Terrain-Based Coyote Strategy at a Glance

Terrain-based strategy means designing the entire coyote stand around how the landscape controls movement, wind, visibility, sound, concealment, and the final approach. The best stand is not merely a place with coyotes nearby. It is a location where the terrain helps the hunter predict how a responding coyote will reach the sound.

This Level 3 guide focuses specifically on advanced coyote stand design. Hunters building their foundational understanding of landscapes should also review Predator Hunting by Terrain.

Why Terrain Comes Before Calling

A calling sound can attract a coyote, but terrain determines whether the coyote hears it, where the animal approaches, how it attempts to scent-check the setup, and whether the hunter ever sees it.

Terrain affects every major part of a stand:

• Coyote location: Food, water, bedding cover, denning cover, security, and travel routes are distributed by terrain.
• Wind movement: Hills, canyons, timber, buildings, washes, vegetation, and temperature changes redirect air movement.
• Sound travel: Ridges, dense vegetation, terrain breaks, wind, and elevation create amplification, blockage, and sound shadows.
• Visibility: Open terrain may reveal coyotes hundreds of yards away, while brush can hide an animal until it is only a few yards from the caller.
• Approach behavior: Coyotes use terrain folds, brush lines, drainages, field edges, saddles, and low routes to remain concealed.
• Stand access: The landscape determines whether the hunter can enter without being seen, heard, or scented.
• Shot opportunity: Terrain controls shooting lanes, angles, backstops, stability, and how long the animal remains visible.

A great sound placed in poor terrain may produce unseen or winded coyotes. An average sound placed inside a carefully designed terrain trap can create a much more controllable opportunity.

Study the relationship between terrain and behavior in Coyote Habitat Guide and Coyote Behavior Guide.

How to Read Terrain Before Setting Up

Terrain reading begins before the hunter leaves the vehicle. Mapping tools, satellite imagery, elevation contours, field observations, wind forecasts, access routes, and previous coyote sign can reveal the strongest stand opportunities.

Identify the Five Critical Zones

1. Probable coyote location: Bedding cover, feeding areas, denning cover, water, livestock areas, prey concentrations, or security habitat.
2. Travel corridor: The terrain feature most likely to connect the coyote’s location with the calling area.
3. Sound location: The caller position that can reach the target area without creating an impossible visual or approach.
4. Downwind route: The path a coyote is likely to use while attempting to scent-check the sound.
5. Hunter position: A concealed and stable location that provides visibility into the approach and downwind lanes.

Read the Landscape at Coyote Height

A location that appears open from an elevated road or standing position may contain enough grass, brush, terrain folds, drainage cuts, rocks, terraces, or crop residue to hide an approaching coyote.

Evaluate:

• What can a coyote see from ground level?
• Where can it travel without exposing its full body?
• Which rise, bank, field edge, or brush line will hide the approach?
• Where will it first be able to see the caller or decoy?
• Can it reach the downwind side without entering a visible lane?
• Does the hunter have a safe backstop and clear target-identification zone?

Continue to How to Scout for Coyotes and How to Pick the Best Calling Location.

Open-Country Coyote Strategy

Open prairie, desert flats, sagebrush country, grasslands, large basins, and expansive agricultural terrain provide excellent visibility, but they also expose the hunter to distant coyote eyesight.

Advantages of Open Country

• Coyotes can often be observed from long distance.
• Downwind circles may remain visible.
• Caller and decoy placement can be separated from the hunter.
• Long shooting lanes provide more time to read behavior.
• Terrain folds and low routes become easier to identify from elevation.

Open-Country Stand Design

• Sit below the skyline rather than directly on top of a ridge.
• Use a shaded face, rock, brush patch, bank, or terrain break as background cover.
• Favor a crosswind or quartering wind that exposes the downwind approach.
• Position the caller where approaching coyotes must cross a visible opening.
• Range likely stopping points before calling.
• Keep magnification low enough to locate a fast or unexpectedly close coyote.
• Use a tripod or stable sticks when longer shots are possible.

Sound Strategy

Open terrain may require greater sound projection, especially in wind. Larger electronic callers and louder open-reed mouth calls can reach farther, but the stand should still begin quietly enough to avoid overwhelming a coyote hidden in nearby terrain.

