Today I had planned a new spot at 5am...body said stay in bed, so I did, must of needed some sleep-in time.
Well heck I decide to make some after 2pm sets closer to home after I get up.
This is a new spot with miles & miles of open range & rolling hills/ deep sweeping gullies as well as some deep canyons full of brush. Railroad tracks run around it on north & south sides & my engineer pal always sees coyotes in the area. He just runs em over with the train...not much left he says though.
1st stand 600 yards near the opening of steep canyons west of the truck I hid by some old cattle barns & trees by the bottom land creek. I set a pals Primos Turbo Dogg out with mojo, locate howls/invites then to wailing rabbits with me backing up with mouth calls.....NOT a sound from anyplace...gave up after almost 1hr.
I know they are in the area and am trying to pull them down the creek that runs the valley into the gullies.
I hit the truck, drop the e-caller and mojo off, and walk 300 yards east of it, up a small knoll and set up in front of a ton of old barbed wireing on rolls, piled w/snow, perfect blend in spot.
I start off with my mouth call low with a locate howl, then into a long female invite then in tandom with the verminater syco tweety....build up into a death frenzy with screaming rabbit and barking/growling...eating feast. Movement at 600 yards down the creek near some trees, scope it and see coyote on the fast track & its gone that fast...Hmm where did it go I cannot track or see it. It is downwind from me & alight breeze to it also.
About 36 seconds later I whine/whimper.....POW!...darn coyote is 40' in front of me WHERE did he come from???
Oh crud...I forgot to chamber a round when I sat down...I am still as a pillar, it looks to the side...I chamber a round very swiftly and quietly. It looks at me trying to make me out, I move ever so slow to bring the gun up...it looks off I put the dot on it...it trotts away 10 yards on the cattle
trail I chirp, it stops....BOOOM. DRT Savage 6x45 65g vmax does it again. I will never know if it heard me when I did my 1st set just a hair up the road.
33lbs on my scale & fur is so nice.
Well heck I decide to make some after 2pm sets closer to home after I get up.
This is a new spot with miles & miles of open range & rolling hills/ deep sweeping gullies as well as some deep canyons full of brush. Railroad tracks run around it on north & south sides & my engineer pal always sees coyotes in the area. He just runs em over with the train...not much left he says though.
1st stand 600 yards near the opening of steep canyons west of the truck I hid by some old cattle barns & trees by the bottom land creek. I set a pals Primos Turbo Dogg out with mojo, locate howls/invites then to wailing rabbits with me backing up with mouth calls.....NOT a sound from anyplace...gave up after almost 1hr.
I know they are in the area and am trying to pull them down the creek that runs the valley into the gullies.
I hit the truck, drop the e-caller and mojo off, and walk 300 yards east of it, up a small knoll and set up in front of a ton of old barbed wireing on rolls, piled w/snow, perfect blend in spot.
I start off with my mouth call low with a locate howl, then into a long female invite then in tandom with the verminater syco tweety....build up into a death frenzy with screaming rabbit and barking/growling...eating feast. Movement at 600 yards down the creek near some trees, scope it and see coyote on the fast track & its gone that fast...Hmm where did it go I cannot track or see it. It is downwind from me & alight breeze to it also.
About 36 seconds later I whine/whimper.....POW!...darn coyote is 40' in front of me WHERE did he come from???
Oh crud...I forgot to chamber a round when I sat down...I am still as a pillar, it looks to the side...I chamber a round very swiftly and quietly. It looks at me trying to make me out, I move ever so slow to bring the gun up...it looks off I put the dot on it...it trotts away 10 yards on the cattle
trail I chirp, it stops....BOOOM. DRT Savage 6x45 65g vmax does it again. I will never know if it heard me when I did my 1st set just a hair up the road.
33lbs on my scale & fur is so nice.
