My son and I made it out yesterday. We hit our first stand, which was the one stand that he and I were able to take one on our last trip out.
About 15 minutes into the stand I spotted one that was hard charging into our set up, I figure that he was about 550 yards out when I spotted him. Unfortunately, we had very hard and crunchy snow. When I was getting set up for the shot, my son decided to move to see the coyote a little better. The sound of the crunching snow gave us away. I fired three rounds on him as he tore a$$ out of the county. So the first stand was a bust.
Our second stand had an incredible amount of sign and a ton of Chukars. It was a real tough hike in as we were trying not to give our position away to the coyotes due to the snow. At times we sound like a herd of Elephants as we worked our way into position. It was a new area that I have never been before and as it turned out my careful planning failed miserably. As we approached our stand we were busted by a pack of coyotes that were out around 1000 yards. They were howling, barking, and generally just giving us the finger. Stand two a complete bust.
Lunch time found us at Burger King. My son ate a six pack of their little burgers, an order of fires and two milks. These burgers are very close to White Castle gut bombs….I just sat there in complete amazement. I'm glad all of the clothing he received from Christmas are a tad too big for him...Looks like another growth spurt
. After lunch we headed out to another stand. Again we were trying an area that I have never been before. We arrived about 3:00 and it looked like we had a good chance of sneaking into a very good position that overlooked a huge basin and canyon complex. The best part was that we were able to sneak into the area by side hilling an area were the snow had all melted. We had good cover and we were in position by 3:40. I have been using a jack rabbit in distress on my last few outings so I thought that I would change it up on this stand. I let loose with a snowshoe hare in distress for about three to four minutes. Immediately we heard coyotes barking and howling out to our east about a mile away. After about two or three minutes of listening to them carry on, I decided to hit a Male Coyote Challenge howl. As soon as I did that, the basin that we were set up on broke out into a huge choirs of coyote howling and barking. We literally had coyotes coming into our stand from three directions. As I was sitting there trying to figure out what to do next. I heard a weird sound coming from my left. There was my son lying in the grass sound asleep, snoring just like his old man does. I guess the 6 burgers and the warm sunshine was just too much for him.
So for the next 35:00 I used the Male Coyote Challenge and Coyote Pup in distress with the same results. Coyotes everywhere howling, barking, yipping, etc… So I decide to go silent. I didn’t do anything for at least ten minutes. Then I hit them with Adult Coyote in distress. Within in about two minutes, I had six coyotes hauling a$$ across the basin towards our set. They were running in so quickly I couldn't get them to stop. I was making barking sounds, whoops, and yelps with my mouth. Finally, I give a loud “Ruff”! The lead coyote stops at about 50 yards. He is standing there with the hair up on his back, and his tail down between his legs, and he is pissed. Well he was pissed for about two seconds until I center massed him in the chest. I watched him roll in my scope and then I shifted over to the others. They were all on a dead run for the next county. I drew down on one that was out in the open clear of the sage. My rifle went off, and I rolled the second coyote on a dead run at 214 yards. I watched the bullet strike and I could actually see hair and red mist as the coyote rolled and tumbled to a stop. I couldn’t believe that I hit her. I was so amazed that I forgot about the others until it was too late. But a double like this was pretty cool. My son had slept through the first coyote, but he saw the second one get hit. He wouldn’t believe that I shot two of them until I showed him the other coyote.
Here are the photos. The big one is the male that was all intent on kicking some a$$. The smaller one is the female that I got on the run.
Good hunting to you all,
STS
About 15 minutes into the stand I spotted one that was hard charging into our set up, I figure that he was about 550 yards out when I spotted him. Unfortunately, we had very hard and crunchy snow. When I was getting set up for the shot, my son decided to move to see the coyote a little better. The sound of the crunching snow gave us away. I fired three rounds on him as he tore a$$ out of the county. So the first stand was a bust.
Our second stand had an incredible amount of sign and a ton of Chukars. It was a real tough hike in as we were trying not to give our position away to the coyotes due to the snow. At times we sound like a herd of Elephants as we worked our way into position. It was a new area that I have never been before and as it turned out my careful planning failed miserably. As we approached our stand we were busted by a pack of coyotes that were out around 1000 yards. They were howling, barking, and generally just giving us the finger. Stand two a complete bust.
Lunch time found us at Burger King. My son ate a six pack of their little burgers, an order of fires and two milks. These burgers are very close to White Castle gut bombs….I just sat there in complete amazement. I'm glad all of the clothing he received from Christmas are a tad too big for him...Looks like another growth spurt
So for the next 35:00 I used the Male Coyote Challenge and Coyote Pup in distress with the same results. Coyotes everywhere howling, barking, yipping, etc… So I decide to go silent. I didn’t do anything for at least ten minutes. Then I hit them with Adult Coyote in distress. Within in about two minutes, I had six coyotes hauling a$$ across the basin towards our set. They were running in so quickly I couldn't get them to stop. I was making barking sounds, whoops, and yelps with my mouth. Finally, I give a loud “Ruff”! The lead coyote stops at about 50 yards. He is standing there with the hair up on his back, and his tail down between his legs, and he is pissed. Well he was pissed for about two seconds until I center massed him in the chest. I watched him roll in my scope and then I shifted over to the others. They were all on a dead run for the next county. I drew down on one that was out in the open clear of the sage. My rifle went off, and I rolled the second coyote on a dead run at 214 yards. I watched the bullet strike and I could actually see hair and red mist as the coyote rolled and tumbled to a stop. I couldn’t believe that I hit her. I was so amazed that I forgot about the others until it was too late. But a double like this was pretty cool. My son had slept through the first coyote, but he saw the second one get hit. He wouldn’t believe that I shot two of them until I showed him the other coyote.
Here are the photos. The big one is the male that was all intent on kicking some a$$. The smaller one is the female that I got on the run.
Good hunting to you all,
STS
