Took me a long time to call in a bobcat in AZ, probably called in over 200 coyotes before I got the first bob. I never could resist not whacking the coyotes, a friend of mine calls in a couple of cats every year, but he lets the coyotes go, I do not have that control. He also will sit on a stand up to an hour, I move after 15 minutes.
When I did call in the cat, it was early morning and coming in directly with the sun in my scope. I thought it was a coyote when I shot it, heck I was convinced it was a coyote till I went to pick it up. Called it in with a Circe cottontail, and I was calling softly and continously, it showed up about 10 minutes after I started calling. I did shoot another bob my buddy called with a Tally-Ho, neither of us saw it until a coyote came running in, and spooked it from under a bush, and the cat took off running with the coyote chasing it. Cat went up a saguaro, and I nailed the coyote and the cat. I have a picture somewhere. Also called a lion in a canyon going up Mount Ord, and missed it.