Post by: rainshadow1 on September 11, 2008, 10:35:17 AM
Anybody in that area want to get together for a few stands? I'm going to hunt with Bigswede Monday evening hopefully, but it looks like Tue all day, and Wed AM are open.
I have a bag of giveaway calls! ;) :chuckle:
Send me a PM...
Post by: DeKuma on September 11, 2008, 10:38:46 AM
Going to try and get over to the property in the next week or so to try for the dogs again. Maybe a bear too, but my luck with bear has really sucked this year.
Post by: rainshadow1 on September 11, 2008, 01:16:59 PM
Post by: DeKuma on September 11, 2008, 01:40:44 PM
Post by: rainshadow1 on October 02, 2008, 02:13:26 PM
I met up with Bigswedegml on Monday and we hunted a spot he found for about 3 hours. Turns out we were on the wrong side of the river, we got several howling right at dark on the opposite side. Had a good time.
The next day I drove for over 280 miles scouting spots, found some, didn't find others. Ended up only doing 4 stands, all in the afternoon, called 2, missed one, and didn't get a shot at one.
. The one I missed I was set up in a real steep little chute watching the draw below me. I was hand calling and had switched to my LOUD open reed call after about 15 minutes with an echo chamber enclosed reed. This Coyote came in from a country mile away, high along the edge of a crop field, on the ridge across the draw. I had to pull way up and had the shooting sticks about 2" from the trigger guard. I got him in to about 110 yards across the ravine when he spotted me. I tried a frontal quartering shot and missed. Shifted him into high gear with another shot and that was that.
. The one I didn't get a shot at was a stand in the sage where I could see about 40 yards of downwind. I called for a long time, probably 25+ mins, and decided to bag it, stood up without a gun and there was one, downwind, staring at me! I dropped back down, grabbed my gun, and popped back up... afterburners. No shot.
The next day I went to a spot I'd located the day before to hunt the morning. I ended up doing a 4.5 stand loop in that spot, and called in 2 for sure. I had smoking fresh tracks downwind of another stand, so I might have had one I didn't see there too. (5th stand got cut short by a ringing cell phone that was supposed to be on vibrate!) I ended up doing the exact same thing, missing one and not getting a shot at another.
. The first stand I had hoofed pretty hard, probably 1/2 mile from the car, and set up, then I realized I had forgotten my shooting sticks!!! Too far to go back, I started calling. One came in hard from the right, quartering into the wind. He disappeared behing some sage at about 100 yards, but he was committed, so I pulled up with the shotgun. When he came back out into view he was hopping, looking at the decoy. Then he stopped at about 75 yards, too far to risk a poke. I wasn't sure what to do, when he wheeled and took off. I switched to the rifle, but he was gone.
. The the 4th stand I called a long time again, well over 20 mins when one came in on the run from upwind. He stopped at about 110 directly over the call from me. He stood for several seconds. I was steading the crosshairs, and slowing my breathing down, resting my elbows on my knees. Just about to shoot right over the call when he spotted me and took off to the left. I WOOF'd at him and he stopped at about 120. I hurried a shot, well, hurried for elbows on the knees, and missed. He bailed down and right into a draw and blasted out of the area entirely out of sight.
Wife had a good time in town, and I learned alot about the Tri's and had a good time with good percentages for the time spent calling. Thanks BigSwede!
Post by: DeKuma on October 02, 2008, 02:19:52 PM
Post by: rainshadow1 on October 02, 2008, 02:40:27 PM
Here's some pics...
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Nice spot bigswede knows about.
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First miss, set up for the draw, and had the Coyote come in through the plowed field above. Shot at about the left side of the image just into the furrows.
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Downwind of my stand, where I got busted with empty hands!
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The hopping dog, out of shotgun range, from the lumps on the right.
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Second miss, over the call, sitting elbows on the knees.
Post by: DeKuma on October 02, 2008, 03:14:56 PM
Post by: deaddog on October 02, 2008, 04:48:48 PM
Post by: rainshadow1 on October 02, 2008, 04:57:22 PM
I had a real good time, but I'm starting to get flustered about it now.... remember Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman.... I can hear my self now...
"... I'm really a very excellent shot..."
:bash: :dunno:
Post by: Bigswedegml on October 02, 2008, 06:23:54 PM