and finally.....SUCCESS!!!!

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Charon

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Finally, after a long long while i got in up to my neck in coyotes last night. I wrote about my situation about a month ago. Lots of hunting and no coyotes, and I got a response from Weseal UT and two other members whose names i cant remember. Thanks for the advice guys. If you cant remember my post, I am hunting in deep, deep south Texas about three miles from the border in the Rio Grande Valley and I mentioned that I was having to hunt the sugar cane fields down here. I went out about two weeks ago a day after our first cold front with a buddy of mine from a local high school. We stopped on a canal bank to gear up and to check the wind and as luck would have it "remembering my complaint from my first post" the south wind started to kick up. Oh yeah, at the same moment coyotes started to laugh up the night in a certain area to our west. The only way to get to them was to attack them from the south. So we grudgingly had to call it a night...Now, fast foward to last night. A cold front blew in about thrusday morning so the weather has been mild and the wind hase been just right. I called up another buddy and told him I would pick him up at two a.m. We went to the same canal bank to gear up and went on to our first set up and had no luck...but.... we both said that tonight was gonna be a good night. Before we got back to the truck from our first stand those coyotes started up in the same place they did two weeks ago. That was all I could stand. We got in and went a full two miles around to the south end of a recently burned cane field where I thought they might be. These coyotes have been staying in some brush behind a couple of farm houses during the day then venturing out at night. I think the proximity to the houses is the only thing that has kept them alive. We left the truck and waled off into a cane field that was already sprouting new foliage since the fire. It was high enough to give us some cover. We were about 1/2 of a mile away from the houses when we stated to call. Between my first volley and the second I heard it..... We both heard it something was coming through the young cane shoots, right at us. My friend pick it up with the spot light and then I switched on the scope light and about forty yards away I could see the the coyotes upper body trying to scope us out over the cane shoots. I fumbled with the stick stand for about 3 seconds then laid the cross hairs on the dog just as it started to run. After the smoke cleard we didnt know if it was a hit or not. Then within 15 seconds a second coyote followed the same route the first one did, I could see it in the scope, then it dissapeared!!!!!! I think it ran into the first coyote I shot at( I still didnt know I had shot that first one).I continued to call and within 30 seconds had one bearing down right at me when he finally stoped at about twenty yard. I fired, he dropped!!!! We also called a fourth one that just would not take as we could see its eyes off in the distance but could not get a shot. Throuhgout all this I was tademly using a Hydel compensator and a Knight and Hale E-Z coyote howler for barking. After a bit of searching we found the first coyote and she dropped right where i shot her. The second was a dog. The excitment wasnt over however, for a flat tire and a series of events( like the lifting jack slipping in between the A frame and the cross member)kept us out till well after the sun came up. I began to wonder if i had shot Gods two favorite coyotes!!!! Well thanks for the advice and I keep up to date on posts.
 
Congrats Charon and welcome to PM. Sounds like an exciteing hunt. Next time try turning the light on before you start calling. Shinning around as you call. This way you won't have to wait until you hear one aproaching (Sometime you can't hear them). The light won't bother them to bad if you keep it out of their eyes. Here is a link to some great advise on night hunting.
Article written by Randy Watson

Good Hunting

Byron
 
Charon,

I've been in that country. Aren't the coyotes used to big floodlights of the Border Patrol looking for illegals?

Glad you finally got one, a double no less. Unfortunately, you have now joined a wicked society of coyote killers. Membership is lifelong and there is no cure. Only momentary satiation of the appetite after each kill. The desire for more and more only grows with age. One day you'll open your eyes and realize you are an addict. The first of ten steps is killing a coyote, then you'll want a new whiz bang gun, then a humdinger light, then a fancy caller, then...........You get my point.
And finally, all you will desire is a stringer of coyotes in garage....

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Thanks for the replies guys. On this section of the river you dont see a lot of floodlights, you have to travel a bit more east towards Browsville were the illigal activity runs a bit more rampant. But they are used to vechicles in and out at all times during the night and day. In fact, as we were getting out of the 4x4 last night, a truck carring two trailers of harvested cane drove between the farmhouses and the field where we were at. Ive also been stop by border patrol plenty of times as the red lights seem to really get there attention. Last fall on a particular night we had just began to call right by the "cannon" on the military highway "281" when we noticed we were being watched, not by coyotes but by a fast moving explorer with only its hazards on. It missed the road to get into where we were at and we watched for about ten minutes as it edged the entire field trying to find a way in. I got into the truck and turned on the highs, the emergencies, the spotlights and unloaded the rifles just to kind of let them know that we were not gonna make a run for it. After an eternity they got to us, and almost immeditly the conversation was on the coyote in the back of the truck. They seemed pretty interested in the sport and after a bit of conversation they left us to our work. We usually dont wait for shnoz to shnoz encounters of the coyote kind. We usually call for a bit, spot light the area, then repeat the senario. But hearing them coming defenitly gets my neck hairs up. I also keep the the skins of just about every critter I shoot. I have these two coyotes in mama's freezer(She dosnt know yet)!!!! But I have several coons, two bobcats a fox and a couple of deer ive shot over the years, I also sometimes keep the skulls. Before I forget, Im sending the pics of these two i killed last night along with a jackrabbit ive neglected to mention...HE..HE...HE...TARGET PRACTICE.....Just kidding, that jack was head shot so I can use that to feed Orion( pronounced O-Ryan) my red tailed hawk as I also am a licenced falconer in the state of Texas. God Bless !!!

"Iventus stoltorom majister"
"Youth is the teacher of fools"
Michael Bhein as Johnny Ringo
in a latin duel with Doc Holiday
"Tombstone"
 
YeeHaw! Way to go. I know how those Border Patrol guys can mess up a stand. What I don't get is; do they really think a bunch of illegals are going to be shining a spotlight all over the country? I think they check us out to break the boredom.
 
There you Weasel, thanks for the advice you gave me in September! The Border Patrol are pretty busy fellas down here along the border. Besides catching illigals they also have to contend with Coyotes(a valley word for people who smuggle illigals in trunks of cars and in the back of semi trailers) border bandits(people who rob the illigals as they cross the river), drug runners, and they also aid the police and Sheriffs dept. in any way they can. They messed up the stand that night but they do a hell of a job. I credit two B.P. officers with saving my life. They took time out of there busy scheduels to mentor and console me when life threw me a hard ball. I wish I could remember there names, I really owe them a hand shake. By the way, one of the two skins is up and drying and so far it looks pretty good!!! I dont know when exactly, but Im goona send the picture of these two, the one my buddy shot when the border patrol rained on our parade, and two others, one my dad caught with his foxhounds, and one I caught with some greyhounds.

God Bless!!!
 
Charon,
When I was down there my guys found a 110 pound bag of mary jane stashed along the road. I suspect the BP will always come check out supiscious lights. Yep, coyote takes on an all new meaning in your part of the country. Keep it up. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 


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