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[5spd]

I should of had at least 2 this morning...BUT as I was walking to the dead cow pile at 5:30 (dark) am with the breeeze coming at me from the dead pile which is perfect I seemed to have got busted when I went prone to wait for daylight & the usual morning feeders.
I had 5 coyotes running all around me barking up a storm...yea "THAT" bark. 2 were going at it from my left and the other 3 spread from my front to right.
All I could do was stay quiet & hope something was at the pile when daylight broke.
Well I can now make out the pile a bit and start to glass slowly back & forth across the carcasses in the AM dusk to dawn light & sure enough right at 6:10 am I see a nice coyote at a rib side.
I drop the target dot on it and wait a few seconds for it to turn broadside and let the 65g vmax out of my 6x45 fly...thhwwapp, drop & flop.
Quickly I scan, no other takers unlike the other times when 2-3 took off after I shot one of them. I wait 45 min to see if anything else is wanting to come in & throw out a few barks/howls.
I get up and hike up the backside of the pastures about 8am and call out there and get a howl about 1/2 mile away. I see it finally and its not coming in at all. I stand up and darn it one busts out behind me (blind spot) that was headed to the dead pile............AAuuugghh!
Well thats coyote calling as we know. I pack it out.
I also found what was left of the coyote that I shot 3 weeks back that made it up the hill to the top when another one was coming in below it that I shot also. Coyotes DO eat each other, it was tore up and nothing left besides the hind quarters & rib cage, fur all over the place. It made it just over the top back then and finally died.

 

[xdeano]

Birds also eat coyotes. Crows/Ravens/eagles/magpies, etc... Typically all you end up with is bones, and tuffs of fur. so it may not be coyotes being cannibalistic.

xdeano

 

[5spd]

Birds also eat coyotes. Crows/Ravens/eagles/magpies, etc... Typically all you end up with is bones, and tuffs of fur. so it may not be coyotes being cannibalistic.
xdeano

Thats true I know. These were coyotes though via the teeth marks on the carcasses bones & and all the coyote prints around them.

 

[stinnett1981]

Nice yote! I had a horrible experience Saturday. I was in my tree stand deer hunting at 5:45am. Around 7:10am a giant buck comes running to my left. I get my winchester 1300 slug gun with a cheap red dot tasco scope and aim while he is running. The buck must of been searching for a doe because he wouldnt slow down. I grunted at him and he stopped for a splint second and I fired! He jumped and ran like hell. I know I hit him I thought. I waited 10 minutes and texted my brother to come down from his stand and help me track this giant. We walked to where I shot him and sure enough a nice blood trail. We followed the trail for 300 yards to a creek. I put a mountain dew bottle at the edge of the creek where he crossed and we had to walk all the way back to the truck and cross the creek at a low spot with my big 4x4 F150. Then we get out of the truck on the other side of the creek and walk the creek till we find the mountain dew bottle on the other side. Sure enough we find the blood trail again. We follow the trail again another 100 yard to a spot where he laid down. There was lots of blood with ground up corn in it. We then knew it was a gut shot!!! "Thats not good my brother said". They can live up to 2 days with a gut shot. We follow the trail another 100 yards till it slowly disappeared. We searched the area for a good hour with no luck. I WAS HEART BROKEN!!!!! Not only I didnt get the giant buck, the beautiful creature is gonna die in pain the next day or 2. That really hurts me!!! I dont know how many points it was, but it was a large mature adult buck with a large rack! Im gonna take that junk tasco red dot off and buy a new burris red dot. The red dot on that tasco is to big. The buck was 75 yards away and the red dot literally covered its whole chest! How can I "aim small, shoot small" with a giant red dot?

Sorry for stealing your thunder and posting my own story. But I had to vent! Hopefully we both have better hunting experiences our next time hunting!