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Topic: A troublesome day
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Norm
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posted December 27, 2003 05:12 PM
How is everyone doing? There must be a ton of gabbing going on in CA as the wind is just a howling here in AZ and it isn't helping my calling any...
Struck out at O dark thirty this morning for lands NW of Phx... the light was commencing to rise in the east, so I found a road that didn't seem to have many fresh tire tracks in it... I drove down the road a bit, parked and got ready to serenade some predators... I walked about 1/2 mile from the truck and found a place to sit and hide the caller...
I turned the caller on low like a lullaby and gave a howl. Got a howl back... gave another howl and cranked up the rabbit alarm clock.
From my left I catch some movement... a coyote come a loping in catching every creosote bush between it and me... gets into some thick stuff and works it way around to the downwind where is stops and dumps... then I catch movement here comes another this time from the right... lopes across past the caller and on out of there... then one comes a loping straight at me... hits the caller and lopes away... here comes another from the left... but stays in the brush... Then one comes a loping in from the left and makes the fatal mistake of stopping in the OPEN... Got some .17 sewing to do, but got him...
Was sure wishing when it was over that I had carried in the shotgun or convinced the wife to let me use her new video camera... I have never had that many coyotes cross in front of me coming to the call... 8 all together, one taken... I need to learn how to shoot at something moving!!!
So I gather everything up, and get back to the truck.. drive down the road a mile or to the sound of skeet or dove shooters (pretty constant shotgunning)... a couple miles over... so I carry the caller out find a place to sit, and begin to play the next cottontail tune that I had picked out... I am just thinking that I will howl, when here comes a coyote... thinks about coming into the opening, but wont... then there is another and yet a third... all very leary of the caller, so I shut it off and grab my critr peewee... make a series of squeels and happen to glance to my right... there are two coyotes that would be perfect left handed shots, which I am not... so I say what the heck... I slowly move my feet to my right and slide my but on my new hunter's speciallty web seat.. I get swung around, raise the rifle... one coyote lopes off and the other made the mistake of taking one more peak back...
a couple more dry stands and the SantaAnta winds began to move across the desert...
I then headed further west towards Alamo lake... I'll be back there as soon as the winds die.. some really nice country out that way...
I am thinking it is time to sell the .17 and just shotgun it....
Take care everyone....
No pictures... I skinned them on the trail and forgot the camera... hides are in the freezer....
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illinois farm boy
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posted December 27, 2003 05:29 PM
man that must be awesome to have that many coyotes have to go out west some day and try calling norm sounds like a great day so different from here in illinois either a fencerow or farmstead about every 1/4 to 1/2 mile congratulations on a great day ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Leonard
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posted December 27, 2003 06:43 PM
Norm, you don't have to sell anything. Just consider my approach. The golf approach. You need a bag of "clubs" to play the lie. Don't pass up close cover, select the right "club". Don't pass up those open areas, either. Uncase the correct "club" for the situation. We hunt terrain that is too varied to sally forth armed with one gun....bring a bunch, and select the one that suits you, whereever you pull over. Or, carry a rifle and a shotgun, nothing wrong with that.
Good hunting. LB
edited for spelling
[ December 27, 2003, 06:44 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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Locohead
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posted December 27, 2003 11:38 PM
Great description of the hunt. Even without pictures, I could visualize the fun. I was cheering or you the whole time!!!
Thanks for the post!
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Rich Higgins
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posted December 28, 2003 07:45 AM
I was cheering for the coyotes! Norm, sorry if I put the whammy on your mojo.
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Norm
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posted December 28, 2003 10:36 AM
Rich, no worry about the mojo... it was just an incredible day... Now if I had taken more, then I would think that Mr. Quinton's mojo was in the air...
These days don't happen often, so I at least have the memory to ponder back on...
Leonard, I had that extra club... it was in the truck!!!
Winds seem to be dieing... may head towards Mexico this afternoon...
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Carpe Diem
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Tim Behle
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posted December 28, 2003 12:13 PM
Norm,
That sounds exactly like how my stands have been going for me lately.
Except for the parts about seeing coyotes.
I did finally call in one coyote this morning. I was trying to bring a bobcat out of a wash to the shotgun, and the coyote appeared out in the open behind me. Hung around a few minutes out of range then walked away.
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