That was funny! Red Elk (Art Burbank), and I were in a hunting contest out of Elko Nevada about 4 or 5 years ago. We were calling in an area about 60 miles northwest of Elko on the first day of the contest. On our last stand of the day I set us in a shallow valley that ran north and south. I had Art sitting about 70 yards in front of me and a bit to my right. he had the difficult job of looking into the setting sun to keep me from being surprised from my left, where I couldn't see due to a cutbank that rose about 6' to my immediate left. I was facing north up the valley, expecting any action to come from there. I made one good series on the call, and was watching quietly, when I noticed a moving shadow, with ears sticking up, on the ground to my right. I knew what that meant.....I was about to get "kamikazied" from my left. Before the thought was out of my mind, a coyote boiled over the cutbank and landed about 6' in front of me. He looked at me, as I looked at him, and then he hooked a right around me and headed back over the little ridge. I got one shot as he cleared the ridge, and another at about 250 yards when he broke cover for a moment, and neither connected. Art was really apologetic, but he just couldn't see into that low sun angle. The he started laughing...said all he could see was a cloud of dust with me and the coyote both in the middle, and then the coyote "exploded" out of it, and was over the ridge.....LOL. Thanks for the "reminder" John, I hadn't thought of that story for awhile.