You can learn a lot from the videos online, but don’t believe that they come in on every stand and every call. What you are watching is the highlight reel. Nobody posts the twenty blank stands in between.
These five are older now, and some of the crews have moved on or stopped posting. They are still five of my all-time favorites to watch, and the calling in them has not aged at all. I keep a playlist of each one on the Coyote Hunting 101 YouTube channel, so they stay in one place. There are more collected over at YoteTube, another site of mine.
Bucking the Odds | Colorado
These two have great personality and some serious coyote killing skills. They hunt all over Colorado, from the sage flats up to 9,500 feet, and there are a lot of tips packed into these videos. I have watched them more than a few times. I even bought the Big Smith album to listen to on some of my own hunts.
Coyote Control Specialists | Oregon
The next set I really like is the boys up in Oregon. They are a bunch of young college kids making it happen on the weekends, and I am sure they skipped a few Friday classes to get three days in calling yotes. They call some wide open spaces, a few of them at high elevation, and they go out no matter what the weather brings.
Downwind Outdoors | New York
Now back east for some eastern coyotes. These guys are based in upstate New York, and a lot of Midwest and eastern hunters will get more out of their setups than out of the wide open western stuff. The early videos are rough; their production value improves a long way over the run, so if the quality puts you off, skip ahead to somewhere around video 20 to 25 and start there.
Predator University | Texas and New Mexico
South with Tony Tebbe, who guides for a living. You will see a lot of videos with coyote dogs running the action, because he runs and trains them. If decoy dog work interests you at all, this is the set to watch.
Predator Down | Montana
Dustin Butler is another excellent competition caller. He has not published much in a long time, but the videos are still worth your time. He runs a Wildlife Technologies caller, which is a great call and gives the FoxPros a run for their money.
Watching is not calling
Video is the cheapest way to see a lot of coyotes come to a call, and it is worth every hour you spend on it. It is not a substitute for stand time. When you are ready to go and do it, how to call coyotes is where the actual method is written down, and scouting for coyotes is the part that decides whether any of it works.