Author Topic: My first coyote!!! (Read 9655 times)

Kain · « **on:** January 03, 2009, 06:26:21 PM »

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 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2009, 06:29:17 PM »

nice work!

billythekidrock · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2009, 06:40:54 PM »

Good job.
She looks like a fatty.

Head-shot · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2009, 06:43:29 PM »

Sweet, nice looking gun too

atomicjoe23 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 03, 2009, 06:48:42 PM »

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 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 03, 2009, 06:50:37 PM »

Thanks guys. I airbrushed the paint on the gun.

atomicjoe23 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 03, 2009, 06:52:22 PM »

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 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 03, 2009, 06:52:48 PM »

Quote from: Kain on January 03, 2009, 06:50:37 PM

Thanks guys. I airbrushed the paint on the gun.

Airbrushed, huh. . .

Good Work!!!

Kain · « **Reply #8 on:** January 03, 2009, 07:03:33 PM »

Quote from: atomicjoe23 on January 03, 2009, 06:52:22 PM

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 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 03, 2009, 07:09:59 PM »

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 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 03, 2009, 09:28:18 PM »

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 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 03, 2009, 09:31:54 PM »

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

MuleySniper · « **Reply #12 on:** January 10, 2009, 04:53:59 PM »

Great job! Nice work on the airbrushing too.
MS

saylean · « **Reply #13 on:** January 13, 2009, 03:35:55 PM »

I didnt get to say grats...

so...grats!

backwoods_boy · « **Reply #14 on:** January 13, 2009, 03:47:29 PM »

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?

NW-Eric · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2009, 03:50:09 PM »

nice job on the yote and nice looking gun

runniNgunnin · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2009, 03:59:37 PM »

take it to your local butcher and they can make a mean summer sausage out of it, but you will only have about 2.5lbs, lol haha

Grizzly95 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 13, 2009, 04:02:59 PM »

I prefer to roast them whole and give it to the inlaws

runniNgunnin · « **Reply #18 on:** January 13, 2009, 04:16:27 PM »

HONESTLY- if that yotie had mange i would get a shovel and dig about 2ft, put the yotie in it and cover with remaining dirt... otherwise since your using a shotty, they would make great furrs/mounts, DO NOT TRY AND COOK THEM!

wackmaster · « **Reply #19 on:** January 13, 2009, 05:08:01 PM »

congats

Michelle_Nelson · « **Reply #20 on:** January 13, 2009, 05:14:22 PM »

Nice! Congrats of your first yote. To bad about the mange on it's back. The hide every where else looked reall good.

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