Gut shot coyote.

Originally Posted By: Bad DawgOriginally Posted By: Mr. PoppadopalisIt's settled!!

I am hereby qoing to stop all hunting effective today!!!


I will be out next weekend killing the shiot out of them over the holiday!!

When they start the new forum I will be the first professional to join;-)

Yeah!?! Well, you could start by helping me. I’m having a horrible start to the year. Slick won’t help me. I think he hates me. Now that I think about it, 99.9% of PM does. :)

Dawg,

I don't think anybody on PM hates you! I know I don't!

What seems to be the issue with your lack of success?

How many acres do you have access too?

What sounds are you currently using?

I don't want to let this thread get off track so you can send me a PM if you like. A better understanding of YOUR situation will help answer a lot of questions you may have.
 
Originally Posted By: Mr. PoppadopalisOriginally Posted By: Bad DawgOriginally Posted By: Mr. PoppadopalisIt's settled!!

I am hereby qoing to stop all hunting effective today!!!


I will be out next weekend killing the shiot out of them over the holiday!!

When they start the new forum I will be the first professional to join;-)

Yeah!?! Well, you could start by helping me. I’m having a horrible start to the year. Slick won’t help me. I think he hates me. Now that I think about it, 99.9% of PM does. :)

Dawg,

I don't think anybody on PM hates you! I know I don't!

What seems to be the issue with your lack of success?

How many acres do you have access too?

What sounds are you currently using?

I don't want to let this thread get off track so you can send me a PM if you like. A better understanding of YOUR situation will help answer a lot of questions you may have.



Hey Pops, thanks! I will send you a pm after work. Sorry for taking the thread off topic.

Mike
 
I'm gonna have to do some thinking. I trailed him for about 100 yards then lost the blood trail. I saw where he came to a fence and laid down before crawling under. After he crawled through he laid down again 10 yards from where he crawled through and then again after that about 5 feet from the last blood spot. They got smaller each time he took a break. After that I was following a trail I made up in my mind basically. I know every time I'm calling where there are cattle trails and game trails I watch those because often times coyotes take those trails. They're lazy and would rather walk on that then through the weeds.

I followed the easiest route he could have taken and looked on the underside of the grass because I knew if he side swiped any blades of tall grass it would leave blood. Every ten to fifteen feet I'd find a drop or where it smeared on the grass. I followed it until I came to another fence and hit dry dirt. I can't tell if he crossed under or not. No tracks,no blood on the dirt or the wire. Once he crossed dirt he'd be in more CRP. But there's no game trail for me even start looking on. If there was I'm almost sure that's the route he'd have taken. So basically I'm stuck. I don't know where to pick up where I left off.

Not very scientific or anything you guys probably don't know already but anyway.
 
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Originally Posted By: SlickerThanSnotOriginally Posted By: Bad DawgSlick won’t help me. I think he hates me.

told you why i could not help you.

my wife says hate is a strong word. lol



Haha! We’ll just settle on very, very, very, very, very (continuing on and never ending) much dislike.

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I hear ya Slick. I was just messing around.
 
Plan B. I'm gonna get my dog and see if he can't follow it. I know I'm going through a lot of trouble for a dead coyote but I'm bullheaded. When I set out to do something I do it.
 
Well that was a fun day. My dog has never blood tracked anything in his life. He found a blood spot I hadn't found and I gotta admit it was pretty funny watching him. He'd run up and smell blood and immediately pee on it. That son of a gun was going nuts. He was peein all over the place,kickin dirt and growling. He ran all over that place looking. For what he didn't know but he marked every drop of blood out there with urine.
 
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I definitely tried. I try to learn something from every experience hunting predators. Making mistakes is how I seem to learn in most aspects of my life so this was no different. Was that the first coyote I've wounded? No it wasn't and it won't be the last. The only way to get good at anything is to do it over and over again. I don't want to just be good in one aspect of predator hunting. Calling and shooting is only part of it for me. Sometimes bad shots happen and when they do I want to be able to have the know how to recover that animal. I believe that's one skill that is valuable to have in order to put more fur in the back of the truck. It's not easy to do that I can assure you. Coyotes don't paint a blood trail with their tail. They're so unbelievably tough the blood trail or any sign of that coyote could run dry before it decided to lay down and die. For all I know I could have been looking a 1/4 mile from where that coyote is and I had him figured for dead before I even started looking for him. That just goes to show how resilient they are. True survivors.
 
Keep shooting till they quit moving. If the pelt is ruined in the process, so be it. At least you did your best to end in as quickly and humanely as possible.
 
All a person can do is their best and live with the results. Try to learn from things that happen in their life go to bed at night knowing you did all you could. Rudy
 
I admire your respect for the quarry you shoot no matter if it's a coyote. I would of done the same. To me, it would of been interesting and a learning tool if you found it. I know you played it over and over in your head how the shot went and what happened. If you would of found him you could of seen exactly where you hit him and put the pieces of the puzzle together as to how it all played out and learned from it. Those are the memorable ones!
 
Originally Posted By: crapshootKeep shooting till they quit moving. If the pelt is ruined in the process, so be it. At least you did your best to end in as quickly and humanely as possible. Yep. The bad thing is I've made it a habit to shoot anything that moves again a second time to prevent that. I just dropped the ball this time. Once he caught that second wind it caught me off guard and I almost felt like I couldn't get caught up to him in my scope. If I'd have pulled the trigger again I know I'd have shot way behind him.
 
Originally Posted By: Jay CummingsI admire your respect for the quarry you shoot no matter if it's a coyote. I would of done the same. To me, it would of been interesting and a learning tool if you found it. I know you played it over and over in your head how the shot went and what happened. If you would of found him you could of seen exactly where you hit him and put the pieces of the puzzle together as to how it all played out and learned from it. Those are the memorable ones!
It really would have been. By the time it was all said and done I was trying to think like a wounded coyote. Checking holes in the ground and anything and everything it could have crawled under. It sure would have been nice to find him just for the simple fact I want to know where he went. That weed row would have been the perfect spot for him to hide. But apparently he didn't think so.
 
One more thing, don't think that a domestic dog isn't tough either. I had a female Britney they got shot by a 22 Long rifle by the neighbor. I was keeping her at my dads place and my mom let her out for an evening run one night. Apparently she has gotten over to the neighbors and he Schotter with the 22. When my dad came home that evening there was blood all over the front porch and he trailed it out to the barn outback. He found her laying in the barn and she was in pretty sad shape. He called me that night and said, you better get out here and get your dog to the vet because I think she's been shot. When I got out there I went to the barn to find her and she was laying there in pretty rough shape so I grabbed her up and threw her in the truck and drove her to the vet. When I got to the vet he looked her over and found the bullet hole and then he lifted up her jaws and showed me her gums and they were nearly as white as her teeth. He told me, it don't look good but I'll try. He said once they lose that much blood that the gums turn white it's pretty much over. He hooked her up to the machine and began to give her blood and it was running out of her nose about as fast as the machine was pumping it in. By the grace of God all of a sudden it clotted in the blood begin to stop coming out of her nose and he got her blood level back up. Once he got her stabilized he did an x-ray and showed me where the bullet was laying in her chest cavity and it was there until the day she died at the age of 16. He told me that it was a miracle that she pulled through that.
 
OKRattler
I would do the same and have done exactly what your doing now.
As far as I am concerned you have put in a [beeep] of an effort,good for you.

Wish you the best of luck. Gord
 
There is a guy over in Adams Oklahoma or just outside of it that has Catahoula dogs that you need to hook up with. Tj Hildago can assist you in finding critters like this.
 
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