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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted May 27, 2013 12:56 PM
Young Matt, my old calling pardner, has been back here on leave for the past week and we decided that we needed to go out and see some coyotes before he headed back to Alaska. Just got back from a year in sunny Kurgistan (sp?) and was using some of his leave time to see old friends and family. I'd told him of "The Morgue" which had previously been known as "The Gallery", until the owner called us this year and asked us just "how many gawddamned coyotes" we'd killed in there this year since every time he turned his head in there, he was rolling past another rotting coyote carcass.
As we approached this little honey hole of ours, a half mile north, we had two coyotes 300 yards off the road out the passenger side window.
Two minutes later, we turned the corner headed to the entry driveway and there was another coyote (#3) standing in the middle of the road.
We turned into the two-track that borders this tract and went about a hundred yards when I spotted another coyote (#4) about 400 yards out. Once I'd gotten stopped, Matt got glass on him and we realized that there was another (#5) in the grass next to it. Neither were at all concerned about us and they just dug, bit fleas, and did coyote shit when another coyote stepped out of some thicker cover about thirty yards from them (#6), looked at us, and ran back into the cover.
Drove around the section to show Matt all the different ways we've figured out how to hunt this spot the past three seasons and on the west side, number 7 was found sitting on top of a row of roundbales about 400 yards out, just watching us.
I have no interest in shooting at any of these coyotes as 7 is actually a low census for this section. I want them to gain an even higher comfort level in there so that when October/ November gets here, ... bwahahahahaha!!!
As we were leaving, Matt tells me that this is one helluva hunting spot. I told him that since he lived in Alaska now, I was willing to show it to him. Had he lived even twenty yards closer, there was no way in hell he'd ever know the place existed.
Looking back at the spot, this past season, we killed 38 coyotes on this one ten acre parcel.
[ May 27, 2013, 12:59 PM: Message edited by: Cdog911 ]
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Eddie
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posted May 27, 2013 03:14 PM
That's one heck of a honey hole. Sure makes a good place to go when the calling gets slow. Places like that are sure hard to find, you got a good one there.
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posted May 27, 2013 09:57 PM
So hold on you have an active vet visting you place on MEMORIAL DAY and see 7 coyotes and you're not letting him shoot at any of them!!!??? OHHH thats just wrong ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Leonard
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posted May 28, 2013 07:41 AM
Gotta agree......
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted May 28, 2013 02:25 PM
I told him he could cull anything with mange, but they all looked good. ![[Frown]](frown.gif) He was alright with that. Besides, they were either on ground I don't have permission for, or too far away for him to be comfortable with the shot. He enjoyed getting to see some. Said he got one in Alaska last winter, but that access to hunting is extremely (and surprisingly) difficult unless you drive 3-4 hours out of Anchorage. He said that I was also right when I told him that he would miss the user friendly hunting laws in Kansas, as well the accessibility. He does.
I have to say that I'm awfully proud of that boy. He's half my age so we have always been somewhere between brothers and father/son. You can't put a price on a great partner. Lisa, my wife, has always referred to first Matt and now Kevin as my mistresses for the amount of time we spend together. As we were coming home, I remarked that he was probably pretty tired, getting up at 6 am with a three hour time difference between here and Alaska. He said that he took it easy this morning and skipped the five mile run and fifty hand clap pushups. Said that PT was enough to wear him out each morning in our humidity. I said, "Yeah. That's why I quit doing those, too." (That, and being fat, old, bad knees, no interest whatsoever, and round is a shape, dammit.) LOL
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posted May 31, 2013 07:30 AM
Lance,
That is cool...happened to see one on my 52 mile commute west this morning...at least it had good fur!
I remember you speaking of this parcel when we hunted together...what is special about that property that draws the coyotes?
Tim
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TA17Rem
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posted May 31, 2013 10:04 AM
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what is special about that property that draws the coyotes?
Food, water, very little human traffic, female coyote and a den/hole.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted May 31, 2013 06:13 PM
Lotsa food, small creek nearby, people everywhere and lots of transients moving through. It borders a feedlot. Not only a good, dependable food source year round, but the surrounding sections offer great loafing cover, both in clumps and as travel routes. Coyotes are here in big numbers every night. By ten a.m., they've all moved to neighboring sections except for the ones that stay in close. We can hammer them and give it a week to rest and voids are filled by virgin ears. Our strategy has been simple: Hammer this spot until numbers drop sharply. Then, target pockets of cover for 3 miles radius while leaving the morgue alone.
Give the morgue a week or two then refocus on it. Just keep chasing them from one area to the next knowing our presence will push them there.
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