Useful sound options include:

• Jackrabbit or aggressive rabbit distress
• Loud cottontail distress
• Fawn distress
• Full-size coyote howls
• Pup distress
• Long-range bird or prey sounds with strong clarity

Read Calling Open-Country Coyotes.

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Rolling and Broken Terrain Strategy

Rolling hills, shallow draws, prairie potholes, low ridges, terraces, rocky breaks, and mixed brush create excellent coyote habitat because they combine visibility with concealment.

Why Coyotes Use Broken Terrain

• Terrain folds hide movement from prey and hunters.
• Low routes reduce exposure to wind.
• Ridges and rises provide observation points.
• Draws and shallow drainages connect feeding and bedding areas.
• Brush patches offer short-term security cover.
• Saddles provide efficient travel across elevation changes.

Best Stand Locations

• Above a shallow drainage without sitting directly on the skyline.
• Offset from a saddle where the approach remains visible.
• Beside a terrain break that forces the coyote to appear before reaching the caller.
• On the downwind edge of a broad basin with crosswind observation.
• Near intersecting draws or travel routes.
• Where one elevated position overlooks several hidden approach lanes.

Caller Placement

Avoid placing the caller on the far side of a terrain fold where the coyote can reach it without becoming visible. Position the sound near the top or visible side of the break so the animal must reveal itself while locating the source.

Agricultural Terrain Strategy

Crop fields, pastures, livestock operations, irrigation systems, fence lines, field roads, ditches, terraces, grain storage, and recently harvested ground can support abundant prey and predictable coyote movement.

High-Value Agricultural Features

• Field edges adjoining brush, timber, grass, or CRP cover
• Irrigation ditches and drainage channels
• Fencerows and hedgerows
• Terraces and waterways
• Livestock areas and calving grounds where legal access is available
• Recently harvested or freshly cut fields
• Hay fields and rodent-rich pasture
• Creek crossings and culverts
• Field corners connecting multiple cover types

Stand Placement

Set up where coyotes must leave secure cover to inspect the sound, but avoid placing the caller so far into the field that the animal can circle outside practical range.

• Use the edge rather than automatically calling from the field center.
• Monitor downwind fencerows, ditches, and brush strips.
• Use terraces and elevation changes to hide the hunter’s approach.
• Account for equipment, livestock, houses, roads, and property boundaries.
• Confirm permission and safe shooting directions before beginning the stand.

Harvest and Seasonal Changes

Standing crops may hide coyote approaches and reduce visibility. Harvest can suddenly expose rodents, increase scavenging opportunities, reveal travel lanes, and make the same field hunt like a completely different location.

Brush and Tight-Cover Coyote Strategy

Cedar breaks, sage thickets, creek bottoms, mesquite, brushy draws, cattails, overgrown fields, thick grass, and dense transitional cover can hold coyotes close to the calling location.

Tight-Cover Priorities

• Begin at lower volume.
• Keep the caller relatively close.
• Use openings that prevent the coyote from reaching the caller unseen.
• Cover every likely entrance rather than one distant direction.
• Expect sudden, silent appearances.
• Use lower optic magnification and a wider field of view.
• Limit unnecessary equipment and setup movement.
• Remain ready before the first sound plays.

Caller Distance

A closer caller helps keep the entire interaction inside a visible and controlled area. Excessive caller distance can allow a coyote to reach the sound behind brush, terrain, or the hunter’s field of view.

Sound Strategy

High-volume calling may be unnecessary when coyotes are already inside the cover. Useful sounds include:

• Soft cottontail distress
• Bird distress
• Rodent squeaks
• Subtle prey sounds
• Low-volume pup distress
• Short mouth-call sequences with deliberate pauses

Read Calling Coyotes in Tight Terrain.

Timber and Forest Coyote Strategy

Timber provides security cover, shade, travel corridors, prey, and protection from weather. It also restricts visibility, redirects sound, creates unstable wind, and gives coyotes many concealed approach options.

Productive Timber Features

• Logging roads
• Meadows and small clearings
• Recent burns
• Timber edges
• Power-line cuts
• Creek crossings
• Ridge saddles
• Old skid trails
• Open benches
• Transitions between mature timber and young growth

Sound and Wind Challenges

Dense trees, understory vegetation, terrain, and wind can create sound shadows. A caller that sounds loud to the hunter may not project evenly through the forest.

