Rich_D
02-04-2014, 01:06 AM
After having no luck at a ranch I have access to, I decided to head across the river and up to another area.
When I got up to the one spot I wanted to check out I saw fresh human tracks going into where I wanted to go and none coming out so I figured I would try somewhere else.
The next place I wanted to go into had a group of snowmobiler's getting ready to head in that way, on up the road to a small lake that I thought would be a good area. Well, no vehicle access and it's a X-Country ski trail in the winter.
Dejected, I decided to say "screw it" and go home. I get down the road, close to a spot I have called before without success, and running up the hillside is a Coyote. Well I know the hill he is going up comes down to a spot I can park the truck. So I get around the corner and get the truck stopped, grab my magazine and rifle, get across the road with some trees between me and where the Coyote should appear and I run like convict on the loose to get a spot in the ditch where I can see the hillside and also get a good rest on a fence post.
So I'm scanning the hill, knowing approximately where it should be, and I see nothing moving.....WTH? 30 seconds later it bolts out of a draw and starts heading back up the hill it had just come down. I get the rifle up and look through the scope and there are 2 more following the first one. I let out a WOOF and all 3 stop, they are standing about 50yds apart and 250yds away from me (ranged after it was all over). I aim just over the back of the middle one, let one fly and I see it go down. The other 2 split directions and start running. I give a few mouth howls and the one on the left stops, perfect broadside.
I get lined up again just over the back, squeeze the trigger and proceed to watch the bullet splash just over it's back, it takes off running never to be seen again. I look back to see if #3 was somehow still around but all I saw was #1 dragging ass along the hillside so I aim up again and finish her off with a neck shot.
Didn't get to call her in but I'll take it anyway.
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj311/CyaN1de_01/Hunting/20140202_095608.jpg
When I got up to the one spot I wanted to check out I saw fresh human tracks going into where I wanted to go and none coming out so I figured I would try somewhere else.
The next place I wanted to go into had a group of snowmobiler's getting ready to head in that way, on up the road to a small lake that I thought would be a good area. Well, no vehicle access and it's a X-Country ski trail in the winter.
Dejected, I decided to say "screw it" and go home. I get down the road, close to a spot I have called before without success, and running up the hillside is a Coyote. Well I know the hill he is going up comes down to a spot I can park the truck. So I get around the corner and get the truck stopped, grab my magazine and rifle, get across the road with some trees between me and where the Coyote should appear and I run like convict on the loose to get a spot in the ditch where I can see the hillside and also get a good rest on a fence post.
So I'm scanning the hill, knowing approximately where it should be, and I see nothing moving.....WTH? 30 seconds later it bolts out of a draw and starts heading back up the hill it had just come down. I get the rifle up and look through the scope and there are 2 more following the first one. I let out a WOOF and all 3 stop, they are standing about 50yds apart and 250yds away from me (ranged after it was all over). I aim just over the back of the middle one, let one fly and I see it go down. The other 2 split directions and start running. I give a few mouth howls and the one on the left stops, perfect broadside.
I get lined up again just over the back, squeeze the trigger and proceed to watch the bullet splash just over it's back, it takes off running never to be seen again. I look back to see if #3 was somehow still around but all I saw was #1 dragging ass along the hillside so I aim up again and finish her off with a neck shot.
Didn't get to call her in but I'll take it anyway.
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj311/CyaN1de_01/Hunting/20140202_095608.jpg