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Posted by robins (Member # 410) on September 04, 2005, 10:50 PM:
I have been trying and waiting for almost a year now to get my first coyote. I finally did it a little over a month ago now.
I was driving up a canyon that i hunt everything in mainly deer and elk just kind of looking and i saw this thing moving on up the side a ways i gas the truck up to the next rise already knowing what it was. Grab my rifle feed some shells into it and bring it up. Oh its a long shot though 600 yrd probably i figure way out of my reach. No i'll take a shot. I take a good rest on the truck lean into wait for it to stop in a clearing, pause, start taking the slack out of the trigger and then...MULE. Oh yeah i forgot to tell you there are mules and pack horses in this canyon and one decided right know would be the perfect time to start to walk into the downrange area. And now the coyotes gone.
Next Week.
Early up, drive out to the canyon, park the truck, walk a mile up the canyon just shy of were i saw the coyote the previous week. I am on the opposite side of the canyon think that they will be on the same side. I am nestled into a rock group just in such away that i can see up the cayon bottom looking right into this nice upon spot. Cross the canyon is good not to many draws.
Start my first call nice and loud and clear sounds like a good one. By the time the call has left my hand and has fallen around my neck i her crashing through the brush...Not one but two coyote appear and not down in the bottom or across on the other side but right in front of me just a little draw separates use maybe 100yds. As my rifle comes up they see it and start running. I squeak they both stop. Bang fast shot at the one in the clear. Totally miss it disappears. Other one is still crashing through the Brush running along the draw about half way up focus in at the next little clearing he is going to be going through. Bang another fast shot but he starts to tumble. I got him i think to my self, one for two not great shooting but ok. But some things wrong he is still tumbling and trying to run, another round down after him once again a moving target. Jumps funny and tumbles into a bush were it stops. Walk slowly towards it at 20 yrds the brush just explodes in a fury of movement but its not going anywhere. Once everything calms down, i move in. With the barrel of my rifle i start moving the brush just alittle and there is my yote. Still alive and looking mean as all hell at me. One behind the shoulder finishes that mean look off.
After examining the coyote, i found four holes. The First round cut through both front legs right above the elbow one round two holes don’t ask me the physics but both front legs were hit. The second round nicked the back. And lastly the third round right behind the shoulder were it belongs. It was a male probably 35 to 40 pounds.
Disgusted with my shooting but happy with my kill i happily went home. I latter when target shooting found that the rifle was shooting a little low. But I in all honest credit the misses to me being so jacked up on adrenalin and just not shooting well.
Haven’t been able to get back out, school has start and between 20 plus credits, Army ROTC, and having to go home to help with second hay cutting i just haven’t found the time. I hoping to get some time in though this winter when there coats are nice and thick. I am debating if i want to try to sell the hides. But i probably want since i don’t have the time, connections and most importantly the experience.
Thought though that I would share my story in hopes that you folks would in joy it. If you are curious my rifle is a Savage 11f (Accu-Trigger I love it) in 223, with something called a Sightron Scope 3-9x40. I was using 50 grain hollow points.
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on September 05, 2005, 05:22 AM:
Robins,
Good job on that first coyote. The day that "rush" subsiudes is the day you give it up. Fact is, I don't get the "rush" now until after the shooting stops, then I get that little case of the shakes in my hands. Seems to be a lot handier to have it after the deed rather than before when it messes things up. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
One for two is not bad. Happens that way for the majority of callers. Of course, those are the ones that willfully choose not to endulge in the offerings of pampass know it alls who would gladly tell you how to stop numbers two, et al. for follow up shots on a lot of those occasions. It is possible when the coyotes are willing to cooperate.
Thanks for sharing.
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