Sunday morning coyote....

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fratri

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Quick hunt scores with a nice healthy female… Only time for one stand this morning so wanted to make sure I made the most of it by making the 40 minute ride to the farm an early one. Getting there and setting up before legal light I got settled in and waited. I had my ecaller on mute but my decoy on and moving. As legal shooting time arives I start off with a couple coyote greeting sounds from my new hand caller. I wait about a minute get out one of my rabbit distress hand calls and start screaming with it for about 40 secs or so…. I wait a minute or so and do it again for about 30 secs or so and stop…Its really calm out there this morning and sound is traveling far and is loud so I decide next sound is coming from my ecaller as the screaming is giving me a headache…lol ….As I scan the area and start thinking about which call to play from the ecaller I notice a fence post in the distance that I didn't notice before. So put my optics up and yes a coyote is sitting on the edge of the bush looking toward my setup… I slowly grab my hand squeaker call and give a few soft shots on it and sure enough she begins her way down toward the setup… She pauses once….I give a little soft call again and she continues right on in, she is fixated on the decoy. As she gets about 75yds out she starts to turn (angle off a bit) possible to check the wind? I wolf her she stops but is quartering me and angled downward, I take the (poor) shot…bang….she runs (no spinning just running) I reload, try and find her in my scope line her up and take the 2nd shot….. miss….. She makes it to the bush…. I play coyote pup distress for about 5 minutes, nothing showed so decide to go see if I hit her at all… I walk over to impact and see some blood, not much but I hit her….start following her tracks/little blood trail but within 10 yds I start to see internal organs on the ground,yikes.... blood trail gets a little better and more small body organs are found… I get to the bush she ran into and she is done… Looks like I made a poor shot on her missing her chest area but opening up her belly...Thinking back the problem may have been I zoomed the scope right up when I first saw her (12x) and left it at that for the 75yd shot making looking through the scope cross-hairs (at such a close range) just too shaky.. Next time I will leave it on 4x…
Enjoy the pics…





The Prize… (looks like I need a better/cleaner camera lol)



Now the next picture is pretty graphic….so I left that you need to click on it if you want to view it…
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn69/fratri/2013-2014/gutshot_zps134d2012.jpg
 
Ooooh those 6.5mm 95gr V-maxes of mine are going to make a big mess when I finally get to where you are fratri.
Perhaps I need to reconsidder my caliber choice.
If a 55gr .223 did that then.....
 
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ciphery said:
Ooooh those 6.5mm 95gr V-maxes of mine are going to make a big mess when I finally get to whear you are fratri.
Perhaps I need to reconsidder my caliber choice.
If a 55gr .223 did that then.....
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I don't know anything about your calibre or bullet choice but mine was just a poor shot that caused that...the bullet basically zipped through her belly. The behind the shoulder shots or frontal chest shots are much more fur friendly, pencil size in and most time quarter size or less out...
 
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