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<blockquote data-quote="257WTBY" data-source="post: 2239520" data-attributes="member: 56428"><p>I have to tell you guys a story about 2 seasons ago coyote hunting.</p><p></p><p>I go into a area where 5 draws come together with my 18yo daughter to call some coyotes. There is about 2in of fresh snow on the ground. We set up with out backs against a rock cliff about 10-12 feet tall. We are facing west and the sun is coming up so we are in the shadow of the rock ledge behind us. My foxpro and mojo are about 60 yards in front of us and we have pretty good view down 4 of theses shallow draws. Up above the draws in farm land mostly wheat stubble. The animals use these draws like a highway to travel. I turn the caller on and start out really soft. I go through 3-4 call sequences and turn up the volume more and more. Its weird we always get a couple of coyotes here. Nothing dead silence. I am thinking what the heck is going on and all of a sudden in the shadow projecting out from above us is the outline of a cougar. I see him standing there for a bit looking out at the caller I think more specifically at the little flipping flopping spinning mojo. The cat sits down about this time my daughter notices the shadow I look at her and shes white as a sheet. I am thinking in my head if the cat hops off the rock ledge he's going to land right in our laps. I turned the call off. I am trying to run thru what is going to happen when this cat hops down. I kind of look up and I can see the tip of its muzzle and i can see the mist in the cold air as the cat is breathing. I am carrying my AR in 17Rem and my daughter has her AR in 204 Ruger we dont have 60gr of lead between us. On my AR I have a burris fast fire on a 45deg mount so I can shoot coyotes close and moving with it. I turned it on. My daughter has a 4-16 zeiss on her AR. I think well I know either of the guns will kill the cat but I dont know how long with a vitals shot, we have to shut off central nervous system. I think well if I can lean out a bit and turn around towards the cat I might slip one under its chin. As I start to turn I have on a gortex coat and it just barely I mean barely touched the rock and you know the sound it makes and instantly the cougar is gone. Neither my daughter or I ever heard a sound. I stand up and take a couple steps out of the shadow and cant see the cougar anymore. So we walk around and up above where we were sitting and can see where the cat was sitting in the snow and it was less then 15 ft from us. Stuff slowed down like crazy while this was all going on and I didnt realize. The cat had been there for well over 1/2 hour just sitting watching that mojo. From the track it was a pretty good sized cat Id guess 125lb or so its hard to judge it but was definitely not a juvenile cat track and when it left it was running and it was pretty long strides. </p><p></p><p>Now I dont even go coyote hunting without my 10mm in my chest rig. It made me think i wonder how many cats have sat and watched me and I never knew they were there...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="257WTBY, post: 2239520, member: 56428"] I have to tell you guys a story about 2 seasons ago coyote hunting. I go into a area where 5 draws come together with my 18yo daughter to call some coyotes. There is about 2in of fresh snow on the ground. We set up with out backs against a rock cliff about 10-12 feet tall. We are facing west and the sun is coming up so we are in the shadow of the rock ledge behind us. My foxpro and mojo are about 60 yards in front of us and we have pretty good view down 4 of theses shallow draws. Up above the draws in farm land mostly wheat stubble. The animals use these draws like a highway to travel. I turn the caller on and start out really soft. I go through 3-4 call sequences and turn up the volume more and more. Its weird we always get a couple of coyotes here. Nothing dead silence. I am thinking what the heck is going on and all of a sudden in the shadow projecting out from above us is the outline of a cougar. I see him standing there for a bit looking out at the caller I think more specifically at the little flipping flopping spinning mojo. The cat sits down about this time my daughter notices the shadow I look at her and shes white as a sheet. I am thinking in my head if the cat hops off the rock ledge he's going to land right in our laps. I turned the call off. I am trying to run thru what is going to happen when this cat hops down. I kind of look up and I can see the tip of its muzzle and i can see the mist in the cold air as the cat is breathing. I am carrying my AR in 17Rem and my daughter has her AR in 204 Ruger we dont have 60gr of lead between us. On my AR I have a burris fast fire on a 45deg mount so I can shoot coyotes close and moving with it. I turned it on. My daughter has a 4-16 zeiss on her AR. I think well I know either of the guns will kill the cat but I dont know how long with a vitals shot, we have to shut off central nervous system. I think well if I can lean out a bit and turn around towards the cat I might slip one under its chin. As I start to turn I have on a gortex coat and it just barely I mean barely touched the rock and you know the sound it makes and instantly the cougar is gone. Neither my daughter or I ever heard a sound. I stand up and take a couple steps out of the shadow and cant see the cougar anymore. So we walk around and up above where we were sitting and can see where the cat was sitting in the snow and it was less then 15 ft from us. Stuff slowed down like crazy while this was all going on and I didnt realize. The cat had been there for well over 1/2 hour just sitting watching that mojo. From the track it was a pretty good sized cat Id guess 125lb or so its hard to judge it but was definitely not a juvenile cat track and when it left it was running and it was pretty long strides. Now I dont even go coyote hunting without my 10mm in my chest rig. It made me think i wonder how many cats have sat and watched me and I never knew they were there... [/QUOTE]
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