Full belly

Hunter55

Hunter55

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Full Bellies​

Last night I hunted a dairy farm for the 1st time and man did it have all the ingredients for a good coyote hunt. This farm borders two other farms where the owners don’t care if I shoot coyotes, so my head was blowing up, where do I setup?

Most of the fields are about 400 yards wide with length ranging from 400 to 1000 yards. The fence rows are heavy with brush and pretty good sized trees. I’m going to spend some time out here in the daylight clearing a few places to setup in the fence rows so I can see the field behind me and accommodate varying wind conditions.

I pulled the ATV off the road and up aside the fence row for several yards, parked in a brushy spot and proceeded to setup a bit further North. I got my tripod and stool setup and walked out into the field about 75 steps, turned my Foxpro on and started walking back. It was so dark you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face and I hand to use my scanner to find my tripod, LOL, seldom do I walk into a field with my headlamp on. Once I got back on stand I started with a few low volume distress calls, waited a bit and then lit into a lone howl, and watched a few minutes.

It was about 7:45 and I’d been sitting there since sevenish when I spotted a yote about 450 yards out and he was meandering toward me. I got on a rabbit distress and ramped up the volume as I watched his reaction through the scope and finally he stopped, head up, and looking my way. I started backing off the volume and continued watching as he just meandered around in dis interest. I backed off the volume and muted the call, he wasn’t interested although he’d pause, then meander around some more. I reset the remote to vole squeaks and started ramping the volume up again until he stopped and took note once again.

This coyote was mousing and wasn’t going to just jet in and run me over so, I backed off the volume again and muted. I went silent figuring as long as he was slowly heading this way, I’d be patient.

He continued heading my way but, was also headed eastward toward the fence row and I figured I had waited long enough. Mr. Coyote paused once again about 170 yards out, and I squeezed the trigger on the 204 and he went down hard. The Speer 39gr TNT’s I had loaded up proved to be a bone shattering hard hitting choice.

I sit there for probably another 30 minutes listening to coyotes blowing up WAY SW of me with one bugger barking at something. Figured I count my blessings for the night, and do some daylight hunt stand engineering and do it again next week.

After I got home and reviewed the video of the night I finally seen why this coyote was slow coming in, he had a fully belly and a rabbit in his mouth.

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hunt0168 said:
Congrats on another! Nice that your little 204 is getting a workout, and with good results to boot!

Did you call at all before seen the coyote? Kinda sounds like you’re content to sit and wait them out from the sounds of it. Nothing wrong with that if it’s your thing. Sitting in the field beats sitting on the couch!
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guess I left part of the story untold, sorry about that!!

I started with some low volume distress calls, waited a bit and lit into a lone howl, maybe I need an edit. :):)
 
22magnum22 said:
I love it, glad to see you are willing to put in some scouting and "engineering" time. I recommend paying attention to the neighboring properties for good set-up locations.(y)
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IMO a fellow has to invest his time in the sport and besides it's a great excuse to go do something outdoors, never know what you might see. My eyes are wide open and always open to suggestions, thx
 
Great post and pictures!

My coyote hunting buddy and I use Vole Squeaks and Adult Rat Distress sounds quite a bit. We don't sit together very often at all so if we hear Vole Squeaks we pretty much know the other guy with the remote see's a coyote.
 
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