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Topic: Redemption
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Q-Wagoner
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posted October 20, 2003 08:51 PM
Redemption is mine! I tied my best day ever today with 12 coyotes. This is what should have happened last weekend Rich!! It’s amazing what 20 degrees will do. Danny will be proud of me, all that walking and wallowing around in the stickers and still not one run in my panty hose. LOL I missed twice today. The first coyote I seen early this morning was on a big flat and I didn’t have time to range him. I guessed him at 500 but he was a whole lot closer to 400 so I shot high. Early in the mornings and evenings is hard for me to judge distances.
The second miss came on the first stand of the day. I used a technique that SH shared with me last year and had 4 coyotes coming hard. I shot the second coyote in on the first shot, yipped a few times and got a standing shot on another one. The third coyote was running up a side hill at about 200 yards and I waited until he leveled out on top and let him have it. “LUCK” The forth coyote was screaming down the bottom of a draw off to my left at this point. I couldn’t get the shot from where I was because of grass so I made a 20 yard dash to a small rise, went prone and shot. I missed that coyote by about a 100000th of an inch. By the time I got on him he was about 300 yards away and was running perfectly strait away. When I fired he was just starting to head up a small incline and I swear it looked like the bullet went through him. I saw dirt fly on both sides of him. I must have led him a bit too much and the bullet hit on one side of his neck or the other. I was very happy to kill a true triple but damn I would like to have killed all four of them.
The very next stand I was set up over a wide-open flat and called in a double and took both of them. I shot the lead coyote first because he was about to get below me out of sight and the rear coyote disappeared into a depression. After I shot the first one the second coyote took off in the same direction that he had came. He wasn’t in a hurry so I knew he would probably stop. I barked a couple of times and he did and I made the shot. “barely.” I figured the coyote to be at 200 or just a bit better but he was 318 yards. The shot took out both of his front legs and was just high enough to get into his goodies.
On the third stand of the day I sat up over a small drainage and started things off with a lip squeak. The coyotes apparently didn’t like the sound of it as I spotted one trotting away towards the top of the draw. Luckily just as I swung on him he stopped and I got him. At the shot a second coyote loped up out of a depression about two hundred yards away in front of me and just as I got on him he stopped as well so I made the shot.
I didn’t keep exact track of the time but I’ll bet I had all 7 of those coyotes shot in under 2 hours. LOL Usually if you can average a coyote every hour and a half you are doing very very well in my area.
Nothing special really happened with the rest of the coyotes. I had a few dry stands and then while driving to another stand I bumped one out and shot him from the pickup. I stalked and killed three others I had spotted moving between stands and then shot the twelfth one just as I was leaving. When I got out to open the gate to the main road I spotted a coyote trotting over a hill about 500 yards away. I waited until he was out of sight and I jumped in the pickup and hurried over to the hill and then climbed to the top. From there I spotted him moving through some CRP and I was able to get another hill closer and made the shot. WOW what a day.
It took me about twice as long as it usually does to skin the coyotes because while skinning the last of the three coyotes that I shot with rich I partualy dislocated my ring finger while I was pulling the hide down. It is all swelled up and I can hardly bend it. Oh well I got it done anyway.
Here are the picks.
Twelve skins, skulls and the glands ready for the freezer!! Wooo Hooo!! I’m going to bed.
Q,
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Norm
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posted October 20, 2003 09:07 PM
Q, that is a great day. Looks like we are going to have to leave AZ and head for NE to find a reasonable coyote population...
A profitable day in deed...
Send some of that cool weather this way... busted a 100 again today....
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Cal Taylor
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posted October 21, 2003 06:26 AM
That is slaminng some coyotes Q. Good job. I hope you're not planning on starting to hunt Wyoming before I get done with my big game hunters. Hell, there won't be anything left.
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Tim Behle
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posted October 21, 2003 09:03 AM
Hell of a good job there Q!
Like Norm said, it's still too hot down here for them to move much. The three coyotes I've called in have had about 6 blank stands in between them so far. I've yet to call in more than a single on any stand yet.
A couple of more weeks to get the rust out of my system and they should start running good down here. But then I've never had a day I took 12 home. I don't remember ever killing more than eight in one day.
