The reason I like the e-caller is that I can set it out at 60 yards or more and it keeps the coyotes focused on it, when I was using just hand calls I got busted to often,
probably me screwing up.
I have shot coyotes year round when I'm gopher hunting in the pastures, don't go out specifically calling them but do stumble on the odd one here and there, I know in mid to late Sept and through Oct for the most part the yotes are dumb, the pups come on the dead run and mom usually isn't far behind them, but that's goose season so I usually don't start to hit the Yotes until freeze up when the birds are gone.