Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: boneaddict on November 06, 2008, 08:54:38 PM
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Who wants another competetion? I was dreaming about this today while wandering around int he fog. We joked about it earlier, but I am ready.
Here's how it works....
Since there is no money involved and its just healthy competetion, and more for fun thatn anything, I will be the sole judge and jury so if there is a problem, contact me.
It will run from Nov1 thru April 30th
Scoring will be as follows....
A coyote kill with a rifle(modern...including shotgun) is 1 point
A coyote kill with a Muzzelloader or compound bow is 5 points
A coyote killed with Trad gear (longbow, recurve, Flintlock) 10pts
A photo of a coyote that is not killed is worth 1/2 point.
Kids 14 and under and oldtimers 65 and older get double points.
A photo of the kill will be very much appreciated but at this point NOT an absolute requirement.
Teams.....
So far it is the Hunting Washington.com Pro staff(moderators/admins and family). versus the Forum members. You guys can form individual teams if you wish. Let me know, such as the Moses lake lights out boys, or the Polarbear express.....Family members (first line like AK rules....brother, daughter, father etc. ) can be members of the team, specia=fically for the prostaff team, as anyone can be on other teams. In other words Idabooner, and Lil bone or Robs daughter (his choice on WF70) can be on our team.....
Family member has to be a member on this forum in order to be part of the team.
Post a pic of your kill or your success on here and I'll keep tabs on the running score.
This is just for fun. If no one is interested or have other modifications or input, let me know.
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First points for the Huntwa Prostaff...ONE for a total of ONE
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second score for the Huntwa Prostaff......TEN for a total of 11
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Third score for the Huntwa Prostaff.........1/2 point for a total of 11.5
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OK I am done....who wants to play. Any kills since Nov1 by anyone. This is all by honor for good fun. Enjoy!!!
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i'm in...i'm planning a blue mountains yote killing spree thanksgiving weekend.
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Well Sisu is close to me, but we can't team up?
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I am in. I will give it a try. I'm hopefully going to go out on Monday morning, weather permitting, and going to try and put a dog or two down. We have rain lined up for the next few days though. Does anyone on here call in the rain and have decent success?
Deaddog, if you see this, maybe we can team up? I don't have too many opportunities to go out, but I try to get out once every two weeks or so from now until March.
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Jeez Bone, Start a contest when you've already got a running tally. Is that called a handicap? :chuckle:
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In my expierence a hungry dog doesn't care if he gets wet.
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Coyotes were moving EVERYWHERE today. I saw more sets of tracks than deer. Not kidding, so I'd guess that would be a yes to your question.
Sorry Grizz. He's on my team, but you cna still go hunt with him...just let him shoot. :chuckle:
Heck ya. I figure ten against 2,000 isn't real bad odds at this point.
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So it's quick draw too? He who shoots first gets the point?
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I'm in, anyone one want to be on the winning team :chuckle:.
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Im in. How much are kills with a shotty worth?
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Here we go I have 49 of these ready to go
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Demontang, I may need to make a trip up to my old hometown and team up with ya so we can catch up with those guys. I have been wanting to hunt up north of Selah for quite some time. I have a good excuse to head up that way considering my whole family still lives up there.
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shotguns worth 1
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Dang Bone you already have a head start!!!
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:mgun: Im in, is calling allowed or will this be for "targets of oppurtinity''?
Sage
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I wanna play, Gutpile, can I be on your side. :dunno:
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Hey Bone, what about single-shot pistols? How many points or the same as modern?
Sage
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I wanna play, Gutpile, can I be on your side.
Heck yeah. Gas is almost in the $1's I'm fired up!!!!
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Guess whos headin out this WHOLE weekend.......... :IBCOOL: gonna try out a couple of new spots........Gutpile has an idea where.... 8)
Sage
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I wanna go! I wanna go!! I thought you couldn't hunt them unless you had a deer tag in hand??
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How many points for chasing one down on foot and beating it over the head with a fencepost? :chuckle:
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Gutpile, deer hunting has been closed out there for a few weeks. Ill have to double check the regs, but Im pretty sure that it will be ok. Any interest in teaming up for Bones competition sometime? Ill shoot and you can take the pictures...... :chuckle:
Sage
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes: Silly goose!! What about late buck? Even though it's draw only I kind of thought that would count. Just to many things to wrap my brain around. :bash:
Any interest in teaming up for Bones competition sometime
Heck yeah!!! :mgun:
Ill shoot and you can take the pictures......
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Bite me!! :chuckle:
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You should be fine as long as your guns are under 24cal, but I think you need to wear orange.
Bigswedegml Send me a PM and we can setup a day to go get ahead of them. :chuckle:
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Hey BOne, where was that first pic taken? That's absolutely beautiful country.
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I guess I'm in, but don't really have a team. I'm heading out this weekend though over here on the wetside.
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brent we will figure a time to get out. need to take catwithaboost when i get time. and need to take michelle out to. bofire a good caller. he live's in Yelm. will my coyote's count from idaho,nevada, oklahoma and Arizona count. or are we keeping this washington. Rick
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It would be awesome to be able to learn from you Rick. I'm open just about every weekend other than this one. :IBCOOL:
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might be a little windy any way. my wife get's back today from vermont.next few week's . Rick
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I am in. I will give it a try. I'm hopefully going to go out on Monday morning, weather permitting, and going to try and put a dog or two down. We have rain lined up for the next few days though. Does anyone on here call in the rain and have decent success?
Deaddog, if you see this, maybe we can team up? I don't have too many opportunities to go out, but I try to get out once every two weeks or so from now until March.
Bigswede, how are you ,havent heard you on here lately. getting together for dogs sounds good, sounds like a few of us over here on the dry side need to team up and put those wet side guys in their place. :chuckle: :chuckle: they already have a good jump on us, so a should be fair now :chuckle:. I think it would be an great time to maybe do a wetside hunt hosted by you wet guys and than do the same over here hosted by us dryside guys, maybe do it in two man teams, by draw one wet guy one dry guy to a team. My opps to go dogin are always on the weekend, lets see if we can get together and put a stack of dogs down to win this one first.
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might be a little windy any way. my wife get's back today from vermont.next few week's . Rick
Sounds good. Just let me know.
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I could have just had a point for us if I would have been traveling with my camera. :bash: I saw two running together just a little bit ago on my way into Tumwater.
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I just realized I shot a young female last saturday, nov 1, no pics does it count?
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Dang! I had one in the cross hairs this morning, to foggy couldn't see what was behind him. He was in a local Ranchers field, worried about tagging a slow elk by mistake. Didn't figure a yote would stop a 165gr Ballistic tip.
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Good to know I'm not the only one that the fog messed up today.
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You guys are all on the forum team until you divide up. Sorry pistol is considered modern, one point. Yes you can call, beat them with a stick or anything but snares and traps. I'm not sure if you have to wear orange now or not....I'm not even sure if I need to, but have been. Coyotes see it by the way. I was going to check the regs. I think it might be for general only, not during the special permit season. I am not sure. I guess I was sticking to the "better safe than sorry". Another regulation I wasn't sure about was hunting them with a crossbow. Are those completely illegal in this state. Doubt anyone does that, but was just thinking. You have to do something when you are in the fog all day. That was taken on Gold Ridge looking up into the North Fork of Gold Creek or Crater Creek. Some big bucks in there, and was hoping one might have decided to come down. That was the only day out of 7 that it didn't rain or wasn't fogged in.
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You bet deaddog. I'll give it to you. Let me know if you are going to have a team going "Deaddogs Eastsiders" or will be just on the general forum team.
Huntwa prostaff.........11.5
Forum team...............1
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So there is no limit on how many can be on a team?
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Nope.
Object of this contest is kill as many frickin dogs as possible, the fewer the folks would mean more prestige. get some young and older folks involved and did I mention kill some dawgs.
I figured it might be more fun for guys to have some teams. The original challenge was all the mods agains the forum, but not sure how fun that would be.......
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I'm in, I got a couple new holes near my house and winter is coming. Do outa state yotes count?
Carl
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I wondered about that then thought what the heck...why not.
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This thread has got me fired up big time. I think i'll head out once or twice next week and try my luck.
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Well I gave it a go this morning. With the deer hunters still in the woods I didn't try any calling, just spot and stock. All I saw was three does. Did hear one howl though.
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Looks like fog is lifting.
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you guy's are lucky you got it easy on the eastside. if you hunt a certain way. get's harder and harder now. a little tougher here. but all depend's were you hunt. did i say close to urban area's hint hint. Rick
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I got my coyote hunting pardners signed to the Forum(BullElk and Sagebrushstalker) and we went out today saw 10 only got 4 shooters, There was one coming in about 230 yrds or so and it looked like it was going to keep coming straight at us, it ran down to the bottom of the draw and I couldn't get my sights on it due to my bipod. It came out about 10 or 15 yrds to my right I was busted, tried to turn my rifle to the right and it took off. We gave it a few warning shots but didn't connect. Anyway 3 coyotes down.Skinned out the top and bottom ones. The center one just didn't quite have the guard hairs yet. It was probably a 12 or 13 mile hike today and it's time for the hottub. :chuckle: Hey do we need to post everytime or just at the end?
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Nice! I went out today, but all I saw was a deer.
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Good work Big10. What happened to you today is the reason I went to shooting sticks. The bipod just didn't give me much mobility. It was great for propping the gun up, and I still prefer it if I am pointing the right direction, but the sticks are great for turning, running shots, and when you stand up to freehand a shot, your gun doesn't have too much weight on the front end. Plus, with my bull barrel, bipod, and 50mm scope the rifle wanted to slide backwards off my shoulder when carrying on a sling.
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NICE JOB BIG10 and crew. Are you guys going to form your own team, or stick to the general forum bunch. If so what do you want to be called. NOPE, got to post em as you go. Let me know and I'll get your points added up. Nicely done.
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Well cully and I went out on sat missed one and one down, a female that came to cullys mouth call like her ass was on fire. I barked to stop her, cully and I shot at the exact same time, sounded like 1 shot, down she goes. The best part of the day was when we called on a land owner with land posted ( hunting by writen perrmission only) at first he was hesitent to let us hunt , until we told him it was yotes we were after, then he says , well coyotes hell ya, day, night , 7 days a week, kill them all PLEASE. So we scored a couple hundred thousand acres of prime dog land. ever where we went there was dog scat every 30 feet and just an hour from home. dogs are goin to die.
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Glad to see someone from the Tri-Cities is doing good, I went out today and went 0-4 on my stands. I saw tons of fresh scat and tracks, but didn't call anything in. I did see one coyote but it was on my way driving to my spot, it crossed the road ahead of me with his afterburners already on before I could stop. Must have been shot at a few times by deer hunters. I also saw a real nice mulie buck and some does. Oh well next time I guess.
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Spent most of my time trying to fill my deer tag, but did manage to see on dog, but was not fast enough to get a shot in the fog. They were outside the house all night howling and answering me, but would not come in for a shot.....
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Need to start taking pics deaddog. Or I am going to start docking your points.
