I see 21 people responded so far to the recent poll. Seems most hunt on Private. This is what I suspected. When calling on Private do you tend to have more success calling in you're quarry vs calling on Public land?
When hunting public land, you never can be sure when someone else may have been their before you, calling and/or educating the quarry. Just like deer and other game, you often dont see anything when you are looking for it, but at night they are all grazing on private un-hunted property. The ONE time I called in a coyote at night, it was on public land, but in the summer where I am guessing no-one hunts. After that, I never saw or heard the coyotes again.
Sometimes I also think the people who do barely anything right are just lucky and maybe that is the tactic??
Example: person who smokes a cigarrette while on deer stand, no cover scent, normal cloths no camo, pissing off his deer stand, eats a smelly Italian hoagie for lunch, gets a deer every year. Where the guy who works at it, wears the right clothes, keeps the clothes and boots in a bag till he is at his parking spot, uses cover scent, is aware of the wind, is quiet, doesnt eat anything in the bush is lucky to see anything. Let alone trying to call in a smart, wiley predator. This is why I think I am done with public land. Seems like a waste of time. Too much Pressure on the animals.
