Been a bit slow the last times out, even on new ranches that have only been trapped on & have dead cows all over. Can hear them howling all over in some place, but not even making an appearance.
Sunday 1st set looked to be we will have a pair come in fast or 3 singles (we can wish?)
Wide open drainages, deep gullies, hilly/flat, what can bet better? We can see miles in all direction, wind is perfect...but 58 min later not even a peeper over a crest, no barkers, no howlers, no nothing except geese flying over head.
We move on to the 2nd set 2 miles away, pretty much like the 1st area...this has to be packed with coyote.
Playing my breeding mix & modulating the sound level up/down and at 21 min I see a pair on a full run at least 1/2 mile out making a beeline to use. I bark at my pal and hold up 2 fingers, he show me 3 back...yup a triple.
Bam they are right in front of us...then WTH I don't see them where I expect them to pop up. I look over my scope and see them headed away off to my right! I bark 2 stop and thwwap I let off & BAM my pals gun sounds. 1 down 2 running off, 1 stops at 725 yards and I was dialing up & ranging it, but its not holding still so I let it go.
Mine dropped on the spot, I tell my pal I heard your bullet slap like a freight train, he says its in the dip. I said I saw 1 running up the gully. We go and look, yup a blood trail right up the gully, never found it though. He says he may have hit lo, yea I say back. In the truck mine goes, nice male.
Not a sinlge thing happened using breeding, female vocals the usual until 1215pm after we tried every place & took a 30 min break deciding to hold off or keep through the slow times from 12 to 3pm. We go for it.
I then say lets sit over this creek/drainage area and Ill just hit distress this time out.
I start of with cottontail mixes, throw a few puppy cries in it...nothing, then I say I need to change it up so I hit feral cat/kitten crys/kitten distress running between all 3 of them high/low...well here 1 comes trotting in, I can hardly see it from my position as its just a hair over a ridge on the other creek side. I can make it our between yuccas & shrubs, then its going off the other way...yup winded us. No shots taken.
We take a break for 40 min and decided to circle around this entire area and come out a mile above this spot.
We make it and decide that if we can get this coyote to pop back up we will be in a better postion than last time as we are now on the high side.
Yup 2 min into playing jackrabbit mix I made a coyote pops up 68 yrds below me in the scrub shrubs/thick brush looking right at me then dips into the gully. DARN...I hit pup distress#3 and 30 seconds later its back up a lot faster looking for puppy....THWAAP I drop it.
Its fur is better than the 1st one, so I haul it to the truck.
Rest of afternoon was fruitless on 2 other ranches.
They look small but 1 was at 35 lbs and the front one at 38lbs.
Sunday 1st set looked to be we will have a pair come in fast or 3 singles (we can wish?)
Wide open drainages, deep gullies, hilly/flat, what can bet better? We can see miles in all direction, wind is perfect...but 58 min later not even a peeper over a crest, no barkers, no howlers, no nothing except geese flying over head.
We move on to the 2nd set 2 miles away, pretty much like the 1st area...this has to be packed with coyote.
Playing my breeding mix & modulating the sound level up/down and at 21 min I see a pair on a full run at least 1/2 mile out making a beeline to use. I bark at my pal and hold up 2 fingers, he show me 3 back...yup a triple.
Bam they are right in front of us...then WTH I don't see them where I expect them to pop up. I look over my scope and see them headed away off to my right! I bark 2 stop and thwwap I let off & BAM my pals gun sounds. 1 down 2 running off, 1 stops at 725 yards and I was dialing up & ranging it, but its not holding still so I let it go.
Mine dropped on the spot, I tell my pal I heard your bullet slap like a freight train, he says its in the dip. I said I saw 1 running up the gully. We go and look, yup a blood trail right up the gully, never found it though. He says he may have hit lo, yea I say back. In the truck mine goes, nice male.
Not a sinlge thing happened using breeding, female vocals the usual until 1215pm after we tried every place & took a 30 min break deciding to hold off or keep through the slow times from 12 to 3pm. We go for it.
I then say lets sit over this creek/drainage area and Ill just hit distress this time out.
I start of with cottontail mixes, throw a few puppy cries in it...nothing, then I say I need to change it up so I hit feral cat/kitten crys/kitten distress running between all 3 of them high/low...well here 1 comes trotting in, I can hardly see it from my position as its just a hair over a ridge on the other creek side. I can make it our between yuccas & shrubs, then its going off the other way...yup winded us. No shots taken.
We take a break for 40 min and decided to circle around this entire area and come out a mile above this spot.
We make it and decide that if we can get this coyote to pop back up we will be in a better postion than last time as we are now on the high side.
Yup 2 min into playing jackrabbit mix I made a coyote pops up 68 yrds below me in the scrub shrubs/thick brush looking right at me then dips into the gully. DARN...I hit pup distress#3 and 30 seconds later its back up a lot faster looking for puppy....THWAAP I drop it.
Its fur is better than the 1st one, so I haul it to the truck.
Rest of afternoon was fruitless on 2 other ranches.
They look small but 1 was at 35 lbs and the front one at 38lbs.
