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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2029397" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>I got a call one evening from a rancher that he had lambs being killed so I told him I would be out in the morning . I got there at first light this particular pasture was next to a 4 lane highway on the west side of it and extended to the east for 1200 acres had some rough draws and a creek with a couple of rock piles in it . I sat and listened for half an hour and watched the sun start to break over the horizon and the world turn pink . Nobody said a word the coyote were quiet that morning so I found a good cut bank and got tucked in for some howling . When the sun was high enough that I could see well I started with two long howls two barks and another long howl then just sat and listened for a few minutes before repeating the same series for about 15 minutes worth of calling . Then from behind me and on the other side of the highway I heard them talk back to me . I got myself rearranged so I could watch that direction but they never showed. I spent a couple of hours tracking when the light got good for seeing tracks and sure enough the sign said they were crossing under the highway through a culvert . I set the fence on both ends of the culvert up with snares then went back to my truck and drove over to the other side of the highway where the same rancher had a few hundred acres of pasture and picked up their tracks . I followed them down a good sized draw that turned south and went into the neighbors pasture . I made a phone call and got permission to go in after them . Cell phones can be a good thing if you turn them off when your calling or hunting or just leave them in the truck . They had come out of the draw and up on a ridge before answering my howls but weren't crossing over to me . I set up and made another stand using the same series of howls and barks . Both of them ran out of the draw around 400 yards out from me barking and yodeling at me going away from me raising all kinds of cane . That told me I had set up too close to the den of pups the tracks had told me that I was getting close to it because I had tracks going both ways that were male and female , as with humans most male coyote have bigger feet , and it looked like a well worn trail being used a lot . So I quit calling and just sat watching them . It took then 30 to 45 minutes to calm down one of them stayed there watching me the other one started slowly moving back toward the draw then slipped into it quite a distance down from the den area . Twenty minutes or so latter the other one followed . I slipped into the draw and slowly worked my way toward the den . When I saw it from a distance of 25 yards I backed out and found a good setup got my stuff ready then did some puppy squeals . In a couple of seconds she was right on top of me with anger showing in her eyes all I saw was fur in the scope but she dropped I could almost push my rifle out enough to touch her where she lay after the shot . I didn't get the male that day but I took 8 pups out of the den and the killing stopped . I got the male a few days latter in one of the snares I had set .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2029397, member: 91783"] I got a call one evening from a rancher that he had lambs being killed so I told him I would be out in the morning . I got there at first light this particular pasture was next to a 4 lane highway on the west side of it and extended to the east for 1200 acres had some rough draws and a creek with a couple of rock piles in it . I sat and listened for half an hour and watched the sun start to break over the horizon and the world turn pink . Nobody said a word the coyote were quiet that morning so I found a good cut bank and got tucked in for some howling . When the sun was high enough that I could see well I started with two long howls two barks and another long howl then just sat and listened for a few minutes before repeating the same series for about 15 minutes worth of calling . Then from behind me and on the other side of the highway I heard them talk back to me . I got myself rearranged so I could watch that direction but they never showed. I spent a couple of hours tracking when the light got good for seeing tracks and sure enough the sign said they were crossing under the highway through a culvert . I set the fence on both ends of the culvert up with snares then went back to my truck and drove over to the other side of the highway where the same rancher had a few hundred acres of pasture and picked up their tracks . I followed them down a good sized draw that turned south and went into the neighbors pasture . I made a phone call and got permission to go in after them . Cell phones can be a good thing if you turn them off when your calling or hunting or just leave them in the truck . They had come out of the draw and up on a ridge before answering my howls but weren't crossing over to me . I set up and made another stand using the same series of howls and barks . Both of them ran out of the draw around 400 yards out from me barking and yodeling at me going away from me raising all kinds of cane . That told me I had set up too close to the den of pups the tracks had told me that I was getting close to it because I had tracks going both ways that were male and female , as with humans most male coyote have bigger feet , and it looked like a well worn trail being used a lot . So I quit calling and just sat watching them . It took then 30 to 45 minutes to calm down one of them stayed there watching me the other one started slowly moving back toward the draw then slipped into it quite a distance down from the den area . Twenty minutes or so latter the other one followed . I slipped into the draw and slowly worked my way toward the den . When I saw it from a distance of 25 yards I backed out and found a good setup got my stuff ready then did some puppy squeals . In a couple of seconds she was right on top of me with anger showing in her eyes all I saw was fur in the scope but she dropped I could almost push my rifle out enough to touch her where she lay after the shot . I didn't get the male that day but I took 8 pups out of the den and the killing stopped . I got the male a few days latter in one of the snares I had set . [/QUOTE]
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