DoubleLungRage
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This past weekend WeekEnder and I got together for some hunting. On our second stand of the night we were set up on a long straight dirt road with tall pines on both sides. I had the call pointed down the road and was running a rabbit distress for a few minutes whenever Weekender told me that we had at least two running up the road right to us. He could see them a lot further with his scope l than I could with my scanner. They were running pretty good then around 200 yards they split to flank us. One went in the woods to the left and the other to the right. I turned around to watch our downwind side and on two different occasions as he told about in another thread, Weekender had shots, but couldn't take them due to technical difficulties. After that stand we moved to another spot and had a pack going crazy inside the timber, but whenever they were less than 100 yards away the wind swirled and that was all she wrote.
Weekender had to head in so I went to one of my spots. Tall planted pines that were thinned a few months ago. I set up on the skidder row and started off with some rabbit. Called in a few deer, but no coyotes. I then switched to den raid and a few moments later a big coyote ran out into the lane, but crossed before I could get a shot. I know there are plenty coyotes in that area so I stayed and tried a few different vocals. I then turned off the call and just sat and watched. After about three or four minutes a coyote came running to me down the row and stopped at about 100 yards, but I couldn't get a shot. He stepped in the woods on the right side of the row and disappeared. About ten minutes later I hit a lone howl and he opened up 50 yards away from me in the tall pines on my left. That means at some point he crossed the row further than I could see. After a few minutes of playing with him I see him jump across the road in the same spot. This went on for an hour! he would come within 50 yards of me on both sides and howl and howl and bark. I guess the reason he never completed the circle and winded me is that I was hunting about 65 yards off of the side of a highway. Finally after his 4th or 5th time of jumping the row he stopped just long enough for me to pop him. Well, I missed. I rack another round and he comes right out into the lane hard quartering to me. I shoot again and this time I hit him in the front of the shoulder. He fell then got back up. I rack another round and hit him in the top of the ham as he was running away. Whenever I went to recover him he was STILL trying to get away so I dispatched him with my pistol. In all, it took me an hour and a half of playing with this coyote to get him. A medium sized male. Shot was 100 yards.
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