I find it odd that the zone experimenting with the APR is the exact same zone where sharp shooters were indiscriminately blasting every deer within sight.

Seems to me it might throw off the results of the APR study just a bit.

Thanks for all the advice. Unfortunately, we didn’t see any coyotes. We made about a half dozen sets throughout the day, which is the most we could do on the limited amount of land we had permission for.

5 minutes into the first set, I had this visitor, though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1knfJdP1UYQ

I saw him poke his head out the hill to check us out. I kept calling and he waddled his giant butt right across the open field in front of us. I’ve hunted coons some in the past and I’ve never seen one this big. He circled back around and that’s when I got this video.

Ok, so they didn’t have the Primos call so I picked up a Buck Gardner and a Johnny Stewart distressed cottontail call. The Johnny Stewart came with a 3″ plastic rod that fits into the mouthpiece of the call. What is that thing and how am I supposed to use it? There’s nothing about it on the JS website.

I was just thinking that my deer grunter has a distressed fawn call on it. Is that something that could be useful or should I just stick to the distressed rabbit?

Also, should I skin them before I take them to the trader provided that their pelts are decent or should I just bring them in whole?

Thanks for the great advice, Randy. That should be enough to get me started. I think I’m going to pick up that Primos call.

I also saw an instructional video with Randy Anderson . . . so he’s a pretty reputable guy?

Thanks. I migrated over here from the IDOFishing side of things. I hope to hunt a lot more in the coming years than I’ve been able to the last few.