Tell your most rememberable coyote hunt.

Same trail as I was talking about earlier

Another time on that same log pile, I am calling yoodle dogs and you wouldn't believe what came out at around 190 yards. Would you believe 40 elk. I am not kidding. I read an article about a guy that has had it happen to him a few times blowing on the circe call. Wierd or what? Anyone else heard of this or had it happen?
 
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Another time on that same log pile, I am calling yoodle dogs and you wouldn't believe what came out at around 190 yards. Would you believe 40 elk. I am not kidding. I read an article about a guy that has had it happen to him a few times blowing on the circe call. Wierd or what? Anyone else heard of this or had it happen?
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I have a buddy who runs an Elk farm here on PEI, he came home to find all the Elk in one corner of the fenced area. He looked closer an there was a Coyote all trampled to ####.
If he was an Internet and CGN user, I am sure that would be his most memorable Coyote hunt!!!
 
I was Turkeyhunting opening morning with Devilsedge (At Bigredd's place) and we hunted the morning unsuccessfully in the rain. (called in a few birds to some guys down the field) We went back out at about 10:20 am and got set up. Within a few minutes of turkey calling, my partner signalls me to a coyote about 250 yards down the field. I dropped my boxcall, and did a few squeals and the yote turned around. I couldnt see it, but about 30 seconds later I heard a bang, and looked just in time to see the yote fold up in the Decoys infront of Devilsedge. (about 15 yards away, but the way the field is, I couldnt see it until the last second) The whole time, turkeys were gobbling away like crazy. NOt 5 minutes later, (after D got up, pulled the yote behind a log, and reset the dekes) a tom and jake came walking out on the field. Needless to say, they both died.
We got 2 turkeys and a yote within 15 minutes. Definately the most memorable coyote shoot I've had
 
Oh man I have so many good one but I'll go with the first time that I tried a fawn bleat call up near Cache Creek, BC.

I was blowing the call on and off for about 30 minutes when I figured that that stand wasn't going to work for me so I got up and started hiking towards my truck which was about 1 mile/2.2 klm's away.

I had only gone about 150 yards when I spotted a coyotes head and neck looking at me @ 100 yards. I slipped my 308 Norma Mag up and free handed a snap shot off as quickly as I could.

When I lowered the gun all I saw was a tuff of hair/hide dirfting down behind the knoll. I thought d*mb I must of wounded it as I saw it reappear on the next knoll about 175 yards away so I did another quick shot and when I lowered the gun I saw it laying there dead.

As I started to walk towards the dead yote I figured I wanted to check out the tuff of hair first so I headed over to it but I found more than a tuff of hair it was the first coyote laying there dead.

So I pulled off a fairly good morning after all.
 
Another good one was near Placer Mtn which is between Manning Park and Princeton in BC.

I spotted a coyote run behind a small pile of logs about 150 yards away and a few seconds later pop it's head up. By now I had my 22-250 up and ready to shoot.

I shot and when I looked it was gone a few seconds later there it's head was again so I shot again and when I looked it's head was gone again this went on for 4 shots than after that 4th shot the coyote took off on a dead run up the hill behind it where I promply shot it now that it was in the open.

I walked up to log pile and there laying beside each other where 4 half grown coyote pups and it was the mother laying dead up on the hill.

That was 5 in less than 1 minute.....
 
Ok here is another fun one.... Have any of you ever hoped to find a coyote out in the open like in a meadow or range land and on the side of a hill.

My buddy and I where coyote hunting up in the Douglas Lake Ranch just past Merritt, BC when we spotted a coyote out on this huge hill side totally out in the open.

We jumped out of the truck loading our guns with 3 rounds each and let fly as this coyote zig zagged it's way across the hill side at about 300 yards.

We both shot our 3 shots with the bullets always hitting behind the coyote or off to the side. After my 3 shots I had pegged its speed so when after I popped one more round into my 300 Win mag I timed the coyotes zigging and zagging and then aimed for the zig and 1 1/2 body lengths infront of it and squeezed off the shot.

