Nuisance Coyote - Finally Sealed The Deal

Shot another one on the weekend from the same spot. Saw it 4 times over the course of 2.5 hrs before it finally presented a shot. When I saw it the 4th time it had snuck into the horse pasture on the west side of me and was mousing around. I took this pic then set my camera down, picked up my rifle and got ready. Turned the foxpro onto Vole squeaks and after 20 minutes it suddenly appeared out of the cattails on a slough bordering the pasture. It stopped looked around and then started heading for my e-caller. I fired, it spun, ran 10 yards and fell. I started to head over to get it and suddenly the head is up looking around above the little knoll in the field it dropped behind just a few feet from the slough edge. I lined the head up in the scope and was just about to squeeze off when it slipped into the cattails and I lost it. Two minutes later there it is on the far end of the pasture walking doing the funky chicken wobbles and then it disappeared into some heavy brush along a willow slough before I could get another round into it. Both the landowner and I went looking. Only found one small spot of blood. With no snow and no blood trail I lost it. Only thing I can figure was with it walking when I squeezed off my shot must have hit a bit back of where I was holding and hit the ponch? Had I been a millisecond quicker getting my head on my rifle stock I would have gotten the shot while it stood still. Also had I just exercised some patience maybe it would have stopped at the bale the e-caller was on and presented a better target but I wanted the shot now after almost 3 hours on stand playing cat and mouse with this one since daybreak. I still feel bad.......I hate wounding anything!! :(

In the first pic the coyote is around 225 yards away. I am using a Nikon D60SLR camera with a 55-300mm lens for these pictures.

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Here is a pair of Red Tail Hawks homing in on the e-caller.......if anyone is interested the e-caller is a foxpro crossfire. The bale it is on is 144 yards to my shooting position. The remote on the crossfire works awesome at that range. I am going to experiment next days off and set on different bales at varying distances measured with my rangefinder to see just how much reach I can attain from the remote.

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What camo are you using??

You know your camo is really good when you can fool a coyote. Any camo it seems will fool a mule deer.
 
PSE said:
What camo are you using??

You know your camo is really good when you can fool a coyote. Any camo it seems will fool a mule deer.
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I'm sitting behind a hay bale along the edge of a small horse pasture nestled between some junk piled along the fence on the SE side of the pasture less than 100 yards from the house and buildings. I only hunt there if the wind is to my advantage to be able to watch and hopefully call them out of the bush to the north they like to bed down in. They won't come in on the west side of me generally because they would have to pass close to the house and driveway and an oil lease road separating two farms but they will come in close at times in the horse pasture. The one in the pic here came down field an hour earlier 350 yards or so east of me to check the wind but turned around and went back north before coming deep enough to catch my scent. It just circled back to the NW corner. When I finally saw it again it was mousing in the NW corner of the horse pasture and that's when I turned my call on and 20 minutes later there it was coming to the call with the wind directly on it's back?

Where the stubble field meets the weed point just in front and to the left side of the Hawk is where it appeared and stopped before heading to the call. It's deceiving but there is a slight drop edge between the stubble and weeds in the pic hidden from view. After shooting it ran and fell about where the field/cattails meet the border of the picture.

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My view due north of my position and the bale I hide behind and rest my gun on to shoot. The bale to the farthest left and closest to my hiding spot is where I set the e-caller in the above pics.

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