Wind may also shift around trunks, ridges, openings, and temperature boundaries. Use a wind checker repeatedly rather than assuming the wind remains consistent.

Stand Setup

• Set up beside an opening rather than deep inside featureless timber.
• Use a crosswind lane that allows downwind observation.
• Place the caller where a coyote must enter the opening to inspect it.
• Avoid sitting where branches restrict movement or shot support.
• Watch the edges of cover rather than only the center of the clearing.
• Expect coyotes to stop inside shadowed cover before exposing themselves.

Mountain, Canyon, and Rimrock Strategy

Mountain terrain combines elevation, remote access, steep drainages, timber, cliffs, benches, saddles, rocky breaks, and rapidly changing weather. It can produce less-pressured coyotes but demands stronger wind and access planning.

Important Mountain Features

• Saddles: Efficient crossings between ridges and drainages.
• Benches: Relatively level travel and bedding areas on steep slopes.
• Drainages: Protected routes connecting elevation zones.
• Rims and cliff bases: Travel edges, observation areas, and prey habitat.
• Logging roads and trails: Low-effort movement corridors.
• South-facing slopes: Warmer winter exposure and reduced snow in many regions.
• North-facing slopes: Cooler, denser cover and summer security.
• Ridge points: Visibility and sound projection, but also skyline risk.

Thermals

Cooling air commonly settles downhill during the night and early morning, while warming air may rise as slopes heat. Cloud cover, wind, shade, snow, vegetation, and canyon shape can disrupt this pattern.

Do not depend entirely on a theoretical thermal direction. Check actual air movement at the stand and monitor changes throughout the calling sequence.

Using Elevation

• Gain enough elevation to see approach routes without sitting on the skyline.
• Call across or slightly downhill when the wind and thermals allow.
• Avoid forcing the coyote to climb an exposed slope if a concealed side route is available.
• Watch saddles, benches, and drainage heads.
• Consider how sound travels across the canyon versus into the slope behind the caller.

Continue to Using Natural Terrain Features.

Desert Coyote Strategy

Desert terrain may look open, but washes, cactus, mesquite, sagebrush, rocky cuts, dunes, lava, dry creek beds, and small elevation changes provide extensive concealed travel.

Desert Stand Priorities

• Use washes and brush corridors to predict approaches.
• Stay below the skyline.
• Use shadows whenever possible.
• Break up the human outline in sparse cover.
• Account for long distances and deceptive scale.
• Watch shade, water, livestock areas, and prey-rich brush edges.
• Plan around heat and shifting daytime activity.
• Use a stable support on rocky or uneven ground.

Wind in Desert Terrain

Open flats may produce steady wind, while washes, rock formations, canyon mouths, and temperature differences can redirect air movement. Wind may accelerate through gaps and reverse near heated slopes.

Calling Volume

Open desert often supports greater sound projection, but brush-filled washes can block or redirect sound. Place the caller near the edge of the sound shadow rather than deep inside a depression.

Creek Bottom and Riparian Corridor Strategy

Creeks, rivers, ponds, irrigation channels, wetland edges, and wooded drainages concentrate water, prey, cover, and travel opportunities. Coyotes commonly use these corridors to move between feeding and bedding areas.

Why Riparian Terrain Produces Coyotes

• Water attracts prey species.
• Dense vegetation offers concealment.
• Drainages provide low-effort travel.
• Field and timber edges often intersect near water.
• Bridges, culverts, crossings, and bank gaps funnel movement.
• Human activity may be lower inside the corridor than on surrounding open ground.

Setup Challenges

• Wind may follow the drainage rather than the forecast direction.
• Vegetation may block visibility.
• Coyotes can travel the bank without entering an opening.
• Water noise may mask subtle sounds.
• Steep banks may hide the final approach.

Place the caller near a crossing, opening, bend, or cover transition that requires a coyote to reveal itself. Avoid placing it so close to the bank that the animal can reach the sound from below the hunter’s line of sight.

How Terrain Changes Wind and Coyote Approach

Forecast wind provides only a starting point. Local terrain determines what the hunter and the coyote actually experience at ground level.

Crosswind Terrain Strategy

A crosswind setup is often strongest because it separates the sound source from the hunter while creating a visible interception point along the coyote’s downwind route.

