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Topic: Whew! And, OMG!
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted December 04, 2011 06:44 PM
With deer season in full swing, I donned my "don't-shoot-me" orange ball cap this morning and opted to hit a few areas I knew wouldn't be overrun by the Orange Army. At the first place, I walked a half-mile ion and sat down on the same spot I called and killed a coyote from last week. Took my .22-250 rather than the machine gun this time since I've tapped the two young'uns from a group of three and fully expected that the big dog that was leading them would do the looky-loo from long range, if he even showed at all. Anyway, about ten minutes in, I look to my right and spot a bogey coming in low at a hundred yards and change.
Bobcat.
I reposition the rifle and sticks to 3 o'clock and he sees me and freezes. So, I freeze, too. He starts coming on in and I find him on the crosswires. He's at about 90 yards, give or take, and I'm thinking how much trouble is it going to be to shoot another cat with the 22-250 and keep the thing together. Already killed three with it and had no real trauma aside from an entry wound - yeah, lucky. He's crossing the 80 yardline when I throw out and elbow to catch his eye. He sees, stops and raises his head. I aim to the left side of his throat and just above where I figure the scapula is to avoid bone and shoot.
WHOP! Hitting coyotes has produced less of a meat report. I'm thinking "uh-oh".
When I get to him, he's fine. Dead, but fine. Turns out he has an entry hole just to his right of the trachea and one small, pencil-sized exit at the base of his throat and that's it. I stuck this screw driver in the entry wound to show a post-mortum reveal of how well these rounds perform so far. 55-grn VMax, 3500 fps leaving the bore. They will make a mess on bone but do a dandy job if I'm careful and/or lucky.
What shocked me most was that, as thick chested as this cat is, and as broad as the head is, I was surprised that it wasn't a tom. Wow! Healthy old girl.
My partner Kevin texted me that he'd made it out and I was already on another stand calling coyotes in some tall stuff. I pulled out my phone to let him know I'd scored a cat when I got "that feeling". I thought to myself, "Keep screwing with your phone and a coyote will show up". I swear, not ten seconds later, I glanced up and a mangey coyote was on the opposite hillside looking at me, 60 yards away. I raised the AR and dropped it.
Kevin connected with a fat ol' male. The tail looked pretty weak so I figured it was a one year old or pup until I lifted its lip and damned if it didn't have any teeth left. I don't know for certain how old this coyote was, but all his incisors are gone, and his canines are ground down to remnants of what they used to be.
Just hard to imagine that as much hunting and trapping as goes on here and by so many different means, that a coyote could live to be ten years old or more.
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Bryan J
Cap and Trade Weenie
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posted December 05, 2011 10:19 AM
So you are saying that the justification I used to buy a .204 was bogus, and I just need to spend more time at the range?
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Chris S
"SPECIAL ACCOUNT" HM's Facebook page moderator & runs with scissors
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posted December 05, 2011 10:35 AM
I scanned the pics before I read the story and seriously thought the OMG! was that you shot a bobcat with a screw driver stuck in its throat. Lol. Anyone else!?
You skin 'em in the parking lot of a dentist office? ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
[ December 05, 2011, 10:37 AM: Message edited by: Chris S ]
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Leonard
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posted December 05, 2011 11:44 AM
OMG! Good weed?
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Alaskan Yoter
Knows what it's all about
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posted December 05, 2011 02:50 PM
Nicely done Lance.
Got any of those Predatr Decals left? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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the bearhunter
HM PROSTAFF & MIDWEST REGIONAL GURU VOTED MOST HANDSOME MINNESOTAN
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posted December 05, 2011 02:57 PM
that coyote is probably missing teeth cuz of mange. quite common. not sure why??
nice cat
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