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Topic: Call her "Lucky", or "Stupid"...
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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 25, 2011 07:45 PM
Two weeks ago, I was calling this small pasture and had nestled myself back into an eroded berm alongside a small pond. Three hundred yards or so to the west, what looked to be a really nice pale coyote stepped out of some cedars and checked up. I could not get it to commit and later discovered that I'd done a piss poor job of hiding my truck due to mud not letting me drive into the pasture and into a ravine we usually use for that purpose.
Anyway, I took the shot, connected, and for the next minute or so, that coyote did the spin cycle on me before recovering and bugging out on me. I told my partner Kevin to keep an eye out for one limping around there and Saturday night, right at sunset, he was driving down the road on the north side of the same section I'd been calling in when a coyote rose from the grass on the other side of the grader ditch and began trotting off. he "woofed" her to a stop and dropped her at 30 yards. He called me to tell me he'd gotten one and I told him I wanted to see if it had more than one bullet hole in it in case it was the one I'd clipped.
Sure enough, when he got o my house, we found a flesh wound on the front of the left front leg, just above the elbow, scabbed over and partially healed.
Now, As much as I would like to pass this off as a truly inspirational example of teamwork between two hunters, hellbent on settling up bad debts and poor shots, this was a matter of this coyote being either very unlucky, or very stupid. LOL What are the odds?
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Lungbuster
Knows what it's all about
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posted December 25, 2011 08:15 PM
Did your partner say if the coyote was limping? Broken bones?
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TRnCO
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posted December 26, 2011 07:49 PM
damn, that tiny flesh wound put'er in a spin cycle? I would've guessed it would've taken more than that to even get her to break stride.
Un-lucky, since she'd dead now anyways.
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Is it hunting season yet? I hate summer!
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