Success at Last

coyote101 · April 02, 2008, 09:48:15 PM

I hadn't been out in a couple of weeks so I thought I'd give it a try this afternoon. I called the fellow who owns the place I wanted to go to let him know I'd be out. He told me the coyotes had been really carrying on yesterday around sunset in a little patch of woods on the northeast edge of his place. I set up in the trees along a fence row that connects that patch of woods to another one. I was overlooking a field with slight draw in it than ran to the patch of woods. I didn't want to expose myself to set out my decoy and e-caller speaker, so I decided to use mouth calls. I was standing and using a tree branch for a rifle rest. I called for forty or fifty seconds on a closed reed distress call that I have. I waited a couple of minutes and then gave it another blast on a different call. A few seconds later I spotted a coyote about seventy yards away coming up out of the draw. I let him come in until he presented a decent quartering shot, and let him have it at about 48 yards. He went down DRT. I reloaded and continued to call in case another one was close, but nothing else showed. This was only the second coyote I've seen this year and the first one I managed to shoot.

My first called and killed coyote.

My new and lucky DirtyDog lanyard.

T/C Encore in .223. Hornady 55 grain TAP made a devastating wound.

View from my position to where the coyote was.

Looking back to the treeline I called from. Forty eight paces from the dog to the fence.

Pat

wv_yoter · April 02, 2008, 09:54:31 PM

Congrats Pat. It looks like you got a Hawks Feather call just like the one I have.

Jeb · April 02, 2008, 10:03:55 PM

Congrats !!! Keep it going bud !

Jeb

iahntr · April 02, 2008, 10:21:01 PM

Very nice.

Congratulations

weedwalker · April 03, 2008, 02:34:45 AM

Way to go Pat.

Congradulations on your 1st.

Bills Custom Calls · April 03, 2008, 04:03:21 AM

Great

Nelson · April 03, 2008, 04:15:01 AM

coyote 101,
You did good!!

Congratulations!!

Nelson

CCP · April 03, 2008, 05:16:18 AM

Good job Pat

The hardest one is over and done with. Should be smooth sailing from here on out.

FinsnFur · April 03, 2008, 05:18:13 AM

Job well done

The first is always the most memorable.

Coulter · April 03, 2008, 06:21:03 AM

Congratulations...those are some cool pics too. It really makes the story even better. Way to go

Steve

KySongDog · April 03, 2008, 06:38:55 AM

Congratulations, Pat!

You got your first one! Them coyotes are in big trouble now!!!

Great job on the pics and story!

Semp

DirtyDog · April 03, 2008, 06:45:59 AM

Now that's what I'm talking about Pat!!!!!!! Like some of the other fellas say, once you get that first, it just kinda falls into place. I shot my first in December, then a bobcat and 2 more coyotes in Feb, with a few more that I could have shot if I wasn't try to help a freind get one.

..........and boy is that one nice "new and lucky" lanyard you got there.

Carolina Coyote · April 03, 2008, 07:59:04 AM

Way to go Pat, Thanks for the story and pictures, may you get many more.

cc

Frogman · April 03, 2008, 08:03:46 AM

Quite a thrill isn't it coyote101. Are you going to change your handle to "coyote102" now? Great pictures and story.

Jim

HaMeR · April 03, 2008, 06:12:55 PM

Congrats Pat!! Good writeup & some nice pictures to go with it!! Looks like you carry soma real good equipment along with you as well. I wish you many more!!

Bob D · April 03, 2008, 08:06:33 PM

Way to go, now you will have more confidence the next time you get after them

bootmud · April 03, 2008, 08:10:36 PM

Excellant!!!

and the pics are the icing on the cake for those of us that couldn't be there!

Congrats, bootmud

coyotehunter_1 · April 03, 2008, 08:40:34 PM

Don't ya' just love it when a plan comes together?

Great post/pics

and

on your first coyote

msmith · April 03, 2008, 09:15:43 PM

coyote101 · April 04, 2008, 09:11:24 AM

Thanks guys. What a thrill to have that coyote come to the call! I'm glad that it worked out that I was using a mouth call; that made it even better.

Quote from: Frogman on April 03, 2008, 08:03:46 AM
.... Are you going to change your handle to "coyote102" now?
Jim

I think I'll leave it as is. I'm still like a first semester freshman when it comes to coyote hunting knowledge. Heck, this may have just been pure dumb luck. I may have gotten him in spite of my best efforts rather than because of them. My dad used to say' "Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while." I may just be a blind pig! Too soon for me to get cocky. Now if I get another one.....watch out!

To wv_ yoter: Yep, that's the Hawks Feather call I won at the LBL hunt this year.

Pat