:)
Huntwa Prostaff........11.5
forum(deaddog's eastsiders).....................2
Sagebrush Assasins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................3
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I went out this morning, First stand called in a nice sized dog using one of Rick's calls. It stopped and sat down at 208 yrds. The first round sent his way made him look behind him the 2nd round sent him packing. Bet he thought he stepped in a bees nest. Shot at a target and I was shooting 6 inches high at 200 yrds. :bash: Hmm which one of you guys was dinking with my scope? Oh well, probably going out tomorow
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I went out this morning, First stand called in a nice sized dog using one of Rick's calls. It stopped and sat down at 208 yrds. The first round sent his way made him look behind him the 2nd round sent him packing. Bet he thought he stepped in a bees nest. Shot at a target and I was shooting 6 inches high at 200 yrds. :bash: Hmm which one of you guys was dinking with my scope? Oh well, probably going out tomorow
Well I guess we're going to have to start giving you all the 400yard shots so you won't have to hold over. :chuckle:
Me and Bullelk will have to take the closer shots ;)
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Good work guys! Keep em coming.
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I have a couple of questions about the contest.
How many points for getting a coyote kill on video and providing a link?
Are we counting all the yotes we've taken this hunting season (starting in september) or just since the contest started?
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Since Nov 1st and no extra for video though folks would love ya.
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Boneaddict, Next time deaddog and I'm out I,ll make sure to bring my camera. But, I assure you, you don't want to see our ugly mugs. Well, at least his. Next points mine, deaddog!
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Since Nov 1st and no extra for video though folks would love ya.
+1 for sure
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Boneaddict, Next time deaddog and I'm out I,ll make sure to bring my camera. But, I assure you, you don't want to see our ugly mugs. Well, at least his. Next points mine, deaddog!
hell cully dont even wear a face mask, the coyotes just think hes just a very ugly dog :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Went out this morning and had my buddy whiff on two. I thought for sure we would up the admin lead, but it will have to wait until next time. I am packing my rifle to the stand just in case.
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Went out to day and saw two dog shot at one and missed then called the other back. He was barking like crazy at my dad and didn't see me :chuckle: I shot and hit it in the head but couldn't find it in all the grass and rocks :bash: I know its dead because of the red mist that came off it but I just couldn't find it, so I don't know if that one counts or not. :dunno:
FYI jdb and I are going to start a team.
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Any of you want to host a newbie to try to add to the score?
I live near Issaquah and can travel east on weekends.
Just trying to learn Coyote hunting.
Thanks,
PM me.
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Any of you want to host a newbie to try to add to the score?
I live near Issaquah and can travel east on weekends.
Just trying to learn Coyote hunting.
Thanks,
PM me.
If your willing to come to the Tri-Citys and swear a blood oath to not reveal the location of the, secret land of many yotes, hell ya its just going to get better for the next 3-4 months. I hunt dogs every saturday and some sundays, so give me a shout and we can meet up.
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Get me a name for your team Demon, and nope, got to have confirmed kills. Get out there Tl, we need to stay ahead of these guys.
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Boy, I gotta remember to take the camera, Could have had possibly 5 or 6 pics of ones that we didn't shoot on Sunday,Monday or Tuesday. Tuesday the weather was so bad between the rain wind and fog we didn't call in anything but jumped two. I've seen bigger jackrabbits than one of the coyotes we saw, must have weighed maybe 8 to 10 lbs. Must have been the runt. :chuckle:
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Any points flor killing one with the truck? :chuckle:
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Well I guess I will add a couple dogs to the mix. Went out early and saw a lot of dogs. Called in 3 dogs and a bobcat but I couldnt close the deal. :bash: Thats alright took care of these two at least
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I went out this morning and have a new long distance shot on a coyote 502yd's with my 16" barrel AR, I think he was the one we missed last week and just wouldn't come in any close so I figured what the hell and sent a 40gr hornady his way and he just dropped like a stone :IBCOOL:. The bad part is when I got to the dog and dug out my camera the battery was dead :bash: but I did kill it and I can take you to it if you want to hike in for prof. :tung:
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Huntwa Prostaff........12
forum....................4
Sagebrush Assasins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................3
Team Selah.....................................................1
I am adding a picture in a minute to bring us up to 12. I couldn't get three different ones on film. Always saw them when I was stalking deer and when they were on the vamoose. This particular dog was nothing different. A buck had disappeared behind a big rock formation and I was stalking closer when I saw the yote disappear in the grass. I figured I blew my oppurtunity and about that time another buck came out from behind the rocks, displaced by the bigger buck. I was trying to edge closer and closer and all of a sudden the two point took a dive at the brush, the coyote which I figured wen the other way came shooting out of the brush with the two point on his tail. The buck ran the coyote up on the rocks. I'll get the picture on here as soon as the Mrs gets off my ASS. Too bad I don't have a rockpile to climb up on. :chuckle:
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Hey would it count as half a point if I could get a pic of a coyote alive before I shot it.
Team Selah :dunno:
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Nope. Has to be one not shot.
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mark one up for the forum i got one on november 1 but i didnt want to get blood on my cloths so i left it.
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Here is the 2 point that ran him up on the rocks. I if I would have my lens horizontal instead of vertical I'd got them both and it would have made a cool pic. I tried to change the lens over and the coyote took off.
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I bet that was a site to see, I have seen a doe running a coyote before.
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I bet that was a site to see, I have seen a doe running a coyote before.
So have I. It was funny to watch.
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Here's a nice dark male from this am. 253 lasered yards. Shot with my 204 spitting out a 32gr V-Max. And yes Bullelk I remembered this time to jack one in the chamber before I shot. Nothing worse than hearing a click when you squeeze the trigger. :chuckle:
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Sounds good. I'm new to coyote hunting. Only one season so far, but I'm hooked. I'm going on a deer scouting trip to Western Idaho around Thanksgiving. I'll be driving up from around Portland to Priest River. I'd be interested to find where there might be good public land for coyote hunting around that area on the Washington side or anywhere else along the route. If of course anyone want's to part with that knowledge. LOL> You can email me at sss5358@earthlink.com.
Thanks, Steve
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Is there anywhere that we can hunt? Is trapping allowed?
Never mind, read the rest of the rules, laws, whatever.
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Here's a female from today, Took the shot at 60 yds as she was comin in from the 1st distressed bunny call at about the 3 or 4 minute mark. I was using the 204.
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BullElk and SageBrushStalker got 3 but haven't posted any pics yet. Don't think they had a digital camera with them at the time and I wasn't with them. Told them to at least take a pic of the pelts and post.
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Montana trip . 156 yards one for the forum
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great picture's every one. hope to get out soon. the color's are awsome on alot of those coyote's. Rick
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Nice job guys. Big10 is kicking some yote ass. Adding points for rougheye and john, and I got 4 on film yesterday(2 points). Saw 6 and two bobs, but only got 4 dogs on film. I'll get some pics posted. I even went out with team Selah the day before, but all he could come up with was a duck decoy and a green card..... :chuckle:
Huntwa Prostaff........14
forum....................6
Sagebrush Assasins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................5
Team Selah.....................................................1
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and by the way, I hit one going 80 just because. Nice humane quick kill.....though not worth any points it was rather satisfying. :)
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dogs 3 and 4.
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Man Bone- Those dogs ahve some awesome color. lets go get em
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I do have to say, they are pretty looking dogs.
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Great looking picture's Bone. awsome color's. Rick
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Bone, So how's that "scope" working out for ya in pic 1 above? :chuckle:
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Well, I shot him in the ass probably if I were to have pulled the trigger there, but anyhow. He was close enough for a bow shot, but on a dead run that might be a little challenging. :)
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Chalk up another one :)
Went out solo today as my counterparts are too good for me..lol
Only made one call because the dam fog kept me out of where I wanted to go, this female came in after about 8 minutes. She wasn't a dumb one, once she saw me slowly moving the gun in her direction she stopped at 120yards out. She wouldn't come any closer even with some lip squeaks, she actually started heading back down the draw away from me. Her fatal mistake was stopping broadside at 140yards, she took off running hard at the shot, I'd thought I missed but watching her through the scope revealed otherwise. She made it about 60yards before piling up.
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Chalk up another one :)
Went out solo today as my counterparts are too good for me..lol
Sorry, I wasn't allowed to come out play today. :'( :'(
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nicely done......chalk up a point for the prostaffers as well. I caught two more on film yesterday. I'll get the pics on here shortly. I could have killed one, maybe....the other had his tail on fire.... At least you guys are teamed up.....WHERE ARE MY PROSTAFFERS
Huntwa Prostaff........15
forum....................6
Sagebrush Assasins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................6
Team Selah.....................................................1
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heres one from a couple weeks ago. I was riding my horse and spotted this bitch at 250 yards. Got off slowly and dumped her with the RUM. You dont want to see the other side. :puke:
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hahah i can see parts of her otherside spread out all over the rocks there haha
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Huntwa Prostaff........15
forum....................7
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................6
Team Selah.....................................................2
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WHERE ARE MY PROSTAFFERS
Heck looked like you were holding your own pretty good. Figgured we'd jump in when you are in trouble. :chuckle:
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WHERE ARE MY PROSTAFFERS
Heck looked like you were holding your own pretty good. Figgured we'd jump in when you are in trouble. :chuckle:
I thought you could handle it "Jordan". Do you really need Pippen? lol
Just found out about this. Might have to get after them,.
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Well I got one a couple of weeks ago behind boneaddicts house.Nov14
The 7mm08 really messed him up.
Sorry guys no pics.
Slenk
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Well BullElk and I just got back from a succesful week long Elk Archery hunt and I took this pic on the way back.We would rather have shot them but didn't know the landowners. Could have been a possible double.
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YEAH one fro the prostaff...I should give extra credit for killing it in my backyard.
and one more for the assassins for there double in a pic
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Here's one from today, Saw it loping at about 360 yrds and at 401 lasered yrds I barked and it stopped and turned broadside. SageBrushStalker shooting from the prone position with his Howa 22-250 put the bullet where it counted.
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Went out yesterday and had about 5 howling and cutting up in a timbered draw below, but no one wanted to play.
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Dang. At least you know where they are. Better take Bobcat with ya and get both of you yippin up above and maybe they would make their move.
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well if I could shoot I'd have 2 points! I missed my second coyote of the s4eason this afternoon :bash: Called it in CLOSE and flatassed missed it. I think maybe I'll take up golf! JB
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Way to educate them jdb. :chuckle:
Big10, am I off on your guys count. I see him holding up 10, I have you for 8???
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Just started following the thread.
Come on bone, how about making West side dogs worth twice the points?
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They are only half the size though Ice, and besides, after reading about cooking them up I'm not sure I have the stomache for this anymore. LOL
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Ahhhh, it was worth a try....Sorry Wetsiders!
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Big10, am I off on your guys count. I see him holding up 10, I have you for 8???
No you are right, That's his total count since Sept 29th. SageBrushstalker and BullElk do have 3 that they got on Nov 3rd that they haven't posted yet though. Maybe they are waiting to send his disposable camera in to get developed. :dunno:
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So what will he do when he hits 11? :dunno: Or a scarier thought 21? :o
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So what will he do when he hits 11? :dunno: Or a scarier thought 21? :o
Yep, I don't think I would want to see his "21st" coyote. :yike:
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Selah guy need help? i could get you some private sheep rancher land.... lemme know :dunno:
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A little help would be nice. :chuckle: I think I cleaned out my areas already this year. :bdid:
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Got out today and knocked down this guy!!!! We're calling ourselves team J.R. SLAYERS!
