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Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on January 03, 2015, 09:46 AM:
Bound to happen and yesterday it did. First day of hunting for this season that I've got skunked.
Kind of had a feeling going in that it might be one of those days. For one, I know the area has been called a lot already - it's a popular spot around here. And for another, I knew the weather was going to be bright and sunny, on pretty fresh snow. I have never done very well on those really bluebird sunny days on snow, the kind of day you HAVE to wear shades or you'll go snowblind. Not that I haven't done "some" good on days like that, but I don't think I've ever had a really "good" day in those conditions.
Made five stands, got group yip howls on every stand. Multiple GYH's on the first two stands. That is, groups howling from multiple directions. No yappers, which surprised me, just GYH's. Used only vocalizations on a couple stands, used vocals and rabbit on the rest. Same-same on all of them. GYH's and no coyotes.
That's the bad news.
The good news is, the area was lousy with jackrabbits. So we gave up on the coyotes and spent the afternoon jump shooting jacks instead. A thick pocket of jacks on fresh snow is just about as much fun as you can have with a rifle! My buddy and I killed about 50 each, in about 3 hours. Good workout for the trigger finger and just about the best practice you can possibly get with a rifle, in my opinion. I started off not so great, but after about an hour I was tumbling those runners with my 922M .22 Mag pretty regular. My buddy was shooting an AR and just having a ball on the runners too.
Good fun!
- DAA
Posted by Dave Allen (Member # 3102) on January 03, 2015, 10:25 AM:
I hear ya Dave.
Leaving in a few minutes, late start and gonna hit some spots nearby that are far from secret..Lol
Storm coming tomorrow I guess ? bright sunny and 17 degrees now. It's gonna be bright on the snow !! At least you guys got into the jacks !!
Posted by Moe (Member # 4494) on January 03, 2015, 11:10 AM:
I've had the itch to get out now that the holidays are over but the drive to where I can expect to call in a coyote is prohibitive.
Sometimes I miss living in the desert.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 03, 2015, 12:50 PM:
A lot of people might say, "Hey great!" Lot's of rabbits. That's a negative, for me. If there are tons of rabbits, there probably are not enough coyotes to keep them thinned out. Especially during the day. Rabbits showing up as the sun goes down, that's understandable, but all day long, romping and playing tag, that means they aren't cautious...and we know what makes them nervous, don't we?
Good hunting. El Bee
PS anybody notice, now that I think about it, this is a good rabbit year?
Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on January 03, 2015, 01:41 PM:
Ive seen pretty much zilch.
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on January 03, 2015, 04:21 PM:
Yes, good rabbit year in my general area of operations. Have seen several pockets where you could get in as good or better shooting than we had yesterday.
- DAA
Posted by TOM64 (Member # 561) on January 03, 2015, 05:26 PM:
High cottontail numbers here this year, well with the rain we had, we have high numbers on everything. It's been a good year for cows and critters.
I went New Years day for a couple of hours before the freezing rain hit. Made a few stands, vocals got answered but no one showed up. Good old rabbit blues worked well but my decoy spooked the 3 that came in. I shot 2 on different stands that hung up in the brush looking at the decoy, remembered the 35 gr Berger doesn't like the brush no matter how sparse. Lost both coyotes after blood trailing as far as I cared to and went back to the 40's.
A goose egg would've been better.
Posted by Dave Allen (Member # 3102) on January 03, 2015, 06:15 PM:
Skunked here..
I made one of those sweeping loops making four stands. Got windy on the last one. Had crows way out there squaking and raising hell on the last two.
Plenty of rabbit and coyote tracks. About 6" of snow on the flat areas, drifts about a foot walking out of draws ect.
I'm sore, what a wimp. Beautiful afternoon in the high desert though. Nice to get some solitude.
Posted by jimanaz (Member # 3689) on January 04, 2015, 07:42 PM:
Food for the fire...my hunting app, "Time To Hunt" supposedly takes all conditions into play and issues ratings from 1 to 100. Laugh if you want, I do too sometimes. It also gives detailed weather reports and forecasts, which are much more useful. Sometimes the hunting forecasts are right, so whether by luck or otherwise, I can't ignore them. Last Friday and Saturday were probably the highest ratings I'm going to see this season. Killed some on Friday. Didn't call as many as I expected. Killed 1 on Saturday, and it was the only one I saw. No fresh snow, but shades were mandatory when the Sun got above the horizon, and apparently the same conditions prevailed a few hundred miles south.
Now, if coyotes only had access to the interweb.....
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 05, 2015, 06:24 AM:
quote:
my hunting app, "Time To Hunt"
Not laughing, just a bit melancholy; Baby.
Is this what it's coming to?
And, Fred has an app that calculates FPS to changes in temperature; and bowel movements. How did Davy Crocket ever manage without knowing his drop @985 yards?
There is a special place in Hell for people that develop this kind of software.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: Dave Allen gets a Gold Star this morning for walking between four stands!
[ January 05, 2015, 06:25 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by jimanaz (Member # 3689) on January 05, 2015, 08:39 PM:
Embrace the change. Accept the improvement. I know you no longer run bias ply tires. Kind of the same thing. Don't stake my life on it, but sometimes it's really right. Like I said the weather part of it is flawless.
I've got a ballistics app on my phone too, and it works. Someday I'll challenge you and the Middlestead to a long range contest. Stop fighting technology and embrace it. I did. Problem was, the coyotes don't have smartphones.
Sorry, meant to include this: Roll With The Changes
[ January 05, 2015, 08:52 PM: Message edited by: jimanaz ]
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on January 06, 2015, 12:49 AM:
Technology is good until it becomes a crutch that replaces common sense.
'course I may be needing one of those new digital hearing aids. I couldn't understand a word that girl was singing but I could see that she sure was homely. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 06, 2015, 07:40 AM:
Thanks, Jimbo. I watched the commercial and the first 30 seconds of the actual video.
I will accept the challenge pitting my Middlested against your AR.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 06, 2015, 07:55 AM:
koko, reminds me.
I spent a weekend at a casino with a female and at some point during the "proceedings", I managed to lose a $3,000 digital hearing aid. So, I pretty much stopped wearing the other one?
This causes people to speak in whispers and mumbles, for some reason? But, I try to read lips. Especially on those tricky C's and S's and F's. All it takes is one word and the entire statement is intelligible.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on January 06, 2015, 08:11 AM:
Wow... Kevin C. really was once an apple cheeked lad... Don't think he looked that young last time I saw them, which was... geeze, '82 maybe?
- DAA
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on January 06, 2015, 08:12 AM:
P.S... Koko and Leonard are starting to sound like Matthau and Lemmon ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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- DAA
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 06, 2015, 09:59 AM:
....that bad, eh?
Posted by jimanaz (Member # 3689) on January 06, 2015, 06:54 PM:
quote:
I will accept the challenge pitting my Middlested against your AR.
Your (perhaps) misinterpretation did not go un-noticed. Nice try, Amigo.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 06, 2015, 07:37 PM:
How was I to know, you didn't say, and last time I saw you, I think you were totten a machine gun? Hey, use what you want, I probably don't have a chance, either way.
Good hunting. El Bee
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