I have never had a year start like this but hunted the new moon again 11/1 and 11/2 and ended up with another 20 coyotes.
Friday night we hammered 16! Some stands went for an hour with dogs continuing to come to the caller so we just kept stacking! We had one stand where 11 or 12 (i forget) showed up and we shot at 7 and got 5. I shot one that was sniffing a dead one that I shot 5 minutes prior! Crazy hunting! We had several stands where 10-12 coyotes would come in. Not all of them in range but we put eyes on sooo many coyotes it was hard to believe. Even had one stand that I rarely even pull a coyote out of , though we see them all the time , and we smacked 4 that night. Saturday night the wind was fierce and about blowing tripods over and we only had shooting on one stand but got 4 of the 9 that showed up.
The first weekend the only real luck was with prey distress calls. Last weekend they started talking…gotta love that! I was thinking about changing things up and setting the 22-250 aside just for the hell of it but thinking now I better not fix what ain’t broke!
As good as things were there was a set or two where we were shown we weren’t as good as we were starting to think! Haha! We reaffirmed a few things while we were at it also.
…Big rifles still don’t put them down if you don’t hit em right.
…Just when you think you have a call sequence figured out that works , it all of the sudden doesn’t.
…And even though its so dark you can’t see your buddy 5’ away , you still can’t fool a coyote’s nose!
Friday night we hammered 16! Some stands went for an hour with dogs continuing to come to the caller so we just kept stacking! We had one stand where 11 or 12 (i forget) showed up and we shot at 7 and got 5. I shot one that was sniffing a dead one that I shot 5 minutes prior! Crazy hunting! We had several stands where 10-12 coyotes would come in. Not all of them in range but we put eyes on sooo many coyotes it was hard to believe. Even had one stand that I rarely even pull a coyote out of , though we see them all the time , and we smacked 4 that night. Saturday night the wind was fierce and about blowing tripods over and we only had shooting on one stand but got 4 of the 9 that showed up.
The first weekend the only real luck was with prey distress calls. Last weekend they started talking…gotta love that! I was thinking about changing things up and setting the 22-250 aside just for the hell of it but thinking now I better not fix what ain’t broke!
As good as things were there was a set or two where we were shown we weren’t as good as we were starting to think! Haha! We reaffirmed a few things while we were at it also.
…Big rifles still don’t put them down if you don’t hit em right.
…Just when you think you have a call sequence figured out that works , it all of the sudden doesn’t.
…And even though its so dark you can’t see your buddy 5’ away , you still can’t fool a coyote’s nose!
