i like to hunt them at night, on clear nights mostly, for most of my old set ups i needed at NW wind, if it wasnt then i didnt hunt, a lot of overgrown brush fields and old clearcuts, with plenty of coyotes......used to use cottontail in distress until everyone was doing it, then started using mark zepp custom aluminum calls, so much volume and ability to use your own voice to distort the sounds, use a rem 722 243, with 4-12 vx3 58 gr hornady vmax