That coyote ran right into my bullet but even with aiming that far in front of it the bully hit the coyote in the belly knocking it down for the count. The shot was about 350 yards. I didn't have a range finder at that time but we paced the distance off when we hiked out to retreave it.

I love coyote hunting....
 
Graphic pics... don't look if your a pussy!

My memory sucks... thats why I take pictures.
This morning while deer hunting with the Muzzle Loader I had a pair of coyotes follow my "Doe in Heat" scent trail and walk out at 175 yards in the field. They appeared quickly and the big male was very fast and almost immediately it was too far away. So I pulled on the smaller one and allowed for the stiff wind blowing at 25km left to right I held on her nose and squeezed one off!
I probably should have taken into account that I was shooting a .338 grain platinum power belt at 1930 fps inside 200 yards cuz I hit her right in the face!:eek:
Well I did not know that I had hit the coyote poorly cuz it spun about a turn and a half and ended upside down not moving. As I was reloading it regained conciousness started moving about and howling and yipping in pain... not cool... and actually got to it's feet.
I was watching the dog and pushing a new load down the pipe when it started to walk away....I pushed a primer in the nipple and closed the Thompson. BUNG.... clean miss... and now the coyote is running across the field at 200+. Dump everything in the snow... I grab a speed loader and reload while running after it.:runaway:
I keep the primer wrapped in a dry patch on top of three triple seven pellets in the powder side of the speed loader and I usually stick the patch in my mouth then dump the pellets in the bore. Well I was running so hard while going through the mechanics of reloading that I swallowed and got the patch and primer caught in the back of my throat!:rolleyes:
I managed to cough it back into my mouth and held it in my cheek while I pushed the bullet home... luckily the primer was still wrapped in the patch and dropped it on the nipple and closed the action. I watched the coyote going up a slight rise in the field so I pulled the legs out on the bipod wound the scope to 14X and dropped to a prone position.
Just as the coyote topped the rise she hestitated and turned her head. I guestimated the range at 200 yards, held the 200 yard reticle on the shoulder and made some smoke.
The feedback was the distinctive slap of a solid hit and the wind blew the smoke away fast enough to see her roll to a stop! Big relief for me, nothing worse than a wounded animal screaming in pain... even if it is one of the damn coyotes that has been screwing with my M/L hunt.;)
Anyway I hit a moving coyote with my new Pro Hunter at 175+ yards two out of three shots... not a bad way to draw first blood with a new rifle. Maybe if I kill a few more coyotes we wil start seeing the deer again... the howling at night here puts the coyote numbers at over a dozen.
Not the most memorable coyote hunt... but at least I could remember it from this morning.;) \
Here are some extremely graphic pics ... for what they are worth.
Shot #1 right in the fiddle of the mace....
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Shot #3 wuz a little high... lucky for sure.
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Not a Coyte.. but a fox...

I was still new to predator hunting, it was near the end of the fox season and they were getting pretty brave and horny. I spotted 2 just off the side of this dirt road in January. I got out of the vehicle, and walked through some bushes to get a better look. At this point one was gone and the other was about 75 yds away. Still new to rifle shooting... I looked for a good rest for my shot and finally just tried an off hand shot... fox took off.
I watched him run up the hedgerow and cross the road. I also corssed the road and watched him at the top of a hill, maybe 150-200 yds away, It was a relatively easy shot but unsafe (houses on other side of hill) So I started calling with the old distress call.
Stupid bastard, trotted straight down the middle of the field and sat 150 yds out staring at me... Again, I was still new to rifel shooting and missed.
He took off and ran parrallel to my postion, about 150 yds out.. I upped the 22-250 and lead him about 3-4 feet and bang... fox does a somersault.

