Hecouldgoalltheway
Well-known member
Only made one stand tonight, but it was a good one. I've hunted this farm for years, and it's beautiful, but it's hit or miss. I haven't made a stand there in probably a year. My buddy and I walked in to the most idealistic stand location you could draw, set the x24 down and I started with a little prey distress. We were looking at 60 or so deer within a couple hundred yards of our location. Flipped through a few prey distress options, and I thought I was looking at a coyote in some thick brush 90° to my hard right. I spun my rifle over to try to verify what I was looking at, but I still couldn't get a positive ID. I decided to start playing some breeding sounds to see if I could get the coyote on the hill to move so I could be certain what I was looking at. About 60 seconds into submissive beggar, I heard coyotes crashing through the brush aybe 30y away, you know, over the call, where my buddy was supposed to be watching. I spun my rifle and got back in my Spotter. By the time I found them in the Spotter, they had already run close to the call and were on their way out. I switched to den assault and stopped them at about 150y. I leveled my crosshairs and squeezed. I was rewarded with a solid meat report. The female took off and never slowed down. He ran about 200y with a pretty solid shot in his chest. Maybe a hair back.
I switched over to pound town 2 to try to bring the female back, and almost immediately saw another male break over the far hill and into view. He was moving towards our wind and about to fall into a ditch here he could have easily disappeared, so at about 220y, I put a v-max into him. The shot was a bit back, and I knew he would require another, so as he turned, I wiffed a shot, then followed it up with a Texas heart shot that made a spectacular blood spray in the thermal. He made it about 100y and folded up in view.
It took me 30 minutes to get them both to the truck. That terrain was rough, and we've had rain almost constantly for a few days, so everything was soup and mud. Made dragging 70+ pounds of coyote on those hills a little taxing. I heard some of you stay home on a full moon.
I switched over to pound town 2 to try to bring the female back, and almost immediately saw another male break over the far hill and into view. He was moving towards our wind and about to fall into a ditch here he could have easily disappeared, so at about 220y, I put a v-max into him. The shot was a bit back, and I knew he would require another, so as he turned, I wiffed a shot, then followed it up with a Texas heart shot that made a spectacular blood spray in the thermal. He made it about 100y and folded up in view.
It took me 30 minutes to get them both to the truck. That terrain was rough, and we've had rain almost constantly for a few days, so everything was soup and mud. Made dragging 70+ pounds of coyote on those hills a little taxing. I heard some of you stay home on a full moon.
