I got to the farm around 3 p.m. I walked over to the same sitting area where I shot a coyote about a week ago. I set the caller about 50 yards away and, while getting set up, I accidentally bumped the remote and the caller started going off. I fumbled around trying to find the remote, and by the time I finally got it out and muted the caller, it had been playing a dying rabbit sound for about 20 seconds.
I look up and to my surprise, I see two coyotes running through the field, racing straight toward me.
I quickly sat my butt down, chambered a round, set up my shooting sticks, as the first coyote was already at the caller. I tried to wolf it to stop, but it wouldn’t. I attempted to get on it, but my winter face mask wasn’t sitting properly and I could barely see through the scope. I pulled the mask off, but by then the coyote had run past the caller and kept going toward the barn area, which didn’t give me a safe shot.(must have looked like a comedy act as things just happened so fast, me trying to get setup as these two coyotes are coming in)
Its buddy, realizing something was up, turned and started trotting along almost the same path as the one from last week. I dropped it on the trot at about 150 yards. I played pup distress for a few minutes, but nothing else showed up, so I shut the caller off.
About 10 minutes later, I restarted the caller using a dying rabbit sound, and almost immediately a third coyote came into the field heading toward me. When it reached the dead coyote, it did not like it so it turned to go away. I managed to stop it about 20 yards past the dead one, took the shot, and missed. (funny shot one on the run, miss the standing still one
)
I stayed for another 20 minutes but nothing else showed up and it was starting to get cold.......
Conditions were tough — cold, windy, and blowing snow — but I loved every minute of it
I look up and to my surprise, I see two coyotes running through the field, racing straight toward me.
I quickly sat my butt down, chambered a round, set up my shooting sticks, as the first coyote was already at the caller. I tried to wolf it to stop, but it wouldn’t. I attempted to get on it, but my winter face mask wasn’t sitting properly and I could barely see through the scope. I pulled the mask off, but by then the coyote had run past the caller and kept going toward the barn area, which didn’t give me a safe shot.(must have looked like a comedy act as things just happened so fast, me trying to get setup as these two coyotes are coming in)
Its buddy, realizing something was up, turned and started trotting along almost the same path as the one from last week. I dropped it on the trot at about 150 yards. I played pup distress for a few minutes, but nothing else showed up, so I shut the caller off.
About 10 minutes later, I restarted the caller using a dying rabbit sound, and almost immediately a third coyote came into the field heading toward me. When it reached the dead coyote, it did not like it so it turned to go away. I managed to stop it about 20 yards past the dead one, took the shot, and missed. (funny shot one on the run, miss the standing still one
)I stayed for another 20 minutes but nothing else showed up and it was starting to get cold.......
Conditions were tough — cold, windy, and blowing snow — but I loved every minute of it
