204 AR
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It was tough sledding this weekend, not sure if it's the warm weather or "experienced" coyotes, but they did not want to come in. Answer howls, yeah all night long, but come in, nope. Friday night I was solo, I had to make a move after locating 3, long story short 2 bugged out in different directions, but this one did wander toward me after blowing a bit on the trusty ol rabbid rabbit. I was afraid it had caught my trail walking in, so I took the Texas heart shot.
Saturday night, same place, I was partnered up and our plan was to stay stationary, howl every half hour or so, and just wait. It took 45 minutes for anything to answer, then they were everywhere but not visible. What was visible was this badger, I shot some footage with the Lumi H35 out of boredom. They are kind of interesting critters but this does get a bit long.
Finally, one wandered in from a long ways out, this one never answered any howls and we never played a sound after spotting it. It took forever and disappeared behind a couple knobs 150 yds out. We thought it was still close but couldn't see it for probably 15 minutes, until the deer in the background got up because she walked right through them. I wish I had all that footage because it was kind of cool to see. My buddy put it down at 112 yards I believe.
We hung out for quite a while after, eventually spotting 2 groups, 7 coyotes in all, that wandered across the pasture a half mile out, but would only answer howls, eventually I tried some whimpers, chirps, and a mild fight, but that just made them bug out. It was a cool night for all the stuff we saw but frustrating at the same time. I don't think this land has been called much this year, but I think the neighbor's gets pounded pretty hard.
Saturday night, same place, I was partnered up and our plan was to stay stationary, howl every half hour or so, and just wait. It took 45 minutes for anything to answer, then they were everywhere but not visible. What was visible was this badger, I shot some footage with the Lumi H35 out of boredom. They are kind of interesting critters but this does get a bit long.
Finally, one wandered in from a long ways out, this one never answered any howls and we never played a sound after spotting it. It took forever and disappeared behind a couple knobs 150 yds out. We thought it was still close but couldn't see it for probably 15 minutes, until the deer in the background got up because she walked right through them. I wish I had all that footage because it was kind of cool to see. My buddy put it down at 112 yards I believe.
We hung out for quite a while after, eventually spotting 2 groups, 7 coyotes in all, that wandered across the pasture a half mile out, but would only answer howls, eventually I tried some whimpers, chirps, and a mild fight, but that just made them bug out. It was a cool night for all the stuff we saw but frustrating at the same time. I don't think this land has been called much this year, but I think the neighbor's gets pounded pretty hard.