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Me and buddy Joel found an AWESOME area with literally tons of yotes running around! We hunted some canyons, saw this guy and one other, then two more in another draw, and two others a long ways away... Took a couple pokes at two that were a solid 600 yards away or more but of course we missed. Got darn close to 'em though! lol Its all private ground that we got permission to hunt so we'll be heading back up there after christmas break!
Also, we saw two at the head of a canyon, we went and got setup a draw over and tried callin them in... They came to the top of the ridge, layed down and just chilled. They had no interest in our calls whatsoever. We tried fawn/rabbit distress, as well as some howling but they just weren't having it. Whats the best way to hunt call shy yotes? I know they didn't see or smell us, so we were stumped.
Michael
TEAM JR SLAYERS!
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that doesnt count!!! its half wolf, lol :chuckle: nice dog man
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Kind of long winded,
SageBrushstalker and myself decided to make another attempt after yesterday's futile hunt with high winds and horizontal snow, On the way in this am we were busting snow drifts up to 2 or 3 feet high, luckily they were just dry powder and were doing okay until we hit one that was over the hood, Couldn't see where we were going and SageBrushstalker's excellent driving skills put us out in a wheatfield. :chuckle: Got back on the road and the pickup had lost the powersteering, brakes, and started overheating and losing coolant. We immediately thought the serpentine belt broke. Well it was 6 degrees out the wind was around 9 mph, no house in the immediate area and we thought Oh Shi*. After popping the hood we saw that luckily the belt just came off, but the engine compartment was packed with snow. After using a windshield scraper to get enough snow from around the crankshaft pulley and the other pulleys and idler wheels we managed to get the belt back on after reading the diagram 4 or 5 times. We put more antifreeze in the radiator and back to hunting, frozen fingers and all. Got to our calling area and the first set came up empty, 2nd set at the 9 min mark a coyote came in to my extreme right at 40 yds and I barely had time to bring the gun around and fire, a nice sized and furred coyote but was sort of pink in the belly and the tip of it's tail fur was gone, probably early stages of mange. Next couple of sets were dry. 5th set after about 20 minutes of calling I pulled out a couple of new calls (Tweety and Psycho Tweety) and tried them out SageBrusherstalker pulled out a new Thumper call and gave a couple of squalls. I happened to look over to SageBushstalker's extreme right and a coyote was closing in fast at about 50 yards, it made a about face and headed back the way it came. We both turned to shoot it at about 100yards and somehow we both missed :dunno: :chuckle: Anyway on to the next set, about 20 minutes into the last set we're watching a couple of deer 300 yards below us and are just getting ready to get up when Sagebrushstalker sees a coyote about 600 yards coming our way. A couple of lipsqueeks and the coyote keeps coming but holds up directly below the deer. The doe stomps her feet and the coyote decides it doesn't want to play anymore and heads back, we give it a couple of warning shots just to help it on it's way. After a couple of minutes of explaining to each other why we missed it was time to move on. After about twenty yards SageBrushstalker looks back and another coyote had crested the ridge at about 400yards and was heading out the same way as the first one. We didn't think it should leave without a warning shot or two either. After collecting our brass we went another 20 yards or so and SageBrushstalker looked back again and a 3rd coyote was making it's way down the ridge, another warning shot and we headed back to the pickup. Saw 7, called in 5 shot 1. I think the coyotes won today's encounters.
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Its a good thing we don't deduct for misses. :chuckle:
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Here are those pics I promised early....Nothing special, but at least I got a "shot at them". First one, talk about good camo
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This one would have been hard to hit. He was making up ground fast.
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OK finally on the board. Bagged out on Bighorns2bushytails because of the wind yeasterday so I had to go today since it was so calm. 1st set I called in a triple. This one winded me at about 150 yards and when she turned I thumped her. Her buddy took off at the shot but the third sat for a second at about 200-220. I got the crosshairs on it and as soon as I did he took of. I flung a hail mary but didn't connect. Actually had a lot of action, later a loner came in behind me straight under me, I had the bipods out and couldn't get a bead and he busted me. A shotty would have been nice probably 30 yards straight down. I had several talking to me all day long but they were too far and wouldn't come. FINALLY had a great hunt. Geez, I've really sucked this year.
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Bighorns, I know EXACTLY where we're going sunday. Get ready for a hike. I drug this dog about 2 miles. Bummed you couldn't come. You working stiffs got it bad.
Bighorns2bushytails and I will be a team. JJhunter had talked about joining up. Also maybe MHWASH and sagedawg. Let me know guys.
Team: Can't Hit Shat. :chuckle:
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Nice job GP. If I am ever able to score a dog I will join your team, but until then I won't drad you down. :chuckle:
Did you try out those 60s in the AR today?
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Yeah i did. Dog didnt even twitch. Thats what i like to see.
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Gutpile, I am on board. I shot one last Saturday, so that makes two for us. I snuck him in out stubble field, he was pretty dumb. I ended up sneaking to within 100 yards of him and dumped him while he was mousing. Hopefully, we get some good calling days this weekend.
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Way to go jj
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Thanks. That is a sweet lookin' 'yote rig you got there. Good luck this weekend - we have some catching up to do!
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How bout trying to call them within bow range? Any ideas?
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Full camo, good back drop to break up your outline, lip squeak them in close, and maybe a decoy. :dunno:
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So Slenk, are you going to kill that *censored* anytime soon. He walked on my sidewalk last night in the fresh snow and took a dump next to my polarbear. (3d blackbear target thats rednecked)
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got one at work today, but no cam, sorry guys... big male too! :chuckle:
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I was out for awhile yesterday. I saw a coyote run over a hill as I was driving and stopped and called a little and she came back over the hill. She sat down and I had a 180 yard shot head on. I am real dissapionted in the Varmint Grenades, but this is the first one I have shot with them. There is a BIG hole on the otherside of this young female. The bullet hit the shoulder as she was sitting looking down in my direction. She dropped and never wiggled, but a lot of damage to the hide.
Only saw one other at about a mile and would not respond to a call, but was a good day. We have at least another foot of snow today down here.
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Called in a big one from about 1000 yards. He hung up at 402. I decided to let one fly and must have shot right over him. He started running at me for a second. Dang it :bash: :bash: I need to practice my shooting.
I managed to get a shot of him at 402 before I took a crack.
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I just noticed that there is a cant hit shat group. Man would I fit in. I have missed 5 dogs already. Only whacked one. I am going to sta :chuckle:rt takign pictures instead
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he looks planted dwn alright, its like someone held up there hand with a scooby snack and said, "SIT!" nice pics though!
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I have missed one at 150yd not long ago then revived my self by shooting one at 502 (if I remember right) :chuckle:. My friend at work say he sees two every morning on some guy's hay field but the guy wont let you hunt. :bash:
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there is a dead pile at the dairy i work at, and the guys have been telling me to go there during the evening 4:30-6 or so cause they have been havin alot of yoties... so tonight i was up on top of a pile of bails, nothing came in so at about 6:30 i decided it was time to go. the stack of bails was stacked in two teers i guess you would say, each teer is about 8-9ft tall. i jump off one, and off the next and walked about 50ft towards my truck, and felt a "burning" in my crotch, lol. when i got to my truck, i jump up i it, and it felt like someone stabbed me on my pelvec bone. so not only did i get burned, but im goin to the DOC's to make sure the "burning" on my CROTCH is normal... which im sure its just a pulled muscle or something.
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Well Finally after 4 stands this guy showed up I waas real surprised it was as slow as it was. It was 11 degrees and clear but I couldnt call a dog in to save my ass. Im glad he showed or i would have spent the night out there spot lighting. Long shot on this dog too........ 31 yards :chuckle:
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a point for demontang or team selah.
1.5 points for the forum
(let me know if I don't give your team the point.)
I also screwed up the other day and only gave Slenk one point. He is officially an old timer which means his points are double, so I am adding one to the prostaffers column.
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Hey! I'm on cant hit shat. Lol!
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was out today too freakn cold lol, wind about killed me lol
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Dang it was cold today, We started out in –3 deg weather and a 12mph northern wind. BullElk finally decided to contribute to the team and he ended up with 2, SageBrushstalker piled up one and all I got was cold. Here’s the coyote pics. My camera’s batteries died in the cold weather so these are phone pics. I'm headed for the hottub with some Crown Royal and NO ICE.
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EXCELLENT GUYS!
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Boneaddict, I got out this morning. There was a yote within 25 yards. He went back into the brush and then eyeballed me from within the blackberry bushes. I had my bow but there was no good shot. I might go back out with my pistol next time. Oh well.
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Well I went out in the freezing weather and found all sorts of tracks but never go a coyote to come in. I did manage to step in a den hole that was cover with snow and hurt my knee, my leg went in up to just past my knee :o. I know why I haven't been seeing anything now as well, some one has found my spots. :dunno:
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The weather turned into such a good day for hunting coyotes I talked myself into putting off my Christmas stuff and went out. Got my first one at a dead run at 263 lasered yards. He was almost to the top of the hil behind me and he took it in the bottom of his chest. The next one I called in and when he stopped at 78 yrds I got him right in the boiler room. The 2nd one was a dinker, They kept getting smaller so I figured if I got a 3rd one it would hard to tell from a jackrabbit so I quit and came home.
Sorry for the cutoff pic of the 1st so I included a pic of how it piled up. The 2nd one was really small but I'm claiming my point anyway. By the way how do you like my new camo top. :chuckle: Today's gun was a .243 shooting a 65gr V-max at 3719 fps. Definitely not fur friendly by sure does the DRT.
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You're NUTS! Damn good coyote hunting weather I agree. Yesterday even better, bt damn its cold out there.
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Excellent Ray. Kill that bugger. I might get out tomorrow, but probably only with the lens.
I sent your teamate after two of them Demontang. Hope he gets them. I had 4 run up my driveway in the night last night. They'll screw up one of these days.
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Thanks, I think I found a new spot to try over the 5day weekend :IBCOOL:
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I need to hit the lottery so I can get after them more often. You guys are killing me. Great work everyone. I love the piled up pictre big10.
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does this count? i shot it a few days ago so its frozen stiff but i just got my camera for x-mas, lol if it counts i guess its for the selah crew...
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You guys are a bunch of coyote shootin' fools! Good job!
:mgun: :mgun2:
Die Vermin!!!!!!
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That one looks like he ate a bunch of linked sausages whole :chuckle: :chuckle:
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haha! yeah, first shot was a running one ended up in the gut. he ran about 200 yds laid down and gave me a nice 300yd'er or so, that went in his ear.
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Here is one I shot yesterday.
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Way to go JJ. I'm getting cabin fever in a bad way.
