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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: sisu on January 23, 2008, 04:32:50 PM

Title: Love this weather
Post by: sisu on January 23, 2008, 04:32:50 PM: The title of the thread is not a joke. Fall, winter and early spring are my seasons bar none. Today was killer. -6 F at 0630 right now, 1630, and it is +6 F. Did a lot of walking and skiing today.
Too cold for the dogs feet to be in the bushes for their walk so we stuck to the roads, but after that I packed up the camera, binos, 223 and skiied out the door for the hills and bushes. Second time I spotted the big coyote that is in our area. Actually there are two large ones running together with a couple of smaller ones. I could not shoot today because of a poor back ground. If the fella had been a couple hundred feet lower in the canyon I'd of shot.
These coyotes are very confident of their abilities in running deer. Yesterday they were down low and racing parallel to the herd of deer and today the one I saw was right on the ridge crest with the deer looping along behind them.
Great day out and about.
Becareful out there with wood burning stoves. Make sure that you clean your chiminey regularly and that all the pipe joints are solid. I saw several houses today being rebuilt due to fires! :o
Title: Re: Love this weather
Post by: MuleySniper on January 23, 2008, 04:55:33 PM: That sounds like it would be fun. It wouldnt work for me though on a snowboard and I'm way to uncordinated to ski, I dont even know how to spell uncordinated. :dunno: :P
Title: Re: Love this weather
Post by: UPBert on January 23, 2008, 05:02:19 PM: Sounds like a great time Sisu! That weather sounds a lot like the Yoop!

Put the hurts on those yotes already :hunter:.
Title: Re: Love this weather
Post by: jackelope on January 23, 2008, 10:04:19 PM: 18 degrees at work this morning. thats cold for this side of the hill, but i love it.
Title: Re: Love this weather
Post by: russ on January 23, 2008, 10:12:09 PM: it was 18 at my work today too, spawning fish was not fun...cold hands, leaking waders lol. i love this colder weather though, wouldnt ask for much more...maybe some snow?
Title: Re: Love this weather
Post by: ICEMAN on January 24, 2008, 06:10:27 AM: Hey Russ, how about asking for some new waders?! :chuckle:
Title: Re: Love this weather
Post by: Skyvalhunter on January 24, 2008, 07:05:45 AM: Any ideas on some good cold weather waiders that last a while when hiked in?
Title: Re: Love this weather
Post by: russ on January 24, 2008, 07:06:49 PM: ya good idea iceman!...i actually had some ordered the other day so soon i will be dry. lol.