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Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on November 09, 2008, 05:28 PM:
Saw the funniest damned thing today and it was a first for me. We were conservating for coyotes and to gimme a chance to get away from the house for a while, having a helluva time staying two steps ahead of the orange army hunting pheasants (have I ever told you how much I hate pheasant hunters?!?) when I realized that we were within a few miles of where farmground turns abruptly to big rangeland for these parts.
Set up with me looking north and my gunner, Kevin, looking down the same valley in the opposite direction, I hit the "go" button on my M-1 and let 'er rip. Within seconds, I see a white dot bouncing toward me in the grass well over 800 yards away. Damn if it ain't a coyote.
Now, it's not the least bit rare to see a coyote coming from that far away, and running that hard, in places like Nebraska or NE Colorado, but you just don't see it much here. At 700 yards, he's still pounding turf coming as hard as he can.
300 yards in front of me, and apparently not visible to the coyote is an abrupt drop off that goes straight down about ten feet.
As the coyote is approaching, I deduce that he can go either left or right, twenty yards or so, and avoid the cliff. But, no. As I'm watching him in the crosshairs make his approach, I'm thinking to myself how he might not know that there's a cliff right in front of him. He's running head up, full out, looking straight at the fenceline where the caller is sitting when he does it. He runs right off that damned cliff.
Assholes and elbows, feet flailing every direction at once. His tail was corkscrewing around and he did at least three somersaults before hitting the dirt hard enough to bounce three times. For the first few seconds, post-landing, he just kinda twitched and flopped a couple time, but once he got his wits about him again, he was up and running to the call again.
he got to about 90 yards, at the base of the hill beneath me, when he spotted me sitting above him giving him the 42mm stinkeye through the scope. LOL
He died.
I just thought seeing one run off that cliff was so "Wile E-esque". LOL I needed the laugh, too.
[ November 09, 2008, 05:29 PM: Message edited by: Cdog911 ]
Posted by R.Shaw (Member # 73) on November 09, 2008, 07:02 PM:
Good one Lance.
Several years ago, during the winter, we were building a house next to a big lake. The farmer had a dead pile out behind the barn and we were seeing coyotes almost every day. He was very understanding and let us lean our rifles in the corner while we worked. The house had a lot of windows and we kept a look-out for coyotes.
One afternoon we spotted a pair of coyotes coming across the ice towards the barn. We grabbed our rifles and proceeded out to the deck. There had been a big flock of geese staying on the lake who had kept a big hole open in the ice right in the middle of the lake. This open water was about 75 yards in diameter. By this time, the coyotes were practically on dry ground, when my co-worker shot. The coyote he shot at stayed on dirt and skirted the edge of the lake. The other coyote ran straight back onto the ice and towards the open hole. He kept looking back over his shoulder as he ran and did not see the water before him. Into the drink he went and he then swam completley across and got back onto the ice.He never missed a beat as he disappeared over the ridge.
I never fired a shot. Even with a rest on the deck rail,my laughter was causing quite a shake.
Randy
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