I hit a Gold Mine !

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Adrian J Hare

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NewLowell On. Can.
Setup at first light in this new area on a field. The wind is not great as it from the North West and blowing enough to cause small driffs on the road. I started calling with the DST Cottontail and worked with all the calls like the DST Jack rabbit and ended with a female howl. The set was not good so I get up and move to another location about 300 yards and reset up. Interesting thing is I thought I would try a Coyote decoy and can now see why no one uses them that often. I start with a Cottontail DST and work the volume up to 40 on the caller. The wind is picking up a bit so volume is important to me so I change over to a JackRabbit DST at 20 minutes into on and off calling and as soon as the Jack is done I wait 1 minute and try a Female Invatation howl and within a minute I see one come out around 250 yards. He looks and turns and heads back away into the swamp. I bark but it does nothing. I quickly turn on the KiHi for 30-40 seconds at 40 and pause it and take a hand call and start a Jack distress and out he comes again for a look and he turns again away. I bark and he stops and I take the shot and down he goes and gets up and runs in to the swamp.

I get up and leave the equipment and snow shoe in the direction and take up the track. Blood all over so hes hit well and I only do about 40 yards into the swamp and there he is still alive looking at me. I take a follow up shot and end the hunt once again.

Morrow of the story is - I'll leave the coyote decoy in the truck from here on as I believe it caused more of a problem that he shy ed away from the set because of the presents of the decoy....


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Nice job Adrian. Your racking them up this year.



I use the same coyote decoy, I shot one coyote over it this year that was a large male the beginning of february. He charged in the second he seen it. I only bought it after my cousin and I called in 5 coyotes with it last winter. We shot 3 out of 5, Again the lead coyote was a big male and the others were following.


Now im starting to wonder how many young coyotes have shyed away from the decoy and I never even seen them. I always keep the yotie decoy about 20 yards from my spinning jack attack n foxpro.
 
We have some big ones here is sask they aren't hard to find with a rabbit in distress and some coyote calls we've managed to shoot 3 or 4 at a time they are a major problem around here
 
Is that good eating?

Or was it killing your chickens?

Sorry, I don;t get it.? :( I thought you found gold LOL...

No really, I don;t hunt. I shoot paper. What do you do with it?
 
I am about an hour north west of the OP and they are big and plentiful around here also. I have been kind of glad to see these "low" snow winters, gives the deer a fighting chance.
 
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