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Topic: First coyote kills with my new AR-15
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Possumal
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posted December 01, 2010 09:27 AM
Fellers, I have been having some trouble with Photobucket, just squared away today, so I will make a post about two nice males I called in and killed with my new AR-15 on the afternoon of 11-28. This particular hunt shows just how unpredictable this great sport is, and proves how you have to never give up, and have confidence in your ability to ever beat old Wiley in his environment.
Since the week that Snowcamoman visited me from Alaska, and the pictures posted about our success, I finally got my health issues squared away at least for now, and had gone out on two different days, making a total of 6 stands, all with good potential and places I had a lot of confidence in. No customers other than a couple of responding howls in the distance. Then on Sunday, the 28th, I decided to drive down to Mercer County to retrieve my target frame and sandbags I had set up for my grandsons to sight in their deer rifles with at least a month ago, but it was obvious they weren't going to bring them back to me. I just figured if I had to drive down there and burn the gas, I might as well work in a couple of stands. After picking up my stuff from my daughter's house, I had just enough time to make two stands if I hustled. So I drove to a nearby farm where I could drive back fairly close to the hunting area, parked real quietly and snuck in to my first spot. Placed my CS-24 and Yote Coyote decoy about 75 yds away by a thick bunch of briars and broom sage, and started with a couple howls from my Cronk Buffalo Horn howler and my Carver open reed call, waited a few minutes and watched, and then turned on the CS-24 with Coyote & Groundhog Distress. Almost immediately, I saw a coyote coming hard from about 300 yds away up a long fencerow. He stopped at 175 yds to take a looksee, and was acting kind of nervous, so I dropped the hammer on him with my DPMS AR-15, hitting him dead center in the chest, DRT. Beautiful 34 lb. male with an extra nice silver fur.
Hustled about 1/4 mile to the next hollow, and did my set up in similar fashion to the first one, but hung my possum decoy out of Yote Coyote's mouth, with the CS-24 hidden in a depression right beside him. Started out the stand with the same howling pattern as the first stand, and after about 3 minutes watching, turned the CS-24 on to Coyote & Fox Fight, switching to Screamin' Grey Fox after about 3 minutes and then to Coyote Pup Distress #3 for about 15 seconds and then alternating between those two sounds with the recall button on the remote. Spotted a big coyote coming at a fast pace from about 400 yds up the fencerow. He stopped at about 300 yds to take a look, and I have him a little more of the Screamin' Grey Fox and he started on in. He hung up again at 260 yds by jumping up on a big fallen walnut tree and jumped up on the root section to get a better view. I couldn't stand how good he looked in the scope picture so I squeezed one off, hitting him deadcenter in the chest, DRT, and he slid head first down the dirt on the fallen tree, ending up like he was standing on his head. Nice 44 lb. male with a pretty good fur. So after two days and 6 stands that looked better than either of these stands with no customers, I have two nice males dead in less than 45 minutes total. Go figure.
I really like the new AR-15 so far as it is a real shooter. DPMS with 16" Shilen bull barrel, two stage trigger, and a Burris Fullfield II 4.5 x 14 x 42 scope with Ballistic Plex reticlle, easily grouping 1/2" to 3/4" groups at 100 yds on the first load I have tried fo it. Here is a picture of the two males:
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Al Prather
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TOM64
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posted December 01, 2010 10:11 AM
C'mon Al, that 223 would've bounced off them at that range. That's if you could even hit them with a machine gun... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Nice job.
[ December 01, 2010, 10:12 AM: Message edited by: TOM64 ]
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TundraWookie
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posted December 03, 2010 07:33 AM
Nice work Al, glad that DPMS is working good for you. Those are close shots for you Al, glad to see the chip shots are no problem still. Keep after em'.
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