The best crosswind setup is not determined by a compass direction alone. Terrain must prevent the coyote from reaching the downwind side through hidden cover.

Study Coyote Stand Setup and Wind Strategy, Crosswind Ambush Setups, and How Weather Affects Predator Hunting.

Terrain Features Coyotes Commonly Travel

Coyotes often choose efficient routes that provide concealment, favorable wind, access to prey, and reduced exposure. Finding these routes improves both scouting and stand selection.

Continue to Where Predators Travel and Identifying Predator Travel Corridors.

Match Visibility and Concealment to the Terrain

The hunter needs enough visibility to identify and control an approaching coyote, but too much exposure makes the hunter easier to detect.

Open-Terrain Concealment

• Sit below the skyline.
• Use shade, brush, rock, a bank, or textured background cover.
• Break up the face, hands, and human outline.
• Avoid isolated positions that create a recognizable silhouette.
• Minimize all movement because it can be detected from long distance.

Tight-Cover Concealment

• Use background cover without burying yourself inside vegetation.
• Maintain room to rotate and use shot support.
• Keep close openings visible.
• Control noise from branches, leaves, dry grass, clothing, and gear.
• Avoid sitting where the coyote can appear directly behind the hunter.

Elevation Tradeoff

Elevation improves visibility but increases the risk of skylining the hunter. The best position is often below the highest point, where the hunter can see into the terrain while remaining backed by the slope or vegetation.

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Match Calling Sounds and Volume to Terrain

Terrain affects whether a sound reaches a coyote, how accurately the animal can locate it, and how close the coyote may already be when the sequence begins.

Electronic Calls

Electronic callers allow the sound source to be placed where terrain creates the best approach. Larger callers and stronger speakers can help in wind or open country, while compact calls may be easier to carry through mountains and tight cover.

Read Electronic Calling Techniques and Electronic Caller Placement.

Mouth Calls

Mouth calls provide live volume control and immediate adaptation. Loud open-reed calls and howlers can project across open terrain, while closed reeds, diaphragms, coaxers, and subtle rodent calls can work well in close cover.

Read How to Use Mouth Calls to Call Predators.

Sound Selection

Terrain does not replace seasonal and behavioral sound strategy. Combine terrain-based volume decisions with Coyote Calling Sequences, Prey Distress Strategy, and Pup Distress Strategy.

Browse Electronic Calls and Predator Mouth Calls.

Terrain-Based Electronic Caller Placement

Electronic caller placement should use terrain to direct coyote attention, expose the downwind route, and separate the sound source from the hunter without allowing the animal to reach the caller unseen.

Caller Placement Checklist

• Can the sound reach the expected coyote location?
• Can the coyote see the caller or decoy from its likely final approach?
• Will it have to cross a visible lane?
• Can it reach the caller through hidden cover?
• Where will it travel to reach the downwind side?
• Does terrain separate the caller from the hunter’s scent?
• Is the remote range reliable?
• Can the caller be retrieved without damaging the area?
• Does the location provide a safe shooting direction?

Place the Caller on the Visible Side of the Break

In rolling or broken terrain, place the caller where the approaching coyote must crest, exit, or cross the terrain feature before reaching it. A caller hidden on the opposite side of a rise may allow a coyote to complete the approach without being seen.

Do Not Overextend the Setup

Greater caller distance is not always better. In tight cover, timber, or steep terrain, a distant caller can create additional unseen approach routes and make the stand harder to control.

Terrain-Based Coyote Decoy Strategy

A decoy is most useful when terrain allows the approaching coyote to see it at the right moment. Too much visibility can expose an unnatural setup, while too little visibility prevents the decoy from influencing the approach.

Open Country

• Use a visible silhouette or motion decoy.
• Place it where the coyote must enter a controllable lane.
• Expect a wide downwind circle.
• Avoid placing a full-body coyote decoy on the skyline.

Tight Cover

• Keep the decoy close.
• Use a small opening.
• Elevate moving components above short vegetation.
• Avoid excessive motion.
• Skip the decoy when setup movement outweighs the benefit.

Rolling and Mountain Terrain

• Use slight elevation to improve visibility.
• Keep the visual and sound source connected.
• Prevent the coyote from reaching the decoy from below a hidden terrain break.
• Use the decoy to reveal the animal at a saddle, bench, opening, or crest.

