Amateur Hour

[SupressYourself]

Just when I start to think I might be getting halfway decent at this, I'll have a stand that completely humbles me and reconfirms my amateur status.
I should have had 4 coyotes on this stand, maybe even 5, but things went sideways.

On the first pair, I got them coming with some howls, and committed with vole squeaks, but couldn't get my caller muted, which usually helps to slow their approach. I couldn't get the first coyote stopped and took a panic shot as I was running out of room. Looking at it frame-by frame, it would have been a perfect shot if the trigger had broken anywhere from .52 to 1 second earlier, but as it was, it broke at the top of his bound, and I missed low. The second shot had to have been really close too, but I think it sailed just a bit high.

Fortunately, I get a second pair to roll in using coyote distress, and even though one of my tripod legs was collapsing, because apparently, I didn't tighten it enough, (idiot...), I managed to get them both.
Then a fourth coyote lopes through, and I can't get him stopped either (what is happening??).
After a bit of mfk coyote fight sounds, I get a 5th to come in from downwind, and wasted no time dropping it.

All in all, it's hard to complain about a triple, but missing a gimme tends to leave you wanting...

 

[crapshoot]

That bottom one looks chunky.

 

[bohunr]

i happen to be an expert caller. the problems i have are hunting coyotes that dont know it.

 

[Widow maker 223]

Us well seasoned callers have stand like this one all the time! Always learning, good job keeping it together.

 

[SupressYourself]

That bottom one looks chunky.

Some of it is perspective, as the other two were pups, but yeah, he was solid. I hope he was full of my pocket gophers, and not my pheasants

 

[Sprinkman]

All I can say is I wish one of my armature hours would turn into a triple

 

[jmeddy]

Ahh, the narrations are back--I get the disappointment BUT 3 is nothing to scough at. That "fumbling for buttons" is something I can be pretty good at once in while also

 

[DesertRam]

Five, three, who's counting? It's just us coyote callers here.

 

[soup]

3 is a good night no matter what!
Congratulations.
Soup

 

[hunt0168]

Awe man, that's just a hiccup buddy. Nice job recovering and holding it together under duress. I've been at this for quite a long time and have had enough rodeo stands to write a book. You done good! I like the videos you put up, and hearing about the coyotes you put down! Good stuff.

 

[bob2799]

i scan with thermal but shoot with digital n.v. on a tripod .. the other night i had a hard charger come in , by the time i saw him with the scanner he was right on me , by the time i transitioned to the gun , turned on the ir light , got the scope off sleep mode then found him in the scope he had already ran out of shooting range and i did not get him called back !

 

[bohunr]

i would love to get a solo triple.

 

[dale06]

Amateur hour? Coyotes make amateurs of many of us.

 

[shoots100]

Amateur hour is calling in three dogs and missing three broadside shots within 100 yards, confirming zero in the Am and missing another dog that night at 85 yards.
SJC

 

[Hunter55]

that ended in a great hunt...bloopers, there's no shortage of!!! do it again