Should have kept my cool...............

[seth30]

Went yote hunting this morning with Skybuster, and did a nice 3 mile hike uphill   Saw a coyote on the way up, and made a stand about a mile away from where that coyote was.  Set up Skybusters FoxPRo Spitfire, and my yote decoy.  Had perfect shooting angles on the spot, and we were set up right on the side of the road(gated) Well Mr. Wiley decided to come in from above, even though the wind was broadcasting our signal all over. I spun as best as I could and took a akward wing and prayer shot.  He then ran up the road, I scrambled to get up on the road and took a shot as he was just getting out of sight.(100 + yards)  WHAM!!  Dog down, and rolling, he then started thrasing about, and I figured he was down for the count.  I started hooting and howlering,and next thing I know he is running down the side of the hill.  Heck of a blood trail, and we followed it for close to two hours before it went cold. Next time Im going to wait for the death thrases to stop   As you can tell from the photos that my 55 Grain 223 round did some damage, and pushed some flesh out.

[h20hunter]

Cool. Sorry you didn't get to see him on thre ground. However, don't think he went to far with damage like that. Did the blood look dark red like all muscle damage or any bubbles or guts in there?

[seth30]

He went about a mile before it went cold.  At first a ton of blood, then just sprinkles back to spot areas of mass leakage.  Im almost wondering if a cougar picked him up Didnt see dark blood or guts down the trail, but then again he took us through  swamp and some really thick stuff.

[TheSkyBuster]

That Yote was Hit Hard! There was blood all over the place and a heavy blood trail for a couple hundred yards, then it slowly turned into a drop or two every few feet and got really tough to follow on the dirt ground in the trees.



Bottom Line though, He didn't make it.   







Seth forgot to mention that this was the second yote of the morning. The first one showed up walking twords us as we were hiking up the hill. It was immedietly scared off by me saying  "sh** Coyote!"  and dropping the decoy on the ground. 

[Heredoggydoggy]

It's amazing how much blood a dog can lose without it killing him.  If he can run for 2 miles, he probably wasn't hit that bad.  Sorry to be the rain on the parade, but it seems to be the day for it here.  Should have put another round into him while he was thrashing around. 

[bearhunter99]

I shot one once with my 300 Win and blew his front leg off and clipped his brisket, he started spinning and I took a little more off and missed once.  He took off and I rolled him again and took off most of his off side back leg.  He got up and I shot him again, this time taking off his other front leg and the lower part of his chest.  When I got up to him he was still snapping at me until I dispatched him.  Damn yote cost like $10-15 in ammo.  I was into my second clip by the time he was down for the count.

[seth30]

It's amazing how much blood a dog can lose without it killing him.  If he can run for 2 miles, he probably wasn't hit that bad.  Sorry to be the rain on the parade, but it seems to be the day for it here.  Should have put another round into him while he was thrashing around. 

Dont quite understand your comment about raining on parades and its the day for it If I had not of whooped and hollared he wouldnt have gotten back up

[seth30]

I shot one once with my 300 Win and blew his front leg off and clipped his brisket, he started spinning and I took a little more off and missed once.  He took off and I rolled him again and took off most of his off side back leg.  He got up and I shot him again, this time taking off his other front leg and the lower part of his chest.  When I got up to him he was still snapping at me until I dispatched him.  Damn yote cost like $10-15 in ammo.  I was into my second clip by the time he was down for the count.

I took a leg of one with my 30.06 but was lucky enough to be a 300 yard distance, and he dindnt know where I was. He curled up, and I put another one in him.  Yes yote hunting can cost some ammo, and if your in a area where you have good view, more lead seams to fly

[Skyvalhunter]

Did he look like he was running with all legs when you last saw him?

[seth30]

Yep, I either put one in his ribs or his guts.  But didnt see any dark blood, or guts on the trail we followed.  But boy was there a bunch of bright red blood, and when the blood let went to a few trickles, we came upon a few areas where either he stopped, or reopened the wound, and we would find another huge area of blood loss.

[Skyvalhunter]

Thats too bad you didn't catch up to him. I would believe he is laying somewhere dead as a door nail.

[seth30]

 Yes I beleive so too, or he was snatched up by another predator.  Where the blood trail finally died out we made huge 50-100 yard circles, and couldnt pick up his trail or any more blood That area was pretty wide open, and if he laid down there would have been real easy to spot.  What sucked worse besides the swamp, was coming back up the hill after all that. 

[seth30]

After I pulled the trigger I had a slight glimmer of hope that he would be on my wall.  He still had a winter coat, and it was a very thick one.  

[Skyvalhunter]

Well it sounds like you definitely put in a good effort to retrieve him. Kudos to you on that!!

[seth30]

Thanks!  Skybuster really helped, and he has eyes like a hawk.  Cant tell you how many times he picked the trail back up, I think hes part blood hound

[Bigtine96]

That's happened to me so many times, I finally learned that if the dog even moves a leg you gotta get another round into them or they will get away.

[seth30]

Well I have to admit, that will be the last time I take a yote for granted. 