Read Coyote Decoy Strategy, Where to Place a Predator Decoy, and How to Choose a Predator Decoy.

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Match Shot Support and Hunter Position to Terrain

Terrain determines whether the hunter should sit low, use a stool, kneel, stand, use shooting sticks, or lock into a tripod.

Low Seats and Cushions

Low seating reduces profile and works well where vegetation is short. It can become a disadvantage when grass, snow, brush, or crop residue blocks the view.

Taller Seats and Stools

A taller stool improves visibility and body position while still allowing seated stability. The tradeoff is additional weight and a more visible profile.

Standing Tripod Setups

Standing setups can improve visibility over terrain and vegetation. They are especially useful at night, but concealment and silhouette control remain important.

Read Using Shooting Sticks and Tripods, Tripods vs Shooting Sticks, and Sitting vs Standing Shot Support.

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Day vs Night Terrain Strategy

The same terrain can require a completely different setup after dark because detection, scanning, visual identification, caller distance, and hunter position change.

Night Caller Distance

At night, callers are commonly kept approximately 5–15 yards from the hunter so approaching animals remain within the controlled scanning and shooting zone.

Standing at Night

Standing improves visibility over brush, crops, and rolling terrain. A tripod supports the firearm while the hunter continuously scans with a headlamp, handheld light, thermal device, or night-vision system where legal.

Read Day vs Night Hunting, How to Call Coyotes at Night, and Setting Up a Night Hunting Stand.

How Weather and Seasons Change Terrain Strategy

Terrain is not static. Vegetation, crops, snow, water, temperature, livestock activity, prey distribution, and hunting pressure change how coyotes use the landscape.

Fall

• Dispersing coyotes may travel unfamiliar routes.
• Harvest opens agricultural visibility.
• Young coyotes may respond readily in open terrain.
• Dry vegetation increases noise during access.

Winter

• Snow reveals tracks and travel corridors.
• Coyotes may use roads, trails, windswept ridges, and low-energy routes.
• Food demand can increase movement.
• Cold air, wind, and snow affect sound and equipment.

Breeding Season

• Pairs travel and defend larger areas.
• Territorial routes, ridges, boundaries, and vocal locations become important.
• Open visibility can help locate paired coyotes.
• Coyote vocals may complement terrain-based travel intercepts.

Spring and Pup Season

• Adults become concentrated around denning and pup-rearing areas.
• Core-use terrain becomes more important.
• Vegetation reduces visibility.
• Protective and territorial responses may increase.

Summer

• Activity may shift toward cooler periods and nighttime.
• Water, shade, irrigated ground, and riparian cover become more important.
• Tall vegetation shortens visible shooting lanes.
• Lightweight gear becomes more valuable during longer access.

Continue to Coyote Hunting by Season and How Weather Affects Predator Hunting.

Terrain Strategy for Pressured Coyotes

Hunting pressure teaches coyotes to associate predictable access routes, roadside setups, exposed field edges, caller positions, vehicle noise, and downwind patterns with danger.

Use Terrain to Break the Pattern

• Walk beyond common roadside calling locations.
• Use terrain to hide the vehicle and approach.
• Enter from a direction other hunters overlook.
• Call from inside or beyond a terrain break.
• Use crosswind setups that differ from common direct-upwind stands.
• Target secondary saddles, draws, benches, and cover transitions.
• Use quiet, low-volume sounds where coyotes may be close.
• Allow more time for wide downwind approaches.
• Avoid placing the caller in the same obvious opening repeatedly.

Pressure Refuge

Coyotes often shift into terrain that is harder for hunters to access or observe. Steep drainages, brushy corners, rough breaks, distant public-land pockets, creek corridors, and private-land boundaries can become security areas.

Read Hunting Pressured Coyotes and Pressure Adaptation.

Scouting Terrain and Coyote Sign

Terrain analysis becomes more accurate when it is supported by tracks, scat, vocalizations, trail-camera observations, sightings, prey activity, and repeated travel evidence.

