What call first

[stackenem]

What call do you start with when calling small farm fields and wood lots? Would you start with a squeaker and work up or go straight to squalling.

[beesobrien]

that depends on what you are hunting.

If it's foxes then I usually start with a lip squeak or a rodent coaxer type of call. Usually if there's a fox within hearing range you'll see or he him and that might be all you will need.

If you are calling coyotes then i'd suggest starting off light with your distress call rather then a squeaker. I like to use the same call that way the animal isnt thrown off by the variety of calls used. Once you make eye contact with the yote then i'd switch to the squeaker or a lip squeak or just make a "kissing" sound I love calling this the kiss of death because it is so effective and you dont really have risk spooking the yote by making too much movement.

But right now i'd use an open reed coyote call and do some high pitched yips because the pups are breaking away from their mothers and it lures in both pups and hungry alpha males

[mtman]

Out here it is so wide open that usally all calling is at a loud level. Almost always start out with a howler to locate, then use a cow elk call to mimick different distress calls. Its just altering the pressure to change the pitch and sound. I'm going to try some true coyote calls someday, but , for now all I have is the old cow call.

[joeypii]

I start out with a low volume coaxer then maybe a howl, and work into a distressed rabbit or woodpecker it depends on what I am most likely to see

[Win Mag]

Sometimes i start out with the howler, somethimes with some challanging barks ,wait a bit, then go to a open reed rabbit distress call.

[wyote]

mtman said:

Out here it is so wide open that usally all calling is at a loud level. Almost always start out with a howler to locate, then use a cow elk call to mimick different distress calls. Its just altering the pressure to change the pitch and sound. I'm going to try some true coyote calls someday, but , for now all I have is the old cow call.

Ditto!