I went out this morning with kcb346 to a place on his father in law's farm. Our first stand was a promising site at the edge of a patch of woods along a power line right of way. No luck so we moved and tried a couple of more spots further west. Still no luck, and I needed to leave shortly, but we decided to try one more spot, just a couple hundred yards across a large open field from where we had started.
I started using a little open reed call that I got from Al@THO, trying to make the same sounds that Yotehnter was successful with. After a few series of that I switched to a KKC Backstabber for a couple of minutes, and then to the little closed reed call that iahntr donated to the raffle last year. Shortly after finishing twenty or thirty seconds on that, I heard my partner shoot. I turned and saw the coyote running across the field from my left to right. I took a shot and missed. My partner shot again and missed too. Just as I was about to shoot again, she turned a bit and presented more of a going away target. I shot and she tumbled to a dead stop at 85 yards. I tried some hurt dog sounds for a minute or so but nothing else showed and we called it a day.
My partner was seated against a big tree at the blue dot facing east looking across the power line right of way. I was standing against a tree at the green dot facing north. We expected coyotes were in that thick stuff in the upper right hand part of the picture and would come to the edge of the right of way and/or cross it to try to get down wind of the call. The coyote was first spotted at the pink dot on the right. She moved, out of sight, to that second pink dot at the corner of the pond where she presented kcb346 a face on shot. When she was shot at, she high tailed it along the red line to the point where she was hit, at the red dot in the middle of the field.
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/rlageman/Tomsfarm2.jpg)
The view from where I was. The coyote is the tiny speck just below the red line.
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/rlageman/2009Firstcoyote005-1.jpg)
Looking back to where I was standing by the tree where the red line is.
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/rlageman/2009Firstcoyote010-1.jpg)
First blood for the Bushmaster.
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/rlageman/2009Firstcoyote008.jpg)
My camera will not print the date so I had to write it on the picture.
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/rlageman/2009Firstcoyote.jpg)
Great Job :yoyo: :highclap: :congrats:
Wonderfull..... :congrats: :congrats:
What was the wind a doin?
Quote from: alscalls on January 05, 2009, 08:58:05 PM
What was the wind a doin?
The wind was from the ENE, pretty much at her tail where she stopped at the corner of the pond. To get down wind she would have to cross that right of way.
Pat
Nice job, Pat! :congrats:
I like that map. How do you get the points and lines on it?
Quote from: Semp on January 05, 2009, 09:34:24 PM
I like that map. How do you get the points and lines on it?
I save it from Google Earth to My Documents. Then open it with Paint and draw the lines and dots and whatever else.
Pat
Nice Pat! :yoyo: Real nice.
Congrats on the contest entry also :wink:
Way to go Pat!!! :highclap: :highclap: You got that Bushmaster broke in now. Good write up and pictures too. :yoyo:
Ed
Good shooting Pat!! Nice description and photos and map!
Jim
Quote from: coyote101 on January 05, 2009, 09:45:16 PM
Quote from: Semp on January 05, 2009, 09:34:24 PM
I like that map. How do you get the points and lines on it?
I save it from Google Earth to My Documents. Then open it with Paint and draw the lines and dots and whatever else.
Pat
:doh2: I should have thought of that. Thanks. :wink:
Very nice! Thanks for sharin it with us! I'm glad the call's out gettin some use.
On a side note, how come when I try to zoom in like that on google earth
it's all blurry, or won't zoom in that far at all?
Scott
Way to go!! Congratulations :congrats: :congrats:
Quote from: iahntr on January 06, 2009, 06:38:06 PM
On a side note, how come when I try to zoom in like that on google earth
it's all blurry, or won't zoom in that far at all?
Scott
Scott,
Not all of those satellite photos are of the same quality even though they all look pretty good from high altitude. It seems like the best ones are around populated or high use areas. Here is an example right here in my county. I have hunting areas on both sides of this area. Pretty hard to study the blurry area on the right; the closer you zoom, the blurrier it gets.
Pat
Not too bad from a distance.
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/rlageman/Test1.jpg)
Starts to blurr as you zoom.
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/rlageman/Test2.jpg)
Pretty much worthless as you continue zooming.
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/rlageman/Test3.jpg)
My favorite map and aerial photo site is one based right here in WV. But if you scroll around it also has some imagery from other states. It also has topo maps, and a 3-d type "terrain" feature. In WV it gives us 2003 aerial photos which were taken in the winter with the leaves off the trees. Also has more recent 2007 imagery taken in the summer when the leaves were on. You might try it. See what it has for your area. Here is the url . . . .
http://www.mapwv.gov/schools/#
Hope this helps!
Jim
The right hand side of the screen is pretty much what I get in my area. Worthless is a good word for it. :nono:
for ky you can go to duck unlimited and go to their migration map and get sat. images
Yeah the right side is how it looks for me.
Thanks Frog, tried that one too, but pretty much the same.
I'm pretty sure I've found one that worked better for me somewhere,
I'll just have to do a little lookin around. Thanks
didn't mean to side track your thread Pat :nono:
Quote from: topdawg on January 06, 2009, 09:09:21 PM
for ky you can go to duck unlimited and go to their migration map and get sat. images
Thanks topdawg, that is much better in those blurry areas.
Pat