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nice job. i got one on film. will post his pic shortly. I am sue Team Selah will appreciate the help and the cant hit shat are on the board with another
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i'll be at this weekend to help us catch up. i know how to get the westside coyote's. have a killer shotgun want to try. a 835 mossberg turkey special it has fire site's short barrel abnd a thumbhole stock shooting 3 1/2 dead coyote load's great :drool: for calling. Rick
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Have fun Rick. We all win when a yote bites the dust
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I love the dog shooting guys good work! I've never really done any but was thinking about trying to get into it, just have always had a problem with shooting something that I'm not going to eat, or do anything with for that matter. What do all you guys do with your dogs? I agree that they need to be managed, esspecially on a year like this when deer pops are down and theres lots of snow, but I just struggle with the idea of shooting and leaving any animal. Any input?
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When I shoot a coyote (not that it's happened this year) I save it for the fur while it's in season. When the fur is no good, I leave em lay. Buzzurds gotta eat too, same as the worms.
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wack em and stack em guys. anyone gonna kill something christmas day?
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I love the dog shooting guys good work! I've never really done any but was thinking about trying to get into it, just have always had a problem with shooting something that I'm not going to eat, or do anything with for that matter. What do all you guys do with your dogs? I agree that they need to be managed, esspecially on a year like this when deer pops are down and theres lots of snow, but I just struggle with the idea of shooting and leaving any animal. Any input?
Who says you cant eat them? there back straps are delictable ;)
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Here is a half point for the forum team. I would have shot him but he was right next to the road.
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I'm throwin me in. time to kill some dogs.
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:yeah: :yeah: :yeah:. I have about 4 or 5 behind my house that I need to kill ;)
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I got three coyotes on film today. MAYBE 4 I have to check to see if one of the pics turned out as it was fast. I'll chalk up 1.5 points for the team until I see if the other turned out.
These cows were hot on this coyotes ass. There were three of them in this pack, and the other two came along, but the elk were onto this one.
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Burr, it was cold today, -1 when my boy and I got out of the truck about 10:00 am. Made several calls before one unlucky yote happened to responded to my sorry attempt of a dying rabbit. As luck happened, I hit him in the left eye at 171 yards. He dropped right where he was standing. Second pic is where he just dropped in his tracks.
Looks like I need to change the date on my camera.
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Hey, You're going out and not taking me? :dunno: :chuckle: That's a good sized coyote and has some really nice fur. Congrats
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I can't keep up with you guys. I need to be packing the rifle instead of this damn camera. That one looks like he has some long ass hair on him. NICE
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Bone,
Nice pics...good looking wolf! Oh wait, this isn't the tree huggin, hippie, flower sniffer web site, sorry. Don't let the game dept. see you "harrassing" an endangered species....You need to be smackin that guy with some hot lead instead of the zoom! ha ha.
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is that seriously a wolf?! are you yankin my chain... :hunt2: i got bad eyes, cant tell
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Here's a nice male weighing in the low 30's from today, BullElk,SageBrushStalker and I went out and tried to call in a few. Only this guy came to the call. Heard a lot of howling and saw a total of 11 coyotes. One of them laid down and just watched us calling from about 630 yds. After about a half hour of that we sent a 55gr and a 65gr his way. Close but not quite. :chuckle: Looks like they may be starting to run in packs now. Don't know if it's too early yet for them to start mating but kinda looks like the start of it. Shot at 150 yrds with the .243 65gr Vmax. Starting to like that gun :chuckle:
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Just a dang nice coyote I wish I would have had the 25 for instead of the camera.
Nice shootin guys. Yeah they are packin' up
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Just a dang nice coyote I wish I would have had the 25 for instead of the camera.
Nice shootin guys. Yeah they are packin' up
We need to start packing a camera outside of our packs, Could have had 4 or 5 pics today.
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my nieghbor saw 5 xmas day all runnin togeather I thought to mself "isnt it early for them to be packin up?" guess not
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Its more fun to shoot them big10.
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all ready to go jdb? i got everything ready sitting at the foot of my bed ready to rock. :chuckle:
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sorry, i had to show you guys this pic. i knew you would like it... :chuckle:
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Thats a great pic, I know I'm ready to go. I have the AR ready and the old 870 has the full choke and coming too.
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awesome! i just bought that bipod from Hammers friday and was takin some pics when the little one decided he wanted to test it out... im not one to say no to him
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here is one I dumped today with the 22 hornet. 179 yards. I saw 14 dawgs today all were to far to shoot at with the hornet but I did manage to blow a leg off of one at 300 yards. You dont suppose that is worth anything.
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if you get a pic of the leg i think that is worth ATLEAST .5!!! lol :chuckle: :chuckle:
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I guess it did not detach but it was flailing pretty good. :chuckle: :chuckle:
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i shot one in the leg last summer, never found it must of laid down in the sage). came back to the same place saw one running (slowly) away from me, texas heart shot it. i walked up to and it was the same coyote but it had chewed its front leg off clean... i didnt look good, but i was amazed that it did that. ive heard of it, but never saw it before.
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ya they will rip their own guts out also. I have seen that twice.
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nice gun/dawg by the way RED DAWG! :chuckle:
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thanks bro, I saw what you got for christmas. Looks like you did alright.
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thats all i got, lol
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Red Dawg, what's the story behind that nice looking 22 Hornet? It's not a Savage, is it?
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no it is a ruger model 77/22 all weather with a 3-9 vari-x II
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is that basicly a 22 mag.?
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no quite a bit more than a 22 mag, it is centerfire. Just a little less velocity than a 223. I am fairly good out to 300 yards( at least blow legs off :chuckle:). But it is a death ray at 200
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haha, awesome. anything that blows legs off at 300yds is good enough for me. :chuckle:
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:chuckle: :chuckle:
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You going to be part of Team Selah since you are in teh hood, or are you contributing to the forum team RedDawg
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doesnt matter just having some fun.
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Well go have some more fun and kill a few more. I'll add your point to the forum.
Huntwa Prostaff........19
forum....................10
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................16
Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg.......3
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No luck today, we called in 4 coyotes shot at 2 and hit 2 but not good enough to put them down. One left behind a lot of blood and the other left parts behind as it ran away, Man they are some tough animals :yike:. I think next time the .338 win is coming out to anchor them :o
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i'll be hunting selah to ellensberg. for three to five day's. i'll be after cougar and bobcat's mainly. but will be testing call's on coyote's to. should do well. Rick
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Yes you should, but I'd rather you shoot coyotes than bobcats.
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I guess we need to add one to the forum team.
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Guys,
Here is a fresh coyote kill from today, and it is my first ever. Shot with modern rifle (obviously). Add a point to one of the field teams on my behalf.
Very odd, to my way of thinking, but I recovered the copper jacket from my .204 dia 40gr Vmax from a point just under the hide- at the entrance wound. The exist wound was "gaping", yet there it was, just under the hide as I skinned the animal. The range was 200 yards.
Is it really possible to strip the jacket, going in? I am kind of hoping "not", but there was no lack of penetration in the end (as there was a large exit wound).
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.pocketinet.com%2F%7Eivar%2Fphotos%2FFirstCoyoteSitting.jpg&hash=d91e442e645199655df6d03ce7a115671ae16962)
Ivar in Richland, WA
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Well done guys. Congrats on your first Ivar.
Huntwa Prostaff........19
forum....................12
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................16
Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg.......3
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I shot three on Friday morning. All three were running shots 200 - 310 yards. I knocked a 4th down at 628 yards running straight away, but he managed to get over the hill and it would have taken 30 minutes to get up and over to him (2 feet of snow). I take my little brother and he runs the Swarovski rangefinder and gives out continuous ranges - makes it nice!
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i hope your on selahs team, lol nice shooting man.
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Is that BRAIN I see? Nice shoot'n :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Nice going!
Looks like you can apparantly hit something :)
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forum....................12
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................16
Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg.......6
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I gotta give most of the credit to that little Cooper - it handles like a dream in the field. Yeah, that is pretty gruesome head shot. I shot the one on the far left pretty far up on the neck-line, guess I was leading them a little too much.
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Here's one from late this afternoon, BullElk and I went out. He called it in to approx 100 yds and dropped it with his 22-250.
She was in heat so the mating is on
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i noticed he has less clothing on today. :DOH: its worming up way to much for me.
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i noticed he has less clothing on today. :DOH: its worming up way to much for me.
Yep, We'll have crunchy snow now after it freezes again. That sucks.
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Nice animal
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Man everyone seem to have hit something but me :bash:
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ill those shots i heard today from 2-3 miles away had to hit something, i think moxee coyotes are extra tough lil *censored*s...
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Well I found blood and parts but no body :dunno: :P
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Very nice job JJ. BTW what are you shooting them with? One looks like a Cooper and the other looks like an H&S Prec.
Sage
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Time to kill em' before they make babies!
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forum....................12
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................17
Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg.......6
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Very nice job JJ. BTW what are you shooting them with? One looks like a Cooper and the other looks like an H&S Prec.
Sage
You are exactly right, Sage. A Cooper Montana Varminter in .204 and my custom .300 win with an H.S. stock.
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Here's one from this morning, Another runner. He was going directly away from me and at 219 yrds he did a right turn and slowed to a lope, I gave him a 32gr .204 pill to swallow. Started snowing so hard I came home.
Todays gun was a EBR :chuckle: shooting a 32gr at 4160 fps. The upper is a Model 1 w/ 24 in heavy barrel. A Stag lower with Rock River parts including the NM trigger. Of course I'm wearing my lucky skull camo jacket again.
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Here is two from the 26th. It was cold and the dogs were hungry. Had a lot of fun
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Gosh darnit. Everyone's whacking em good and I am missing out. I got up on one about an hour ago. I took a shot at about 50 yards with my pistol but missed. Maybe I can sneak away from home later this week and go east.
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going to wait till the weekend to go to the eastsiside. Foxpro is shipping my Fury tomorrow would like to be the first person to get a cougar with one. sure are some great picture's.if it quit's raining i'll try to get out here. Rick
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Cool skull camo Big10guage.. ;)
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Better hurry up Ray, these guys are getting hard to stay ahead of. Timberstalker I can't rembeber if you are on another team so I gave your points to the forum.
Huntwa Prostaff........19
forum....................14
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................18
Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg.......6
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Who wants another competetion? I was dreaming about this today while wandering around int he fog. We joked about it earlier, but I am ready.
Here's how it works....
Since there is no money involved and its just healthy competetion, and more for fun thatn anything, I will be the sole judge and jury so if there is a problem, contact me.
It will run from Nov1 thru April 30th
Scoring will be as follows....
A coyote kill with a rifle(modern...including shotgun) is 1 point
A coyote kill with a Muzzelloader or compound bow is 5 points
A coyote killed with Trad gear (longbow, recurve, Flintlock) 10pts
A photo of a coyote that is not killed is worth 1/2 point.
Kids 14 and under and oldtimers 65 and older get double points.
A photo of the kill will be very much appreciated but at this point NOT an absolute requirement.
Teams.....
So far it is the Hunting Washington.com Pro staff(moderators/admins and family). versus the Forum members. You guys can form individual teams if you wish. Let me know, such as the Moses lake lights out boys, or the Polarbear express.....Family members (first line like AK rules....brother, daughter, father etc. ) can be members of the team, specia=fically for the prostaff team, as anyone can be on other teams. In other words Idabooner, and Lil bone or Robs daughter (his choice on WF70) can be on our team.....
Family member has to be a member on this forum in order to be part of the team.
Post a pic of your kill or your success on here and I'll keep tabs on the running score.
