rocksteady
12-11-2010, 02:52 PM
Since I have a thread about Big Game and Kitty Cats, thought I might as well start one about wild canines....Being coyotes and wolves, foxes are not open in my region.....
Went out bright and early about 10:30 this morning :wink:, to one of my favorite productive areas. Highway, train tracks, frozen river and HUGE tracts of brushy, aspen stands.....
Parked the rig, broke over the edge of the bank, coming up onto the tracks, spent a few minutes glassing the river and bank, cause I have surprised quite a few doggies this way...Today, it was the other way around, I glass for a few minutes, walk about another 6 or 7 steps and bingo...coyote sitting there looking at me along the edge of the river to my left...DOH!!!! He starts to move, I lay on the train tracks, by the time things come together he is about 250 yards out, so I try a shot on the move and I miss....:icon_frow
I watch him head around the bend of the river, figure I may as well get set up and see if he is dumb enough to come back to a rabitt distress...
SO I let it rip on my new Primos Double Jackrabbit call.....Laid into it for about 30 seconds or so.....Waited 30 seconds, started a 2nd serenade and another coyote comes beetling out of the bush to my left, near where the first had been sitting and heads right to me.....Up goes the rifle, safety off, x-hairs on the chest...It stops at about 175 yards, alert, head up high trying to see what I was.....SQUEEZE.....Bang....WHAP.....DRT....
75 grain V-Max whistling out of my Savage .243 at over 3700 fps (I estimate, from reloading books) took him in the centre of the chest and that was all she wrote....
Young male, have not weighed him yet, but will.....Made a couple more stands down river but no joy....
Here is a picture, then I will post the link to my youtube channel ,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7cGD6Xg73I
as well...No kill shot on video though, still have to make the gun mount for my video camera....
and here is the walk out video....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SJfkrUKWMM
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/100_0176.jpg
Went out bright and early about 10:30 this morning :wink:, to one of my favorite productive areas. Highway, train tracks, frozen river and HUGE tracts of brushy, aspen stands.....
Parked the rig, broke over the edge of the bank, coming up onto the tracks, spent a few minutes glassing the river and bank, cause I have surprised quite a few doggies this way...Today, it was the other way around, I glass for a few minutes, walk about another 6 or 7 steps and bingo...coyote sitting there looking at me along the edge of the river to my left...DOH!!!! He starts to move, I lay on the train tracks, by the time things come together he is about 250 yards out, so I try a shot on the move and I miss....:icon_frow
I watch him head around the bend of the river, figure I may as well get set up and see if he is dumb enough to come back to a rabitt distress...
SO I let it rip on my new Primos Double Jackrabbit call.....Laid into it for about 30 seconds or so.....Waited 30 seconds, started a 2nd serenade and another coyote comes beetling out of the bush to my left, near where the first had been sitting and heads right to me.....Up goes the rifle, safety off, x-hairs on the chest...It stops at about 175 yards, alert, head up high trying to see what I was.....SQUEEZE.....Bang....WHAP.....DRT....
75 grain V-Max whistling out of my Savage .243 at over 3700 fps (I estimate, from reloading books) took him in the centre of the chest and that was all she wrote....
Young male, have not weighed him yet, but will.....Made a couple more stands down river but no joy....
Here is a picture, then I will post the link to my youtube channel ,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7cGD6Xg73I
as well...No kill shot on video though, still have to make the gun mount for my video camera....
and here is the walk out video....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SJfkrUKWMM
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/100_0176.jpg