Cool temps but little action

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jmeddy

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Low temps were in the 40's and high 30's this week. I got out 4 nights for a total of 13 sets with just a few heard in the next zip code and 1 seen in range. Saw another at about a half mile on the next ridge 'just being a coyote' not wanting anything to do with my sounds :mad:. About 35min into my second set Mon. night I did have the largest group I have ever seen (6-8 as a guess) come skipping out of the woods at about 300yds but with a tree line between us moving quickly left to right. I howled and they stopped so I hit a pup distress and ramped the volume until they heard it and here they came. AND THEN THEY DIDN'T--B**TARDS. 2 stopped in an opening at about 225 and I am getting in the trigger when they take off to join the others that had ran into the woods to my West. The moon is full, and I can see deer 100yds away just in the moonlight so am pretty sure the adults wanted to 'smell' before committing so the pups were getting a lesson. I thought I had this on vid but didn't. Wind was quartering from them to me going to my left, so they stayed in the woods and sure enough, a couple minutes later there was booger barking coming from my 7:00!
On to the next farm. This is the place that I messed with a group for over 3hrs moving 3 times last week. Because of the wind in this narrow bottom I had no shadow to get into, so just got tucked against the creek bank in a small oxbow which meant things could happen fast if critters showed up from my left or right. Right being down wind is where I had the tripod set up and wouldn't you know it, she shows up over my left shoulder. I somehow got the tripod moved and xhair on her w/o her leaving. Only 4sec of vid taken so I slowed it down.
Adult female that appeared to have been unbred. About 13min in set and the closer was porcupine dist.! Never used it before but because I had been here just last week, I decided to use sounds I rarely, if ever use. I started with Prairie dog dist. then coon fight, then the killer:giggle:.

 
They’re getting a bit more vocal around me, Mike. Heard 2 different groups from my yard last night and a good friend’s mom heard “about 20 of them on a kill” :ROFLMAO: behind her home a couple nights ago!

I’ve tried baby porcupine distress before. At least once. Didn’t work out for me then, but I wouldn’t write it off based on one no call in. Sounds like I may need to throw it out there a bit.

Congrats on the one you stealthily got repositioned on!
 
Coyotes active around here, They come right into town . I opened front door last week at night to call my cat into the house before I sacked-out. I opened door, had one trotting down the middle of the street in front of my house about 15 yards infront of me looking for Cats for some take-out fast food.... LOL .
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May just be a Southern thing, but high temps with less humidity equals “cooler” to us!! Plus we’ve hit the 60’s for lows and that’s really early for us. That’s definitely cool!!
 
Been in the low 80's here in venango county pa. It does feel a little better with the lower humidity especially when the sun gets low in the sky in the evenings. I've been holding out on hunting but with phone calls from 2 different land owners in the last 2 days hearing coyotes and wanting them gone I guess it's time to get back in the game now for the year. They are big land owners with a lot of property and I am the only one with permission and I would rather not push them off. Have a good one everyone. Stay safe out there.
 
I’ve started hearing them and 2 of my landowners contacted me in the last 3 days saying they heard them firing off. Couple more weeks for me and I’ll get to scratch that itch that has been out of my reach!

And this pair that wants to break my nuts by visiting my backyard fairly frequently are at the top of my list!
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Still quiet here in the last 9 sets. 0 heard or seen Mon night and 1 short, low volume howl answered me last night. It did show up about 20min later which I proceeded to MISS at about 150y. Gonna blame trying out a borrowed TW helmet. Could not get the scanner up easily then the scanner or helmet interfered with the scope (I had practiced at home "on level in the driveway" but this was a kinda hard downhill shot). It crossed my ingress trail and was retreating when I got it stop just before it got back into the woods, so I was more than "a little flustered" and don't even know if the xhair was on it :mad: :ROFLMAO:, didn't hit record in the confusion either. Anyhow, that was the first set of the night and only about a quarter mile from the suv, so back I went to exchange the TW for my ball hat with the Night Eyes light before hunting the rest of that ridge. Glad to get that 'out of my system plus saving a few hundred $.
 
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