This is just for fun. If no one is interested or have other modifications or input, let me know.
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This morning I called this one in. I couldn't get a shot as he was a little bit far.
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Well at least you got a picture. How far was it?
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60 yards. Needs to be about 25 to hit with my bow in the no firearms zone. I had another encounter the other day but still no connection as it was in the blackberry bushes again. Looking to go out tomorrow and have a look about on the east side of the Cascades.
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BTKR and I had one at 25 yards today. It's no longer alive. :) I'll let BTKR post the pictures and story.
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Count one for the Huntwa team.
Here is a link to the story and pics.
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,17319.new.html#new
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Big surge from the prostaff! SWEET. I can imagine that that darn Sagebrush assasins team will be loggin in with some confimed kills shortly. I tracked a wolf yesterday for about a mile. I was wondering how many points you guys would give me if I got it on film.
Huntwa Prostaff........20.5
forum....................14
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................18
Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg.......6
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Well we wouldn't want to disappoint you Bone :chuckle:
SageBrushStalker, BullElk and I headed out at 4:30 am. It was –2 degrees at the first set. By the time SageBrushStalker said his toes were frozen and BullElk was shaking so hard from the cold he couldn’t shoot, and we were blowing our calls just to try to keep our lips from freezing up, SageBrushStalker spots a coyote slowly meandering along the fence line looking at the decoy trying to decide if it would taste good. It was on SageBrushStalker’s side so he's trying to set his crosshairs on it as the coyote is weaving around fenceposts and barbwire, he takes the shot at 126 yrds and piles it up with his 22-250. Next set had several barking at us like we were busted. We kept calling and one finally came up the draw to 60 yrds at about the 25 min mark. BullElk must have thought it was too easy at that range so he gave it a warning shot forcing the coyote to run straight away till it made to 109 yrds where he dumped it with his 22-250. BullElk said he planned it that way and who are we to say otherwise since we have devised the same identical plan before ourselves. Anyway the coyote hit the ground so hard it bounced. We had a couple dry sets, then on the next set BullElk calls and a coyote jumps up 70 yrds to our left and takes off. Another coyote comes in and parallels that one and turns broadside and stops, assuming it was safe by somehow knowing that it was my turn to shoot. It turned out that it wasn’t the coyote’s best assumption that day as the .204 dropped it in it’s tracks at 269 yrds.
SageBrushStalker and his coyote
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BullElk’s coyote bounce
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BullElk’s coyote
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BullElk took this pic catching me warming up my trigger finger
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Big10ga’s coyote
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I give the bounce a "10" Thats BAD A$$!! Looks like you guys had a blast
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you gotta do what you gotta do to keep your trigger finger warm. they must be making yoties outta rubber on that side of the state now... bouncy lil buggar
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3 more for you guys puts you in the lead unless the moderators get something going.
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Great job guys!
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This guy knew he was safe just sitting there at 183yrds on private property behind No Hunting signs.
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my son's first coyote. add to forum(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10871/january_2009_0010.jpg)
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sweet. thats a healthy one. almost looks like a house pet.
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Not sure I'd believe it Big 10 if you guys didn't have pics. LOL NICE JOB! Looks like the forum team is finally taking backseat tothe assasins. Ray would you go shoot that coyote with your longbow. :)
Huntwa Prostaff........20.5
forum....................15
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................21
Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg.......6
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I can't buy a coyote. Went out saturday and heard some but the snow was too deep for them to move around much. Saw more deer than anything else. Oh well..
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Here's one at 426 yrds. Decided to leave him for seed. Actually we got busted. :bash:
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This one would have been toast. I was on the clock and no rifle, go figure. :bash: :bash:
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Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg.......6
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Saw 2 together today and managed to get pics of both.
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I was walking up to check out a couple elk and snap some pics. They blew out as I crested a ridge. To bad I left my rifle in the truck. :bash:
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After 10 min's of calling, I saw this young female coming in very slowly at about 350 yards. She disappeared into a small draw at about 250 yard straight in front of me. Two min's later I saw her head appear 75 yard straight down the barrel of my gun. 15 seconds later all I saw was fur flying in the scope.
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Huntwa Prostaff........20.5
forum....................16.5
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................22.5
Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg.......6
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I didnt see any tonight but I know where they are now, hopfully I will have three in the morning.
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is it too late to join this, ive killed 12 coyotes from october till today. i only have 6 pictures to varify
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from Saturday morning
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a few days ago
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And one just inside a no hunting area
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Man talk about bad luck today. I called in 10 coyotes in 3 stands and only got a shot at one which I missed. I took my dog out with me and a coyote came to with in 5yds of me to my left and my dog got up and the yote took off running and I missed it at 200 yd broad side. I think that I need to stop shoting a gun and start taking picks :bash:
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is it too late to join this, ive killed 12 coyotes from october till today. i only have 6 pictures to varify
I dont think so!! from what I read you just post pictures of your kills on this thread......you didnt have to join by a certain date or anything from what i have read
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Here’s one from today. Bullelk and I went out and tried our luck even though it was a full moon and clear nights the last few days and on top of that all the snow has left. We figure we put in about 9 miles today. Thought we would have done better. I really don’t like the full moon for hunting coyotes as it seems that the coyotes are a lot harder to call. Anyway I got this one when we busted it out about 30yrds from us and the coyote ran straight away. I put it down at 126 yrds with the .204 as it didn’t seem to want to stop running. More to come when Bullelk posts his pics.
Edit: Wanted to add that we are down in our count from last year by a fair amount. A fellow coyote hunter verified with a game biologist what we had heard by the grapevine earlier was that parvo has hit the central washington area. :'(
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count your kills from Nov 1
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Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg.......6
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Will Big10 talked me into playing hookie from work today to try and lure some lazy, sun bathing yotes into good rifle range. The first yote was a young male how showed up out of no where, 95 yards. The second one showed up at 145 yards in the bottom of a small draw, in less then 60 seconds, must have been close to respond that fast. Big10 also harvested one, but a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
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Big10 also harvested one, but a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
Yeah, Well it's not that hard to find nuts :chuckle:
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LOl at least you can hint the nuts. :'(
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you been calling any lately demontang? i havent had time to go once since we went out the other day... :'(
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I have gone out 3 times, but would love to get back out there.
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got anything going on sunday? my girlfreind wants to go sunday, so you and your dad are more then welcome to join. you know where you can go and stuff, so you wouldnt need me to show you any more.
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I think that I'm clear on sunday I will have to tell my dad :)
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Huntwa Prostaff........20.5
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Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg.......6
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are they coming out of prime yet?
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The coyotes I saw last sunday where all great looking.
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Saw 4 today. 2 sets of 2. Dang no gun policy. Someone needs to follow me to work. :chuckle:
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and a pup from a few days ago
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are they coming out of prime yet?
Not over here, Most have nice guardhairs with good length and thickness, bellies are thick too. Bullelk's from Monday was not exactly prime but not bad
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Saw 4 today. 2 sets of 2. Dang no gun policy. Someone needs to follow me to work. :chuckle:
I would but the way its been going I would just scare them off :chuckle:
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Just put the smack down on one. I was on my way home from a tiny photo shoot and some observation and there was one out in the field next to my house. I stopped, took his pic then looked and looked for the other one. All of a sudden there he/she was. Laying there watching me. Well Dawg that will teach you. Ran home grabbed the first bullet I could find, grabbed the gun that match (180 grain hornady and 30-06) went back. He she was now at about 400 yards standing broadside. Sorry ......BOOM....... I guess I should have went and checked on the hide, maybe later. Then a third popped up. Damn, only had one bullet. The first was now watching from about 800 yards away..... I'll get pics up in a bit.
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lucky I only had one bullet
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You should be looking the other way little yote. Oh well, you'll be dead in about 4 minutes.
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first one
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Bone, So where's the pic of the dead one? At 400yrds maybe he just slept thru all your shooting and you just thought you got him. :chuckle: :chuckle: :yike:
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politics ;)
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Here’s one from today that had it’s force field on at maximum. BullElk emptied his clip showing how he really shoots under pressure but did manage to knock it down finally at about 320 yrds on his last shell. The coyote’s force field must have taken the bullet’s KE and morphed it into instant healing properties as it tried to take off. I proceeded to show my stability under pressure and missed on the first shot then connected on the second with the coyote ending up with all fours straight up. As we proceeded to go pick up the coyote it rolled over and sat up and tried to harness it’s force field again. Fortunately BullElk shot it before it could complete it’s morphing again. After looking at the hide there were 4 shots that had connected. It was a 37 lb male the biggest yet this year. We did call in another one hoping to get it in shotgun range for BullElk’s son for his first coyote. It decided not to play so my son took the shot at 147 yds. It started the spin maneuver indicating a hit further back than optimal and took off, we tried to connect again when it was spinning but no one could get on it with the sagebrush in the way. We looked for it for about an hour but no dice with the absence of snow. BullElk did mange to connect on two 350 lb hogs today with a .22 at about 2 ft, we'll be butchering them up tomorrow so don't expect any coyote pics from us that day :dunno:, Hope my trigger finger survives the bandsaw and BullElk's hand stays out of the cuber :chuckle:
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Thats the biggest yote I ahve seen killed this year. Nice one. I'll add it to the totals...
Huntwa Prostaff........22.5
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Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................27.5
Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg.......6
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Finally got a chance to go out again. It's been long enough I knew I would not be able to sit through a few calling stands, so instead I just walked around for a few hours. The first coyote was my first chance with my new .222. At the shot it dropped, and then ran off. Before I had a chance to do anything another one popped out. It was DRT. I then proceeded to trail the first. Thank goodness for the snow. This thing went about a half mile before it crossed the creek. At this point I had to get on my hands and knees to follow the trail . At one point I had to circle around a narrow spot and noticed the coyote did not come out. I had to jump the creek and get prone to look under this stump.
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Sure enough there she was. I had to turn my rifle sideways in order to get her in the scope.
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Before I could take a pic I had to wait for my batteries to warm up. So while I waited I went for another hike. While returning to the stump, two more coyotes showed up. The second and largest stopped for a shot.
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A nice trophy shot like this needs better coloration. I hope you like it. (I am not the pro at this, but like to help out.)
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My hunt today was not so successful.
-Ivar
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Tally another one for the team ;)
I got to break in my new t/c prohunter today with a little yote blood.
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This came in after 2 minutes of calling, thumped her looking straight at me at 197yards. She flipped over with her legs sticking straight up.
Man that 25-06 does a number on em 8)
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How many points is a wolf worth?
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How many points is a wolf worth?
:chuckle:
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Just kiddin' :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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How many points is a wolf worth?
:chuckle:
Probably 10 to who ever reports it. :yike: :chuckle:
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Went out today and called in one but didn't get a shot because he was on the other side of the fence (privet land) I tried to get a pic but it ran away before I could get the camera out :dunno:
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i saw some yotes yesterday. I was hiking up notellem creek and i saw this noice 3 point with eye guards, and then i walk out a finger to look over the edge and a yote jumps out about 15 feet infront of me and i start calling at it and it runs away. I looked overthe end of the finger and there was another one runnin' down hill. You know what the crappiest part is: i didnt have a gun. :dunno: :bash: but hey now i no where a few yotes are. later that day i found a couple dens too!
