Predator Xtreme - Feb 2012
COONeys co rner Judd Cooney 20 www PredatorXtreme com FEBRUARY 2012 Pro Staff judd cooney Judd Cooney began trapping and hunting in southwestern Minnesota to earn extra money and for the off season shooting opportunities Today Judd is constantly testing rifles loads calls and other hunting equipment and he never travels without his favorite predator hunting gear and gadgets Howling Th e Rest of the Story If you want more coyotes to respond to your setups then try howling coyote howl and then shut up The turkeys were still on the roost and gobbling incessantly up and down the valley My partner was getting antsy after 20 actionless minutes when a big dog coyote trotted into the open 300 yards up the field He stopped to look for the interloper coyote and I hit a short excited series of coyote distress sounds on the open reed call which brought him on the dead run At 30 yards my compadre flattened him with a heavy turkey load and he had all but forgotten about turkey hunting Not me After a half hour of silence I started yelping and cutting and within twenty minutes my hotwired hunter had taken his first eastern gobbler Coyote howling doesnt get much better than this Howling for coyotes is probably one of the fastest growing segments of predator calling today because it works With the rapidly growing interest in all types of predator calling and the wide array of electronic and As the final notes of my howls drifted down off the ridge top where we were parked in the predawn darkness the responses came from every direction A lone coyote answered from below us to the left and a pair responded from down in the valley bottom off to the right Several gobblers sounded off from the finger ridge right below the truck while half dozen more filled the valley bottom with their raucous racket My partner was a bit in awe at the number of responses Id gotten with a single high pitched wavering howl and was obviously raring to get on with his hunt I might have been howling like a coyote but our actual quarry for the mornings hunt was a longbearded tom turkey On the way to get set up in the spot Id chosen my partner inquired about the chances of taking a coyote as he had never shot one before No ardent predator hunter would turn down a chance at calling in a coyote and with just a few changes in plan and location we were soon set up where I figured we had a chance of taking both a coyote and tom turkey on the mornings hunt I set up on the edge of picked cornfield in the valley bottom below the ridge where Id heard the pair of coyotes and as soon as it got light enough to see I cut loose with my version of a female
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