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medic joe

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I stopped on a gravel road. After I see a distant dot on a hill side. I zoomed in on this coyote sitting up. It was curled up prior. Then must've heard a distant noise. So it sit up & faced that direction. When it was curled up. It was facing angled down wind.

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medic joe said:
I stopped on a gravel road. After I see a distant dot on a hill side. I zoomed in on this coyote sitting up. It was curled up prior. Then must've heard a distant noise. So it sit up & faced that direction. When it was curled up. It was facing angled down wind.

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Quite a few Winters ago. My brother was road hunting with me. I seen a coyote sitting on a hill side 1/2 mile away, facing straight East. As I was glassing it to see what it was looking at. There was an old guy stalker wearing all white. Trying to close the gap on the coyote from the East. Soon as that hunter neared the last hill top. That coyote got up & then walked. Westward over the next hill top. Then sat down on the next hill side facing the hunter's noise. My brother & I watched that hunt for probably 15 minutes or so. As that coyote toyed with that hunter. It was one of the funniest interactions. I've ever seen between man vs coyote. I doubt that old hunter ever got a shot at it.
 
You have to have had a loooong lens to get that good pic. Only been out in snow country a couple of times and never noticed......do you ever get mirage over snow? Down here mirage kills high power lenses, both camera and telescope. Our flat country doesn't help. It takes a very good lens to spot a .30 caliber bullet hole @ 200 yards, especially from prone or sitting position, a little better standing.
 
hm1996 said:
You have to have had a loooong lens to get that good pic. Only been out in snow country a couple of times and never noticed......do you ever get mirage over snow? Down here mirage kills high power lenses, both camera and telescope. Our flat country doesn't help. It takes a very good lens to spot a .30 caliber bullet hole @ 200 yards, especially from prone or sitting position, a little better standing.
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My camera has a 60x optical zoom + 60x digital zoom for a total of 120x zoom. Yes I have seen mirages on snow cover using zoom.
 
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