Night Vision NV and thermal kills...

My last two Northern CO yotes. One was MK3 35mm on a Seekins 300 blk and little one was a Reap-IR 35mm on a Noveske 556. Both with silencerco omega’s, both 80-100 yds max.
 

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I wish I had the luxury of a nicely fresh cut field. Tall scrub and thick brush gives them the advantage to run circles around me.View attachment 7093207
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Ya man that some pretty thick scruff you shooting in .
Around here a lot of fields are doing the 1st year cutting and some bailing, but it early summer and there is a lot high grass and growth .
most definitely makes spotting easy when you got cut grass . I always checking them cut fields if driving back home at 1st light for dogs mousing and hunting .
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OHhh FUN TIMES .. Last Night, no moon and nice and quiet .. ( the plan ), I go into a small fenced coral area behind a barn to set-up and search and make few calls for some coyotes behind a BigAss manure pile .
There is also 6 young Bulls in the back of barn in fenced coral area waiting to get about 18 months old to go into auction sale .
I walk into backside of barn, threw gate into coral area wearing gear and NV/helmet . Even though I'm a stranger just turned up and kicked them up from sleep , they all just all up eyeballing me pretty heavy and they young and not really looking to start something they not totally sure about . I just keeping my focus and just ignoring them and go about my business .

So I walk down and behind a 10 ft. manure pile (nice dry area), Young bulls eyeballing me and all following stepping a little closer one by one . They pretty jittery and the all black Angus starts doing this rodeo bucking and shaking his head act, but he putting a Vibe more like he wants to play than be aggressive . But they all still holding off about 20 ft. off and eyeballing me, so I keep on my set-up .
It starts looking like a big clusterfuck, I got to make light verbal with them and they making Noise also and I thinking about packing it up, but I hear a solo young coyote off and doing a few barks a few hundred yards off a side field . So I setup Rifle on tripod and set my pack down by electric fence and start scanning with Thermal .
I standing there scanning and before I know it, I am in a tight scrimmage huddle and surrounded, nudged and sniffed . Bulls not really being malicious but I grabbing my tripod and holding it up and trying not to get pushed into electric fence . It all getting a little to cozy, I got to make a few verbal commands at them and some light pushing to hold my ground . They all start setting down but they wont leave . They all just stay circled tight around behind me . Even If I scanned a coyote there No Way I could make a shot and not take risk of them freaking and knocking me down and stepping on me . It all ends up like I'm just the bovine entertainment for the night.
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I don't end up shooting that many female coyote . over the years, I bet it about one female shot to every 10 males around my area .
Does that say anything ? as far breeding habits to food ratio ...etc. or is this about normal for everyone else shooting coyotes .
Popped this female this morning about 02:30 .
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Forgot to say ... This Coyote .
I went back to the exact same spot where I said in ( posts # 146 ) .. where I showed-up to hunt and found guys were out there hunting 'educating coyote . flashing IR all over, shooting-missing coyotes , revving up quad and making unnecessary noise and dirtying-Up my usual hunt location .

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Deer from kill permit.
 

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Spotted this yote in the woods.. it was already watching me when
I first saw him. Then he walked off up and over the hill.
It was a full moon, so I moved to the shadows and did overwatch, scanning
a cattle pasture that lies below the woods.

He eventually came back out.. just under 2 hrs.. I won the battle of
who out waits who.

He trotted suddenly down onto a cresting knoll in the pasture and came to a stop
at 152yds...
And was sensing something was perhaps off when he ate a 87 gr vmax
center chest.. DRT

6 Creed
XP50 Trail




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BCO thermal cam on UTMx. I’m moving in on these hogs and the rifle is on a tripod so it is jittery for a min.



The hogs are at a feeder. This is the view from a Reconyx Ultrafire at the feeder. For some reason the cam jumped a few seconds when I shot. hit sow on right side of screen.

 
The BCO cam records in 1 min sections. This coyote crashed in a ditch about 20 yards after the clip stops. I just didn’t feel like editing in the second clip. I was actually set up on a feeder for hogs and this one and 2 others began howling about 400 yards away. I didn’t have my caller so I gave them my best mouth howl and then mouth squeaked him in from about 200 yards.

 
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