Thought I'd share some pictures of the mornings predator hunt. I've been out calling for wolves pretty hard this year with no luck. This morning the luck shifted in my favour and was able to put a dog down.
We don't have many coyotes here and I believe I've seen this one before in the area. Time will tell if he had friends.
Setup on the river with a south wind that turned into a swirling wind after we sat down.
My brother is about 100 yards down shore from me in the wide pic and I've tried to draw the map like fratri does in his pictures.
Started out with some vole squeaks and played that for about 6 mins before switching to harry woodpecker and at about the 15 minute mark I noticed the dog stroll out onto the ice at about 600yds (x marks the spot) . Hoping we wouldn't be busted by the swirling wind I watched and waited while he strolled to the middle of the river and sat down to have a look.
Being left handed I was facing upriver and this guy was in the brothers zone so I didn't expect any shooting. After about 1 minute of him sitting out there i switched to snowshoe 1 on the foxpro fusion and he jumped into a trot headed our way. Much to my surprise he was right in the middle of the river which is usually bad ice. Enough for a 25 lb coyote though I suppose.
He trotted past my brother at about 80yds and came to a stop just to my left, both of us hoping he would make it to shore before dropping. Just as he started moving again towards the decoy, brother sent a 55gr on its way. The dog kicked it into high gear and as he popped out on my side of the bridge I was sitting under I gave him 90gr TNT to seal the deal.
I haven't skinned him out yet but looks like he's got one a little far back and a loonie size exit from the grendel in the lungs.
We were both slinging our MacDef SLR rifles. His in 223 Wylde and mine in the 6.5 Grendel.
We don't have many coyotes here and I believe I've seen this one before in the area. Time will tell if he had friends.
Setup on the river with a south wind that turned into a swirling wind after we sat down.
My brother is about 100 yards down shore from me in the wide pic and I've tried to draw the map like fratri does in his pictures.
Started out with some vole squeaks and played that for about 6 mins before switching to harry woodpecker and at about the 15 minute mark I noticed the dog stroll out onto the ice at about 600yds (x marks the spot) . Hoping we wouldn't be busted by the swirling wind I watched and waited while he strolled to the middle of the river and sat down to have a look.
Being left handed I was facing upriver and this guy was in the brothers zone so I didn't expect any shooting. After about 1 minute of him sitting out there i switched to snowshoe 1 on the foxpro fusion and he jumped into a trot headed our way. Much to my surprise he was right in the middle of the river which is usually bad ice. Enough for a 25 lb coyote though I suppose.
He trotted past my brother at about 80yds and came to a stop just to my left, both of us hoping he would make it to shore before dropping. Just as he started moving again towards the decoy, brother sent a 55gr on its way. The dog kicked it into high gear and as he popped out on my side of the bridge I was sitting under I gave him 90gr TNT to seal the deal.
I haven't skinned him out yet but looks like he's got one a little far back and a loonie size exit from the grendel in the lungs.
We were both slinging our MacDef SLR rifles. His in 223 Wylde and mine in the 6.5 Grendel.
