Good luck on your efforts. You really need to call/hunt/shoot those puppies all year long, as they multiply pretty fast if they have sufficient food in the area. If you’ve never used a call before, I’d recommend an electronic call, as there’s no learning curve to the device, just a learning curve as to how to properly use the caller.
Coyotes are really difficult to harvest in wooded areas, as you don’t usually see them approaching the call, as they all of a sudden appear and most of the time from a direction that you have to make some adjustment for to get into a shooting position and they just might bust your movement and vanish – all part of the game.
I’m very confident that coyotes won’t attack you or your spouse but their barks can be a little stressful to some but just think of it as Nature’s evening noise and enjoy your evening/hunt. Your chances of trimming the packs down to size are slim to none by shooting them and only poison will do a good job of that but trapping full time can put a pretty good dent in their population.