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you dont have a gun as in you dont own one or you didnt have one with you?
sounds like someone might need to go shopping :tup: :tup:
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Nice job guys, your really putting the hammer down on these fawn killers!
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called in a double today but had no shot and the pic turned out blur :bash:
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BullElk and I went out today and did 13 sets, On the 8th set I called in a double using my new axis call I got from Rick. Shot at 117 yrds on the first one facing me and 125 yrds on the 2nd running away. Only called in one more that couldn't have weighed more than 14 lbs on the last set. We let him go to grow up a little. (actually he gave us the slip).
First pic shows where they both landed(2nd one directly above the lower one about 10 yrds). I'm not going to comment on the 3 that I videoed but didn't press the record button.
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Score another for Team Can't Hit Shat.
Well it was the maiden voyage for the 220 swift and it was bitter sweet. Had a yote bust me while walking to my first stand and he just sat and looked at me for 10-15 minutes he was a long ways off and my rangefinder wouldn't read it. I figured 500 and gave it a poke. Well wouldn't you know, I hit it. But not very well. It bit at it's guts and did a couple spins and took off. Snow is mostly gone so couldn't track it but where it did cross snow there was blood but not much. I did range it finally at 511. Second was the same thing. Damn thing had me pegged at 404. Took another poke and missed clean. Usually don't shoot past 350 but these two wouldn't come in and just sat looking at me. Plus I hadn't even done a set yet, I was just walking in. Either I stood up and educated them or I try a shot and educate them. Oh'well. Finally make it to the 1st set and call one in but he winded me at 313 and as soon as I got the hairs on him he bolted. Barking wouldn't stop him. :bash: 4th set I finally called in this purdy dude. Took about 20 minutes and he came charging. He saw the decoy and just froze up. Sumbitch never did see me. I let him have it at 65 yards. Let me tell you that Swift hit him like a lightening bolt. It sure was fun to get out again. That damn storm really screwed things up down there.
Here's where I plugged it. See the little arrow dead center?
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Close up.
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Here's my pretty mug.
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Exit wound. 36 grain Varmint grenades. Sorry if too graphic. Lots of people ask about the V-Grenade so figured I'd post. Not too bad for a 65 yard shot at 4000+.
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Another of the dog cased with yours truly.
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Sorry for all the pics. Excited to finally get out again. Oh' and this is what I think of skinning these stinking dogs. :puke: :puke: But he had good fur. Think I'll hang him in the basement. Doubt the buyer will like the butcher job I did and he's pretty dark.
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Good job Mark. Nice to be back at it again isn't it.
Is that at the spot we met? Quite the contrast from the road to the river.
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Next ranch to the east but i parked where we met. Felt great to get out for sure.
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pretty cool pics im seeing, didnt know there was guys so devoted to killing yotes :tup:. headin out this weekend solo to see if i can out smart one
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What am I missing? I don't see any pictures from gutpile (#309). Were they taken down?
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Saw a total of 7 today but only managed to get pics of 2. Refer to my post in the Photography thread so I don't have to repost the pics. Could've had more pics but I was to busy lobbing rounds at a pair I saw right as I was parking the rig.
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OK, the pictures displayed (gutpile's batch, #309).
Good pics. I am jealous.
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Nice job there, H of T / Gutpile
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You found my alter ego. :chuckle: :chuckle: Kind of like that name but not as fitting over here as it is there.
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one more to add to forum. 34lb male. My biggest this year.
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looks like I am out of action. keep kicking butt. Makes us all winners.
Huntwa Prostaff........22.5
forum....................26.5
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................30.5
Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg,gutpile.......10
hope i did all that right. hard to keep track of you guys. GOOD SHOOTING
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Two more for can't hit shat.
The first one may have been one of the two I missed on tuesday. It was in the exact same place but wasn't so lucky today. I put a great stalk on it and got to 319 and slammed it. Actually had to hit it 3 times though. First shot was perfect but the bullet blew up on the shoulder. It was trying to get away and the second hit it back a bit but the 3rd ended it. I love those long shots!!! :chuckle:
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Called in this guy at my second to last set. It was a beautiful thing!! I howled a bit and noticed some deer get spooked out of there beds. They were looking at something and I figured it was a yote. About a minute passed and this guy came up onto the horizon. He sat for a bit so I did some squeeks and he closed a bit then stopped. Did some more squeeks and he started coming slowly. He started to downwind me and stopped in a snow bank at 135. Done deal. I'm loving this swift!!!!!! Can you say MANGE!! Yuk. :puke:
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that is a sorry looking #2 still fun.did you just buy a 204
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Nope, a 220 swift. He's a nasty bugger aint he?
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Huntwa Prostaff........22.5
forum....................26.5
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................30.5
Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg,gutpile.......12
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New to the site and love it. :) Gutpile told me about it so I'd like to add the yote I got last sat to his group. Having a little trouble loading the pic on so if it doesn't show up, some directions would be helpful. I am computer illiterate but I know how to use my guns. I shot this brainless pup at 200yds just high of the boiler room and got him to stop again at 330 by barking at him. I got a headshot that put him down. I don't know why he stopped after he was already hit. I thought the first was a miss till I skun him. Trying to learn to tan them but this one didn't work. I salted it and stretched it, then found it split while drying. I was using a stevens 22-250.(http://C:\Users\matt\Pictures\2009-01-23 Jan 09'\Jan 09' 001.JPG)
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Welcome aboard S E D. Nice looking yote!
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He sure is light colored..... WELCOME to the site.
Huntwa Prostaff........22.5
forum....................26.5
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................30.5
Team Selah.....................................................4
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg,gutpile,shootemdead.......13
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Missed one this morning at 208yds. :bash: After I found the front mount of my scope was loose. :bash: :bash:
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Add another for team Selah (should have been 3) :'(
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I shot four 'yotes yesterday. I only got pictures of two. A buddy of mine was hunting in a coyote derby and stole my two morning coyotes before I could get a picture. I started off the morning checking two dead cows - no coyotes! I couldn't believe it? I cruised back home and was going to do some calling in our canyons. but they were fogged in! Damn it. Jumped in the pickup and drove the the family farm. I managed to knock two coyotes down in the seeded ground (walking sucked). The first was running 200 yards straight away and the second was a 305 running left to right. I missed one running straight away at 350. After I bs'ed my buddies awhile (and they took my 'yotes), I headed back down to the river. It had snowed about 1" and cleared up. My brother and I spotted two coyotes on the top of the ridge and he ranged the back one at 425. He stopped for a split second and I sent him to 'yote heaven. The second coyote was about 1 mile down the canyon and was mousing at 416 yards. Almost the same shot I had 1/2 hour before. I gave him a 10" hold over, touched one off, and sent him into a 5o yard death run. 4 coyotes was not too bad for a slow, slow start. Here are the two river dogs:
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BullElk,SageBrushStalker and myself went out and logged in 19 hours hunting time this weekend. Saw 28 coyotes, 9 of them in one draw. We were busting them out like quail. Temperature ranged from 13 deg to 24 deg with a 6 to 11 mph wind and crunchy snow and really noisy. All the action was on Sat morning. SageBrushStalker did the calling on a set and a double came in. I took the first shot at 210 yrds he got the 2nd at 220 as it took off running. I had decided to tube mine out since it was a nice male prime pelt so SageBrushStalker walked over to the next draw and kicked one out. He put it down at 320 yrds. It was the ugliest dog I've seen all year. :chuckle:
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Bone, I think you saw the thread but add a point to the mods.
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,18967.new.html#new
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Holy crud....can't even keep count
I'm adding BTKRs ugliest coyote too.
Huntwa Prostaff........23.5
forum....................26.5
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................33.5
Team Selah.....................................................5
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg,gutpile,shootemdead.......17
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I shot four 'yotes yesterday. I only got pictures of two. A buddy of mine was hunting in a coyote derby and stole my two morning coyotes before I could get a picture. I started off the morning checking two dead cows - no coyotes! I couldn't believe it? I cruised back home and was going to do some calling in our canyons. but they were fogged in! Damn it. Jumped in the pickup and drove the the family farm. I managed to knock two coyotes down in the seeded ground (walking sucked). The first was running 200 yards straight away and the second was a 305 running left to right. I missed one running straight away at 350. After I bs'ed my buddies awhile (and they took my 'yotes), I headed back down to the river. It had snowed about 1" and cleared up. My brother and I spotted two coyotes on the top of the ridge and he ranged the back one at 425. He stopped for a split second and I sent him to 'yote heaven. The second coyote was about 1 mile down the canyon and was mousing at 416 yards. Almost the same shot I had 1/2 hour before. I gave him a 10" hold over, touched one off, and sent him into a 5o yard death run. 4 coyotes was not too bad for a slow, slow start. Here are the two river dogs:
Dang JJ was going to see if you wanted to hook up saturday. I didn't have anybody to hunt with and sat home. Guess I should have contacted you. Great job!!!
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Good job to you as well! I wanted to enter a 'yote derby, but didn't have a full team so I just had my own derby on Saturday. You should have sent me a PM, we might have won?
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What a bummer!! I talked myself out of it. Had some honey do's and my props are pretty much in need of a rest. Didn't want to give you the impression I was trying to get into your hunting grounds as I don't have any to offer. I'll get with you next time though. Looks like I'm booked up next weekend but if you can get away during the week let me know.
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3 more for the forum. Another 34 pounder, got him at 402 yards with the .204.
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STUD!!!
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Yeah, but what do you think about his big yote? ;)
STUD!!!
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Geeze nice shooting guys. I need to get out there and get a few. :rolleyes:
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Huntwa Prostaff........23.5
forum....................29.5
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................33.5
Team Selah.....................................................5
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg,gutpile,shootemdead.......17
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Someone should hit the YTC that place is loaded with dogs.
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I shot four 'yotes yesterday. I only got pictures of two. A buddy of mine was hunting in a coyote derby and stole my two morning coyotes before I could get a picture. I started off the morning checking two dead cows - no coyotes! I couldn't believe it? I cruised back home and was going to do some calling in our canyons. but they were fogged in! Damn it. Jumped in the pickup and drove the the family farm. I managed to knock two coyotes down in the seeded ground (walking sucked). The first was running 200 yards straight away and the second was a 305 running left to right. I missed one running straight away at 350. After I bs'ed my buddies awhile (and they took my 'yotes), I headed back down to the river. It had snowed about 1" and cleared up. My brother and I spotted two coyotes on the top of the ridge and he ranged the back one at 425. He stopped for a split second and I sent him to 'yote heaven. The second coyote was about 1 mile down the canyon and was mousing at 416 yards. Almost the same shot I had 1/2 hour before. I gave him a 10" hold over, touched one off, and sent him into a 5o yard death run. 4 coyotes was not too bad for a slow, slow start. Here are the two river dogs:
You gave dogs to your buddies to enter in their derby? I dont mean to sound like an ass and mean no offense but no wonder I never win those derbies. I been doing it all wrong :chuckle:
Nice shooting by the way!