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Purple220
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posted October 21, 2003 09:43 AM
Tim , it is still slow here in West Texas. I am in need of a severe cold front to get things moving. Like you, I am getting only singles if any. Went out again this morning to another ranch that has never been called. Big 0
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Locohead
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posted October 21, 2003 11:29 AM
Absolutely Beautiful Q, Congratulations!!!
Don't bother coming to Colorado. We really don't have but a few coyotes. You have to go all the way to the South Western part of the state if you even want to see one!!! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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Rich Higgins
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posted October 21, 2003 12:10 PM
Q, I called yesterday morning and Cheree (is her last name Amore?)said you were out hunting coyotes. Did you hit the same spots we did. You must have finished pretty early to have processed 12 coyotes with daylight to spare.
Yeah, like you need redeeming. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
You gave me a down coyote on film for each of your three styles. Exactly what I needed.
If you had shot that many on Sat. I would have had to edit them heavily in order to squeeze them into the allotted time.
Congratulations for equaling your best. I have a great appreciation for how hard you work at it.
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Leonard
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posted October 21, 2003 03:36 PM
You did good, Quinton.
Twelve coyotes, no matter how they come, is a fine day.
Thanks for sharing.
Good hunting. LB
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Cdog911
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posted October 21, 2003 04:17 PM
So, does this mean I have to bring 12 bullets with me next month? I like that one coyote every hour and a half remark. I'm used to one coyote per day in the field being pretty good on average. Good job. Looking forward to seeing it first hand.
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Lonny
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posted October 21, 2003 04:18 PM
Q, You never cease to amaze me when it comes to coyotes. You are a machine when it comes to killing them.
So when you gonna take some time off from hunting and knock out that book?
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Q-Wagoner
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posted October 21, 2003 06:17 PM
LMAO Rich I know what you are thinking. NO I didn’t kill any at night. The only thing I am guilty of is doing some predawn locating with a howler. After the hard day you and I put in fallowed by a late night of me stuttering and stammering through an interview I was shot for Sunday and slept most of the rest of the day. I fired you off an E-mail at around 7:30 pm that night and it was sent back. (I will forward it again after this post) I called you and got the answering machine to tell you about the problem with your mail. Well anyway because I had slept all day I was wide-awake most of the night so I went out to try and locate some coyotes. I found a good concentration of them strait north of the last place we hunted. I don’t know if you remember me pointing them out to you but it was when I said that once you get into those hills you can sometimes go for many miles with out hitting a road.
I came back home for a while and got a little sleep but was wide-awake again by 3:00 am again. I was excited by all of the coyotes I got to answer me so I went back out and tried it again and again coyotes lit up all over the place and from very nearly the same spots. From there I drove around a bit more and did a little more locating and then came home. I loaded up a few rounds, posted here on the .220 thread and disclosed my evil plans for the day and left. The rest is history. LOL
I Forest Gumped my way into the deal but I don’t feel a bit guilty. LOL I was home by 3:30 or a little after skinned the critters. I had to do a little photo enhancing on the second photo as the sun was setting and the skulls looked like black blobs.
Cheree never told me that you had called yesterday morning. She told me that you called Sunday night but not Monday morning. You must have just missed me both times. LOL that’s par for the course isn’t it. LOL Almost as bad as trying to reach you. LOL
Good hunting.
Q,
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onecoyote
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posted October 23, 2003 11:46 AM
Dang Q, your good. I can't do that without having to buy some new pantyhose. Hey, who told you about the old pantyhose thing? Darn I thought everybody would forget all about that one lol.
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Leonard
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posted October 23, 2003 12:58 PM
Hey Danny. We've both been semi-invited to that "rendezvous" down in "Coyote God" country. If nothing else, perhaps we could ride together?
Good hunting. LB
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onecoyote
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posted October 23, 2003 04:24 PM
Sounds like fun to me. When, where and all that stuff?
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Rich Higgins
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posted October 23, 2003 04:58 PM
Danny and Leonard, I'll be driving down to McNeal (subject to change) and hook up with Tim Friday evening, Nov.14. Hunt Sat. and Sun. and drive back to Snottsdale Sun afternoon. It would be great if you guys could work it in.
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