Saturday highs and lows,Coyote hunting!

Coyote-x2 · January 20, 2015, 11:12:59 AM

: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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Dale · January 20, 2015, 07:32:04 PM

was this store bought ammo or home rolled?... hate to lose one to faulty ammo...

Coyote-x2 · January 20, 2015, 08:03:50 PM

Store bought Royal Buck,,, never had one not go off,, until then!

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FinsnFur · January 21, 2015, 05:47:16 AM

Nice work callin in a triple.
Yah we never wanna see one run off wounded.

Coyote-x2 · January 21, 2015, 08:16:13 AM

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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Frogman · January 21, 2015, 10:24:48 AM

Sounds exciting!!

Jim

Okanagan · January 21, 2015, 10:35:54 AM

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.

Coyote-x2 · January 25, 2015, 10:25:26 PM

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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