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Topic: Good day, bad day for Possumal & Yote Yoda
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Possumal
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posted December 12, 2011 07:19 PM
Yote Yoda and I made a trip down to northern Scott County today, getting away late, and arriving about 11:00 a.m.. We had met this land owner about 6 weeks ago when we had a good hunt on his neighbor's farm, but just had not been able to get back down that way until today. As it turned out, it was a hard farm to figure out a good place to make a set up, but it finally came together, when I found one of my favorite "Spaghetti Junction" type of spots, where 4 different hay ridges come togethe in a semi clear bottom between wooded areas along a small creek. We got all set up, and after a couple of howls on our Cronk & Bearman Rick howlers, and a little watching, I gave them a good dose of Coyote & Fox Fight mixed in with Coyote Pup Distress on the CS-24. Nearly immediately, 3 coyotes came racing down the center ridge right towards Yote Yoda, and 2 more came down a ridge to the left that led my to the section I was watching. The big old male, a nice mature rascal, came through the creek bottom and stopped about 100 yds from me, and I put one right in his boiler room out of my DPMS Prairie Panther, with presumably his mate cutting back hard left and heading back up to where they came from. Don't know what happened to the 3 that had been coming towards Yote Yoda, but I suppose they hung up in a thick little patch of briars and woods that formed a gully off the ridge. Foxbang was screaming Coyote Death Cry, but still no sign of the 3 or the male's mate that I had shot. Finally, she got to raising cane way up the ridge they came from right at a little thick place by a fencerow. I kept trying to entice her to come back with no luck, but she made the mistake of stepping out, barking her fool head off and then howling like she was impatient for her mate to come on. I ranged it at 345 yards, and cut one loose, and she spun round and round and went down in a heap. No picture of her, as I was not positive of the ownership of that stretch of land, and one guy is a tree hugger and the landowner warned us to not step foot on his property.
Then the bad luck started. Somebody had broken my driver's side mirror on my truck where it was parked by the gate. That was bad enough, but then on another farm, on our way back to a stand we knew we wanted to make, I hung my right foot on a hidden piece of brush, and it spun me downhill towards the left where a ditch and old fencerow was. Trying to protect my precious rifle, I ended up with my left knee twisted real bad, and landed my left hand in a pile of cowpatty, with a rock underneath that cut my hand. So, all in all, it was both a good and bad day for Possumal & Yote Yoda. I do believe old Yoda had a better day than me even though he didn't fire a shot, as he got to laugh at me falling in the cowpatty, etc.. I guess it all goes with it though and I'll take it. Here is a picture of the big old male.
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Al Prather
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Leonard
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posted December 12, 2011 09:32 PM
Good post, Al. Hey, what's that yellow thing on the top of the speaker?
gh....lb
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Possumal
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posted December 13, 2011 04:04 AM
Leonard, that's just a large electrical twist nut I keep on there to prevent the bolt it is twisted onto from wearing a place in my Yoter's Den deployment bag when it is in use. The bolt comes up through a grommet, and the Black Jack decoy screws right onto it,so you don't have to worry about sticking a sharp steel rod into frozen ground. It also makes it handy for bobcat or coyote hunting in a spot where you want to get the decoy up over thick cover.
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Al Prather
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Rich
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posted December 13, 2011 08:33 AM
Nice coyote Possom! Now where is that photo of you lying there with busted knee and one hand in a cow patty?
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Leonard
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posted December 13, 2011 09:36 AM
Okay, I get it.
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Possumal
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posted December 13, 2011 09:58 AM
Rich, you rascal, I got lucky on that part. Yote Yoda's camera batteries were dead, and I wasn't about to give mine up for him to take pictures of the Magnificent Marsupial in an embarassing position. (lol) I probably could have made a pretty good distress sound naturally about the time I hit that cushiony spot with my left knee and then my left hand. Yoda didn't realize I was hurt, or he probably wouldn't have rolled around laughing and kicking like he did.
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Al Prather
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TundraWookie
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posted December 13, 2011 10:42 AM
Nice looking coyote for sure Al. Way to go on the successful hunt. Sorry to hear about the injuries and cow puck catastrophe, that's nasty.
[ December 13, 2011, 10:54 AM: Message edited by: TundraWookie ]
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