Snowshoes
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I always like to get out New Years Day for a quick coyote hunt and I would once again continue the tradition for 2023.
A calm morning with a temperature of 19* F and horror frost hanging thick on the tree branches made for a good looking start for 2023.
Walked a quarter mile in on my previously packed snowmobile trail which my legs much appreciated.
My view to the west
![](https://i.postimg.cc/vTpHNskv/IMG-1658.jpg)
My view to the north
![](https://i.postimg.cc/LXQsjfVw/IMG-1659.jpg)
Sat for only 10 minutes before seeing a pair of coyotes making their way across the field and looked to be headed towards me. No need for the distress call so I tucked it back under my jacket and waited for the lead coyote to close the distance. I’m not sure what spooked the lead coyote but it started trotting at a fast pace and kept looking back behind it. Maybe the second coyote wasn’t actually traveling with the other one. With a couple vocal howls, I managed to get the lead coyote to slow down enough for a shot. A 116 yard shot to the reddish colored coyotes chest, drops it but, it manages to get up and get a few yards into the trees.
![](https://i.postimg.cc/Qt8BQjZ9/Coyotes-2023.jpg)
Fifteen minutes pass and third coyotes comes along which also is headed my direction, I also see a forth coyote who is a quarter mile away that also looks to be headed my direction. I focus on the first one and as this scruffy looking coyote enters a slough bottom directly north of me, I take a 85 yard shot which drops coyote # 2.
The forth coyote decides to change its intended route and leaves the area.
I walk down to the slough bottom and look at the big snow drifts in the cattails and decide to take a picture on the coyote from that location.
![](https://i.postimg.cc/d37V61H1/IMG-1656.jpg)
Turns out the snow drifts were hard enough to hold my weight, so I made my way to the center of the slough for a close up picture.
or![](https://i.postimg.cc/bvHDSsWf/2023A.jpg)
A calm morning with a temperature of 19* F and horror frost hanging thick on the tree branches made for a good looking start for 2023.
Walked a quarter mile in on my previously packed snowmobile trail which my legs much appreciated.
My view to the west
![](https://i.postimg.cc/vTpHNskv/IMG-1658.jpg)
My view to the north
![](https://i.postimg.cc/LXQsjfVw/IMG-1659.jpg)
Sat for only 10 minutes before seeing a pair of coyotes making their way across the field and looked to be headed towards me. No need for the distress call so I tucked it back under my jacket and waited for the lead coyote to close the distance. I’m not sure what spooked the lead coyote but it started trotting at a fast pace and kept looking back behind it. Maybe the second coyote wasn’t actually traveling with the other one. With a couple vocal howls, I managed to get the lead coyote to slow down enough for a shot. A 116 yard shot to the reddish colored coyotes chest, drops it but, it manages to get up and get a few yards into the trees.
![](https://i.postimg.cc/Qt8BQjZ9/Coyotes-2023.jpg)
Fifteen minutes pass and third coyotes comes along which also is headed my direction, I also see a forth coyote who is a quarter mile away that also looks to be headed my direction. I focus on the first one and as this scruffy looking coyote enters a slough bottom directly north of me, I take a 85 yard shot which drops coyote # 2.
The forth coyote decides to change its intended route and leaves the area.
I walk down to the slough bottom and look at the big snow drifts in the cattails and decide to take a picture on the coyote from that location.
![](https://i.postimg.cc/d37V61H1/IMG-1656.jpg)
Turns out the snow drifts were hard enough to hold my weight, so I made my way to the center of the slough for a close up picture.
or
![](https://i.postimg.cc/bvHDSsWf/2023A.jpg)