New years eve I arrived home with my traditional whack of chinese food and bottle of new years rye... As I got out of the car to head to the house I could hear a definite animal distress call from the southern end of my property coupled with the howling of what sounded like a decent size pack of yotes... I had some snares set back there for rabbits and thought they had found one in the snare and didn't think much else, other than that my snare set was likely off and poor bunny was suffering, which pissed me off as it would have been a first for me....
New years morning I went back to check my snares and, other than one fully intact and very dead bunny I found nothing... not even a single yote track... as I walked further back I found the tracks that the yotes made in the snow as well as a bounding deer track (could see where Belly made contact with the snow and pierced the crust)... As I walked further back I was treated to this lovely sight... what used to be a fairly healthy whitetail doe.....
that afternoon I decided to head back for an evening hunt and set up on the ridge overlooking the path down towards the lake where the yotes had taken the deer down and overlooking what was left of the carcass hoping they would come back.... I usually hunt over a decoy and distress call but thought I would try something a little different....
With about an hour of light left I fired up the Foxpro and played a coyote assembly call at full blast, no sound modulation, no switching pausing or stoping.... trying to mimick what I had heard from my driveway the night before.... About 10 minutes into the set a medium size female comes out rather sheepish looking at about 75 yards... she is looking around for signs of danger and looking towards the call and trying to find the pack that is making the sound... Figuring she was the pack tester that they had sent out in the field I waited about 5 minutes for more to come hoping for a chance at a double or a nice alpha male... Eventually, the female decided nothing was up and sauntered the 25 yards over towards the deer carcass... After watching the female nibble for about 5 minutes I decided the pack was not coming any time soon.... Slowly placed the scope on the rem 799 .223 behind the shoulder and squeezed.... She went stiff legged immediately and other than a couple of tail flops didn't move at all.... a fairly easy 100 yard shot since I made a point of setting up 100 yards from the carcass..... Also set up a trail cam on what remains to see what comes around, but in this weather (-42 with windchill) I am assuming the crows will have made short work of it today..... her eis a pic of the dog... sorry for crappy cell pic as I sold Why Not my camera..... lol
New years morning I went back to check my snares and, other than one fully intact and very dead bunny I found nothing... not even a single yote track... as I walked further back I found the tracks that the yotes made in the snow as well as a bounding deer track (could see where Belly made contact with the snow and pierced the crust)... As I walked further back I was treated to this lovely sight... what used to be a fairly healthy whitetail doe.....
that afternoon I decided to head back for an evening hunt and set up on the ridge overlooking the path down towards the lake where the yotes had taken the deer down and overlooking what was left of the carcass hoping they would come back.... I usually hunt over a decoy and distress call but thought I would try something a little different....
With about an hour of light left I fired up the Foxpro and played a coyote assembly call at full blast, no sound modulation, no switching pausing or stoping.... trying to mimick what I had heard from my driveway the night before.... About 10 minutes into the set a medium size female comes out rather sheepish looking at about 75 yards... she is looking around for signs of danger and looking towards the call and trying to find the pack that is making the sound... Figuring she was the pack tester that they had sent out in the field I waited about 5 minutes for more to come hoping for a chance at a double or a nice alpha male... Eventually, the female decided nothing was up and sauntered the 25 yards over towards the deer carcass... After watching the female nibble for about 5 minutes I decided the pack was not coming any time soon.... Slowly placed the scope on the rem 799 .223 behind the shoulder and squeezed.... She went stiff legged immediately and other than a couple of tail flops didn't move at all.... a fairly easy 100 yard shot since I made a point of setting up 100 yards from the carcass..... Also set up a trail cam on what remains to see what comes around, but in this weather (-42 with windchill) I am assuming the crows will have made short work of it today..... her eis a pic of the dog... sorry for crappy cell pic as I sold Why Not my camera..... lol
