Pa Mick and I took a trip there again this year with MUCH better weather than Jan. '24. It had been, I think around 3 weeks since I heard any appreciable howling at home and think I heard more out there than I will all year here. They just didn't want to play very well. We did manage to kill 10 and I hit one that was not recovered even though the booger laid there for at least 30seconds according to the first vid while I was shooting the 2nd.
In that first vid I was 200y North of Mick (who was calling) because of a good S wind. I saw these coyotes cross the levee on the far side of the creek to my West. When they got over the East levee they started hooking even further North, I assume to get even more downwind. I am told there are contests in this area almost every weekend and we did hear shots and saw other hunters so assume these critters know pressure since season goes out on Mar. 15.
The vid with the grain bins and my car in the background is a neat story. We had made a set at the bins and heard them quite a ways to our South. After this set we went South about 700yds and set up with Mick about 100yds further S than me and me doing most of the calling. Wind was steady from the S and the bins were NNW of me with Mick being to my SSW along a CRP edge. After a while I scan towards Mick and see him frantically waving towards the N. I spin around on my stool and see a coyote coming from the E directly behind and downwind of me and one coming from the W about 3-400yds out. Getting my tripod repositioned I think they are around 300 per my reticle and watch their interactions before "getting down to business". Turned the call on to what ever I had last ran and the one started coming but it did not come at the call but cross wind at ~250ish per my reticle. I could not get it to stop and had muted the call. Swung back to the other and it was still there. Reticle says 300ish so I held top of back and let drive. She spins and I hit her again. ONX says 277y.
Ranges were from about 50y (our double) to almost 280 (according to onx) and sounds producing where nothing consistent. We were hoping to "pile them up"
so didn't take in-field pics the first 2 successful nights and realized the error of our ways when I went to add one to the pile Tues. am and flushed a buzzard.
I had issues with remembering to hit the record button so missed several vids. An early vid is me shooting one that Mick recorded, and the last vid is me taping one that Mick shot. We were about 200yds apart because of wind. I was calling and the coyote came past Mick at about 150 and got 'slammed'.
The double we killed was w/o a countdown but was simultaneous. I am telling Mick that 2 are coming, one straight ahead and one to the left, he can't see the one straight in front because of vegetation and it starts to run away from us, so I shoot it up the rear and he drops the other--kinda neat when we realized what we did.
The last pic is of a 'freebee' I shot as we cleared a CRP on a bean field edge going to stand on our last night there.
In that first vid I was 200y North of Mick (who was calling) because of a good S wind. I saw these coyotes cross the levee on the far side of the creek to my West. When they got over the East levee they started hooking even further North, I assume to get even more downwind. I am told there are contests in this area almost every weekend and we did hear shots and saw other hunters so assume these critters know pressure since season goes out on Mar. 15.
The vid with the grain bins and my car in the background is a neat story. We had made a set at the bins and heard them quite a ways to our South. After this set we went South about 700yds and set up with Mick about 100yds further S than me and me doing most of the calling. Wind was steady from the S and the bins were NNW of me with Mick being to my SSW along a CRP edge. After a while I scan towards Mick and see him frantically waving towards the N. I spin around on my stool and see a coyote coming from the E directly behind and downwind of me and one coming from the W about 3-400yds out. Getting my tripod repositioned I think they are around 300 per my reticle and watch their interactions before "getting down to business". Turned the call on to what ever I had last ran and the one started coming but it did not come at the call but cross wind at ~250ish per my reticle. I could not get it to stop and had muted the call. Swung back to the other and it was still there. Reticle says 300ish so I held top of back and let drive. She spins and I hit her again. ONX says 277y.
Ranges were from about 50y (our double) to almost 280 (according to onx) and sounds producing where nothing consistent. We were hoping to "pile them up"
so didn't take in-field pics the first 2 successful nights and realized the error of our ways when I went to add one to the pile Tues. am and flushed a buzzard.I had issues with remembering to hit the record button so missed several vids. An early vid is me shooting one that Mick recorded, and the last vid is me taping one that Mick shot. We were about 200yds apart because of wind. I was calling and the coyote came past Mick at about 150 and got 'slammed'.
The double we killed was w/o a countdown but was simultaneous. I am telling Mick that 2 are coming, one straight ahead and one to the left, he can't see the one straight in front because of vegetation and it starts to run away from us, so I shoot it up the rear and he drops the other--kinda neat when we realized what we did.
The last pic is of a 'freebee' I shot as we cleared a CRP on a bean field edge going to stand on our last night there.
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