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Topic: Macnine gunned coyotes (pics)
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Todd Woodall
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posted December 30, 2005 04:57 PM
Jeff and I received our new rifles in a few days ago and just had to go get them "bloody". We hunted with a good friend of ours Clint. I have hunted with Clint on a couple occasions and it always turns out to be a great time, we usually kill a few coyotes too. We met Clint early in the morning and headed to a ranch that has had problems with coyotes. The only problem is that one of the ranch hands calls coyotes there every so often. His idea of calling is driving the roads with a call out the window and spotlighting. I had talked with Clint (who night hunts almost exclusively) and he told me that the night hunting had really fallen of on that place and that their were alot of educated animals. We suggested a day hunt for a change of pace to see how the coyotes would react.
We began the day sitting in the truck waiting for decent daylight and watched a beautiful sunrise.
We moved in just before daylight and picked our stand. We set out the mini-extreme and the FX3 and began calling with the blue jay distress. We have had really good luck with this sound this year. It is high pitched and sounds a little different that a woodpecker. We decided to give it a try since these coyotes have been called with strictly rabbit sounds. About 3 minutes into the set I heard a thud followed by rustling in Jeffs direction. I turned my head just in time to see a hawk about a foot above his head leaving fast. Jeff said he was just sitting there and all of the sudden this hawk just slammed into the back of his head. I would have figured that if he was using a hand call, but the FX3 was 30 yards away from him. We figure he either say his head move or was just making a little too hot of an approach into the little bush he was sitting by. None the less it was pretty funny, and Jeff escaped unscaved. Here is a pic (after we finished calling) of Jeff and the tree.
About fifteen minutes into the stand (which is about as long as we care to sit) is see Clint adjust his sticks a little and remain motionless. A minute later he whispers are you on him(sitting right beside me). I look over his head and there are two coyotes coming hard but quartering to our wind.
They get behind some thick brush and I couldn’t see em. About that time Clint shoots. I still haven’t located the coyotes and am looking hard when the second coyote runs back out of the brush in the direction they came from. He just couldn’t stand it and had to have one more look twords the call.
Two shots later Clint found his mark and #1 was down. We did have to rib him about shooting so much, and he was shooting a bolt gun. He said the camera made him nervous.
The next stand we had another double cut our wind about 150 out. They just wouldn’t commit. We had all the odds in our favor, but they seemed like they had played that game before. I took the lead dog at 150 just before they bugged out. The 75gr match bthp's put him down like a rock without even a twitch. Yes I said 75gr, they shoot very well in our guns and pack a wallop. Not on video but I got my new gun bloody.
Mid day was sunny, hot, and uneventful.
Evening rolled around and the action picked back up. We were walking into a set when I spotted a coyote on the far tree line looking to our left. We immediately ducked down behind a little hill and set up as best we could. A little light calling with Tebbes little cow horn brought this coyote bouncing in to try and see something.
He is actually about 2 feet in the air in the picture. He came to about 50 yards and froze hard. Bounced twords us two more times and froze again. Clint couldn’t take it anymore and took the shot and hit the coyote square in the face. As soon as he did #2 showed up for a slit second and wouldn’t come back no matter what we did.
We hurried to the last spot and had a mangy coyote circle the decoy at a fast run and Clint took a running shot to no avail.
All in all it was a great day and we had a blast. We got to bloody up our guns and gave Clint confidence in Electronic calls(he used to hate em).
Here is our bloody guns picture.
Sorry I was so long winded. Nothing was easy to explain on this one. Hope you guys enjoy the pics.
Todd
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Leonard
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posted December 30, 2005 05:04 PM
Good story, like I was there. Good pics. Thanks for sharing. Man! those are some wicked looking "machine guns" lol.
Good hunting. LB
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Todd Woodall
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posted December 30, 2005 05:16 PM
Leonard, Yeah I thought you would get a kick out of that.
Todd
[ December 30, 2005, 09:56 PM: Message edited by: Todd Woodall ]
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