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#10MinuteTalk - Mastering Mouth Calls for More Coyotes – Ft. Dustin Butler

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In today’s digital, AI, electronically controlled world, there’s still room for doing things the old-fashioned way. Not for nostalgia’s sake, but because it flat out works. And in some cases, works better. A selection of open-reed and closed-reed calls on an easy-to-access lanyard (knowing when and how to use them) can be the difference maker on any coyote-calling set. We bring coyote hunting guru, Dustin Butler, back on to talk about the importance of hand calls and what makes them so great!

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic here, Mr. Bill Krivenek to my right. And across

0:08.6

from us, one of the coyotes, killin' us folks I've ever had the pleasure of knowing

0:13.0

my life, Mr. Dustin Butler. We've got them on the podcast again. Dustin, welcome.

0:18.8

Thanks, guys. How are you? We're doing good. We're doing good. So the topic of today's

0:23.2

conversation, if you're watching on YouTube, you can see I've got a lanyard full of calls,

0:27.5

and it's the importance of hand calls for coyotes. Now, Dustin, I know you're one of the

0:35.4

most coyote, killin' us folks I know. You're also one of the most humble folks I know.

0:39.4

In fact, you're like, oh, you brought me out of retirement, and this and that. Even when

0:44.4

we talked the last time, you're like, yeah, I just don't do it as much anymore. I killed

0:47.9

like 40 last week. I'm like, okay, well, I think you're still doing okay. But let's talk

0:53.7

hand calls. I know you work them into your calling repertoire, but why should a person carry

0:59.8

some hand calls with them? Let's get gushed in. When I know Mark, you kind of outlined a few

1:06.0

bullets and things that you wanted to talk about. I guess there's really a number of reasons

1:10.6

we can attack in any order that you want. I think for guys to get started in the sport,

1:14.9

hand calls are inexpensive. It's a great way for them to get started and get bold and see if this

1:20.6

is something that they're passionate about. But I also feel like from my perspective,

1:26.0

the electronic calls have come so far now from where they started 20 plus years ago,

1:31.4

as far as the quality and the sound libraries and the ways that you could use them. But

1:35.4

there's still kind of a pure form of this sport, in my opinion. That's probably the hand calls,

1:43.1

the mouthbone calls. I think there's still a level of satisfaction that comes from learning

1:48.0

them and mastering them and tricking coyotes to come to the mouthbone calls or the hand calls.

1:55.0

For sure. Like you said, I mean, definitely e-callers have come a long way. I know Bill and I both

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