Look for Sign at Terrain Intersections

• Draws entering fields
• Fence crossings
• Culverts and bridges
• Saddles
• Road and trail intersections
• Creek crossings
• Field corners
• Ridge points
• Livestock and water access routes
• Transitions between open ground and security cover

Tracks

Tracks reveal travel direction, frequency, group size, and how coyotes use terrain under current conditions. Snow, mud, dust, sand, and soft road edges make tracks easier to interpret.

Scat

Coyotes often place scat along trails, road intersections, ridges, and territorial travel routes. Repeated scat in one terrain feature can indicate regular use.

Vocalizations

Howls can help identify general group locations, but terrain may distort distance and direction. Use vocal information with maps, wind, travel routes, and later sign confirmation.

Continue to How to Scout for Coyotes and How to Read Coyote Sign.

Field-Ready Terrain Strategy Process

Use this process to turn a promising landscape into a controlled coyote calling stand.

1. Locate likely coyotes. Identify bedding cover, food sources, water, prey concentrations, denning habitat, recent sign, or known travel areas.
2. Find the travel corridors. Map draws, saddles, brush lines, creek bottoms, fence lines, benches, roads, terraces, and cover transitions.
3. Check prevailing and local wind. Compare the forecast with terrain-driven wind, thermals, vegetation movement, and a wind checker.
4. Choose the expected approach. Predict the safest and most efficient route a coyote can use to reach the sound.
5. Map the downwind circle. Identify the terrain the coyote will use to verify the caller with scent.
6. Select the hunter position. Use background cover, elevation, visibility, a safe backstop, and stable shot support without creating a skyline silhouette.
7. Place the caller. Position the sound so the coyote must become visible before reaching it or the downwind side.
8. Match the sound to terrain. Select volume, pitch, sound family, and calling system according to distance, cover, wind, season, and pressure.
9. Prepare all shooting lanes. Range landmarks, adjust support, lower optic magnification, and cover likely close and distant approaches.
10. Call and observe the terrain. Watch terrain breaks, edges, low routes, saddles, and downwind cover—not only the caller.
11. Read disappearing coyotes correctly. Predict where the animal will reappear rather than making unnecessary sound or movement changes.
12. Leave without damaging the location. Allow enough time for late coyotes, retrieve equipment quietly, and avoid walking through the primary travel corridor.
13. Evaluate the stand. Review access, wind, terrain, caller location, sound coverage, approach routes, and visibility before returning.

Terrain-Based Coyote Stand Plans

These field plans provide starting frameworks. Adjust caller distance, volume, sound selection, stand time, and hunter position according to local conditions.

Common Terrain-Based Coyote Hunting Mistakes

• Choosing visibility without concealment: A high, exposed location may provide an excellent view while making the hunter visible from every direction.
• Choosing concealment without visibility: Sitting too deep in cover can allow coyotes to approach without presenting an opportunity.
• Ignoring terrain-driven wind: The forecast direction may not match the actual scent movement inside a draw, canyon, timber edge, or field corner.
• Placing the caller beyond a terrain break: Coyotes may reach the caller without becoming visible.
• Watching only the caller: Coyotes may use a wide downwind route or concealed edge rather than approaching directly.
• Starting too loudly in tight cover: A nearby coyote may be overwhelmed by a maximum-volume opening.
• Using insufficient volume in large terrain: Distant coyotes may never hear a subtle sound when wind and terrain block projection.
• Using the same gear everywhere: Binoculars, rangefinders, large callers, decoys, and heavy tripods may be valuable in open terrain but excessive in tight or remote country.
• Sitting on the skyline: The hunter’s outline becomes visible from long distance.
• Walking through the approach route: Access scent and tracks may contaminate the path the coyote is expected to use.
• Failing to monitor terrain folds: A coyote may disappear briefly and reappear much closer.
• Leaving too early: Open, mountain, and pressured-country coyotes may require additional travel time.
• Ignoring the exit route: Walking into the open immediately after calling may expose the hunter to a late coyote.
• Hunting the same obvious terrain repeatedly: Pressure can move coyotes toward rougher, less convenient, and less visible routes.

Continue to Avoiding Common Stand Setup Mistakes and How Long to Stay on Stand.

Continue Learning About Coyote Hunting

Continue through the Coyote Hunting Guide, Predator Hunting Tactics Guide, Predator Hunting Gear Guide, Electronic Calling Guide, Night Hunting Guide, and Predator Sounds Guide to build complete terrain-specific hunting systems.