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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted November 13, 2011 04:12 PM
Wow! What a great way to start a day. The best single morning we've had hunting here in northcentral Kansas and we put six coyotes down before quitting at 11 a.m., five singles and a double that shoulda-coulda been a triple, except,.....
First stand was a little circle of willows surrounding an old abandoned oxbow just off the city limits. Coyotes coming into town and shopping for cats. Been trying to kill this bugger for a couple weeks but the one time we called him prior he came out of the trees and went back in unshot. This morning, we were there before daylight and set up a wee bit differently. Fifteen seconds in, here he comes and down he goes.
Second place was a cattle operation that's been plagued by a group of four that keep hanging in the corrals until the owner gets a gun. We went in and started walking to the back of the place when a single coyote ran from a feed pen and I had to move a hundred or so black Angus cattle out of the way before I could use the piping over the feed bunker for a rest. Number two down at about 200 yards and a wee bit of a foot chase.
On the way to the third place, we stopped to glass a coyote and a whitetail buck moving along the far side of another feeding operation when we spot two coyotes 600 yards in the opposite direction coming toward us. One gets smart and heads back the way they came. The other keeps coming. We turn the truck around as number two is getting hinky when he decides to turn and head home. I'm looking at about a 350 yard shot off the hood of the truck and damned if I didn't take out the back axle. Number three down.
Number four place is what we call the shooting gallery. Last week, Kevin did a drive by and had one lying on some roundbales that he shot at and missed. As he's telling me the story, we top the hill overlooking the bales and danged if there he is! We had to move down the road a ways to get a safe sight line set up, but number four goes down at about 200 yards.
Lotsa happy cattlemen by now and two happy hunters, too.
We're thinking we're getting pretty good at taking out targets of opportunity and we decide to go to another honey hole that usually produces well but just hasn't pulled its weight this year. Three weeks ago, we whacked an old male out of here and I was hoping that ridding the place of the likes of him would make the survivors more vulnerable.
Kevin circles wide and sets up 150 yards NW of where I am with the caller in hopes of getting a shot at anything coming out of the bottoms. About five minutes in, I see K raise his rifle on the sticks. I follow his cold, hard stare and can barely pick out a coyote along the creek's edge about 300 yards out through some poplar trees/ leaves. The coyote circles right at Kevin and he dumps it at about 150 yards, shooting through a tree's branches, as it turns and heads for the creek. Seconds later, a second coyote appears about the same spot as #1 did and stands, looking at me. I switch to a coyote distress and here he comes, circling right around toward Kevin, barking his fool head off the whole way. At about a hundred yards, he pulls up for the recon and K dumps him. A third coyote then pulls to a skidding stop about 200 yards out along the trees and just as Kevin is taking up the accu in his accutrigger, it turns and disappears, no worse for the wear, into the creek. Numbers five and six. I looked down at my watch and it was 10:58.
Honest day's work there, boys.
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Paul Melching
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posted November 13, 2011 04:23 PM
A great day for sure!
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Possumal
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posted November 13, 2011 10:06 PM
Great day, great story. Kudos to you guys and I wish you many more such hunting days.
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Al Prather
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the bearhunter
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posted November 14, 2011 03:47 AM
good story.
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Patterson
19.6 miles down the Yellow Brick Road from THE EMERALD CITY
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posted November 14, 2011 08:18 AM
Great morning for sure Lance! Congrats
Leave some for me...
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Leonard
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posted November 14, 2011 08:29 AM
Good story, Lance.
Good pic, I like to see old dilapidated buildings. I always wonder about the hopes and dreams that fell apart and who built it and why they left. Kind of a sentimental old fool musings, but that stuff fascinates me, maybe because the answers never come?
gh....lb
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UTcaller
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posted November 14, 2011 10:45 AM
Ya gotta love when those good Mornings come together
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Lungbuster
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posted November 14, 2011 12:34 PM
Sounds like a good morning.
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