MasterBlaster
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Part two here we go!!!!
We left South Dakota and headed to Nebraska. We got out bright and early no joy on the first call of the day but on number two had one come in behind me never saw me. I pulled the 22-250 off the sticks and looked like I was playing the game Twister got around and dumped her at about 40 yds 1st one down in Nebraska.
Same coyote different picture.
We made a few more and BangPop connected with one in the afternoon, he called in one to about 80yds and put her to sleep there was another one but gave him no chance for a shot.
We both shot our 22-250s all the time in Nebraska. The next day I called a shelter belt and got one to come by in about 10 mins gave her a lip squeak she turned around and came for a look at 125 yds last thing she ever saw. I haven't shot a 22-250 much but was really impressed with the way it put them down for keeps.
We went to last years HOT SPOT next and made 4 calls NOTHING! the last place we were going to make a call we found this before we got to the stand.
A bunch of digging we could see pretty easy. You can see the hole a coyote dug out his lunch and the blood from lunch,then laid down for a break just on the right side of the blood spot. We thought it might be a good place call. We set up I was watching west BangPop looking south. 5 mins in I heard BP's 22-250 go bang and a SMACK nicest one of the trip was down he was big and a great fur. 70 yds looking right at BP.
We moved north and set up by a river made a call nothing came but we saw one cross a pasture 900 yds out. We moved to another set and 12 mins in BP had one attack him and shot it at 50 yds no picture of this one the head shot left it less than photogenic.
The next one we moved in on the one we saw on the first call after about 15 mins it was standing 110yds away from me and the lights went out for him shortly after he stopped. No picture here he had bad mange I feel sorry for a coyote in that condition just happy I could help him out of his pain. That ended the day!
Next morning found us sitting on a Bohunk over looking a river and a cattail thicket BIG thicket. We called for 15 mins and saw one way out in a pasture BP got real loud on the Tally Ho and it came to 800 yds and sat down and acted like it didn't care anymore. I pulled out the Blaster and played a tune it got up and trotted the rest of the way to us. It showed up at 290 yds and sat down and just looked at us. On the shot it rocked backwards then fell in the river and the fast current washed it away.Unbelievable but true, on the shot another one we didn't see took off at warp speed never to be seen again.
We move to out next spot.
The owner took our picture for us by their welcome sign. We set up south of the house by stack yard and wind break called for 10 mins and had one come running and I couldn't get him to stop so just before it got below the hill I shot it as it ran in 100yds next stop would have been in my lap.
We made a few more sets but the last coyote of the day and trip was one of them that makes you scratch your head. Set up and called 10 mins in we had one run past us at 150yds never stopped and went out of sight we looked at each other and went back to calling. 5 mins later it came back by running the same path it had come past on before never stopped or gave us a shot and went out of sight again. Called a bit more BP said "lets go" I said 5 more mins. so we sat there about 20 seconds and one popped up on a ridge 150 yards away BangPop shot it a male.
We made one more set a dark we were sitting on a really steep hill side. BP was calling he had one coming running at us came out of no where, it was coming up the hill we were on I was getting my knife out it didn't look good. Well all I'm going to tell you is we didn't get that one.
We had a great time,had Thanksgiving with one of the ranchers we hunted on.
We are thinking of going again real soon.
MasterBlaster
We left South Dakota and headed to Nebraska. We got out bright and early no joy on the first call of the day but on number two had one come in behind me never saw me. I pulled the 22-250 off the sticks and looked like I was playing the game Twister got around and dumped her at about 40 yds 1st one down in Nebraska.
Same coyote different picture.
We made a few more and BangPop connected with one in the afternoon, he called in one to about 80yds and put her to sleep there was another one but gave him no chance for a shot.
We both shot our 22-250s all the time in Nebraska. The next day I called a shelter belt and got one to come by in about 10 mins gave her a lip squeak she turned around and came for a look at 125 yds last thing she ever saw. I haven't shot a 22-250 much but was really impressed with the way it put them down for keeps.
We went to last years HOT SPOT next and made 4 calls NOTHING! the last place we were going to make a call we found this before we got to the stand.
A bunch of digging we could see pretty easy. You can see the hole a coyote dug out his lunch and the blood from lunch,then laid down for a break just on the right side of the blood spot. We thought it might be a good place call. We set up I was watching west BangPop looking south. 5 mins in I heard BP's 22-250 go bang and a SMACK nicest one of the trip was down he was big and a great fur. 70 yds looking right at BP.
We moved north and set up by a river made a call nothing came but we saw one cross a pasture 900 yds out. We moved to another set and 12 mins in BP had one attack him and shot it at 50 yds no picture of this one the head shot left it less than photogenic.
The next one we moved in on the one we saw on the first call after about 15 mins it was standing 110yds away from me and the lights went out for him shortly after he stopped. No picture here he had bad mange I feel sorry for a coyote in that condition just happy I could help him out of his pain. That ended the day!
Next morning found us sitting on a Bohunk over looking a river and a cattail thicket BIG thicket. We called for 15 mins and saw one way out in a pasture BP got real loud on the Tally Ho and it came to 800 yds and sat down and acted like it didn't care anymore. I pulled out the Blaster and played a tune it got up and trotted the rest of the way to us. It showed up at 290 yds and sat down and just looked at us. On the shot it rocked backwards then fell in the river and the fast current washed it away.Unbelievable but true, on the shot another one we didn't see took off at warp speed never to be seen again.
We move to out next spot.
The owner took our picture for us by their welcome sign. We set up south of the house by stack yard and wind break called for 10 mins and had one come running and I couldn't get him to stop so just before it got below the hill I shot it as it ran in 100yds next stop would have been in my lap.
We made a few more sets but the last coyote of the day and trip was one of them that makes you scratch your head. Set up and called 10 mins in we had one run past us at 150yds never stopped and went out of sight we looked at each other and went back to calling. 5 mins later it came back by running the same path it had come past on before never stopped or gave us a shot and went out of sight again. Called a bit more BP said "lets go" I said 5 more mins. so we sat there about 20 seconds and one popped up on a ridge 150 yards away BangPop shot it a male.
We made one more set a dark we were sitting on a really steep hill side. BP was calling he had one coming running at us came out of no where, it was coming up the hill we were on I was getting my knife out it didn't look good. Well all I'm going to tell you is we didn't get that one.
We had a great time,had Thanksgiving with one of the ranchers we hunted on.
We are thinking of going again real soon.
MasterBlaster
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