My long week of 6 work days straight was tireing but today was trigger time, so back into p-dogs early AM. The usual big game seen driving in.
This week is the same as the rest of my p-dog posts, thwap & spat. 256 rounds.
I went on a 3/4 mile walk up into the hills over looking gullys I have yet to even shoot.
I ran 78 rounds straight prone shots in that one spot, 150 yards max, cleaned em up & moved another 200 yards along the hill crest and laid back down and clean up above the last spot, then of course every p-dog on the hillside below me that I could not see or shoot were all out like little kings of their mounds. I left them for next time out when I walk the other side of the gully and shoot to their side.
Talking to the rancher on the way out and he told me hew saw 6 coyotes this morning and another ranch hand saw 9. I heard 3 when I started shooting at 6am yapping at me. Rancher said 17 calves have died this week due to a lung infection going through them & the coyotes/buzzards are eating them within 2-3 days max. He said they are leaving them where they fall & not dragging to a dead pile. Was informed I could go out within the herds and shoot them when they come into the dinner plates. He knows I would always wait for a good open shot if that was to happen.
Driving out and stopping over the low lands on a 2 track looking for dead ones & out pop a pair of young coyotes from a drainage, they stop and just look at me like I was food. They had to of come from what was left of a calf 200 yards before that.
My rifle is empty, rounds in the back, so I open the door slowly, open the rear door, grab 3 rounds load up and they maybe move at 100 yards just walking off like no matter.
I drop them both, did even bust into a run. I figure due to me shooting suppressed they had no thought of danger. Un educated = dead coyotes 99% of the time.
This week is the same as the rest of my p-dog posts, thwap & spat. 256 rounds.
I went on a 3/4 mile walk up into the hills over looking gullys I have yet to even shoot.
I ran 78 rounds straight prone shots in that one spot, 150 yards max, cleaned em up & moved another 200 yards along the hill crest and laid back down and clean up above the last spot, then of course every p-dog on the hillside below me that I could not see or shoot were all out like little kings of their mounds. I left them for next time out when I walk the other side of the gully and shoot to their side.
Talking to the rancher on the way out and he told me hew saw 6 coyotes this morning and another ranch hand saw 9. I heard 3 when I started shooting at 6am yapping at me. Rancher said 17 calves have died this week due to a lung infection going through them & the coyotes/buzzards are eating them within 2-3 days max. He said they are leaving them where they fall & not dragging to a dead pile. Was informed I could go out within the herds and shoot them when they come into the dinner plates. He knows I would always wait for a good open shot if that was to happen.
Driving out and stopping over the low lands on a 2 track looking for dead ones & out pop a pair of young coyotes from a drainage, they stop and just look at me like I was food. They had to of come from what was left of a calf 200 yards before that.
My rifle is empty, rounds in the back, so I open the door slowly, open the rear door, grab 3 rounds load up and they maybe move at 100 yards just walking off like no matter.
I drop them both, did even bust into a run. I figure due to me shooting suppressed they had no thought of danger. Un educated = dead coyotes 99% of the time.