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You don't sound like an ass at all. To tell you the truth, I was going to enter the derby, but the cheating has gotten so bad that it is impossible to win. I asked if they wanted my coyotes kinda joking and they grabbed them so fast it made my head spin. They were not the only ones, two rigs drove by my house and turned the spotlights about 1/2 mile down the road. This was at 6 p.m. on Friday night and the derby didn't start til daylight on Saturday! I decided right then that I would not enter. I won with 4 dogs three years ago, but now the pot has gotten so big that it takes ten to win. Some of the 'yotes look and smell a week old! Four coyotes is a good day for one guy but wouldn't hold a candle in a derby.
I use the term "buddies" lightly. How about aquaintances?
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are we talking about the moses tournament? A guy from selh won it a couple years ago and knowing this guy he cheated for sure.
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I decided not to play in them anymore either. Too much cheating makes it very tough. When guys bring in 24 dogs in 24 hours somethings fishy. Too bad they have to be that way cause it could be alot of fun. I hear they are using thermometers in the bigger derbies now, that might be ok.
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My buddy and I used to participate in a tournament in Hooper several years ago, but the cheating was bad (11 dogs in 18 hours) tough to do. To help level the playing field they started awarding the biggest male as the first place winner, the biggest female second place, smallest male 3rd, smallest female 4th and the most yotes 5th. It did help a little because the honest team still had a chance, even if they only shoot 3 yotes. I loved the derby, after hunting all night and day they had a big get together with a spaghetti feed and plenty of beer. Plus can you imagine all the stories of the days activities after a few beers. It was great.
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I went out today, it was a great day for calling, cool, clear and no wind but things just didn't happened. I made about 6 good sets, no responses not sure what was going on. :dunno: Did happened to stumble on this poor little guy sun bathing himself at 325 yds. Saw one shot one, could have been worst.
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Scored two today. Maybe 3??? :bash: :dunno:
First set I called a loner in at about 300 yards and it wouldn't close. It was skylined so I let it walk. Decided to head where it headed and stumbled on a threesome. The first saw me. The second and 3rd didn't. I popped one of them at 240 and it took off running. :bash: :bash: I knew I hit because it bit and whirled but took off. I did manage to find it about 100-150 away piled up in the stubble. I hit it perfect! I've NEVER seen a coyote go that far with a boiler room hit. The damage was incredible on the exit. I'm just dumbfounded. The pelt was ruined, boiler room hit and it made it that far? Weird.
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This was a hot female the male kept calling for her and I was able to howl him in. I still don't know what happened here. It was a 150 yard easy shot. I heard the report after the shot, but he ran up over a hill into a stubble field. WTF!!! :bash: :bash: I circled the stubble and could not find that damn yote. So geuss it doesn't count. It was running hurt too. The only thing I can figure is that I splashed on the shoulder. If we had any snow left it would have been easy but I guess thats how it goes. Still pissed about that. I just can't figure it out.
#2 I sniped him at about 330 but couldn't get pics. Batteries died in the camera. Smallish male nothing spectacular.
I'm dog tired and a little PO'd. Gonna go take a nap.
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Nice job Mark. Still using those Varmint Gernades?
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yep. I'm not as happy with them as I was after the first dog. Think I'm gonna go back to the 52 match hollows after I shoot these up. They do the trick but I've really been blowing up these last few coyotes. They shoot VERY well, but boy howdy do they make a mess with the swift.
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Chalk up two more for team Cant Hit Shat.
Howled in my first coyote today. To bad it was on the wrong side of the river. I was planning on mounting the first one I howled in.
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The second one I happened upon while walking to my next set. It wa about 40 yards away and had no idea.
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Nice, took the 250 out today huh?
We called in a group of 4 on our 1st and second sets. They hung at 400 yards from me though and I let them walk. My buddy never saw them on the 1st set. On the second I put him about 200 yards downwind of me but he missed a shot at one of the dogs. After that it was a bust. Started to get cold cold cold and windy. Bummer day but it was exciting to call in 4 at a time.
I played with that first group of dogs for at least 20 minutes but they just wouldn't come closer than 400 yads. :bash:
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Long shots were possible so I took the -250. The first was the longest, and it was around 200.
Four in one stand, thats awesome. I've had that happen once and it was along time ago. Didn't shoot one then either.
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Huntwa Prostaff........23.5
forum....................29.5
Sagebrush Assassins (Big10gauge, BullElk and SageBrushStalker)....................34.5
Team Selah.....................................................5
Team Jr Slayers...............................................1
Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg,gutpile,shootemdead.......21
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can't hit shat is gonna catch the prostaff
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I'm waiting for tl and fool to light it up
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+1 for team selah story and pics to follow
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No coyotes today, didn't even see or hear one. And you know what happens when you get bored. :chuckle:
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way to go skeletor lol
gonna go look for jdb's post to see if he put the pics somewhere else.
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Take good field photos guys. Theres a photo contest going on right now you know
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Not much of a contribution, but at least it is something for the admins. Here is a couple coyotes out at the airport this afternoon at 3:45 pm. Not hunting, just picking up the in-laws after looking at a project at Fairchild.
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There are 4 that hang out together in that area. I see them at least a couple times a week. My wife figures I'm sick cause I'm always pointing them out to her. I think she sees the look in my eye and gets jealous.
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I'll get the score caught up shortly. Looks like a good place for a bow shoot.
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I see them on airport property so if you want to take the chance of getting caught, go ahead. I have stopped and called at them and then usually spot the missing ones. They sure don't care if you stop and look at them. I think they are just rubbing it in on me knowing I haven't nailed one by calling this year. Goin out in the morning to try and change that.
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Well I finally nailed one of these pesky critters. Thanks to Eula Mae, our mule. My wife saw Eula Mae looking down at the creek where we usually see the yote's. She poked her head in the house and said "Eula Mae spotted something by the creek". I looked out and sure nuff, a young yote, now a dead yote. He was chewing on some old elk bones from my november archery hunt. 1 point for a westsider.
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Got turned on to this site yesterday by Gutpile. Glad he told me about it. Man, I love droppin' the hammer on Song dogs... Here are a couple of pictures from this week's activity in the Palouse area. 1st one's with my .25-06 Sendero. Was trying out a 100 grn Sierra Match for the pelt. Hit the shoulder at 350 yds. and made about a 6" exit, dang! Second one was with the Bushmaster at 225 yds. with a 40 grn Sierra Blitzking, also for the pelt. Worked much better!
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nice yotes, i see in the first picture it looks like you have the cat nip on your lanyard. how does it work for you? i have one but realy havent used it much.
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I like the catnip a lot. I have a foxpro, but when I'm using mouth calls (a lot) I use the catnip a lot. The 1st dog was just spotted and shot. The second was called in LATE IN THE DAY for me today by the catnip.
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well thats good to know. the call is very different sounding from any other call ive used... i mainly use open reeds and this one im trying to figure out how much pressure i need to put on the mouthpiece. any advice?
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well thats good to know. the call is very different sounding from any other call ive used... i mainly use open reeds and this one im trying to figure out how much pressure i need to put on the mouthpiece. any advice?
It's more about the rubber horn end on this call for me. I squeeze it when I'm calling, randomly. I try to make it sound like while this thing's screaming, something (Wile E.) is chomping down on it. I'll also sometimes finish up with a hurt pup to make it sound like the fight's on, and maybe if the coyote I'm after were to come to help out, he might get some of the snack. Not saying this is how it's done. Just saying it's how I do it right now. I'm always changing. Song dogs are SMART. If you do the same thing in the same area, you won't be calling them in, you'll be blowing them out of the area. Best of luck!
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I stuck yours with the can't hit shat Wiley since gutpile got you in on this.
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Should I? shouldn't I? Couldn't figure out if I wanted to go out again but last night decided to go for it. 1st set was dry. Second set I called in this little girl. :dunno: I've never seen a Whitetail come to a howl but she and her yearling fawn came running.
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Was waiting for them to get a little closer but I turned around and saw this;
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She was standing at 220 frozen and I zapped her. No exit this time Wile! :IBCOOL: Really a good coat on this one so I stuck it in the weeds to pic up on the way out but the birds and something else tore into her. :bash:
Later I saw two more at about 350 and they would not come in. I tried to stay in the shade to get closer but they saw me and bolted. :bash: :bash:
Then later I called in THESE :dunno: :dunno:
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WTF???? I've never howled in a whitetail and today I howled in a bunch. I've had muleys come to distress calls. Whole herds, but never whitetails. Anyways sorry for all the pics but had to post up the deer. Never seen that before.
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OH..... would I rather have been out doing that rather than working today! ACK!!! Good shootin'!
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Way to go KILLER!
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Cool pics Gut
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Well I have been out 3 times this year and the last two times I went out I hit coyotes both times and didn't recover either one.
Today was different. My buddy and I went out on some private land that I know of that has produced every time I have been out there. Our first stand calling into a grape vineyard produced nothing, so we moved on to the next spot. At our second stand we called for about ten minutes off and on when I caught movement to the left of me about 100 yards away. It was a decent sized coyote that was trying to find the source of all the racket. I lip squeaked and it started trotting towards me. It stopped about 60 yards out, a little too far for my liking with my shotgun loaded with #4 buck . I again lip squeaked and it came about 10 yards closer and stopped while staring straight at me. It started looking around nervously like it was going to duck into the trees, so I waited for the next available moment to get my gun on him. Luckily he had an itch so I took that opportunity to get my gun up and put the bead on him. He turned as if he was going to take off into the trees so I decided to take a chance and let some buckshot fly. I hit it higher than I wanted and ended up taking out a chunk of its spine. It immediately dropped and we put it down for good with a follow-up shot from my buddys AR. After taking pics and checking the dog out, my buddy ranged the shot at 52 yards. Not as close as I was hoping, but I will definately take it. We estimated the coyote to be about 25-30 pounds and 1 to 2 years old. I need to thank Rainshadow for giving me a couple of his calls. I used one of his howlers to call the coyote in. For size comparisons, I am 6'2'' and 215lbs.
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Well BullElk and I went a little further south to try and find some better hunting grounds for the last couple of weeks, didn’t find much in the way of any coyotes but the scenery was a whole lot better. We did go out today and I shot one at 108 yrds shot offhand.
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Oh and here's the coyote
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Wondered where you guys have been. Nice scenery
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Nice scenery :o
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I dont see the coyote. ;)
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Shot this one Sunday while shed hunting - 328 yards in a 15 mph crosswind. Held 6" over his hind legs and shot him through the neck.
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NICE JOB!
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Lots of fog, but all in all, a good hunt. Heard them howling. Good numbers of 'em, but couldn't see beyond maybe 100 yds. on the Palouse this morning. Hit some regularly producing spots, but it just wasn't working early today with the limited visibility. Later the fog burned off, and Gutpile spots one at 1,000 ydsish. He also notices that it's looking around like there might be another. There was. Two more. We watched them for about 1,500 yds crossing in front of us, and then they bedded for the afternoon. We were on the ridgeline, so we had to back crawl to get out of sight to make our approach across the wheat stubble canyon. Some said it couldn't be done, but we snuck up on 'em and managed to catch this one on his way out, well his way out of this world thanks to a 40 Blitzking out of the trusty AR. PaTHOP!!! About 150 running quartering away offhand. Not the best hit, but as it turns out, it made the hunt. Sure does make things better when you get 'em. Thanks to Gutpile. Always good to have good company when chasing the songdogs.
