Coyote Madness III (Nov 1 - February 28)

[Bullelk]

Great job BullELk,    That is a nice looking rifle there, is it the new Howa thumbhole Varminter model?
Looks pretty cool.

Thanks, yes it is FF. I purchased the 243 caliber, with a 24" barrel. I'm shooting the 55 grain Nosler BT

[VarmintVentilator]

Nice job Machias, keep rock'in them. 

[Bullelk]

+1 for SBA 

Should have had 2 yotes yesterday, but I took a rookie out with me. Made a great set, 1 min into the call, here comes a yote 250 yds and closing fast.  It stopped at 110 yds and posed for a good shot. Rookie fired, yote exited in a flash without a mark.  ROOKIES   

While walking in to call, jumped this young female.

[dontgetcrabs]

Got this one this morning running away at 140 yds. Good start to the new year. Happy New Year Everyone!  

[CAMPMEAT]

Homehunter and I went to Oroville Tuesday instead of Grand Coulee. We called, drove around, glassed hillsides and swamps. We did this for 9 hours. I spotted 1 dog sitting in field mousing. Homehunter got out of the truck with  Mr. 204 Savage and let 'er rip. Right through
the noggin @ 250 yards. I took pictures but they are way over the size allowed so I can't post them

[Bigswedegml]

Finally......2 down for Team Tri-$hitties.

DavisonTP and I went out this morning to give our main honey hole a try.  We went blank on our first two setups.  It was shortly after 0715hrs and only 9 degrees according to my truck thermometer.  Once the sun came up better and it started warming up, we started seeing the coyotes.  We jumped one monster coyote out of a draw while driving to our next stand.  It was in the trees before we could get a shot.  We ended up jumping two more huge coyotes within a couple minutes of eachother while driving to the next stand.  They both got passes as they headed for cover quicker than we could stop, get out, and shoot.
On our 3rd stand we called off and on for about 15 minutes and were just about to call it quits when I noticed something out of the ordinary.  My scope was on 4.5 power so I cranked it up to 14 and spotted coyote ears sticking up out of a brush pile.  Davison didn't see it and he started calling again.  Once he started calling the coyote jumped up onto a knoll quartered away from me.  It looked like he was going to bolt, so I steaded the crosshairs on him and squeezed the trigger.  I looked up to see it slowly heading for cover, I thought I had missed it.  I rack another round and Davison and I both let a shot ring out, almost at the same exact time, coyote number 1 down!  It turned out that I hit it a little high and missed the vitals, it was messed up but still tried to get to cover.  Tough guy, gotta give him that.  Davison ended up center-punching it while it was moving.  Davison's range finder was on the fritz, so we paced the shot out and it was around 430 yards.
Coyote number 2 came on our 4th stand of the day.  Immediately after Davison did his first series of calls, I heard something moving about in the trees.  I motioned to him to watch the clearing and not even 10 seconds later a coyote comes trotting out about 100 yards away.  I barked and stopped it, Davison hesitated thinking I was going to take the shot, but then he realized I had brought only my shotgun on that stand.  The coyote started to move again so I barked again and got it to stop long enough for Davison's AR to seal the deal.  Total time on that stand was maybe 30 seconds from the intial call series to the shot.
Stand number 5 brought in a double, but they winded us and ditched into the trees before Davison could get a shot off.  I didn't even get to see those ones.
Stand number 6 drew a blank and we called it a day.  All in all we called in 4, shot 2, and saw 7 total.  Not a bad way to start the new year.

Coyote number 1


Coyote number 2

[Machias]

Fitz aka Brokenhand smoked another one from his bait pile/sniper pit.

[Big10gauge]

+2SBA

The coyote BullElk shot was coming in fast, couldn't stop it so he took the shot head on. Had to use the cell for the pic as our cameras were frozen. It was a real nice sized coyote so I took a pic of it on the scale but didn't turn out. The last set had a pair coming in real cautious, couldn't take them both down as the male was circling downwind and the female was hanging back too far and took off like a rocket after the shot. Didn't say we didn't try though 

[firecrotch]

Made it back from Texas just over a week ago. Ive been stoked to get back in the run of things on here with coyote madness. Today was a good day, started out in the early afternoon and shot a dog at 70 yards. Then met up with lamar_hunter and we both ended up with one a piece. Put 3 on the board for Team Deadfowl TDF. And i still havent gotten use to the cold weather up here yet.

[FALFire]

Great job guys. I went out yesterday morning for about a half an hour. I got a call from a neighbor that saw 3 dogs go into his pasture but by the time I got over there they were no where to be found. Got home and WiseOldYote stopped by to say howdy and show off his new E-Callers. I must say, those KANATI TEK callers are real clear and very loud, I'm thinking that will be my next master blaster. Nice visitin' with ya Brian and stop by again for some shootin or maybe we'll go kill sumptin' 

Unfortunately I had a bathroom shower I have been putting off too damn long and got with it today for a bit, until VarmintVentilator called and asked if I was a wuss and had to stay home. So I asked the boss if it would be okay if I could go and watch VV kill sumptin'.  We came home empty handed    Heard lots of dogs howling but had no takers so at dusk we packed it in and headed home.   

[VarmintVentilator]

Nice bunch of coyotes this weekend guys.  Great job.  I wonder if Bullelk will get some of Big10's paint and do a camo job on that sweet looking gun?    Naw.   

[Big10gauge]

I may do it while he's not looking. 

[VarmintVentilator]

           

[WiseOldYote]

Gary

It's not whether we get together, it's WHEN we get together how many doggies are going to take a dirt nap!

 

[tlbradford]

Gary, Leave VV at the house to work on your shower and take the wife hunting.  The way she shoots you'll probably score better.  Win-win