A coyote knows the sound of a dying rabbit because they hear it time after time when they are feeding. The coyote always rushes into the spot where he is the sound of an injured or a dying animal. This is one of the types of coyote calls that a hunter can use to his advantage. It is the habit of the coyote that will lure him out when the hunter mimics this sound. The techniques are not very difficult to learn, all you need are persistence and patience. Think about fishing, when you cast out your line you have no idea if you are going to catch a fish or not, sometimes you do, and sometimes you don’t. You need to have a certain amount of patience and persistence for you to have the willingness to cast your fishing line out the next time, and the time after that, until you have finally succeeded and caught that fish. This is exactly the same as coyote calling.
There are three different types of coyote calls. The first one is the electronic call. These electronic callers are very useful. Most of these types of coyote callers use recorded animal voices in distress which the hunter can use to trick the coyote with. These electronic types of coyote callers have many advantages. They allow you to shoot instead of calling, they are very easy to use, there is normally a very wide range of animal distress sounds which can be stored on each device, and they are capable of being used to call other species. But, there are disadvantages also to these electronic types of coyote calls. If you run out of batteries you will do no more calling for the day. Some of them are very bulky, if you don’t get a good quality collar and they can end up producing sound quality which is not very good.
Then there are two types of mouth calls. The open reed call and the closed reed call. Of course, there are disadvantages and advantages to using the mouth type coyote call. Some of the major disadvantages include the need for movement in order to use it, you have to blow through it, there is an element of skill involved, most callers are limited to producing one sound, and they can stop working completely in freezing weather. The advantages are that they are much easier to control the volume, they are a lot easier in controlling the frequency, they are much easier to carry in the pocket, they are much easier to control the emotional pitch, and they are much less expensive than their electronic counterparts.
You must understand that there are some coyotes who will not respond to the calls. Much of this may be due to the coyote having escaped from a call previously. In a world of coyote hunting, you have to be prepared for the coyote not responding in the way that you want it to respond. When you have figured out the type of coyote call that works to you, stick to it because it will probably work again in the future.