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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2764064" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>I got a call from the helicopter pilot one evening asking me if I would be able to see coyote dens from the air. Being late May I figured that the pups would have a large area of grass mashed down around the den, so I told him I thought so. He said good that he had been called to hunt a ranch where the coyotes were laying down on him and they had been hunting them nearly every day for a week. I met him the next morning the gunner, the pilot and I headed out at first light stopped and picked up the rancher then headed to the pastures where the lamb killing was taking place. As we neared the first pasture, I saw a coyote laying on a slight hill. told the pilot and got him on it, as we were lining up on it, I spotted a mashed down patch of grass on the upper edge of a cut bank we got the coyote landed and it was a female that was still nursing pups I showed the rancher and gunner how to open her and count the lumps to know how many pups she had then we went back to where I thought the den was landed and dropped me there with my tools for taking the pups at a den. It was in fact a den and I got 8 pups out of it. As I was finishing with that one the helicopter came back with another female set down and I counted the number of pups she had given birth to. I looked up as we were heading to the helicopter and setting in some sage brush was a coyote staring at us the gunner and pilot ran got in the air and got the old male from that den. They came back picked the rancher and me up we then went to where they had gotten the other female coyote, we circled the area and found what looked like a den. I turned out not to be, but I dropped down into a draw and found tracks running up and down the draw. About a hundred yards up near the top of the draw was the den. We took 6 pups from that den. A couple of days later the pilot called me to say how well it had worked out we all get lucky sometimes it was one of my lucky days and it worked out. A week later the pilot called me and told me the rancher didn't want to pay him for taking the pups saying that it was me not him that had found the dens. So, I told him to tell the rancher he had to pay his denner for coming out to den for him and that I was charging him what his price per den was, and that it was a bargain with the number of lambs saved as well as cheaper than waiting for fall and paying full adult coyote prices to come out and hunt them. I was asked by the pilot and gunner how it was that I could see a coyote that was standing or laying down when they couldn't. I told them it's simple that's what I'm used to looking for when I'm calling you guys are used to looking for moving coyotes running from you. So then when I would see one standing, I would tell them and then have them find it, they then started learning what they were looking for and got better at it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2764064, member: 91783"] I got a call from the helicopter pilot one evening asking me if I would be able to see coyote dens from the air. Being late May I figured that the pups would have a large area of grass mashed down around the den, so I told him I thought so. He said good that he had been called to hunt a ranch where the coyotes were laying down on him and they had been hunting them nearly every day for a week. I met him the next morning the gunner, the pilot and I headed out at first light stopped and picked up the rancher then headed to the pastures where the lamb killing was taking place. As we neared the first pasture, I saw a coyote laying on a slight hill. told the pilot and got him on it, as we were lining up on it, I spotted a mashed down patch of grass on the upper edge of a cut bank we got the coyote landed and it was a female that was still nursing pups I showed the rancher and gunner how to open her and count the lumps to know how many pups she had then we went back to where I thought the den was landed and dropped me there with my tools for taking the pups at a den. It was in fact a den and I got 8 pups out of it. As I was finishing with that one the helicopter came back with another female set down and I counted the number of pups she had given birth to. I looked up as we were heading to the helicopter and setting in some sage brush was a coyote staring at us the gunner and pilot ran got in the air and got the old male from that den. They came back picked the rancher and me up we then went to where they had gotten the other female coyote, we circled the area and found what looked like a den. I turned out not to be, but I dropped down into a draw and found tracks running up and down the draw. About a hundred yards up near the top of the draw was the den. We took 6 pups from that den. A couple of days later the pilot called me to say how well it had worked out we all get lucky sometimes it was one of my lucky days and it worked out. A week later the pilot called me and told me the rancher didn't want to pay him for taking the pups saying that it was me not him that had found the dens. So, I told him to tell the rancher he had to pay his denner for coming out to den for him and that I was charging him what his price per den was, and that it was a bargain with the number of lambs saved as well as cheaper than waiting for fall and paying full adult coyote prices to come out and hunt them. I was asked by the pilot and gunner how it was that I could see a coyote that was standing or laying down when they couldn't. I told them it's simple that's what I'm used to looking for when I'm calling you guys are used to looking for moving coyotes running from you. So then when I would see one standing, I would tell them and then have them find it, they then started learning what they were looking for and got better at it. [/QUOTE]
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