Hi,this the friend that got me started hunting coyotes over 35 yrs.ago. I still have the first tape I ever got and it was a tape of his dog's pups crying. Man did it ever work. He is gone now and we all miss him very much. I now hunt with his son. It's been awhile for he has moved off to Ok. He comes down from time to time and we go calling. Thanks Clint.

Many years ago I was sitting on a hillside waiting for the squirrels to start moving just barely at first light. I tapped my squirrel call a coupla times and within a few moments had the uncomfortable feeling of someone or something right behind me. It was a coyote at just 3 feet or so staring a hole in the back of my head. Then, when the rabbit / quail / groundhog population began to diminish I felt it was my duty to eliminate every coyote I could. Forever hooked....

My start was squirrel related as well. I was getting my squirrel vest & 22LR out of the back of the Bronco one very foggy AM, the kind you see in the werewolf movies ,, when suddenly yhey all just lit up!! It sounded like 3 or 4 coyotes & I still remember the hair standing up on the back of my neck!! Then I realized they were howling right about where I was headed. So off I went in stealth mode hoping to see one & get a shot at it. I've been hooked ever since as well.

Hi,cool stories.

Clint

My Grandpa Temple got me started at 12 yrs. old. He trapped, called, and hunted about everything you could back in those days. Man I miss Grandpa but, I still get after coyotes every chance I get. My First coyote was shot while Grandpa was blowing a Weems dual tone. I hit that sucker right between the eyes with a 52 gr sierra H.P. from a 22-250. Like it was yesterday, still remember it all! I'm more than hooked too! It's like an uncurable disease.

"It's like an uncurable disease." I hear that.

Clint

I moved to Carlsbad in 2000 and a couple years later a friend at work was talking about coyote hunting and I told him I'd like to try that. So he took me and my brother out on a misty wet fall morning. He loaned me a 22-250 as I didn't own a rifle other than a .22. My brother brought his Colt AR-15 with iron sights. First stand he called in a couple dogs and I couldn't even get one in the scope but he shot one and at another stand my brother got one. I never even got one in the sights that day but I was hooked. Got a Remington 700 220 Swift for Christmas that year and got two coyotes on my first outing. Been at it since although I've switched to an lighter AR-15 and an occasional hunt with a Kimber Montana .270. Last year was a big year got over 30 coyotes. No way I'll hit anywhere near that this year.

I started out as a ground squirrel shooter, but found that the GS population hibernates most of the year. Since I knew there were coyotes in the same area as the squirrels, I just started hunting coyotes when the GS season wound down. It takes a lot more skill to hunt coyotes than ground squirrels. The GS will just sit there and stare at you as you pull the trigger. Coyotes aren't exactly that stupid. Besides I get tired of trying to hit objects the size of a small coke bottle at two or three hundred yards. When compared to a GS, a coyote is huge, but presents more of a challenge.

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Cool story.

Clint

I Was like nine or ten my dad had this friend JOE MONTOYA originaly from mccamey texas south of odessa,well joe worked for swaco back then he took me and dad out. My first time coyote@5 yrds i shoot no round in the chamber haha dam the luck coyote gone. I remember going home smelling like skunk thats what we used as cover scent but ever since then i've been hunting off and on now me and my best friend Al Lopez do some calling wen we are both off. Since then my dads friend Joe moved back to Mccamey where he holds a annual hunt !! We still hunt together wen we get a chance!!!! ITS LIKE A BAD BAD ADDICTION !!!

Back in the late 50-early 60's, a guy name Jerry Mills wrote a series of articles in Gun World magazine (I think) about calling coyotes. Mr. Mills hunted around the same area we shot Ground Squirrels so my buddy and I decided to try it. The first night out we had fox and an owl come in and we were hooked. I still use mouth blown calls but my partner went for the electronic.