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Topic: The Joys of Public Land
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Bryan J
Cap and Trade Weenie
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posted December 26, 2005 01:14 PM
Well guys the rabbit hunters are out in force. It looks like calling in the middle of the week for me from here on out. Heather and I went out and made a few stands Saturday. Our first stand was in an area we had killed three coyotes out of last year. We had a single check us out at about 120 yards but wouldn’t close the gap. Heather never saw him so he walked. Our next stand I think some rabbit hunters shot a coyote that was coming to the call but I can’t be certain. There was a single shot that came from near the road. A while later they must have bumped a rabbit and did a bunch of shooting, we decided that it was now time to go. The rabbit hunters stopped near the bottom of the draw we were calling and stopped to examine something. It may have been our coyote but perhaps more likely a rabbit. Either way the fact remains that they approached our stand despite the fact that they saw us go in there, and I know they could hear the FoxPro. Oh the joys of hunting public land.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted December 26, 2005 02:27 PM
Things that make you say, "GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"
Bustin' a guy's hunt up like that and for nothing but a little ol' bunny wabbit. Call me egotistical, but if you can't call predators, you don't know how to hunt!
Actually, Bryan, they probably jumped out of their Volvo and heard those rabbit screams, figured that it WAS a rabbit and where there was one, there must be many more. That coyote running the same way they were heading just sealed the deal and had them utterly convinced that if the coyotes eat here, the hunting must be great. (Kinda that truck driver/ truck stop diner thing.)
If it makes you feel any better, today was the annual day for my nemesi (plural for nemesis?) - pheasant hunters. Geez, I hate them. Talk about a perfectly good waste of good habitat and valuable hunting time. Walk for hours until you're beat, then go home with nothing but a bunch of nasty ol' shot up bird meat. That's why God made frozen chicken breasts at the Piggly Wiggly. I had just managed to call a perfectly good coyote in one of my very favorite spots this morning - trying to put it in the red zone for my son's football coach - and I missed him. (Bumped scope. Just got back from the range. Lucky the bullet didn't swing around and hit me!) Anyway, we were still early in the stand and I hadn't written that one bad shot off as the only chance I might get in there when a pickup full o' orange pulled in a half-mile away on the other side of the ravine we were working. I don't suppose it mattered to them that they'd busted up my hunt either. Oh well. Wait until it gets really cold. We'll be in the heights of glory and they'll be at home drinking frapaccino or some other crap.
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Leonard
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posted December 26, 2005 03:00 PM
Out here, it's quail hunters, and the real culprits, by far.....dirt bike riders!
Good hunting. LB
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Don't piss me off!
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Bryan J
Cap and Trade Weenie
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posted December 26, 2005 03:49 PM
LOL Yea, Lance I know what you mean, it is a shame to see all that predator habitat going home to someone’s dinner table. What a waste. LOL
Never had bird hunters or dirt bikes mess me up, but I’m not dead yet either.
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UTcaller
NEVADA NIGHT FIGHTER
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posted December 26, 2005 04:08 PM
I know what you mean Bryan,I swear some days out there you have to Parallel park.LOL
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