Sorry cant for the life of me post a picture. I’ve tried Imgur, tinypics(no longer available) and photobucket as well as CGN instruction. All I get is invalid file.
Anyway still wanted to share my story. Yesterday I turned 63 (yikes!). Figured what better way to spend the day than to go calling. Things are very wet around here with having had 6-8” of rain in addition to 1-2’ of snow. My farmer friend called and said he had lost 3 cows and a calf to the snowstorm. He had opened up roads to feed his cattle and I better come calling. Say no more. Allot of the snow is gone but still very wet.
I set up at my first location which in the past has been a honey hole. 6 minutes in a coyote appears. I have to yell to stop him. I miss him standing broadside at 75 yards
. Coyote fever has struck again as I watch my hands shaking. I rushed my shot. So I walk about 1/2 mile and set up again this time on a hill. 7 minutes in I see a head bobbing up and down at 10 yards. No shot! I set up wrong as I could no see the bottom of the hill. Lesson learned for next time!
Move a few miles away near another dead cow. 20 minutes produce nothing. So on to another location near the last of the dead cows. Once again a coyote appears. But hangs up. I take the shot at what turns out to be 168 paces. Coyote drops stone dead. This time I was laying prone off a bipod! First miss I was sitting. I don’t like sitting as much as I’m not as steady but my back and neck are bothering me these days. But think I’ll suck up the pain and go prone as much as I can. Oh I’m using a Browning X Bolt in 204 with a Vortex 6-18x44 with a Berger 34 gr Varmint HP.
Anyway that was my 63rd birthday. It will stand out for a while. Back at it next week.
Anyway still wanted to share my story. Yesterday I turned 63 (yikes!). Figured what better way to spend the day than to go calling. Things are very wet around here with having had 6-8” of rain in addition to 1-2’ of snow. My farmer friend called and said he had lost 3 cows and a calf to the snowstorm. He had opened up roads to feed his cattle and I better come calling. Say no more. Allot of the snow is gone but still very wet.
I set up at my first location which in the past has been a honey hole. 6 minutes in a coyote appears. I have to yell to stop him. I miss him standing broadside at 75 yards
. Coyote fever has struck again as I watch my hands shaking. I rushed my shot. So I walk about 1/2 mile and set up again this time on a hill. 7 minutes in I see a head bobbing up and down at 10 yards. No shot! I set up wrong as I could no see the bottom of the hill. Lesson learned for next time!Move a few miles away near another dead cow. 20 minutes produce nothing. So on to another location near the last of the dead cows. Once again a coyote appears. But hangs up. I take the shot at what turns out to be 168 paces. Coyote drops stone dead. This time I was laying prone off a bipod! First miss I was sitting. I don’t like sitting as much as I’m not as steady but my back and neck are bothering me these days. But think I’ll suck up the pain and go prone as much as I can. Oh I’m using a Browning X Bolt in 204 with a Vortex 6-18x44 with a Berger 34 gr Varmint HP.
Anyway that was my 63rd birthday. It will stand out for a while. Back at it next week.
