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Topic: To kill a coyote.....
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Kokopelli
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posted February 08, 2008 08:03 AM
Time was when we needed just 4 things to kill a coyote; a call, a gun, a camo jacket, & a hat.
The call was a mouth blown enclosed reed model. It was likely either a Circe, Weems, or Burnham Bros 'cause there wasn't much else to choose from. The homemade lanyard it hung from was twine.
The gun had killed a few deer in it's time. Granpa liked it & Dad did too. Now it's mine.
The camo jacket was hot & ugly but it was camo by Gawd and showed the world that you were serious about hunting varmints. The hat was even uglier than the jacket, but it was a lucky hat. Couldn't imagine hunting without it.
GOODIES, GIZMOS, & GEEGAWS, OH MY!!
Things are different now.
Around our necks custom lanyards now hold up to a doz. custom calls. Howlers & chirpers extra. More calls back at the truck & more yet back home. In one of our hands is an "E"caller. It's supposed to be better than the old Johnny Stewart 512. I guess that it is. My 512 was making one arm longer than the other.
A person needs to be a balistic wiz now-days to shoot a coyote. We are offered close range, mid range, and long range options, and those are just the shotguns. Rifles are really confusing. Pick a rifle, pick a caliber, pick a bullet, then pick a scope, bi-pod or shooting sticks, sling or carry strap, range finder, and a stock mounted shell holder. All the while, people are telling you that your choice is wrong; their's is right. Now if it doesn't hold a 5/8" group @ 100 yards it's a piece of crap. Start over. And if you don't carry both rifle & shotgun on stand, plan on having the wrong gun.
We can now camo everything, and if it's not enough we can cover the camo with a shaggie suit....and then hide in a pop up blind.
There's now no end of things that we can't live with-out. I used to get lost with a compas. Now I can use a high tech. satellite GPS unit to get lost with. I could even call for help on my cell phone if I could get a signal.
We have bird dekes, rabbit dekes, mounted coyote dekes, and some kind of dancing hairball deke. We have remotes to run ecallers & remotes to operate the dekes. With all of these signals bouncing around, I'm guessing that somewhere there's been a rancher wondering why his garage door's going up & down.
We can use 'mist' and carry wind detectors, although a person will generally only spray mist upwind once.
Lights & lasers and Calif. versus Texas night hunting rigs. Wow!!
We can also enjoy an information overload with books, magazines, DVDs and thanks to Algore, the internet. Now we can gather around the electronic campfire and have heated arguments with people we've never met. We have long since passed the point of any piece of advice being countered by an equal and opposite piece of advice.
With all of the things that we can't now live without, I have to wonder if we're not de-evolving as a species. As possible proof of this theory I submit.....The Quadrunner.
I suppose that this new stuff is progress and is in fact better, but I'm pretty sure that I can get at least one more season out of my lucky hat.
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skoal
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posted February 08, 2008 08:41 AM
Thanks Kokopelli
That was entertaining!
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DanS
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posted February 08, 2008 09:03 AM
It's amazing that the deer and turkey populations around here were almost wiped out by guys wearing red flannel shirts, bibs, and funny Elmer Fud hats years ago.
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tlbradford
Rimfires are MAGIC on COYOTES! If you do your part
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posted February 08, 2008 09:06 AM
That should be on the back page of some hunting magazine.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted February 08, 2008 09:08 AM
You'll never, ever wrangle up any sponsors or endorsments writing inflammatory stuff like that, Kokopelli.
You is funny. Right, but funny. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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JoeF
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posted February 08, 2008 10:01 AM
Good one Koko.
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Locohead
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posted February 08, 2008 10:09 AM
WOW Kok', ou're a pretty fart smeller! I had no idea you could write so well. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Great job.
One morning in Craig Colorado, a couple of friends and I had shot 3 cow elk, gutted them, and dragged them back to the truck and had them loaded whole in the back by 9:30 a.m. On the other hand, I've helped guys pack elk and deer back to the truck that took 2 days.
I may continue to hunt elk the simple and old-fashioned way, but man, I will really REALLY miss the 4-wheeler!
Great read man!!! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Leonard
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posted February 08, 2008 10:27 AM
Since that hat is such a chick magnet, you should pass it down to some deserving youngster. You don't retire stuff that works.
Yes, good article, (I'm impressed and surprised)belongs in Readers Digest.
Good hunting. LB
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JoeF
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posted February 08, 2008 11:45 AM
Koko, after thinking about this for a while I've come to the realization that we'll never get complete recognition as "real" hunters until we get as stupid as deer hunters.
Where is our bitch in heat lure? Piss to pour all over ourselves from the shelves of Wal-Mart?
There actually may be something to that. I'm sure that I posted the story about the day that I killed the two bitches that were in heat and had them hanging from my clothesline pole to skin. They smelled and looked the part, they were definately in heat. Shortly after I started skinning the first one I had a huge old coyote standing a few hundred yards away barking at me like a mad man. There was a dog at the house that would walk that way and he'd quiet down, but as soon as the dog turned around the coyote started barking again.
At the rate things are going something like this will be next.
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Kokopelli
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posted February 08, 2008 12:31 PM
Thanx for the kind words!!
JoeF; Don't even think of going head to head with the deer hunters unless you can top the "BUTT OUT" gutting tool!! Truely a classic device!!
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JoeF
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posted February 08, 2008 01:23 PM
You're right, Koko. The deer hunters win, hands down, with that one.
What an obscene concept! How is one to learn how to NOT cut his finger if he doesn't do it the old-fashioned way.
Obscene, I tell you. I'm much more at home with the edible concept revealed in another thread.
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TRnCO
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posted February 12, 2008 04:53 PM
Yeah, the deer hunters have the "deer view mirror", some day soon I'll bet that someone will realize that the guys that are calling predators NEED a device to see behind them at least as much as deer hunters do! ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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RedRabbit
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posted February 14, 2008 09:31 AM
Good one you hit several nails on the head there koko, then you mentioned the "BUT OUT" tool I really busted a gut on that one.
I bet there were no patent infringemnts on that idea. I bet the patent office gets a good laugh from this industry all the time.
"If you have a "BUT OUT" tool in your hunting tackle, you might be a red neck"
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Leonard
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posted February 14, 2008 09:39 AM
One? I would think that you need a set?
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Redrider
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posted February 23, 2008 08:36 PM
My Dad bought a Butt-out. Yes I laughed at him and yes he ordered it from a catalouge so others wouldn't laugh at him as well.
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