First Preditor Kill

[NoLimit99]

I went out today, February 9/09 region 2, and shot my first coyote, which expired at 9am. I arrived at my spot at around 7:30am, got comfy and started to do some calls. With out noticing, I found that I started to doze off almost reaching a full sleep state. After some time, my right ear started ringing so I peeked open my eyes, sat up and looked to my left...nothing was there. With my eyes still half shut I looked over to my right and saw some thing moving up towards me. My eyes sprung open, my heart started racing out of my chest and I kept on telling myself.... "wait... wait...calm down...control your breathing." I then found myself in an almost tunnel vision state which I'm sure most of you fully understand. Then I looked through my scope took aim and he went out of sight... "Crap" I thought. I looked back up but couldn't see him and I thought I blew my chance. Then, to my surprise, his head poped up... then his whole body... he then started to come at me. At about 80 yards I again looked in through the scope, and bang. I don't know if it was just my hunters instincts or what, but I knew that shot wasn't right. She jumped up and ran about 3 feet, stood still and was looking around. At that point I realized I missed so I took aim again, calmed myself down again, did everything I could to control my breathing and heart rate and popped off another shot... "BANG". This time it hits its mark and she goes down. Now here she is, hope you like.

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[doubled]

Cool, well done getting a female.

[Charger440]

99,

You mentioned you called a few times then dozed off. Do you think the yote heard the first series of calls and took a long time coming in or did you just wake up at the right time? Either way good goin!

What caliber do you have there?

[kastles]

Nice kill. I noticed you are shooting the savage package series. What caliber and how do you like it?

[Brett]

Nice dog! my guess is .270cal?

[Ciskman]

Good for you. And yeah what are you shooting?

[500grhollowpoint]

Nice I remember my first one. Sure was surprised how small it was when I got to it...

[JRG94]

good story, woke just in time
my guess is a 30-06
where in region 2 can u hunt for yotes with sucess?

[NoLimit99]

good story, woke just in time
my guess is a 30-06
where in region 2 can u hunt for yotes with sucess?



DING DING YOU WON....lol ya it is a 30-06, and I love the package deal, I've taken my first deer with this gun and now my first coyote. It's has a smooth action, easy and light rifle and the scope is decent. For my first gun it has the power and capability to take down alot of game animals.... it's a little to much though for the coyotes it blew a big whole that I tried not to show. Over all 8 out of 10. As for my spot.... I dont think any one will share that much info...lol alot of hard work was put into finding it.

As for the calling it for sure heard the calling it was headed right at me and looking for it. It must have been a little ways out because it took a bit to get her to commit to me.