:congrats: :madd:Went out making the first set of the year,near my local shooting range.
35 minutes of different rabbit ditress call,, had hawks and crows everywhere,, I had the 12 guage with 3 inch #4 buck,my son was suppose to be with me on rifle,but he over slept.
At 45-1 hour,I run pup distress the fox distress, nothing
my set up had me parked in the hole of a big uprooted tree,, that also covered any low movements,, this will be key shortly.
At this point I am ready to pack it in,pull up my face mask,light a cigarette.
Then I see a blur of movement,3 coyotes coming my way,shotgun, leaning , cigarette smoking,caller off.
I put the caller on mouse,that brings the biggest of the 3 heading right for me,, plan at this time is to bring the shotty up with enough speed to get on him and shoot,, I do this as planned, he locks up and our eyes meet,clear shot at 25 yards.
Put it on his chest,pulled the trigger........"Click"!!!
Bad primer,, he gave me a not so good shot @45 in brush,knocked him down , threw another at him exiting, blood,no recovery, think one bb maybe hit him in the noggin?? He fell 3-4 times leaving out..
pretty good first stand,,, with exception of that primer!!
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was this store bought ammo or home rolled?... hate to lose one to faulty ammo...
Store bought Royal Buck,,, never had one not go off,, until then!
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Nice work callin in a triple.
Yah we never wanna see one run off wounded.
Triple,yes first time for that!
I lost track of the other 2 up the hill from me,, the one that came clear in,his hair was up on his back,very cool,never seen that before either.
Yes hated not getting him,we tracked a good ways,then made some wide loops,,, snow was patchy on the hill.
Hopefully he wasnt hurt too bad.
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Sounds exciting!!
Jim
Good morning's hunt, told well. Enjoyed reading that.
Coyotes are as tough and tenacious of life as grizzlies pound for pound IMO and if a man shoots many he will so some serious tracking on a few of them, no matter what he shoots them with. You did well with the cards dealt.
Thanks Okanagan,, have made 6 sets since with no takers,, back to the Ohio norm!!
Should have been my first shotgun kill ever,such is life.
I just seem to have more than my share of odd /bad luck,coyotes showing up at odd angles,no shot.
froze up an AR once,called in the biggest yote ive seen,no shot...and lastly had a nice one run clear through a housing development early one morning, no shot of course, cool to see it.
maybe the LBL will be good to me!
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