I didn't get him in the vitals either, even with the big lead, I hit him in the hind hip. The trauma of the 45gr JHP in the hip was definitely a fatal shot however as he was gutted by the shot.
Had I not been so excited about the shot, I could have missed a Crow that started eating his entrails as he bled out within a minute of shooting him.

See pic:
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I was out deer hunting.

I was walking along this trail on a side hill. Just over the crest a coyote was walking towards me. I stopped and looked at him. He had his head down. He gradually looked up and turned his head sideways looking into the bush. He then let out a yawn looked down the trail towards me and then back into the bush.

Then he did a double take, like "holy chit what did I just see" looked back at me and took off.

I wasn't even capable of of shouldering the rifle because I was laughing so hard.

I could just see what was going trough his mind, LMAO. I have done the same thing driving my car... nah it couldn't have been, #$%^ it was!!!
 
Picked up a shot coyote to carry it back to the vehicle, he than bit my rubber boot putting 4 holes into the boot behind my leg just missing my skin.
 
Turkey hunting two years ago, I was set up in the bush at the edge of a hayfield with a trio of decoys in front of me. About midmorning a coyote came trotting into the field about 150 yards down from me, crossing at right angles to me. He casually glanced at my decoys, but never stopped or slowed down or showed any interest at all. He continued on across the field and disappeared. Five minutes later I noticed him sneaking along the near edge of the field intently watching my decoys. He was just inside the tree line while I was about ten feet further in. He crept up to the point where he was as close to the dekes as he could get without stepping into the open. This put him about 8 feet from me! Naturally I smoked him, then dragged him back in with me and threw him behind my seat. Twenty minutes later another coyote, a female this time, appeared from exactly the same place as the first, crossed the field and glanced at the dekes exactly the same as the first, then sure enough appeared creeping back along the field edge exactly like the first. I dropped her in exactly the same spot as the first one, while she paused to smell the spot where he was standing when he got shot.

The thing that really got me was when I got home and told the wife, her only comment was "So, no turkey?"

John
 
Hopefully I can have a new story tonight. This afternoon, I am going on my first Coyote hunt over hounds. Just like hunting giant rabbits with beagles!!!
 
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Another time that I was in the Douglas Lake ranch coyote hunting my buddy and I were driving down this totally overgrown access road when we came around a bend and spotted a cow that had just given birth to a still sticky calf.

There where 5 coyotes running around them trying to seperate the calf from it's mother and had just succeded in doing so when they spotted us jumping out of the truck with our rifles.....

Those coyotes took off in 5 different directions as fast as they could. My buddy and I shot at the same time and we both watched the coyote that we had shot at drop.

All of the other coyotes where either just disappering or where already gone over the hill so we looked at each other feeling good about our shots when we realized we had both shot the same coyote.

We only got 1 of the 5 but saved the calf....
 
Young James and I were out last year at my farm and I took an offhand shot at a coyote as he was running away at well over 600yds.....and it connected. James saw the whole thing and we had the head mounted, purely for the fact that it was a miracle I hit it.Now he thinks my pre-64 3006 is "magic".....kinda like a Polaroid, just point and shoot....ha
 
My most memorable was my first coyote hunt,
My father had a olt dying rabbit call, and I figured I try it out.

The first time I tried it I went to a meadow that was perfect. It had a small grove of trees in the middle and I could hide in there and see aloomst 360 degrees.
I was there for quite a while and nothing happed, zip.
I was about to leave when a deer came busting out of thee bush at the far end ( about 100 yards)
Not far behind, two stray dogs were on him and gaining.
Dad always told me to bust a dawg running deer, so I put the crosshairs of the .222 on the first one when he crossed the middle of the meadow and dropped him.
The second spun around and took off the way he came and didn't make the edge of the meadow.

After I brought up the snowmobile to pick up the carcasses and head home I realized what I had just done.
Two dogs, at about 100 yards at full throttle, one shot each!:eek:
I haven't made a double on runners since, with only once shot per.
Cat
 
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