Yes, I'm new...!
I hope this isn't too much and yes, I'm still giddy about the first success on the second hunt.
I went back to an area I had heard a reply from a week earlier when I used a siren locator.
I got a far hillside to light up 2 different times with maybe as many as 4 to 6 Coyotes hollering back...barking and yelping with a mix of challenges and howls. I never did see one. I moved to another portion of the same hill and set up in front of a small ledge, just enough to hide my outline against the sky.
I was about to get up and leave after having been there for nearly an hour and was startled when this female hopped up landing about my 4 o'clock just 30 feet away! She came from what I thought was my downwind and was not even checking there...I wouldn't have seen her coming anyway for the ledge that was behind me. I think in the split second we noticed each other, we both pee'ed our pants!
She obviously took off quicker than I could swing around and knock my shooting sticks down and nearly fall over and so on. She disappeared over the brink of the hill and showed up down where I had been expecting to see one come out. With a couple of whis whis whistles, she stopped to look back, just long enough to get a non-shooting stick shot off. I think I was kneeling and would like to say I squeezed off a well placed shot for the kill, but ...I jerked a lousy aim job and watched her take off like a shot! (Not to coin a phrase!)
A feeling of disappointment mixed with elation, that I had actually got a predator to run up on me and the thought of any knowing person scowling at me that I had educated a future Coyote for someone else.
I guess I figured I'd go on down and see what brand new tracks looked like in the present snow conditions. That's when the rest of the event unfolded. A tuft of hair! Wow!...Hey! A drop of blood! I must have hit a toenail! As I followed the tracks, more blood and then lots and hey, wait a minute...I may be able to find this critter!
I did find her and used another shot low in the chest as I wanted to keep the hide from my first Coyote and didn't want a big hole in the good part of the hide.
I drug her back to the truck for skinning as I had made provisions to hang a Coyote from my roof rack.
I have about 10 captioned pics, but I think I can only include 1 with this posting. How does one allow you folks to see more?
Clark
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I hope this isn't too much and yes, I'm still giddy about the first success on the second hunt.
I went back to an area I had heard a reply from a week earlier when I used a siren locator.
I got a far hillside to light up 2 different times with maybe as many as 4 to 6 Coyotes hollering back...barking and yelping with a mix of challenges and howls. I never did see one. I moved to another portion of the same hill and set up in front of a small ledge, just enough to hide my outline against the sky.
I was about to get up and leave after having been there for nearly an hour and was startled when this female hopped up landing about my 4 o'clock just 30 feet away! She came from what I thought was my downwind and was not even checking there...I wouldn't have seen her coming anyway for the ledge that was behind me. I think in the split second we noticed each other, we both pee'ed our pants!
She obviously took off quicker than I could swing around and knock my shooting sticks down and nearly fall over and so on. She disappeared over the brink of the hill and showed up down where I had been expecting to see one come out. With a couple of whis whis whistles, she stopped to look back, just long enough to get a non-shooting stick shot off. I think I was kneeling and would like to say I squeezed off a well placed shot for the kill, but ...I jerked a lousy aim job and watched her take off like a shot! (Not to coin a phrase!)
A feeling of disappointment mixed with elation, that I had actually got a predator to run up on me and the thought of any knowing person scowling at me that I had educated a future Coyote for someone else.
I guess I figured I'd go on down and see what brand new tracks looked like in the present snow conditions. That's when the rest of the event unfolded. A tuft of hair! Wow!...Hey! A drop of blood! I must have hit a toenail! As I followed the tracks, more blood and then lots and hey, wait a minute...I may be able to find this critter!
I did find her and used another shot low in the chest as I wanted to keep the hide from my first Coyote and didn't want a big hole in the good part of the hide.
I drug her back to the truck for skinning as I had made provisions to hang a Coyote from my roof rack.
I have about 10 captioned pics, but I think I can only include 1 with this posting. How does one allow you folks to see more?
Clark
