I got this mangy coyote this morning after my third set today. I started off calling a different farm a few kilometers away at first light but had no takers. I moved off a few hundred yards tried again for 20 mins or so and still nothing so decided I would try another farm for the 3rd and final set of my day. I arrive just before 9:00am and setup with the caller about 40 yds away from me. I am setup facing a very large bush about 150 yds away from it with the wind coming across my face. I start with a few hand callers screaming rabbit sounds on and off for 5 minutes then turn on my ecaller and continue with it for another 5 mins. I look over to my left and here comes a coyote running hard from my far left side, not where you would think a coyote would be coming from as it is all open field with little to no bush in that direction. She continues to come hard and as she vanishing in the low lying part of the field I turn myself and shooting sticks and get ready for her. She crests the hump in the field, I am on here and she continues to run hard toward me, I am looking at her through the scope, my heart pounding, as she is getting close to my scent cone I let out a loud wolf, she stops in her tracks, I take the shot and she spins once or twice and then drops dead….. Pup distress kicks in and I wait 5 mins and nothing shows so I unload, go pick up my decoy/caller start walking toward my coyote and low and behold there is another coyote in the field from where this one came from looking in my direction. I drop down on my knees and give a little dying rabbit and the coyote starts coming toward me. With the snow blowing down at this point he must not of been 100% of what I was so I crawl back to my setup location and lose sight of the coyote as it drops in the lower part of the field. I wait it out and after 5 minutes see the coyote back out at the 300yds mark. I try calling a few times but it just sits there and looks my way. I decide to play possum and just shut up and wait to see what it wants to do. Well after 15 minutes (it was a long 15 mins as I had to continuously avoid that little voice in my head that kept saying take the shot, you can make it, take the shot) glad I didn’t because it eventually starts moving, it begins really slow making its way toward me, it must of took 5mins for it to move the first 100 yds (very cautious) toward me but then it must of felt safe because it started moving with confidence across the field. As the coyote got directly behind the downed coyote I stopped him broadside with a wolf (170yds out) and took the shot. He collapses and I am all smiles and congratulating myself on a great plan with a well deserved double. I unload my gun put my bullets away, put my unloaded gun back down on my shooting sticks, begin to stand to go collect my prizes….. but to my surprise coyote number 2 stands, wobbles, at this point it’s been 30secs since I shot it……. my gun is empty, I am thinking it’s going to fall over any second but it doesn’t by the time I grab and load my gun again, he is down in the lower part of the field and I can’t see him. I start running after him, he looks like he is hurt but he is running, I manage to slow him with a wolf at 250 yds or so, take a couple of shots as he is moving but to no avail. I was in shock….all those stories I read regarding coyotes coming back to life after the shot came turned out to be true for me too today…. I followed the coyote tracks across 3 fields but did not see him again.... I didn’t even find much blood, just a little speck here and there… A little disappointed but here is the one that didn’t get away…
The setup/my view
How it played out
The Find
The pose
The setup/my view
How it played out
The Find
The pose
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