My first coyote!!!

[Kain]

I have been trying to get a coyote for a while now.  Went out this morning to a gated area, hiked in about a mile and went to set up only to realized I had forgotten my phone.  I use my phone as my Mp3 player for my home made e-caller.  I did one stand with hand calls with no luck.  I had planned on being out all day and put together a bunch of free Mp3 sounds to try and get a bobcat and or coyote.  So I decided to make the hike out, drive home, get the phone and then get back to it.  I got back up in the woods around 11am.  The amount of coyote tracks in the snow was insane!  I think I found the coyote super-highway.    
I set up at the end of an old logging road that is almost completely over grown and borders a stand of timber on one side.  There is two two large cedar trees on the other side of the little turn out area and they kind of make a cave under them.  The whole clearing is about 20 yards across, not much but around where I live that is all you get.  I set up the speaker in the middle of the opening and sat in the little cave.  I can only see about 30 yards and most of that is through really thick brush.  I turn on the call and let it run with my best attempt at an irresistible bobcat sequence.  Well this coyote must think it is a bobcat cause she decided to come in at about the 10 minute mark  .  When I first see her she is only about 15 yards from me directly across the road.  As soon as she moved behind some of the brush I brought my shotgun up and when she step into the next opening I pulled the trigger.  00 buck knocks them right down at 20 yards.  I am using 00 buck because I have a cougar tag and I hunt in a firearm restricted area, I dont want to have a lighter load in the chamber and have a cougar come in.   I was very excited to get my first coyote and wanted to keep the hide but she had mange pretty bad.  She also had a HUGE belly!  She must have been eating really well, she looked like she was pregnant.

[Thenewguy]

nice work!

[billythekidrock]

Good job.
She looks like a fatty.

[Head-shot]

Sweet, nice looking gun too

[atomicjoe23]

Yeah. . .that snake skin print is kinda cool. . .havne't seen it before

. . .who makes it and do they have other patterns available???

Thanks

Oh yeah. . .good work and I'm jealous. . .I'm still waiting on my first song-dog!!!

[Kain]

Thanks guys.  I airbrushed the paint on the gun.   

[atomicjoe23]

Forgot to ask. . .where are you hunting at???

Sounds like very similar situations to what I'm hunting. . .right down to using a shotgun with buck (#4 for me. . .I don't have a cougar tag though). . .in fact looks like an 870 to me. . .that's what I've got. . .still wish I had a rifle to pair up with though!!!

[atomicjoe23]

Thanks guys.  I airbrushed the paint on the gun.  

Airbrushed, huh. . .

Good Work!!!

[Kain]

Forgot to ask. . .where are you hunting at???

Sounds like very similar situations to what I'm hunting. . .right down to using a shotgun with buck (#4 for me. . .I don't have a cougar tag though). . .in fact looks like an 870 to me. . .that's what I've got. . .still wish I had a rifle to pair up with though!!!

Yep 870 super mag.  The area is out past Hockinson, WA in the Battleground unit.  I think Im going to stick to timber from now on.  It is really tight quarters but it seems to work.  I havnt had any luck getting the dogs to break from their cover so I will just go in after them.  Oh yeah I forgot to mention I covered the speaker with Fox urine.  That is probably why the fat coyote came in so hard, I know she wasnt hungry.  I wish the picture showed how really big and hard her belly was.

[atomicjoe23]

I haven't had any luck in the timber yet. . .but I think that I'm having the same problem as you. . .can't get them to break cover. . .so I'm gonna have to go in after them to. . .I just don't want to scare them off in the process!!!

[ivarhusa]

Congratulations! Having just recently shot my first coyote, I can totally relate.  I am going after #2 Sunday AM.

I just bought a cat toy (recommended on one of the forums, but I haven't relocated the message to properly give credit to the person suggesting it) called SmartyKat Loco!Motion. It cost $15 at Walmart.  I hung a coyote tail from the swinging wire, and it looks like the cats meow, if you know what I mean.  I had to order it through Walmart online.




Ivar

[dbllunger]

Nice paint on the shotgun.  Nice decoy...let us know how it holds up.

[MuleySniper]

Great job! Nice work on the airbrushing too.
MS

[saylean]

I didnt get to say grats...

so...grats!

[backwoods_boy]

this might be a dumb question but what do you do with a yotee. can you eat them or just mount them or make a skin?