Contest..........and a chance for a free call

[Okanagan]

Doggone!  Mine got sent to a different country from where I live. Talk about losing your luggage!

Actually, that was on purpose due to international protocols of foreign trade treaties probably too obtuse for coyote hunters to fathom, at least it is for this one.  I'll go through border security check points Sat. in hopes of bringing this exotic foreign baby home. 

[coyote101]

No sign of mine yet; hopefully it will get here today.

Pat

[slagmaker]

Doggone!  Mine got sent to a different country from where I live. Talk about losing your luggage!

Actually, that was on purpose due to international protocols of foreign trade treaties probably too obtuse for coyote hunters to fathom, at least it is for this one.  I'll go through border security check points Sat. in hopes of bringing this exotic foreign baby home. 

I can understnad that. A few years ago I sent two (2) cartons of smokes to a couple friends of mine that live in Fort McMurray. They were a gift in celebration of our very close to the same date birthdays. Not 3 days after I sent them I got a phone call from some customs official and he had all kids of questions. I told him that htey were gifts  and he told me that sense they were a gift ok but do not do it again   Trust me I wont.

[Okanagan]

Offbeat border tale:

Several years ago, before 9/11, I designed and had an electrical engineer friend help me build a remote electronic caller, before I knew anyone had thought of such an item, let alone sell them.  It was in the trunk of our car when my wife and visiting adult daughter went across the line to Christmas shop.  I got a phone call from an exasperated wife who was being held in US customs and security while they examined and decided what to do with the remote controlled electronic device.

They asked her what it was and she said that her husband used it to call mountain lions.  

Oh.

Her answer was so outlandish that they believed her.  They let her keep it and let her go.




 

[coyote101]

My call arrived yesterday. It's even nicer than it looks in the pictures. I'm anxious to get out and give it a try. Deer season is still open for a while, but pretty soon its all predators, all the time. Thanks again BigB.

Pat 

[Coulter]

I'm curious to see if you would get away with that nowadays Okanagan...


I got my call yetsreday too...Thanks Brian. I should have had it out with me deer hunting this morning. Coyote tracks everywhere!. I'm heading back out to the deer woods now after some lunch. I think I'll take it with me in case I get bored

Good luck everybody!!

Steve

[Bills Custom Calls]

I took my call to the woods today

Sounds great

Wonderful Job B

[Okanagan]

Got the call.  Niiiice!  Thanks for the "invoice" Brian.

Sure wish I could go hunting with the call today!

[coyote101]

I think that tomorrow I will finally have a chance to get out and try to win this call. Good luck fellas.

Pat

[Okanagan]

I think that tomorrow I will finally have a chance to get out and try to win this call. Good luck fellas.

Pat

Good luck! 

[HaMeR]

I can't believe this contest hasn't been finished up by now!! Good Luck Pat!! 

[Bills Custom Calls]

Go Get em Pat 

[coyote101]

I got kind of a late start this morning. The temperature was in the teens, I didn't get out of bed until after six-thirty, and I just wasn't in a hurry. I finally left the house about eight o'clock and drove the few miles to one of the farms I hunt. I took the shotgun and Dead Coyote loads and my BigB call.

I set up a couple of yards inside the wood line looking across the narrow end of an empty soybean field. There was a light dusting of snow, I had the wind in my face and a river just a few yards to my back. I was hoping to call something to the edge of the woods on the other side of the field. It is a shade under fifty yards across so I figured it would still be within range of my rig. I sat on one of those three legged stools with my back against a tree and my gun rested on my shooting stick and cut loose on that call.

I did a series of three short blasts of the most pitiful sound I could make (and which I'm certain sounded like nothing that actually exists in nature) and lowered the call. Almost instantly a coyote came from out of the wood line across the field on a beeline for me. She stopped at seventeen paces form where I sat, paused for a second and ...........................................   I gave her a face full of T-shot. The whole thing lasted thirty seconds or less. I did my best imitation of a hurt dog on my call and waited a few more minutes, but nothing else showed up.

I did a couple of more stands with no luck, so I called it quits for the morning. I may go try another location this afternoon to see if my new year's luck is going to hold out.

Many thanks to BigB for the great new call.

Pat

The view from my position. She is actually laying dead just into the field, but the view is obstucted by the gun barrel.


My first coyote of 2010 with the Mossberg 835 and BigB call.


Another shot of her with my new favorite call.


Hero shots

[iahntr]

First blood !!!!! 
Congratulations to ya Pat ! 
(I'm glad all the hunts aren't that tough !!  )

[HaMeR]

    Pat's new video is called "The 30 Second Coyote"!! 

Congratulations Pat!!    Nice lookin dog!!   

[KySongDog]

Congratulations, Pat!  

That's the way to do it!!!  


BTW, NICE HAT!!!

[pitw]

Right on Pat Love the story and the instant response tells me you sure picked the right place to set up . 

[slagmaker]

Congrats pat. Gotta Love it when plan comes tegether.

[Coulter]

Way to go man! Nice Coyote too. Its probably a good thing I paid the $30 for my call already, I'm still going out to try some more though.

Steve

[Bills Custom Calls]

Nice Job and Congrats on the Hunt