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Topic: 25 with my son
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted January 29, 2006 05:44 PM
This morning, I was blessed with the opportunity to score number 25 on the season with my son along. Between football and video games, it's hard to get him to let me into his schedule sometimes, and he doesn't really like sitting in the cold, which of course is part and parcel to calling coyotes. So, with all the coons we'd been calling and the unusually warm weather, I got him into some cammies and away we went. We did manage to find one coon sleeping in a large den tree and coaxed him out. He thought that was pretty cool.
A bit later we were driving up this road and Matt made some comment to Dal about how there used to be a coyote living in the pasture to our left but that (I) had killed it when lo and behold, I spotted a coyote at about 400 yards walking away. I eased the truck to a stop and climbed out with the Howa, lined up and made a 450 yard clean miss. We laughed a bit and then saw that there were two. The big male of the two was hidden from sight at first at 500 yards and he trotted out across a wheatfield headed north. Long story less long (I know, too late), we went around the north end of the section and were headed west to check some traps on a coyote complaint in the next secition north and Dalian says, "There he is!" as he points out my window. I'll be damned if the big male is about a hundred paces off the port side running right at us. I was sure as hell that as soon as I let up on the gas pedal, he'd turn and go back south like a bat outta hell. As I stopped the truck, he actually found another gear while charging right at us. Huh?!? For some unknown reason, that coyote was intent on getting across the road we were parked on, despite the absolute absence of cover on the other side. Some things you can't explain. Anyway, I had to wait for the angle to improve because all I could see in the scope was the rising sun behind the running coyote, then he was in the road and I didn't want to shoot there. So, I used the back corner of the truck bed as a rest, leveled and led, then Bang! Roll. Flop. Matt says he thinks it was about a hundred yards, quartering away to the left. Entrance behind the left shoulder, no exit.
Big dog, rank as hell. The rut is on in Kansas for sure. Here's Dalian and me holding him up. No rub at all on this one. A picture worth framing and hanging in my study with my pics of all the notables I've enjoyed hunting with.
Check out the heavy KS ground cover. Hard for a coyote to hide out there.
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2dogs
Knows what it's all about
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posted January 30, 2006 05:30 AM
Good shootin, there Lance.
We got a dusting of snowfly last night. Going spottin here, shortly ![[Cool]](cool.gif) .
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Leonard
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posted January 30, 2006 07:44 AM
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Check out the heavy KS ground cover. cdog
That coyote was obviously heading toward that mountain, right of center, or that grove of trees over your left shoulder.
Good hunting. LB
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted January 30, 2006 03:59 PM
Mountain? Trees? What are these things you speak of?
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I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
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