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Author Topic: My 1st encounter with a coyote huntress Knows what it's all about Member # 322 posted September 13, 2004 04:36 PM                   Hello all!!! I finally had my 1st encounter with a coyote yesterday. All I can say is..WOW WHAT A RUSH!!! I have been going with Bryan and it had been our second day, (we went the previous sunday). I think if I recall we did 5 or 6 stands on the sunday before and didnt call a thing in!!! So yesterday we did 3 or 4 stands and still nothing Brayn was doing all the work I just waited there with a gun for a coyote to shoot. I was really beginning to think I was bad luck!!! So finally yesterday we decided to try a place that Bryan has never tried calling before. He threw out a few calls, we waited and waited, I was thinking to myself...'again..nothing'..Then all of a sudden a hear 'Heather Heather one coming my way' I look over to Bryan... OMG!!! There is a coyote coming our way!!! I slowly tried raising my gun and he saw me.... then he ran a bit.. and stood there!! I coudnt belive it!! So I shot... and ummmm yea I missed... missed a few times actully... oops. I would shoot at him and he would run a bit and Brayn was still calling and making sounds to stop him and yeah I missed each time. I was shaking soooo bad my heart was just a beating!!! I couldnt belive that the coyote could get sooo close. Sure enough me and Bryan were talking and then Bryan says 'there's another coming this way' and again I shot and missed. I'm gonna blame that one on the gun I was using a 250 Remington with a very very light trigger... ( yeah yeah I know excuses excuses lol) Anyways I had a blast, after that stand I told Bryan 'that was fun lets go find another:D' Im definetly hooked!!! Although Bryan did most of the work, It was soooo awesome!!!!!!!! Can't wait to go again and this time kill one!! Posts: 35 | From: Utah | Registered: Mar 2004  |  IP: Logged Norm Knows what it's all about Member # 240 posted September 13, 2004 04:43 PM                    huntress; Congratulations.... I still shake that bad when a coyote appears in front of me.... hope it never goes away... -------------------- Carpe Diem Posts: 778 | From: Phx AZ | Registered: Oct 2003  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted September 13, 2004 06:21 PM                       Hey, that's great! I'm happy for you. That excitment never really goes away, you just have to learn to control it. I have known a couple of guys that calmly dropped the first coyote they ever saw, and then it sinks in and they miss the next ten or twelve. They think; "I ACTUALLY might see one" and the pressure builds. But, people tend to miss that first shot, too much a sense of disbelief, when it happens, they aren't ready for it. Good hunting. LB -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 31466 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted September 13, 2004 06:55 PM                       Cool. Sometimes we need a reminder to help us recall what that first one was like. Glad to hear you did so well. Was Bryan using that new F-250? [ September 13, 2004, 06:55 PM: Message edited by: Cdog911 ] -------------------- I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Posts: 5438 | From: The gun-lovin', gun-friendly wild, wild west | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Tim Behle Administrator MacNeal Sector Member # 209 posted September 13, 2004 07:17 PM                       Be careful, when those coyotes start responding, it can get real addictive, real fast. Sounds like you had a great time! -------------------- Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass kickin'. Posts: 3160 | From: Five Miles East of Vic, AZ | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged huntress Knows what it's all about Member # 322 posted September 13, 2004 09:09 PM                   Tim, I think its too late lol!!! I first started 'hearing' coyotes and then went to actully 'seeing' a coyote. Bryan says he wants to teach me how to call. So I'm slowy working my way up and I think the addiction is starting. I can't wait till this weekend to go again. Posts: 35 | From: Utah | Registered: Mar 2004  |  IP: Logged Bryan J Cap and Trade Weenie Member # 106 posted September 13, 2004 09:31 PM                    We have all taken someone new along for a ride at one time or another. You have the ones that can’t sit still or trip and stumble on every rock and twig in the trail and their whispers can be heard a hundred yards away by human ears. Heather is not that person, she picks up her feet, doesn’t slam the door, and I have yet to have my heart leap because I heard something behind me and have it turn out to just be my partner shifting his weight after 10 minutes have gone by. It is a pleasure to hunt with her. I just hope she doesn’t start expecting doubles all the time. I may have spoiled her. That 22-250 doesn’t fit her it is too heavy, even for me some days. In the back of my mind I was thinking shotgun, but oh well I have a feeling this isn’t her last miss. She wasn’t the only one that didn’t shoot as good as they should have, I had my new Cannon along and this is what I got. I cropped it way down to a manageable file size. Lance, I didn’t get my F-250 into the Ford it was sitting on the desk waiting to get its picture taken. I had the Diablo along and grabbed it to stop the coyote after the first shot. It will be around my neck next week. I started this stand with my L-45 if I remember correctly that L stands for someone you might know. Posts: 599 | From: Utah | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Crow Woman Knows what it's all about Member # 157 posted September 14, 2004 01:57 AM                    Alright Huntress What a wonderful team you two are forming Yup... know all about the get the first coyote and miss a handful of the next... Been there, done that club -------------------- Sheri L Baity Lord, Please give me peace, because if you give me strength, I might beat someone to death! Posts: 687 | From: Covington | Registered: Mar 2003  |  IP: Logged CougerBait Knows what it's all about Member # 149 posted September 14, 2004 08:37 AM                   That coyote looks like it has a real good start on the fur. The ones I have been seeing around here aren't furred up quite as nice. Huntress Sounds like you are hooked now. Got to love it. Keep up the good work. -------------------- CougerBait _ _ _ _ __________________ _ _ _ _ Remember to all ways look behind you for the big cats!!!!! Posts: 60 | From: washington | Registered: Mar 2003  |  IP: Logged John/Alaska Knows what it's all about Member # 25 posted September 14, 2004 12:57 PM                      huntress - Congrates! Fun isn't it?? Posts: 62 | From: Tok Alaska | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Weasel unknown comic posted September 14, 2004 02:07 PM              Great replay of the hunt. It sure brought a smile to my face. Now that the ice is broken, you are going to start layin' 'em low. Good on ya! IP: Logged yotefever PAKMAN Member # 418 posted October 26, 2004 06:19 PM                    I know just how you feel, my name says it all. I'm still looking to connect with my first one too. Good luck ! Posts: 4 | From: Wisconsin | Registered: Oct 2004  |  IP: Logged onecoyote Knows what it's all about Member # 129 posted October 26, 2004 08:10 PM                   Darn, I wish I was young again lol. Guess what, I still get a rush when a coyote comes to the call. Good going huntress. -------------------- Great minds discuss ideas.....Average minds discuss events.....Small minds discuss people.....Eleanor Roosevelt. Posts: 893 | From: Walker Lake Nevada. | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged

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