Foxpro Scorpion

[apakesha]

I live in Illinois about 60 miles southwest of Chicago. In the last 3 weeks during my travels around our farm community I have seen 5 coyotes during the day. I had one chase one of my peafowl at 11:00am in my yard.
These sitings are within 1 mile of my house. I live in the corn belt and the crops are getting ready to mature. I've been thinking of using a Foxpro Scorpion digital predator caller. Foxpro has an accessory called the "Jack in the box" decoy that is activated by the remote. It works in conjunction with the caller and attracts the predator. I've been thinking of setting it up down one of the farm lanes between the fields. My question is ...Has anyone used one of these and had any success?

 

[stevec]

The best money I have spent in a long time! Bought one in Feb and killed 11 coyotes over it in 6 weeks time!

I live in central Oklahoma and hunt in thick woods. If you are hunting open country you may want to look at another model with more volume. You can buy an external speaker(about $55) for the scorpion and get the volume up.

Fox Pro can not be beat for product quality and customer service.
Here is a where I bought mine. http://allpredatorcalls.com/

Steve

 

[MrMajestic]

My exact setup! I use it for Reds with fantastic results. I missed one that came in on the "Bay Bee Rabbit" call and had my "Fox Bang" programmed for the "Juvy Red Fox Distressed". The one I shot at no sooner high tailed it out of there when another appeared, it was not so lucky. My point, Fox Bang works! I also run and recommend their small external speaker for more volume. Check out the forum on their website. Lots of good advice from the "Pro's" too on the podcast.

 

[apakesha]

How long after setup can I expect a coyote to come in? I know that the ones in my neighborhood are fairly close? Do you have to use a scent attractor like trapping bait along with the caller? I've done a lot of trapping and use Sullivans bait as well as coyote urine.
Two years ago two coyotes came in my yard at night and killed two Tom turkeys on two occasions. The Toms were too big to carry off. I knew that they would come back for seconds since they are opportunists. The day after the 1st kill I set up a flood light shining on the carcass. I then set up my truck downwind from the carcass and waited. About 9:30pm a coyote appeared making his way around the carcass. I shot him with my Rock River Arms AR. A week later the second coyote killed the second Tom. I did the same thing with the floodlight. This time I was able to sit on my porch for a vantage point. At 11:30pm the second coyote showed up and I got him good. I also woke up my wife with the shot since I was sitting outside her bedroom.
We live on 7 acres and depending on what the farmers plant we either are surrounded by soybeans or corn. When we are surrounded by corn the coyotes come right up to the yard and hide a couple of rows in. I call it the Abyss. Any barnyard animal that ventures into the corn rarely make it out alive or are ever seen again.

 

[WyleWD]

How long after setup can I expect a coyote to come in? I know that the ones in my neighborhood are fairly close? Do you have to use a scent attractor like trapping bait along with the caller? I've done a lot of trapping and use Sullivans bait as well as coyote urine.

I have the FX3. It has plenty of volume to call open country. Sometimes too much volume. I'm thinking your scorpion will be fine in Illinois. I'm from central Ohio and your area isn't that much different than mine.

As far as when to expect them, I've had em come in in 30 seconds, and I've waited as long as half an hour. I've never used any scents so can't help ya there.

The fellow that showed me how to successfully call em in told me to remember 3 things when you call. 1) Don't expect one to come in everytime you call. If you can get one in 1 time out of 10 attempts that ain't bad. 2) DO NOT miss a shot. You'll educate them and make them call shy. 3) If anyone tells you that a coyote does this or does that everytime.... pay little attention to them... the coyotes are the most unpredictable animal you'll ever hunt and do not be surprised at anything one does.

I haven't found him wrong yet on any of the 3 peices of advice. Good luck!! WD

 

[apakesha]

I bought a " Jack Attack" decoy that works with my Foxpro Scorpion today and set it up in the yard to see how it works. It worked pretty good. I could make it stop, speed up, slow down and it was easy to do this with the remote that came with it. I set the Foxpro Scorpion up with the "distressed rat call" next to the "Jack Attack" and one of my peafowl hens with in-trepidation walked up to the decoy and after about two minutes sizing it up, attacked the decoy and proceeded to kill it.
In the next day or two I will see how it works on coyotes.

 

[MrMajestic]

Can't speak for yotes however if there is a red in the area you better be ready when you turn it on! 3 of the 4 I killed last season showed up immediately when I turned on the call and the other maybe 15-20 minutes. Now granted I know where the den is and setup accordingly. FYI, I didn't get them all as I spotted a mature one while hunting chucks in the area this summer. Also have another family group scouted out at the local junkyard. My son should be returning from Afghanistan just before Christmas and he is promised the trigger man seat!

 

[apakesha]

Four years ago the coyotes went on a killing spree. They said to each other, "let's go to Mikes place. There is plenty to eat over there." They were killing my chickens, peafowl and cats. When we first moved here in 2001 we had 16 cats. Over the years we are down to 4 cats. The last 4 have learned to stay close by and are coyote smart. I called the local DNR and got a nuisance trapping permit. The first thing that I trapped was a red fox. After that red fox I trapped 10 coyotes that year. The next year I found a fox den and watched the little ones grow. Since then I haven't seen any red fox in our area. The coyotes have killed them all or run them off. You used to see pheasants pretty frequently. Now you don't see any, anymore. In the winter with snow on the ground I can jump on the snowmobile and kick up a coyote within 5 minutes, any day.