new ground to hunt

[cgrinn]

:Dwent to eastern wash last weekend had to fly solo as my hunting partners were busy,i blew two chances at dogs nightime hunting its tough to night hunt by yourself in my opinion,spent about 4hrs sunday knocking on doors got access to 5 ranches,is it worth going back in 3 weeks and hit these places?i've always gave up on calling this time of year.should a guy use strictly howls and pup distress?

[shiner]

Not as experienced as some in this area, but I hunt a ranch outside of Laredo about every 2-3 weeks, other than that its relatively uninhabited except for oil field folks who are around every day. Anyway, the point being that they seem to forget we're after them after a couple of weeks and they seem to stay pretty naive. We do night hunt them and that may make a bit of difference.

[onecoyote]

cgrinn, you are so right, hunting alone at night is hard and for many reasons, that's how I started years ago. It was kind of scary being all by yourself out there in the middle of nowhere when it's so dark and you can't see your own hand. God only knows whats sneaking up on you lol. Over the years I've learned a better way to hunt the night shift and I get alot of animals doing it. Good to hear you have found more places to hunt, but don't WS have alot of public land to hunt too? Public land is all I hunt, Good Hunting. PS I don't hunt this time of year, but I hear howling is a good way to go.

[SLYDOG]

cgrinn,
Go back in three weeks?? heck yes, I would not miss a chance to hunt new ground after 3 days. Just change your sounds up a little.

In my experiance, this time of year they are condencing their home territorys down by about 2/3rds. You have to get closer to their defended core areas, and yes they are responding to howlers more than distressed prey sounds but you can howl and use a distress call just a little to make them think that not only are you in their territory but you are eating their food too.
This time of year they may give a verbal responce but for the most part they just sneek in to see who's on their turf and to size up the intruder. I don't call as much or as long, give them longer time between calls and sit the stand twice as long as you do in the early season. Be sure to watch your down wind side and try not to make any unnessisary movement. They come very slowly and are very weary.

Hope this helps

sly