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I'd like to say hello to the board, following my long absence. As some of you know I have had quite a time the last year or two. Anyway, I am currently living with family in Oregon, for the time being.
I finaly got out and tried some calling on the family ran farm. One could hear coyotes howl in the night, and occasionaly see one on the road at night. So I had a break in the weather last Saturday evening. I grabbed the Savage 223AI and dressed in full NATgear camo, from head to toe. I had painted the gun and barrel in camo a year or more ago, and only the scope was left black. I figured I was pretty well hidden from any yotes bionic eyes.
The wind was light and from the North allowing perfect set-ups from how the brush and fields layed. I headed out with my brother's Honda Recon, and found that the rains had swollen every low spot in the draws and fields into mini lakes. Coming to where a road passes through a heavy brush line of about 100 yards wide and half flooded with water a foot deep I crossed the water and parked. Walked about 50 yards to the opening in the brush and found a patch of weeds and dead grass to set up in. This gave me full view to the river several hundred yards to the right, 200-300 yards over open ground in front of me, and 200 hundreds left to more brush. they can't sneek up on me here, I thought. My back was to the flooded brush.
I changed the reed in my Crit'r-call PeeWee to the thin one for cotton tails, as there are no jacks hare. And started calling. I expected to see ne come from in front across open ground and sky light its self out front so I had Weaver V16 on 8x. I called for several minutes on and off. and scanned the 180 degrees left to right. Raising the call to my mouth for one last session, I looked out the corner of my eyes to the right and froze!
Not 40 feet away to my extreme right was a coyote facing me head on and burning holes in me with those yellow eyes!!! I thought how the He!! did it do that???? Hmm, it just stood there postured to make an explosive attack or escape. Since I was fully camoed adn laying prone it didn't know what I was. and being left handed I had to turn the gun hard to the right to shoot. I thought there is only one way to do this...
I slowly lowered my left hand and turned down the scope, flipped off the safety, and dropped the call in the grass. Yote was still there..... I expected to have to make a running shot when I lifted the gun to swing it.....I slowly lowered my right hand to the forearm of the Rifle, lip squeeked, yote still there starring. lifted the gun a few inched so bi-pod legs cleared the weeds, turned the gun, lifted the scope to my left eye, and fired when the X-hairs hit her chest. the 50gr Vmax was instant death. I stood up not believing I had pulled it off! ha I stepped off from the muzzle of the gun to her nose, and it was 12 paces.
Since I was fully camoed, face cover and gloves I expect she wasn't sure what I was there in the grass, thus she held for those fatal seconds.
The coyote weighed 30 lbs on a bathroom scale...our combined weight minus mine. Wish I had a pic to post but I have no way of down loading from this computer.
Hope all have a Merry Christmas and happy new year.
I finaly got out and tried some calling on the family ran farm. One could hear coyotes howl in the night, and occasionaly see one on the road at night. So I had a break in the weather last Saturday evening. I grabbed the Savage 223AI and dressed in full NATgear camo, from head to toe. I had painted the gun and barrel in camo a year or more ago, and only the scope was left black. I figured I was pretty well hidden from any yotes bionic eyes.
The wind was light and from the North allowing perfect set-ups from how the brush and fields layed. I headed out with my brother's Honda Recon, and found that the rains had swollen every low spot in the draws and fields into mini lakes. Coming to where a road passes through a heavy brush line of about 100 yards wide and half flooded with water a foot deep I crossed the water and parked. Walked about 50 yards to the opening in the brush and found a patch of weeds and dead grass to set up in. This gave me full view to the river several hundred yards to the right, 200-300 yards over open ground in front of me, and 200 hundreds left to more brush. they can't sneek up on me here, I thought. My back was to the flooded brush.
I changed the reed in my Crit'r-call PeeWee to the thin one for cotton tails, as there are no jacks hare. And started calling. I expected to see ne come from in front across open ground and sky light its self out front so I had Weaver V16 on 8x. I called for several minutes on and off. and scanned the 180 degrees left to right. Raising the call to my mouth for one last session, I looked out the corner of my eyes to the right and froze!
Not 40 feet away to my extreme right was a coyote facing me head on and burning holes in me with those yellow eyes!!! I thought how the He!! did it do that???? Hmm, it just stood there postured to make an explosive attack or escape. Since I was fully camoed adn laying prone it didn't know what I was. and being left handed I had to turn the gun hard to the right to shoot. I thought there is only one way to do this...
I slowly lowered my left hand and turned down the scope, flipped off the safety, and dropped the call in the grass. Yote was still there..... I expected to have to make a running shot when I lifted the gun to swing it.....I slowly lowered my right hand to the forearm of the Rifle, lip squeeked, yote still there starring. lifted the gun a few inched so bi-pod legs cleared the weeds, turned the gun, lifted the scope to my left eye, and fired when the X-hairs hit her chest. the 50gr Vmax was instant death. I stood up not believing I had pulled it off! ha I stepped off from the muzzle of the gun to her nose, and it was 12 paces.
Since I was fully camoed, face cover and gloves I expect she wasn't sure what I was there in the grass, thus she held for those fatal seconds.
The coyote weighed 30 lbs on a bathroom scale...our combined weight minus mine. Wish I had a pic to post but I have no way of down loading from this computer.
Hope all have a Merry Christmas and happy new year.
