And we're back.... Hard to believe I have been doing this for 14 years..
You may have seen my previous posts about our hunting experiences while wolf hunting since 2009 along the north shore of Lake Superior, and how it usually works out in the wolf's favour. We have 5 or 6 hunters that regularly get together to chase predators once the moose and deer seasons close. Well, here we go again for another season......
We have an agreement with the municipality designating 3 locations in town where a group of us can conduct a restricted hunt for coyotes and wolves after November 15 in order to effect some predator control. Coyotes are the primary species and are seen at all hours of the days wandering up and down the streets. I finished my deer hunt, Paddle2daC is still away on his, and My72Jeep is recovering in southern Ontario after having a complete liver transplant about 7 weeks ago ( https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...1241-My72Jeep-Hunting-Partner-in-Need-of-Help ).
Last year the three of us opened the season with 2 of us scoring coyotes, and one of us wounding a mature jackpine on the municipal golf course located directly behind and below the street I live on.
This morning, hunting partner Wayne and I arrived at the golf course at first legal light. I set Wayne up where we shot the 2 coyotes and I went to where the tree was shot. Calm morning, 2C, damp and snow melting. Start out with a couple of female coyote in heat calls, followed by a couple of raven calls, and then a rabbit in distress call over 40 minutes or so. I then switched to a rabbit in distress / raven attack call, which runs for approximately 1 minute. After it finishes, I am watching down the fairway directly in front of me when I catch movement in the periphery of my right eye. I turn my head and there is a coyote coming towards me 20 yards away in the adjacent fairway. It starts loping away heading for the trees on the other side of the fairway so I slid around the tree and started "woofing" at him. He stopped broadside in the trees about 80 yards away and I dumped him with a 55 gr. ballistic tip handload out of my.22-250. Dropped on the spot.
Foxbang goes off with pup in distress, and I replayed it when it finished to see if anything would show, which did not happen. After 20 minutes or so, played a rabbit in distress call, paused, then the rabbit in distress / raven fight call.
I was shifted more to the right and looking across the course when I spotted a tan streak running along the fairway at the base of the timbered ridge about 400 yards away. The wind was now gusting a bit from where I was sitting towards the ridges, so I figured it would swing into the wind and head towards the caller. I put on a jackrabbit in distress call and swung around the tree facing towards where I thought it would come out about 11:00 from where I was sitting. About a minute later I see movement at 2:00 and there is a coyote two fairways over. It was stopped in the middle of the fairway, and I could only see its back end as it was shielded by a tree in the fairway divider. I waited and it started trotting to the trees and stopped in the middle of them about 175 yards away. It was facing me and I dropped it right there. I love that rabbit distress / raven fight call, not the first time it has pulled a critter in for us.
Best use for a golf course I have seen! As we are only allowed two wolf / coyote tags per calendar year, I am tagged out till January 1 now
First time I have shot a double in 1 set - the first one was a nicely furred adult and the 2nd was a juvenile. Both were well fed (probably on dog food and the odd cat) and heavy when we dragged them out.
My wife asked me what I am going to do for the next 36 days, and that we cant afford to pay for therapy
EDIT - sorry for the big pictures, IMGUR is acting up again and even though I resized and saved the pictures, every time I go back to the picture it is still in the large format..
You may have seen my previous posts about our hunting experiences while wolf hunting since 2009 along the north shore of Lake Superior, and how it usually works out in the wolf's favour. We have 5 or 6 hunters that regularly get together to chase predators once the moose and deer seasons close. Well, here we go again for another season......
We have an agreement with the municipality designating 3 locations in town where a group of us can conduct a restricted hunt for coyotes and wolves after November 15 in order to effect some predator control. Coyotes are the primary species and are seen at all hours of the days wandering up and down the streets. I finished my deer hunt, Paddle2daC is still away on his, and My72Jeep is recovering in southern Ontario after having a complete liver transplant about 7 weeks ago ( https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...1241-My72Jeep-Hunting-Partner-in-Need-of-Help ).
Last year the three of us opened the season with 2 of us scoring coyotes, and one of us wounding a mature jackpine on the municipal golf course located directly behind and below the street I live on.
This morning, hunting partner Wayne and I arrived at the golf course at first legal light. I set Wayne up where we shot the 2 coyotes and I went to where the tree was shot. Calm morning, 2C, damp and snow melting. Start out with a couple of female coyote in heat calls, followed by a couple of raven calls, and then a rabbit in distress call over 40 minutes or so. I then switched to a rabbit in distress / raven attack call, which runs for approximately 1 minute. After it finishes, I am watching down the fairway directly in front of me when I catch movement in the periphery of my right eye. I turn my head and there is a coyote coming towards me 20 yards away in the adjacent fairway. It starts loping away heading for the trees on the other side of the fairway so I slid around the tree and started "woofing" at him. He stopped broadside in the trees about 80 yards away and I dumped him with a 55 gr. ballistic tip handload out of my.22-250. Dropped on the spot.
Foxbang goes off with pup in distress, and I replayed it when it finished to see if anything would show, which did not happen. After 20 minutes or so, played a rabbit in distress call, paused, then the rabbit in distress / raven fight call.
I was shifted more to the right and looking across the course when I spotted a tan streak running along the fairway at the base of the timbered ridge about 400 yards away. The wind was now gusting a bit from where I was sitting towards the ridges, so I figured it would swing into the wind and head towards the caller. I put on a jackrabbit in distress call and swung around the tree facing towards where I thought it would come out about 11:00 from where I was sitting. About a minute later I see movement at 2:00 and there is a coyote two fairways over. It was stopped in the middle of the fairway, and I could only see its back end as it was shielded by a tree in the fairway divider. I waited and it started trotting to the trees and stopped in the middle of them about 175 yards away. It was facing me and I dropped it right there. I love that rabbit distress / raven fight call, not the first time it has pulled a critter in for us.
Best use for a golf course I have seen! As we are only allowed two wolf / coyote tags per calendar year, I am tagged out till January 1 now
First time I have shot a double in 1 set - the first one was a nicely furred adult and the 2nd was a juvenile. Both were well fed (probably on dog food and the odd cat) and heavy when we dragged them out.
My wife asked me what I am going to do for the next 36 days, and that we cant afford to pay for therapy
EDIT - sorry for the big pictures, IMGUR is acting up again and even though I resized and saved the pictures, every time I go back to the picture it is still in the large format..
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