Post by: hirshey on March 11, 2010, 01:56:35 PM
A few days ago, we were working a large canyon looking for sheds.. I was glassing the other side and noticed two yotes, so my boyfriend made about a mile-long sneak through the canyon across the terrain to get a shot. Must have whistled it right between his ears because it hit a rock above it and the coyote ran right back at him: he tried to get another shot but as he looked through his scope all he saw was intermittant hair filling his scope and then brush as the thing jetted by. In his defense, the wind was howling and he was probably a little tired from beating feet so quickly to the other side. :)
We also found one mid-day on a frozen pond (what the obsession with frozen bodies of water and coyotes is perhaps I will never understand). He was almost too stupid to kill... have to let those genes live on. :)
Yesterday, we spotted 3 working a sage flat and worked down a finger ridge out of sight and set up with the wind in our favor... never saw the other two but took one that came around up high on the slope trying to wind us. Later in the day we found another great spot to call and went to work. Not a minute into the first sequence a nice big male runs onto our bench. Jarred lip squeaks and the thing starts running right at us. He tried to stop it with a bark but that thing was on a mission. Dropped it at 69 yards. Tried to continue calling for about 20 minutes but with no luck. We dropped into a deep canyon and up the other side, only to look back and see another coyote mousing in the sage about 300 yards below where we had set up. We ranged the edge of the draw at 380 yards and tried to coax it to the edge for a long shot (we were losing daylight and still had another 4 or so miles back to the car) with no luck. Got it to about 425 and decided maybe that dog should live another day.
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These last photos are how it layed... approaching it from the back side we certainly poked it. Looked too picture perfect!
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Post by: Woodchuck on March 11, 2010, 02:02:04 PM
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Post by: dedyota on March 14, 2010, 12:13:28 AM
That's awesome i was wondering if you could share the area you guys were in I'm looking for an area around klickitat thats public to try.
Nice yote
Post by: jds15151 on March 14, 2010, 08:39:29 AM
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Post by: BLKBEARKLR on March 14, 2010, 04:33:18 PM
Hi
That's awesome i was wondering if you could share the area you guys were in I'm looking for an area around klickitat thats public to try.
Nice yote
ARE YOU SERIOUS????? Why on every post of someone being successful does someone have to post and ask where he/she was at??? They were in the woods, by a stream, on a hillside, in the flats, with some scrub brush. It's easy to find, just got to get in your rig drive around till you see something that remotely looks like that and get out and walk. You MIGHT not find their area, but low and behold you might find one of your own.
Joe
Post by: hirshey on March 14, 2010, 09:25:07 PM
Why on every post of someone being successful does someone have to post and ask where he/she was at???
It is interesting how that happens.. I'm always conflicted in how I feel about these kinds of posts... some people just don't have any fellow hunters to help them learn/explore... and others are plain lazy. Seeing as I don't know how to respond usually I just don't. :dunno:
Post by: BLKBEARKLR on March 14, 2010, 09:35:53 PM
Why on every post of someone being successful does someone have to post and ask where he/she was at???
It is interesting how that happens.. I'm always conflicted in how I feel about these kinds of posts... some people just don't have any fellow hunters to help them learn/explore... and others are plain lazy. Seeing as I don't know how to respond usually I just don't. :dunno:
Hirshey, I totally understand what you are saying, so here is my two cents on that. You usually relate your friendships around people that enjoy doing what you like to do also. So there fore some of his friends should be hunters also. Or so I would think. If he was a new hunter then he should learn awful quick that you don't ask someone where they hunt. He might have said hey that is really cool, wish I could find a place to hunt them or try to hunt them, I have never hunted before. That would open up a new conversation of saying hey would love to take you out sometime. Might lead to a friendship hunters with other hunters.
So with only having 3 posts coming in here asking you where you hunt, I am really LEANING towards the lazy side....
Joe
Post by: hirshey on March 14, 2010, 09:41:13 PM
Nice to meet you, Joe, I'm Kari.
Post by: BLKBEARKLR on March 14, 2010, 09:44:00 PM
Couldn't agree more. :) I was reflecting on those types of posts more than anything.
Nice to meet you, Joe, I'm Kari.
Hello Kari, it is really nice to meet you also. Have fun out there, and good luck to you both while out there hunting and shed hunting.
Joe
Post by: rasbo on March 14, 2010, 09:53:59 PM
Post by: bobcat on March 14, 2010, 10:23:22 PM
Hi
That's awesome i was wondering if you could share the area you guys were in I'm looking for an area around klickitat thats public to try.
Nice yote
ARE YOU SERIOUS????? Why on every post of someone being successful does someone have to post and ask where he/she was at???
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to say something. But you know, it's not often I see someone come right out and ask specifically for someone to give up their hunting area, like this post did. Definitely could be done with a lot more tact, or not at all.
Post by: hirshey on March 14, 2010, 10:35:01 PM
I have no problem telling them where to go :chuckle:
I can see it now... "its as easy as this: take a hike!"
Post by: WAmuleyHunter on March 14, 2010, 11:06:15 PM
Post by: Wanttohuntmore on March 15, 2010, 09:01:08 PM
Post by: hirshey on March 15, 2010, 09:05:41 PM
Pretty darn cool, and nice Pics! One of my first dates with my wife was a drive in the woods, where I let her sit in the truck and she read, and I proceeded to call in my first yote, about 300 yards from the truck. I shot it, and started skinning it. She watched with her binocs the whole scene. She was a non-hunter at the time, but we still bring that moment up every once in awhile.
:) sounds like a good memory! I've been hunting since I was 7... but really only concentrated on deer until last year. Its been a steep learning curve for predators.. and I always enjoy an excuse to get out in the hills.