS 10 with #2 shot. My kid had his AR with a 4 MOA dot sight. The yotes all topped the ridge one at a time 10 or 15 minutes apart. Way too far out for a shotgun. And they all skylined. If I had brought my .220 Swift, I'd have shot every one of them in the eyeball. But only one dropped below the skyline. It was 175-ish and the kid's red dot wasn't the right tool for the job. Also......we didn't have any visual attractant to show them when they looked down at us. Just a bunch of dumb stuff that SHOULD have occurred to us........but didn't.
I have been using young coyote sounds a lot lately......howl, distress, ki-yi...... Use some cottontail distress too. But mostly young coyote right now.
