Should we have called or waited for another day?
So i got out to my brother-in-laws farm yesterday and we went out to his back bush to try calling some coyotes. The previous night he called the guy who has a treestand in there to check to see if he would be out there. The answer no got us stoked. Then when we arrived Kyle noticed some blaze up in the tree.
The guy came down and it was not the guy we had contacted but his buddy who also uses the stand and he was clearing shooting lanes for next week. He was just leaving and we ended setting up in a not so prime spot a little ways down where his scent was not. We sat on the stand for 25 minutes playing distress sounds(having trouble with the foxpro cause it was no line of sight) and did not see a thing. So should we have called at all? Or did having a guy there previous to us ruin it?
The upside is we went for a walk and spotted a coon up in a tree abnout thirty feet up. Having 2 3/4 #7s in the shotgun I pumped a round into it. The coon took the load and quickly spun around to the other side. I know, I know, not a big enough load as I discovered once I got the skin off. So now I'm standing at the bottom of the tree with a wounded coon at the top, shotgun shells that won't kill it that far away and a 223 which I do not want to shoot up into the air. Up the tree beside it I go with a pocket full of shells and a shotty slung over my shoulder. When i finally arrived at the top I found a total of five coons, two of which I sent to the ground saving the others for another day(also did not know bag limit or what to do with a dead coon).
I skinned them out and I am calling these my practice round. I ripped the tail off of one cause I pulled on the bony part not the fur with my home made tail puller(clamped two 2x2s together and drilled a half inch hole in between them). Got the other off properly but nicked the fur in a few places trying to get as much fat off in the skinning process.
So i got out to my brother-in-laws farm yesterday and we went out to his back bush to try calling some coyotes. The previous night he called the guy who has a treestand in there to check to see if he would be out there. The answer no got us stoked. Then when we arrived Kyle noticed some blaze up in the tree.
The guy came down and it was not the guy we had contacted but his buddy who also uses the stand and he was clearing shooting lanes for next week. He was just leaving and we ended setting up in a not so prime spot a little ways down where his scent was not. We sat on the stand for 25 minutes playing distress sounds(having trouble with the foxpro cause it was no line of sight) and did not see a thing. So should we have called at all? Or did having a guy there previous to us ruin it? The upside is we went for a walk and spotted a coon up in a tree abnout thirty feet up. Having 2 3/4 #7s in the shotgun I pumped a round into it. The coon took the load and quickly spun around to the other side. I know, I know, not a big enough load as I discovered once I got the skin off. So now I'm standing at the bottom of the tree with a wounded coon at the top, shotgun shells that won't kill it that far away and a 223 which I do not want to shoot up into the air. Up the tree beside it I go with a pocket full of shells and a shotty slung over my shoulder. When i finally arrived at the top I found a total of five coons, two of which I sent to the ground saving the others for another day(also did not know bag limit or what to do with a dead coon).
I skinned them out and I am calling these my practice round. I ripped the tail off of one cause I pulled on the bony part not the fur with my home made tail puller(clamped two 2x2s together and drilled a half inch hole in between them). Got the other off properly but nicked the fur in a few places trying to get as much fat off in the skinning process.
