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Author Topic: Savin' bunnies Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted November 01, 2009 07:14 PM                       Let's see.... argue about WT's or kill stuff. Well, I had a three day weekend and decided to spend the mornings hunting. Made four stands Friday and on the third stand, in the rain, killt a double. Both came in on a race to the M-1 and I was able to woof the first escapee to a stop after they'd figured something wasn't right while ten yards to my right. He made it about 40 yards before he died, and his buddy made it about forty more while listening to me rack another round before I unzipped him from the backside. Four seconds, two coyotes, and mud. LOL Saturday morning, I hosted a guy from a nearby city who wanted to get some video footage for their media group's outdoors page. Unfortunately, three days of rain seriously hampered where we could get to, and the only coyote we saw was a bump going in. The coyote went out about 100 yards before we barked him to a stop, then I managed to lip squeak him back to about 40 before he started getting all hinky on us, and I had to shoot him through the neck. Won't know if the camera caught the video for a day or two, but there was no missing that loud THWACK when the bullet his his neck. Oooooooooooo. This morning, approaching our first stand, we spotted a mouser at about 450 yards on the other side of a pond. Put the Ultimate One on the dam and backed off a ways. Damned if we didn't call that coyote down the far side of the pond, and onto the dam where I woofed it to a stop allowing my gunner Kevin and I to both shoot at the same time. Boom-Boom...Whop-whop. Uses twice as many bullets with two times the noise. Two stands later, using nothing but female howls and puppy distress, I brought a mature male about 400 yards at a hard run in plain view of my pickup onto a plateau area beneath another pond dam. He didn't stop running until he stuck his head over the top of that shelf and found there was no coyote where he was just sure there would be one. All I had time to think once I saw his head pop up fifty yards in front of me was, "I hope Kevin has him..." Bang! Flop! Three mornings calling, 16 stands in all, saw five coyotes and killed all five. For the year to date, have called 17 coyotes total and killed twelve. I'll be so damned glad when they get crops cut so these coyotes aren't so spread out. -------------------- 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 TA17Rem Hello, I'm the legendary Tim Anderson, Field Marshall, Southern Minneesota Sector Member # 794 posted November 01, 2009 09:32 PM                    Good shooting Lance. You sure messed that coyote up on the right side of pic.. -------------------- What if I told you, the left wing and right wing both belong to same bird! Posts: 5086 | From: S.D. | Registered: Jan 2006  |  IP: Logged Patterson 19.6 miles down the Yellow Brick Road from THE EMERALD CITY Member # 3304 posted November 02, 2009 08:57 AM                    Good shooting. I hear you on the crops and rain. I am still seeing beans not cut and corn is still standing in most places. Makes for some quick decisions. I didnt realize truely how much rain we got last week until I hit the first few minumum maintenance roads yesterday . My white truck is now brown and weighs 300 pounds more . Ended up calling in a single and a pair yesterday. Killed the single and only got one of the pair. Started drying out good yesterday afternoon......just in time for more rain I am sure. Posts: 236 | From: Kansas | Registered: Nov 2008  |  IP: Logged Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted November 02, 2009 07:53 PM                       Yep, sprinkling here right now. Even if it stops tonight, they won't be able to get into most fields until Friday. I think we have more coyotes than in year's past, but they have so much vertical structure to hide in that you can't bring them out. Give it a couple weeks and things will liven up good! -------------------- 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 Lungbuster Knows what it's all about Member # 630 posted November 02, 2009 08:26 PM                   5 for 5 is pretty good..... Posts: 225 | From: Idaho | Registered: Mar 2005  |  IP: Logged Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted November 03, 2009 05:47 AM                       Thanks, but I suspect it won't last. -------------------- 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 Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted November 03, 2009 09:51 AM                       Yeah, Lanse. Hey, real busy with prep for the campout and don't have time to read the text but what's with those two "yotes" with the tire tracks? Doggone hit-and-run, or what? -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 31492 | 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 November 03, 2009 07:44 PM                       Uhhhh, that's called a "road". Behind me is the embankment alongside the aforementioned "road". I use these "roads" to get from one place to another. Otherwise, I'd have to drive over barbed wire fences all day. Dang near one "road" every mile 'round these parts. Makes gettin' around purty easy. The other picture was taken alongside another one of those "roads" but you can't see it because we're just over the ditch - a drainage structure used to keep the "roads" from flooding. If I were to have taken the picture away from the road, you wouldn't have seen much because everything looks like that feed behind me in picture two. Again, be damned glad when things dry out so they can get crops cut. -------------------- 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

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