[deerslyr]

did that before. shot a yote in the shoulder with a 270 he jumped up and I tracked a half mile or so through a swamp blood everywhere at first with bone in it and then it slowly just started goin away until there was nothin. It obviously wasnt a direct hit to the shoulder where i was aimin but it hit somewhere in that region where there was bone. I thot you could a yote anywhere with a 270 and itd go down but i was sadly mistaken

[Heredoggydoggy]

It's amazing how much blood a dog can lose without it killing him.  If he can run for 2 miles, he probably wasn't hit that bad.  Sorry to be the rain on the parade, but it seems to be the day for it here.  Should have put another round into him while he was thrashing around. 

Dont quite understand your comment about raining on parades and its the day for it

Guess you'd have to be here--it started raining just after noon, and has been pouring rain steadily since then.  Did the same thing day before yesterday.  It's been more like Seattle here than Eastern WA.  Don't think I've seen this much rain here in the 40+ years I've lived here.  Sorry if my comment confused you.  I still think that bugger crawled into a thicket to lick his wounds.  You'll probably run into him again.

[seth30]

Here is a pic of the last yote I shot with my 30.06 before I bought the 223.  If its too graphic, Mod's let me know and I will delete it. 165 grain bullet that went in through the neck and came out the midsection. 

[seth30]

It's amazing how much blood a dog can lose without it killing him.  If he can run for 2 miles, he probably wasn't hit that bad.  Sorry to be the rain on the parade, but it seems to be the day for it here.  Should have put another round into him while he was thrashing around. 

Dont quite understand your comment about raining on parades and its the day for it

Guess you'd have to be here--it started raining just after noon, and has been pouring rain steadily since then.  Did the same thing day before yesterday.  It's been more like Seattle here than Eastern WA.  Don't think I've seen this much rain here in the 40+ years I've lived here.  Sorry if my comment confused you.  I still think that bugger crawled into a thicket to lick his wounds.  You'll probably run into him again.

No probs, sucks to have so much rain, Im glad here on the wetside its been light. 

[Instinct]

Dang seth put some damage on that dog didnt ya lol, my 55gr 223 did the same thing but not that bad, i hit a lil low below the lungs but droped it right there. Sucks ya lost it.

[pjb3]

Here is a pic of the last yote I shot with my 30.06 before I bought the 223.  If its too graphic, Mod's let me know and I will delete it. 165 grain bullet that went in through the neck and came out the midsection. 

Did he run alitttle?

[seth30]

No not at all.  I was down hill of him, and he flew up in the air

[NWWABOWHNTR]

way tpo get after them Seth... The last one I got I had the 300 WBY with me bear hunting.... he was 100 yards or so and uphill... hit him in the bottom of the chest and exited where his right shoulder used to be.... LOL  Haven't been out yet, dang archery tourneys are taking up all my time.  DId do a little walk scouting for sheds and bear last week.... When I get back from Louisville next week I will be out more.. time to start looking for bear sign and some yote calling!

[seth30]

Nice song dog there!

[GlennGTR]

Its possible you were real close to him and just passed him by. I spent an hour once looking for a buck that only traveled 20 yards. I finally had to lay out a piece of toilet paper on every drop and look at the trail from a different angle. The last piece of paper was only six feet from the buck, when in wet side vegitation critters can really blend in. I am guessing he was probably bled out by the time you got down to the few drops here and there. You could have been right on him. Always pic a spot on your coyote before making the shot, its easy to get excited and just aim at the whole coyote. They tend to be smaller than deer and other big game, so vitals are praportionatly smaller also.

[trippledigitss]

Man that is a bummer! But it reminds me of the 1st one I shot over by Quincy last year. He was about 175 out and I shot him with PredatorPro's 22-250 - he spun around and then dropped and we were all high-fiving & waiting for him to stop wriggling when he got up and slunk off into the grass!  Blood all over the freaking place but couldnt find him anywhere. About a half hour of looking I hear a muffled POP in the grass about 20-30yds from me and then PredatorPro comes thru the grass dragging a dead/bloody dog. He found her curled up in the grass hiding and pretty much jumped her just a few feet from him. Man she freaking stunk too!

Too bad you never found your yote....

[seth30]

Its possible you were real close to him and just passed him by. I spent an hour once looking for a buck that only traveled 20 yards. I finally had to lay out a piece of toilet paper on every drop and look at the trail from a different angle. The last piece of paper was only six feet from the buck, when in wet side vegitation critters can really blend in. I am guessing he was probably bled out by the time you got down to the few drops here and there. You could have been right on him. Always pic a spot on your coyote before making the shot, its easy to get excited and just aim at the whole coyote. They tend to be smaller than deer and other big game, so vitals are praportionatly smaller also.

The lats area of blood that we saw was wide open, almost no vegation on the ground due to no sunlight in that area.  We looked around everytree and stump on the ground.   Thanks for helping out when I called that day  

[seth30]

Man that is a bummer! But it reminds me of the 1st one I shot over by Quincy last year. He was about 175 out and I shot him with PredatorPro's 22-250 - he spun around and then dropped and we were all high-fiving & waiting for him to stop wriggling when he got up and slunk off into the grass!  Blood all over the freaking place but couldnt find him anywhere. About a half hour of looking I hear a muffled POP in the grass about 20-30yds from me and then PredatorPro comes thru the grass dragging a dead/bloody dog. He found her curled up in the grass hiding and pretty much jumped her just a few feet from him. Man she freaking stunk too!

Too bad you never found your yote....

If it werent for that darn swamp he took us through......