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Some said it couldn't be done,
:sas:
That was quite a stalk. :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL:
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New guy here to the forum and the northwest. I sure would like to get in on the action here. Any suggestions on where to hunt coyote around Spokane? I'm willing to drive up to 2 hours if I have to. Never been coyote hunting before but I just got a new .22-250 and we're both aching to reach out and touch some doggies! I wouldn't be opposed to hooking up with a partner in crime either.
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BullElk went out today by himself since I had to stay home and do taxes :'(. He somehow managed to see and hit this huge 14 3/4 pounder at 225 yrds. I've seen bigger jackrabbits and I had to remove the milk on it's lips for the pic. :chuckle:
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What a weird little dog. It looks beefy but looks like it has a short tail too. Good shot. Thats what I call a center punch.
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I couldn't resist, I had to weight my wife's jack Russell terrier, he weighted 19.5 pounds he is one fat terrier or that is one small yote. :dunno:
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Wackmaster and I got this dog to come in on a dead run right to us, as 5 other dogs came over the hill from our right about 4-5 hundred yrds behind this one. Took the first one so it didn't bust us. 70yrds
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I had to drop my wife off at the airport at 4:30AM today. That was the perfect set up to go hunting. I trolled along a road before sun up, howling every mile or so but got no response.
I went back to a farm where I'd been busted by a coyote a few weeks ago. I changed my methods a bit, at the suggestion of others on this forum. I hung a watch on my shooting sticks, and was careful not to call too much or too often. Motion was absolute minimum (well, better at least).
After 15 minutes of rabbit distress (Long Range Tweety), a 32 lb male came out of the sage and onto a dirt road I was near. I watched him come in from about 200 yards into 100 yards (yes, it can be done). I lost sight of him as he was behind some sage, and shifted the rifle to my shoulder. He saw the motion and reversed course down the road. At 200+ yards, he cut into a grassy field and paused. I put one shot into him with my .204 (a little aft, but still in the rib cage) and he went right down. Here we are:
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Well done on your second dog. I'm still looking for my first.
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Good job! That's a nice looking dog. Great picture too.
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nice going on the dog
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Congrats Ivar, That's a nice sized coyote
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BullElk and I went out today and headed to the top northeast since the fur on the coyotes in our usual areas are rubbed and also losing their guard hairs. On our way to one of our spots we see one standing about 175yrds off watching us. It decided to take off before we could get a shot, I rolled it at 213yrds as it was running away at a angle left to right on the 2nd shot. When we finally got in to our first set I started calling and a chorus of coyotes starts up, we tried howling, pup distress etc. but no dice. On the next set BullElk cut loose with a call and again the coyotes started howling and barking. So he switched to howling and pup distress again but this time it sounded like they were coming closer. We waited quite a while and BullElk did a quick howl and it sounded like they were about 200yrds over a hill. Finally we spot one off to our left standing behind some sagebrush, BullElk and I start squeeking and the coyote came in further but stopped again behind some brush, one more squeek and he moves in. BullElk is trying to stop him with some barks but he keeps coming. Finally he stops at 49yrds and BullElk dumps him, Total time on that set was 38 minutes our longest this year. On the way out we see another coyote running away at about 200 yrds, I hit it on the 2nd shot at 237 yrds but not a good hit so I start tracking which wasn’t difficult in the snow and good blood. After about 7/8 of a mile of this I finally get up to about 300 yrds of it and it decides it still has plenty of steam left and takes off, not very fast but enough that I needed several shots to put it down for good, but the first 3 were off hand so they don’t count and the 2 solid hits on the sagebrush shouldn’t either or the rock. It looked like I hit it twice after skinning it. Last shot was at approx 347 to 367 yrds by lasering from the coyote back to where I thought I had shot from. All 3 pelts were good enough to skin out.
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sounds like one hell of a day
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Good killin'
a 14 pound dawg, I have pheasants bigger than that. :chuckle:
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I redeemed myself today, putting one dog down and scaring a few others. The first shot counted, the rest were at fleeing critters that wouldn't stop at my yelps.
It was an interesting stand, at the same location where I found a pair Saturday (hitting one, but not recovering the body). My approach to the stand begins on high ground, drops into a shallow swale, then overlooks a deeper draw, that had been fenced as a feed lot. Today there we no cattle in the feedlot.
I crept through the swale, to the point where I was sniping from the day before. I looked past the feed lot to the draw where I had see the yotes yesterday, and saw none. I could not see the bottom of the feedlot. Not two minutes later, a pair show up in the feed lot, on the far slope, about 150 yards away!
I didn't have my rifle ready, so I slid further behind the stack of fence posts, my cover, and readied myself. I poked my head around the corner again, and the coyotes were not in view, having dropped lower into the feedlot. I contemplated squeaking them in closer, but I could not see their approach. The critters would show up at about 20 yards, pretty abrupt-like.
I waited and a coyote reappeared on the slope. I took steady aim, with coyote fever in check, and made the shot. You can see the entry spot in the image. It blew his heart out, I think. There was blood everywhere inside, with apparent hemorrhaging even to the far side of the entry wound, but no exit wound. Excellent bullet performance.
After the shot, all heck broke loose, and one coyote came up the slope to me, showing up at 20 yards (and 25 mph). I let loose a few orounds their way, but I haven't developed my technique for running shots, yet. I am "leading them", but by too much or too little? That 40 gr pill doesn't kick up a lot of dust (especially when the ground is frozen, as it was today).
This is a 27 lb male. I've got it skinned, and have done a better job this time. The task was made more difficult by the massive wound in the lower chest. It was not a clean surface to skin to. Very dark and bloody, and I couldn't just "wipe the blood away". It is hard to describe what I saw (and took no pictures, for my wife's sake).
The fleshing is "in progress" (chilled at the moment). I am working out my tools and methods. I bought 25 lb of salt at Costco for $3.95, to help desiccate the hide. My local feed store didn't have the white "feeder salt", just the mineralized stuff. Thanks to Michelle for her advice along the way.
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That is a baseplate compass attached to my call lanyard. I dial in the bearing when I knock a critter down. When searching for the critter I can check the bearing back to my stand, and tell if I am on line or not. It helps in the fairly flat, fairly shrubby terrain I hunt where longer shots seem to be my fate.
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BullElk and I made another trip up north today, The calling didn’t pick up until late morning. BullElk was in hitting the mark on the coyotes. His tally was 3 coyotes down and lasered ranged at 331,394 and 76 yrds. I shot 2 coyotes lasered at 124 and 176 yards. Pretty nice day today with the weather cooperating and the coyotes were lighting up when we called. When we got to BullElks last coyote he forgot his howler where we were sitting so I walked back and got it while he started skinning it. I had never used a call like that so I started howling and doing a pup distress as BullElk was tubing the coyote out. I looked up and here was another coyote about in the same spot he shot his. That was my 124 yd shot coyote. Total count for today was 5 coyotes down, Two of them wasn't worth skinning.
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whats the score. this may be the most beneficial wildlife program going right now :chuckle:
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I went out yesterday to my honey hole and spotted this yote at about 200yds walking along. First shot hit it in the cage but went back and took hind leg out. Dropped her there and placed another in the back of the head to finnish. I'm really happy with my reloads.(http://C:\Users\matt\Pictures\2009-03-20 march 20 2009\march 20 2009 006.JPG)
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Sweeeet!!! Next time take it's pants off all the way.
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Today BullElk went by himself. Nobody else could go out and play. :'( He did manage to see and knock 2 down at 150 and 175 yrds without any help . :dunno: Like he says, even a blind squirrel can find some nuts every now and then. But for BullElk I think it's more like if you fire enough rounds sooner or later you're going to score. :yike: At least he let all the air out of the front one.
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awesome big10
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:'(
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I rolled 2 this weekend. One from about 75 yards and his buddy got to 400 yards before the .243 ballistic tip caught up with him... ;) No pictures :(
LIES
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HAHA :lol4: Moss :chuckle:
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I rolled 2 this weekend. One from about 75 yards and his buddy got to 400 yards before the .243 ballistic tip caught up with him... ;) No pictures :(
LIES
True Lies?
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Huntwa Prostaff........25.5
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Can't hit shat....Bighorns2bushytails, JJhunter MHWASH and sagedawg,gutpile,shootemdead.......26
not sure if Pope was joking or if he did kill them so I didn't count them
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hope that put a good dent in the population. the deer need all the help they can get with the harsh winter.
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Kind of what I was thinking. This thing is pretty much wrapping up. Great shooting everyone. Big10's crew really put the hurt to them this winter. What was the biggest Dawg you guys put down do you think?
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The bigest one we shot and actually weighed was 37 lbs which was one of BullElk's . There was a couple more that was within a pound or so less, all males.
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Thats a big dawg. I need to get one of those next year for a mount I want to do. I have a big female, not I just need one packing some testicles.
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theres plenty or ol' dogs on the site packing some testicles.... but they would make a UGLY mount :chuckle: :chuckle:
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speaking of dogs, I was trying to set up for a fox the other night. While I was trying to hand my pack over a fence to a buddy and telling him to load his gun up in case the fox came out, I looked over my shoulder and the fox was trotting up looking at me 25 feet away. :bash: 2 running shots missing over his back and he was gone. His pelt was still transitioning well and I probably would have had him mounted. :'(
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I shot a coyote this afternoon dont know if this is still running but that would be one more for team selah.
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speaking of dogs, I was trying to set up for a fox the other night. While I was trying to hand my pack over a fence to a buddy and telling him to load his gun up in case the fox came out, I looked over my shoulder and the fox was trotting up looking at me 25 feet away. :bash: 2 running shots missing over his back and he was gone. His pelt was still transitioning well and I probably would have had him mounted. :'(
Dude, fox season was over on the 15 of March in Washington. :yike:
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I theirs is year around in Germany. That is with approval of the king of course. :chuckle:
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I missed that. Thanks Bone
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So what was the final tally on this little contest :dunno: :)
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Hey all,
First time on this site. I hope you all do this again next year. I hit the dogs hard if I can free up some time. I generally shoot around 40-60 a year, most in the winter. I have had a few problems with them in the past so work to keep on top of them.
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and two years ago, I had a walk in freezer where we kept all the "keepers". This is winter of 07 pics...
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I'm on his team! :o :o :o
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ya nice killin. The good dawg is a dead dawg.
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My wife would have been PISSED if I had that many coyotes in the freezer.
Do you need any help "keeping on top"? I am struggling to find places with dogs.
Ivar
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I had a walk in freezer that was on the place when I bought it. I sold them whole for about $15/dog depending on color etc. Had to lay them on the floor to freeze solid before they were put on top of the pile to prevent one big block of frozen dogs.
I am kind of burned out on selling dogs. Pain in the a$$ and time seems to be getting hard to free up.
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Let me know Gringo if you need a team partner next time.............. ;)
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Hey im in
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Winner - Sagebrush Asassins.
Nice job everyone. New contest to start October 1 and will run through February 28.
I will have some prize donations and will have an award for:
Big Dog
Little Dog
Ugliest
Most
Best Photo
I think the point system worked pretty well. Thank you Boneaddict for setting it up and keeping score. I know the admin team will perform a lot better next year.