Mr Benelli
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Went out today to go deer hunt and just before I got out of my American made truck I changed my mind and decided to wait because the snow was coming later. I figured id track/hunt the deer after the snow tomorrow.
I have been chasing this coyote for a long long time. I could not get him to come into the caller. I took a 4 month break from this location.
I get to my stand which is elevated and started with eastern cottontail for about 5 minutes (I just got this sound with the shockwave and never had it before). Nothing in Flir.
Now it just got dark and I crank it up to 40 with eastern cottontail for another 3-5 mintues. Nothing in the Flir
Then i waited 5 minutes and gave about one minute of coyote locator. about three sequences. Waited one minute and played coy challenge howl for about 30 seconds. then silence..
2 minutes later I look over my shoulder, I try to not make any noise with the office chair, or burn my hand on the heater... and I see red in the flir about 100 yards in the woods. and it was big.
The coyote gets on top of a rock and starts scanning the woods like he has a flir on his head. I drop something in the blind, yell at myself, and then shoot in bewteen two trees.
I see the yote drop. I then start scanning for more and start playing distrees coyote sounds but nothing comes.
After 30 minutes I pack up and look out with the Flir and see the coyote trying to get up and drag himself with his two front paws. I shoot again and DRT. He tried to play dead.
Tomorrow i will weigh the male. I did get to hear the yote give out a distess sound which was cool and it sounds just like the caller on sound level 25.
weighed in at 50.5 lbs
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