I took this month off for antelope hunting/visiting/hunting in ID w/son/coyote control as many know from my other hunting posts.
Last week I spent 6 nights calling coyote on many of the ranches I have access on. A pal & I took out 24+ total.
We had the rotten full moon syndrome where they just did not respond to any calling no matter what/where we tried. 2 Ranches that are back to back have at least 3 different packs that never show, but sure let us know they own the place. These ones are just hard to call in out of the gullies, bottom lands, corrals as they have great food all over and playing distress sounds only gets you barked at. There is very little access to their area w/out getting busted, no 2 tracks into the area.
This confuses us due to the fact as soon as we cross the dirt roads on each end of these ranches they come flying across to the sounds, go back to their side and they disappear!
We did get another 9500 acres of great Agri lands and 2 others smaller ranches next to the ones we already have. On a few stands we had 3 come in and should have shot all 3, but only got 2 due to terrain.
I shot a fast double that came in on a run Friday night & I had dropped 4 by 12:30 am. We had a few that tried to backdoor us as we drew on a single in front, we had to be on our toes to get them. Our longest night shot was a tandem on one that my pal missed at 75 yards, then split to 400 yards and stayed out there like nothing happened.
We figured 280 yards after it dinked around and came in closer but hung up ignoring us. We put our D740 scopes on it and dropped it, final range was 320 yards, boy its a tad hard still to range them that far out. My pal dropped one at 463 steps during the day. We scoped one at 3/4 mile off and drove around the back roads to it, I dropped him off as it was flat, he sat in a small bowl and shot it at 1 min.39 seconds from sitting down.
One of the new ranches we got Friday during the day we hit back at about 10pm and I dropped a fat female that looked like she had a basketball in her. They are eating good out there as we dropped 2 other females that were as big, she was 36 lbs.
One rancher said there was a big black male that hung around his grain bins, we lucked out and he came running across the plowed field and I dropped him at 120 yards, his lover was looking for him about 5 min after that barking all over the area & I saw it in my thermal and told my pal take her out as we laid across a hay bale. The male was big & blackish as he was pretty naked w/mange.
I use a MMR in .223, 20" bbl. 55g Vmax in front of blc2. My pal a custom AR15, .223, suppressed, 55g superper formance factory load.
Last week I spent 6 nights calling coyote on many of the ranches I have access on. A pal & I took out 24+ total.
We had the rotten full moon syndrome where they just did not respond to any calling no matter what/where we tried. 2 Ranches that are back to back have at least 3 different packs that never show, but sure let us know they own the place. These ones are just hard to call in out of the gullies, bottom lands, corrals as they have great food all over and playing distress sounds only gets you barked at. There is very little access to their area w/out getting busted, no 2 tracks into the area.
This confuses us due to the fact as soon as we cross the dirt roads on each end of these ranches they come flying across to the sounds, go back to their side and they disappear!
We did get another 9500 acres of great Agri lands and 2 others smaller ranches next to the ones we already have. On a few stands we had 3 come in and should have shot all 3, but only got 2 due to terrain.
I shot a fast double that came in on a run Friday night & I had dropped 4 by 12:30 am. We had a few that tried to backdoor us as we drew on a single in front, we had to be on our toes to get them. Our longest night shot was a tandem on one that my pal missed at 75 yards, then split to 400 yards and stayed out there like nothing happened.
We figured 280 yards after it dinked around and came in closer but hung up ignoring us. We put our D740 scopes on it and dropped it, final range was 320 yards, boy its a tad hard still to range them that far out. My pal dropped one at 463 steps during the day. We scoped one at 3/4 mile off and drove around the back roads to it, I dropped him off as it was flat, he sat in a small bowl and shot it at 1 min.39 seconds from sitting down.
One of the new ranches we got Friday during the day we hit back at about 10pm and I dropped a fat female that looked like she had a basketball in her. They are eating good out there as we dropped 2 other females that were as big, she was 36 lbs.
One rancher said there was a big black male that hung around his grain bins, we lucked out and he came running across the plowed field and I dropped him at 120 yards, his lover was looking for him about 5 min after that barking all over the area & I saw it in my thermal and told my pal take her out as we laid across a hay bale. The male was big & blackish as he was pretty naked w/mange.
I use a MMR in .223, 20" bbl. 55g Vmax in front of blc2. My pal a custom AR15, .223, suppressed, 55g superper formance factory load.
