Duhhh
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Took my wife out today. Was wanting to get her into some fresh stands so we traveled about 2 1/2 hours to some areas I’ve been saving.
The weather here has been horribly warm for the past two weeks, the winds have been out of the south and east, and there’s no more snow. So i figured it wouldn’t be the best calling but we had to give it a shot.
Blanked in the first stand but saw three about 1400 yards away. The second stand was supposed to be somewhat close to the truck and in the flats. As we were walking in, we heard a group howling way into a river bottom that was about a mile away. I figured we should get closer to them as opposed
to blind calling the flats.
We hiked over the hill and the other side opened up into a big valley that went down to the river bottom. We got set up on the cliff side and into some shade. About 5 minutes into playing some rabbit, 3 hard chargers were coming at us in the open. My wife had some major tripod malfunctions and couldn’t get positioned on any of them. They came in so fast and had us pegged in no time. It sucks it had to be that way but I ended up shooting one before they took off. She got a shot off on one that ran away but missed.
I was a little irritated we couldn’t double up and she couldn’t get positioned right. As we sat there and talked about it. The coyote she missed started bugger barking at us. I answered with a bunch of challenge barks and surprisingly the coyote stepped over a a bank at 515 yards. She couldn’t see it so I waisted no time in dumping him before he took off. That was the most beautiful thump report I’ve ever heard on an animal (must have been the valleys acoustic).
The first coyote was a pretty good sized male but that second one was a giant male. I didn’t have a scale with me but he was easily over 40 lbs. Was a good lesson on sticking around and using vocals to get some coyotes back to stand.
We made multiple other stands but nothing would commit. We even called over the top of a heard of Buffalo but no dice.
The weather here has been horribly warm for the past two weeks, the winds have been out of the south and east, and there’s no more snow. So i figured it wouldn’t be the best calling but we had to give it a shot.
Blanked in the first stand but saw three about 1400 yards away. The second stand was supposed to be somewhat close to the truck and in the flats. As we were walking in, we heard a group howling way into a river bottom that was about a mile away. I figured we should get closer to them as opposed
to blind calling the flats.
We hiked over the hill and the other side opened up into a big valley that went down to the river bottom. We got set up on the cliff side and into some shade. About 5 minutes into playing some rabbit, 3 hard chargers were coming at us in the open. My wife had some major tripod malfunctions and couldn’t get positioned on any of them. They came in so fast and had us pegged in no time. It sucks it had to be that way but I ended up shooting one before they took off. She got a shot off on one that ran away but missed.
I was a little irritated we couldn’t double up and she couldn’t get positioned right. As we sat there and talked about it. The coyote she missed started bugger barking at us. I answered with a bunch of challenge barks and surprisingly the coyote stepped over a a bank at 515 yards. She couldn’t see it so I waisted no time in dumping him before he took off. That was the most beautiful thump report I’ve ever heard on an animal (must have been the valleys acoustic).
The first coyote was a pretty good sized male but that second one was a giant male. I didn’t have a scale with me but he was easily over 40 lbs. Was a good lesson on sticking around and using vocals to get some coyotes back to stand.
We made multiple other stands but nothing would commit. We even called over the top of a heard of Buffalo but no dice.
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