Post by: Kain on January 03, 2009, 06:26:21 PM
I set up at the end of an old logging road that is almost completely over grown and borders a stand of timber on one side. There is two two large cedar trees on the other side of the little turn out area and they kind of make a cave under them. The whole clearing is about 20 yards across, not much but around where I live that is all you get. I set up the speaker in the middle of the opening and sat in the little cave. I can only see about 30 yards and most of that is through really thick brush. I turn on the call and let it run with my best attempt at an irresistible bobcat sequence. Well this coyote must think it is a bobcat cause she decided to come in at about the 10 minute mark :P. When I first see her she is only about 15 yards from me directly across the road. As soon as she moved behind some of the brush I brought my shotgun up and when she step into the next opening I pulled the trigger. 00 buck knocks them right down at 20 yards. I am using 00 buck because I have a cougar tag and I hunt in a firearm restricted area, I dont want to have a lighter load in the chamber and have a cougar come in. I was very excited to get my first coyote and wanted to keep the hide but she had mange pretty bad. She also had a HUGE belly! She must have been eating really well, she looked like she was pregnant.
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Post by: Thenewguy on January 03, 2009, 06:29:17 PM
Post by: billythekidrock on January 03, 2009, 06:40:54 PM
She looks like a fatty.
Post by: Head-shot on January 03, 2009, 06:43:29 PM
Post by: atomicjoe23 on January 03, 2009, 06:48:42 PM
. . .who makes it and do they have other patterns available???
Thanks
Oh yeah. . .good work and I'm jealous. . .I'm still waiting on my first song-dog!!!
Post by: Kain on January 03, 2009, 06:50:37 PM
Post by: atomicjoe23 on January 03, 2009, 06:52:22 PM
Sounds like very similar situations to what I'm hunting. . .right down to using a shotgun with buck (#4 for me. . .I don't have a cougar tag though). . .in fact looks like an 870 to me. . .that's what I've got. . .still wish I had a rifle to pair up with though!!!
Post by: atomicjoe23 on January 03, 2009, 06:52:48 PM
Thanks guys. I airbrushed the paint on the gun. :IBCOOL:
Airbrushed, huh. . .
Good Work!!!
Post by: Kain on January 03, 2009, 07:03:33 PM
Forgot to ask. . .where are you hunting at???
Sounds like very similar situations to what I'm hunting. . .right down to using a shotgun with buck (#4 for me. . .I don't have a cougar tag though). . .in fact looks like an 870 to me. . .that's what I've got. . .still wish I had a rifle to pair up with though!!!
Yep 870 super mag. The area is out past Hockinson, WA in the Battleground unit. I think Im going to stick to timber from now on. It is really tight quarters but it seems to work. I havnt had any luck getting the dogs to break from their cover so I will just go in after them. Oh yeah I forgot to mention I covered the speaker with Fox urine. That is probably why the fat coyote came in so hard, I know she wasnt hungry. I wish the picture showed how really big and hard her belly was.
Post by: atomicjoe23 on January 03, 2009, 07:09:59 PM
Post by: ivarhusa on January 03, 2009, 09:28:18 PM
I just bought a cat toy (recommended on one of the forums, but I haven't relocated the message to properly give credit to the person suggesting it) called SmartyKat Loco!Motion. It cost $15 at Walmart. I hung a coyote tail from the swinging wire, and it looks like the cats meow, if you know what I mean. I had to order it through Walmart online.
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Ivar
Post by: dbllunger on January 03, 2009, 09:31:54 PM
Post by: MuleySniper on January 10, 2009, 04:53:59 PM
MS
Post by: saylean on January 13, 2009, 03:35:55 PM
so...grats!
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Post by: runniNgunnin on January 13, 2009, 03:59:37 PM
:cue:
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