I took a new girl I met coyote calling Saturday night and she actually said Id love to when I hit her up chatting with her. Usually when I ask a girl I know/meet they end up calling saying they now have last second other plans...(chicken out)....hahaha.
After she said she was from MT, worked in ID is when I asked if she hunted. Answer was oh heck yes I love elk & deer, that sealed it. I find out she is also an Army verteran.
So out we went. 1st set we had a pair come into young male challenge & young female territory and bouncing in/out of puppy screams/dist.
Those 2 just would not commit & stayed across the fenceline about 300 yards out (other ranches land) giving me all sorts of screaming back. I cant shoot as I don't have permission that side.
After 50 min they stopped and we sat for another 10 to insure they didn't sneak in the drainage below us to fight.
She was pretty excited to see what happens at night, had other coyotes yapping back at us from 2 other directions.
Off we move 2 miles & got her set up and I have a coyote pop in at 22 min. Its moving fast & cuts in front of her, then to me, so she cant swing fast enough so I bark and it keeps a going then finally takes a mini second to look back about 240 yards out and I promptly missed it myself...DARN IT!
3rd set 4 miles from there, 1/3 mile from the ranch house sitting over a wide drainage, cattle pastures, hay fields, and tons of cows 1/2 mile off.
I decied to play some kitten distress w/puppies yapping over it, then to young territorial young female & back. Coyotes are lighting up in 3 areas in front of us for 20 min, but nothing is showing in the thermals. I decide to change it a bit and hit guinea with challange yaps and I have one come flying in below us, we see 2 others along the creek line in the trees approx. 500 yards out, but they are not coming, just yapping at us. The 1st one stops about 200 yds out & I hit 1 bark and it moves to us & stops so I hit guinea pig (2 squeals) and it trots right up the low rise and starts to circle down wind (we have a crosswind in our favor) its about 100 yards now out and of course she was already on it from the start with her thermal.
I didn't have to tell her to shoot...thwaaap she drops it flat.
She is a very happy & smiling girl. We walk to it and I say you get to drag it. No problem she says. What a girl! Its a very nice furred up female, not rubbed at all.
She is using my pals MMR AR15 I converted to 6x45 for him, flir thermal scope, flir ps32 for scanning, suppressed. I'm using a pulsar xd19a for scanning and a 3rd gen NV scope. My other pal went with us to help scan & track for her nw/his pulsar xd19a.
Private ranch with written night permission.
After she said she was from MT, worked in ID is when I asked if she hunted. Answer was oh heck yes I love elk & deer, that sealed it. I find out she is also an Army verteran.
So out we went. 1st set we had a pair come into young male challenge & young female territory and bouncing in/out of puppy screams/dist.
Those 2 just would not commit & stayed across the fenceline about 300 yards out (other ranches land) giving me all sorts of screaming back. I cant shoot as I don't have permission that side.
After 50 min they stopped and we sat for another 10 to insure they didn't sneak in the drainage below us to fight.
She was pretty excited to see what happens at night, had other coyotes yapping back at us from 2 other directions.
Off we move 2 miles & got her set up and I have a coyote pop in at 22 min. Its moving fast & cuts in front of her, then to me, so she cant swing fast enough so I bark and it keeps a going then finally takes a mini second to look back about 240 yards out and I promptly missed it myself...DARN IT!
3rd set 4 miles from there, 1/3 mile from the ranch house sitting over a wide drainage, cattle pastures, hay fields, and tons of cows 1/2 mile off.
I decied to play some kitten distress w/puppies yapping over it, then to young territorial young female & back. Coyotes are lighting up in 3 areas in front of us for 20 min, but nothing is showing in the thermals. I decide to change it a bit and hit guinea with challange yaps and I have one come flying in below us, we see 2 others along the creek line in the trees approx. 500 yards out, but they are not coming, just yapping at us. The 1st one stops about 200 yds out & I hit 1 bark and it moves to us & stops so I hit guinea pig (2 squeals) and it trots right up the low rise and starts to circle down wind (we have a crosswind in our favor) its about 100 yards now out and of course she was already on it from the start with her thermal.
I didn't have to tell her to shoot...thwaaap she drops it flat.
She is a very happy & smiling girl. We walk to it and I say you get to drag it. No problem she says. What a girl! Its a very nice furred up female, not rubbed at all.
She is using my pals MMR AR15 I converted to 6x45 for him, flir thermal scope, flir ps32 for scanning, suppressed. I'm using a pulsar xd19a for scanning and a 3rd gen NV scope. My other pal went with us to help scan & track for her nw/his pulsar xd19a.
Private ranch with written night permission.
Find out if she can cook before getting too serious.
