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I’m trying to set up some hunts on my e-caller. I see and hear people talking about using howls and it seems that on the hunting shows most start their set with a howl. But where I’m at, I cannot remember hearing any howls like they use. I hear the socializing when they are together, but don’t hear howls. Should I be using one anyway or avoid it and go straight to the cottontail or coon distress?

This time of year I would be using howls to start then wait 2 to 3 minutes then go to some kind of rodent or bird distress.

Had 2 coyotes in view in a prairie dog town about half a mile out, started the set with a howl. They both looked up and ran hard away. Wind was right and they never seen us. I am moving back towards hand calls. I have better luck and don’t blow coyotes out setting up an ecaller.

Coyotes are territorial. The two that ran were probably really young and ran back to the pack unit.

They are not going to go out of their way to investigate another group of dogs unless they feel they have been intruded on or there is a threat to their territory.

You can get them to investigate *sometimes* by using the siren sound on your e-caller for a short blast. Challenge barks/howls sometimes work.

Female howls especially in breeding season, pup distress and small game distress calls usually bring them in.

If they bark at you...they've already seen you or scented you.