My girlfriends dad is renting a property with a barn to use as home base for his company, to store his tools and trucks on. Last couple weeks hes been seeing a few coyotes coming up to the barn and trucks unaffraid of him or his employees. He called me to say that 1 dog in particular looked sick, missing hair and was worried that the coyote would test its luck as he brings his dog down to run around there.
Yesterday morning, my girlfriends brother and myself went out just before first light. We sat on the corner of an old horse paddock over grown with weeds. Figured it would give us good cover and great support leaning off the cross members of the fence to shoot off of. We set out the fox pro around 40-50 yards and ranged the field with the farthest corner to be around 185, and the Closest at 103 yards.
10 mins into calling with eastern cottontail and adult cottontail in 45 seconds-1.5 mins intervals a fairly large yote comes bolting out locked on to the decoy! I tap my buddy as it was his turn to shoot first. He pulls up his anschutz 222. Rem shooting the 40gr ballistic tips and touches off a shot when the coyote was 15 yards out from the caller. A clean miss resulted in dog turning and heading for cover on a strong quartering away angle. I flicked the safety off and touched a shot from my semi custom 20 tactical firing 39gr BlitzKings. The bullet struck a little far back (front stomach/back lung) and exited front of left shoulder and the dog hit the dirt hard! Turns out the coyote was full of mange and good thing we got him off the property.
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After getting rid of the dog and calming our nerves we noticed his scope had shifted forward and on ring had slid off the base!! Waiting for some good weather we will get it fixed up, sighted in and back out to see if we can take another coyote off the property!!
Yesterday morning, my girlfriends brother and myself went out just before first light. We sat on the corner of an old horse paddock over grown with weeds. Figured it would give us good cover and great support leaning off the cross members of the fence to shoot off of. We set out the fox pro around 40-50 yards and ranged the field with the farthest corner to be around 185, and the Closest at 103 yards.
10 mins into calling with eastern cottontail and adult cottontail in 45 seconds-1.5 mins intervals a fairly large yote comes bolting out locked on to the decoy! I tap my buddy as it was his turn to shoot first. He pulls up his anschutz 222. Rem shooting the 40gr ballistic tips and touches off a shot when the coyote was 15 yards out from the caller. A clean miss resulted in dog turning and heading for cover on a strong quartering away angle. I flicked the safety off and touched a shot from my semi custom 20 tactical firing 39gr BlitzKings. The bullet struck a little far back (front stomach/back lung) and exited front of left shoulder and the dog hit the dirt hard! Turns out the coyote was full of mange and good thing we got him off the property.
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Uploaded at Snapagogo.comAfter getting rid of the dog and calming our nerves we noticed his scope had shifted forward and on ring had slid off the base!! Waiting for some good weather we will get it fixed up, sighted in and back out to see if we can take another coyote off the property!!
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