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My son wanted to go so we met up at his place at 1930 last night.
First stand was where we’ve killed before. We checked wind and placed the caller. I’m using my Ruger Predator and IRay and he has the SFAR and AGM.
I start off with some prey distress and nothing. Go with a pair howl and we get a response a LONG way off. I follow up with some female invitation howls.
There are a few breaks between calls and I’m at what’s labeled as “foreplay” on the remote when I see a coyote running towards us through the brush. He’s on a road that curves around this field and I tell my son where.
Now this is what I love about hunting with my boys…safety first! He tells me he doesn’t have a safe angle due to how we were set up and I’m the shooter. I drop the scanner around my neck and get on the gun. This coyote is about to clear the brush at the curve and all of a sudden takes a right hand turn away from the caller.
I lose it in the brush. I immediately cut the caller and get back on my scanner. Now the way we’re set up, I can see due East and South with a safe kill zone. My son has partial East, North and West.
He then announced he sees him NE in the brush on the other side of the field. I spot it in the scanner which is opposite of where the coyote went that I saw. This coyote disappears as well.
I have no idea why I do it other than it’s worked in the past, but there’s a call on my caller called Baby Bunny and I hit it as I’m scanning. Within 30sec I see the head of a coyote in the brush to my SE. I tell my son and he says no shot and to take it when I can. I was already on the rifle when he said it and put the crosshairs where his neck should be and touched the trigger and it dropped.
I immediately went to pup distress and we played some more vocals for about 15min, but nothing else showed.
Unfortunately in the chaos I didn’t hit record so I had to get back on the scope to figure out where the coyote dropped so we could make a recovery, lol. I got the spot picked and we found him fairly easily.
Someone in another post had mentioned 110gr bullets to try in my .308 so I ordered a couple boxes of Nosler Armageddon’s to try. I’d shot a hog already with them, but couldn’t wait to see how the performed on a coyote.
So the shot was about 80yds and we had to literally “hunt” for the entrance hole because there was no exit. Even though I’d hit the only part I could see (neck) area, there wasn’t an exit. I’d be lucky if his head was still attached using the 168gr CoreLokts, lol.
Coyote was a big male at 34#.
We then loaded up and went to stand #2. That was an absolute bust.
Stand #3 was near the property line divided by a creek in a pecan orchard. We had made it 50yds from the truck when out of the darkness we heard Miranda Lambert being blasted from the area we expected the coyotes to come from, lol. It was “mudders” as my son calls them. Just kids on their ATV’s bogging along the creek.
We loaded back up and drove to the opposite end of the orchard and got set up. I decided to do the same sequence as before except this time when I got to “foreplay” a group lit up across the road to our NW. They were close, but I knew they weren’t coming due to the terrain. We marked their spot and figured out what wind we’d need and where to set up and then decided to call it a night.
Again, I can’t remember who recommended those bullets to me, but THANKS! They shoot great, kill on contact, and to be honest have less recoil and sound even though they’re hotter than the previous bullets I was using. Maybe it’s in my head, but I’m loving them!
First stand was where we’ve killed before. We checked wind and placed the caller. I’m using my Ruger Predator and IRay and he has the SFAR and AGM.
I start off with some prey distress and nothing. Go with a pair howl and we get a response a LONG way off. I follow up with some female invitation howls.
There are a few breaks between calls and I’m at what’s labeled as “foreplay” on the remote when I see a coyote running towards us through the brush. He’s on a road that curves around this field and I tell my son where.
Now this is what I love about hunting with my boys…safety first! He tells me he doesn’t have a safe angle due to how we were set up and I’m the shooter. I drop the scanner around my neck and get on the gun. This coyote is about to clear the brush at the curve and all of a sudden takes a right hand turn away from the caller.
I lose it in the brush. I immediately cut the caller and get back on my scanner. Now the way we’re set up, I can see due East and South with a safe kill zone. My son has partial East, North and West.
He then announced he sees him NE in the brush on the other side of the field. I spot it in the scanner which is opposite of where the coyote went that I saw. This coyote disappears as well.
I have no idea why I do it other than it’s worked in the past, but there’s a call on my caller called Baby Bunny and I hit it as I’m scanning. Within 30sec I see the head of a coyote in the brush to my SE. I tell my son and he says no shot and to take it when I can. I was already on the rifle when he said it and put the crosshairs where his neck should be and touched the trigger and it dropped.
I immediately went to pup distress and we played some more vocals for about 15min, but nothing else showed.
Unfortunately in the chaos I didn’t hit record so I had to get back on the scope to figure out where the coyote dropped so we could make a recovery, lol. I got the spot picked and we found him fairly easily.
Someone in another post had mentioned 110gr bullets to try in my .308 so I ordered a couple boxes of Nosler Armageddon’s to try. I’d shot a hog already with them, but couldn’t wait to see how the performed on a coyote.
So the shot was about 80yds and we had to literally “hunt” for the entrance hole because there was no exit. Even though I’d hit the only part I could see (neck) area, there wasn’t an exit. I’d be lucky if his head was still attached using the 168gr CoreLokts, lol.
Coyote was a big male at 34#.
We then loaded up and went to stand #2. That was an absolute bust.
Stand #3 was near the property line divided by a creek in a pecan orchard. We had made it 50yds from the truck when out of the darkness we heard Miranda Lambert being blasted from the area we expected the coyotes to come from, lol. It was “mudders” as my son calls them. Just kids on their ATV’s bogging along the creek.
We loaded back up and drove to the opposite end of the orchard and got set up. I decided to do the same sequence as before except this time when I got to “foreplay” a group lit up across the road to our NW. They were close, but I knew they weren’t coming due to the terrain. We marked their spot and figured out what wind we’d need and where to set up and then decided to call it a night.
Again, I can’t remember who recommended those bullets to me, but THANKS! They shoot great, kill on contact, and to be honest have less recoil and sound even though they’re hotter than the previous bullets I was using. Maybe it’s in my head, but I’m loving them!
