![]() “The more emotion you can put through a call, the more coyotes you’ll call in,” he said. Single howls and female soar howls, especially high-pitched ones, work for him then.Īt all times, regardless of the season, he does two other things when calling.įirst, he tries to sound “dynamic.” By that, he means rhythmic and sensitive. “So you insert yourself into their territories,” Morrison said. Particularly from the Midwest to the East Coast, where coyotes rarely struggle to find food even in winter, it’s more important to seem a trespasser. ![]() In winter and the breeding season, he challenges coyotes. “You just have to sound like something in trouble.” “You don’t have to mimic a specific animal,” Morris said. He passes himself off as a cottontail or a woodpecker or something else. In summer and especially fall, when young coyotes are bouncing around “like pinballs in a pinball machine,” he uses prey in distress calls. He breaks his hunting into three segments: fall, winter or the breeding season and summer. “Where you can run around naked and nobody can see you, that’s where coyotes are living. Not surprisingly, the coyotes were there, too. ![]() He was with his son on a food plot about two or three miles back into the woods hunting elk. He pointed to a recent trip to Pennsylvania. The more remote the places he gets responses, the better. I really think that’s what they’re saying,” Morris said. Sometimes he offers long howls, other times shorter ones with a few barks at the end. Morris does that by driving around the same places people hunt deer or turkeys or quail, howling every two miles or so. Of course, shooting coyotes like that means first finding coyotes. If there’s three there, chances are there could be four. “If there’s two there, chances are there could be three. “Why do I do that? Because if there’s multiple coyotes, they will show interest. He doesn’t wait to see another coyote first. Specifically, he makes pup distress sounds immediately after shooting. So if there’s one thing he has learned, if there’s one take-home message he preaches to hunters attending his seminars, it’s to keep calling after pulling the trigger. It’s when he did them.Įarly on, Morris admits, he called in and killed a lot of coyotes - singles and even pairs - then immediately started celebrating.Ĭoyotes are social animals. The camo-clad gyrations themselves weren’t the problem. Chances are good you’ll eventually see this 300-pound, Utah-born-and-bred mountain of a man with the booming voice make a shot, then start twirling his hips, pumping his fists and grunting through the “high-five dance of freakin’ love,” whatever that is. He travels all over the country for the show. The three-time world coyote calling champion is one of the hosts of FOXPRO Furtakers on the Outdoor Channel. It’s not exactly going out on a limb to say Al Morris is a passionate predator hunter.
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