Re: Official 2021 Predator Thread
First stand in a long while was a producer!
Mid morning I hiked 1/4 mile into a spot I found the day before when looking for deer sign. Good amount of coyote tracks in the snow. I placed the Foxpro upwind of me 50 yards on top of a haybale and tucked myself in the shade along the edge of the brush. I started with 3 female howls spaced a minute or so apart. I then played snowshoe hare distress for about 5 minutes. I had good results last winter with a coyote wrestling sound, so I tried that. No action, surely there is coyotes within ear shot. It’s about the 30 min mark now on the stand, I try jackrabbit distress for a few minutes...still nothing. Towards the end of a stand I always play some pup distress. I let it roll around 5 mins and then was going to sit for 10 more minutes before leaving. I switched it to rodent distress, just loud enough I could hear it, then I back the volume down 1 more notch. About 5 minutes pass and I spot a coyote to my 11 o’clock , entering the corner of the field . It stops and is surveying. It occasionally looks behind it. These coyotes still get me revved up, heart was pounding a bit haha...Whenever it was looking away I sloooowly position shooting sticks over. It finally commits and begins to trot in, stopping quartering to at 120 yards. One shot with the 260 Remington 140gr Sierra TGK and the fur was flying. 44 minute stand. Another good lesson in patience, I wonder how many coyotes I've walked away from on the 20 minute sits
Last edited by todbartell; 11-12-2021 at 06:43 PM.
"If you ever go into the bush, there are grizzly bears lurking behind just about every bush, waiting to pounce, so you need a powerful gun, with huge bullets" - Gatehouse ~ 2004