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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2241423" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>In the summer of 1986 I had just bought me a new Remington 788 chambered in 223 . I mounted a new Redfield full view scope on it in 4-12 the old steel tube scope that had a rectangular field of view that was pretty good area coverage at full power . The clarity was good and it had a duplex reticle . At that time I worked mostly up on the mountain above the 8000 foot level mostly trapping and calling . I used the Bill Austin howler a lot and his calling methods . I had his instructional cassette tape that I bought from him when I stopped to visit him . The wind up there blows most of the time , except for when it's real hot , it was gusting that day . Coming out of the west as normal . I got set up and did a few howls . Out a few hundred yards I saw a coyote come out of a deep cut and stand on the top of a small hill . It came toward me then stopped out a couple of hundred yards standing broad side to me with it's back to the wind . Being young and inexperienced I got excited and rushed myself , not even trying to get it to come closer . I aimed at the chest and shot , I heard the bullet hit with the wop they make when they hit tissues . The coyote went down flopped around some jumped up and ran off back the way it had come from . I went out to where it had been found some blood and went the way it had but never recovered it . A few weeks latter I was up there early in the morning and heard the coyote start their morning serenade one of them sounded real bad not much like a coyote at all . I hunted them several times calling to them but most of the time I would see them come up to a hill top out a long ways and they would just watch my way and stay out a long way from me . I caught several in traps from that area . then one morning I got one in a trap that had a torn up and scared neck . The weird sounding one . To this day I think it was the one I had shot and didn't recover , and that my bullet had drifted with a wind gust and hit her in the neck instead of the chest where I had aimed . I will never know for sure .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2241423, member: 91783"] In the summer of 1986 I had just bought me a new Remington 788 chambered in 223 . I mounted a new Redfield full view scope on it in 4-12 the old steel tube scope that had a rectangular field of view that was pretty good area coverage at full power . The clarity was good and it had a duplex reticle . At that time I worked mostly up on the mountain above the 8000 foot level mostly trapping and calling . I used the Bill Austin howler a lot and his calling methods . I had his instructional cassette tape that I bought from him when I stopped to visit him . The wind up there blows most of the time , except for when it's real hot , it was gusting that day . Coming out of the west as normal . I got set up and did a few howls . Out a few hundred yards I saw a coyote come out of a deep cut and stand on the top of a small hill . It came toward me then stopped out a couple of hundred yards standing broad side to me with it's back to the wind . Being young and inexperienced I got excited and rushed myself , not even trying to get it to come closer . I aimed at the chest and shot , I heard the bullet hit with the wop they make when they hit tissues . The coyote went down flopped around some jumped up and ran off back the way it had come from . I went out to where it had been found some blood and went the way it had but never recovered it . A few weeks latter I was up there early in the morning and heard the coyote start their morning serenade one of them sounded real bad not much like a coyote at all . I hunted them several times calling to them but most of the time I would see them come up to a hill top out a long ways and they would just watch my way and stay out a long way from me . I caught several in traps from that area . then one morning I got one in a trap that had a torn up and scared neck . The weird sounding one . To this day I think it was the one I had shot and didn't recover , and that my bullet had drifted with a wind gust and hit her in the neck instead of the chest where I had aimed . I will never know for sure . [/QUOTE]
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