I setup at first light, with a light rain and the wind coming out of the North this morning I needed to change up my original setup location to keep the wind in my favour. I setup with the bush about 100 yds across from me. This bush is only about 100 yds wide but goes south to my left for about 500 yds and then continues on the other side of the road. It also goes to the North for about 1km before hitting the next concession. So not a very wide bush but it is long and surrounded by farmland..... Anyway…..
I started out by turning on my decoy and putting my ecaller on really low (a dying rabbit sound), I got comfortable, waited a few minutes then started screaming out with my hand calls. I let out a couple of coyote howls, waited a couple minutes and then started screaming out with a dying rabbit mouth call. I waited a few minutes and took out another call and screamed out again for about a minute, waited and watched. I screamed out again and waited. I probably was on stand for about 12 minutes or so, looked over my left shoulder and seen this coyote coming. I first saw him about 400 yds out. My best guess is he came from across the street.
He was walking along the field edge hugging the tree line. I slowly turned to reposition myself and my shooting sticks, as they were pointed in the other direction. I lost sight of him for a minute (thought he popped into the bush but no, he just blended in really well with the field/bush edge). He slowly started cutting across the field toward the decoy. When he reached about 75 yds or so from me, he stopped and I took the shot. I heard the hit; he spun once and took off into the bush. I replayed the shot in my mind and realized I had the crosshairs a little too far back when I pulled the trigger. (Rushed the shot I guess-just too excited)
I waited about 5 minutes before going to look for him. With the light rain and everything wet, when I crossed the fence I did not see any blood. I was taking my time looking for blood when I notice him lying down about 20 yds from me, head up (not dead yet) so I put the scope on him right away and finished him off. Original shot was a little high and a little far back….ripped him pretty good but not enough to anchor him DRT……
He turned out to be a nice, big healthy looking male coyote….
Enjoy the pics…
The view/setup
How it played out
The Pose/Nice and big healthy male
Skinned out
I started out by turning on my decoy and putting my ecaller on really low (a dying rabbit sound), I got comfortable, waited a few minutes then started screaming out with my hand calls. I let out a couple of coyote howls, waited a couple minutes and then started screaming out with a dying rabbit mouth call. I waited a few minutes and took out another call and screamed out again for about a minute, waited and watched. I screamed out again and waited. I probably was on stand for about 12 minutes or so, looked over my left shoulder and seen this coyote coming. I first saw him about 400 yds out. My best guess is he came from across the street.
He was walking along the field edge hugging the tree line. I slowly turned to reposition myself and my shooting sticks, as they were pointed in the other direction. I lost sight of him for a minute (thought he popped into the bush but no, he just blended in really well with the field/bush edge). He slowly started cutting across the field toward the decoy. When he reached about 75 yds or so from me, he stopped and I took the shot. I heard the hit; he spun once and took off into the bush. I replayed the shot in my mind and realized I had the crosshairs a little too far back when I pulled the trigger. (Rushed the shot I guess-just too excited)
I waited about 5 minutes before going to look for him. With the light rain and everything wet, when I crossed the fence I did not see any blood. I was taking my time looking for blood when I notice him lying down about 20 yds from me, head up (not dead yet) so I put the scope on him right away and finished him off. Original shot was a little high and a little far back….ripped him pretty good but not enough to anchor him DRT……
He turned out to be a nice, big healthy looking male coyote….
Enjoy the pics…
The view/setup
How it played out
The Pose/Nice and big healthy male
Skinned out
