Just a little bit blue...

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Went out by myself today and killed a few coyotes, calling between rain storms. Testing a new sound, worked pretty good, called four and killed all four of them. Skinned them all too and the fur is looking pretty good. One of them, the smallest one (looked like one of last years pups) had quite a bit of blue - blue stripes down his back and his hind legs were dark, but the other three just barely had a hint of blue showing only in the thin spots on the legs - backs and bellies were nice and white.

All old coyotes too, no YoY. No multiples either, all singles. I got three of them all in the same drainage, within a few miles of each other and they had all been eating the same kind of berries, red with seeds - I don't know what kind they are (not junipers). I only saw one jack rabbit all day, and he committed suicide under my Jeep while it was still dark in the morning. Lots of fat on the coyotes though, looks like they were ready for winter.

First three:
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Last one:
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Look at the fat on this old gal:
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Anyway… Dang near full prime, only just a little bit of blue still. Won’t be another week or two and they’ll be as good as they’re going to get.

The site I use for pictures is moving slower than old people in bed tonight, can’t get any pics uploaded. Will try and add some tomorrow.

- DAA

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Got all 4? That's good shooting and setup right there. Good on ya, buddy! Could the red and seeds be Prickly Pear fruit? Of course the fruit isn't a berry, but it sure turns their innards red and their crap is red and loaded with seeds.
 
called 4 - shot 4 /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Well done!!!

Thanks for the pelt update too, I've been wondering if they were ready.

M
 
Weasel, you may be on the right track with the prickly pear. There were a few prickly pear around anyway, but I'm just not sure - this really looked like berries to me. But, I sure as heck couldn't find any berries growing anywhere and I was looking pretty hard. So you may well have it right.

Curt, I was using my .20-250 yesterday, "The Big Twenty" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif. That thing has the most vicious meat report of anything I've ever used. Chest hits sound like Hank Aron is out there beating on a big rotten pumpkin with an axe handle or something. Pick up the dead coyote and the insides slosh like a half full keg of beer. It's a wicked rig... My picture site quit working again just now or I'd post a picture of it, /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif.

- DAA
 
Okay... stupid picture site is back for a minute I guess. Anyway, here's a pic of my .20-250 Curt.

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- DAA
 
Congrats Dave it looks like you had a real good day /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif The Coyotes we have been getting are the same way real close to prime /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif Kerry
 
wow!

so
that is what a hunting post is supposed to look like here !!!
great job !
i gotta like that jeep too (looks just like mine)
by the way...we saw lots and lots of scat friday...definitely all prickly pear down here
oye yashiro...de donde eres...y bien venidos !

guero
 
Nice pictures and good hunt report.When I was in New Mexico a week or so ago Bowhunting for elk I kept seeing coyote scat that I was puzzling over what they had been eating also. Well late one afternoon I was glassing a drainage and see this coyote i thought was mousing but he kept pouncing time after time and I was thinking there cannot be that many mice and then it dawned on me he was catching grasshoppers which were everywhere. Scat mystery solved. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif
 
Those are some fat, healthy looking coyotes. A good day for sure.

Dave, did you ever find a bullet for that rig that worked to your satisfaction on coyotes? If I remember correctly, your were using some different bullets trying to find a bullet that would yield the right amount of pentration and expansion at the 20-250 velocities. From the pics of the one hanging and skinned, it looks like you have a bullet that is working well.
 
hey venatic

was up in silver city 2 weeks ago and
they weren't grasshoppers where i was
they were locusts !!!
and i watched all manner of wildlife going nuts catching em
(mostly large birds)
the highway was literally covered with thousands of em for miles
anyone making a grasshopper call ???
and do you have to be chewing tobacco to make it sound right ???
(just in case this ever happens again)

guero
 
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What's the new sound Dave? Or is it secret? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif



/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif No, not a secret. Just some jack rabbit sounds. I recorded a bunch of new jack rabbit distress for Foxpro last winter. They released some of it as three or four new sounds last year. A lot of it though I don't think Steve Dillon has had time to even listen to yet - I recorded a BUNCH of jack rabbits. Anyway... I just took and stitched together my own edit from some of the stuff I recorded last winter and came up with a loop about 3 minutes long that sounded good to me. I honestly don't even know if any of the sound I used was part of what Foxpro already released or not, but some of it probably is. It's got four or five different rabbits on it, really good emotion and a cadence to it that I like, and a couple of pauses built-in too. This is just kind of my own "mix", that I'm not going to give anyone else. After recording so much good jack rabbit material and sharing it all with the world, I decided to make up a unique kind of a "greatest hits" loop and keep it for my own use /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif.

Lonny, yes the bullet problem is solved, as far as I'm concerned. It isn't necessarily "fur friendly", at least not compared to my .17 Predator, but the problems I had with surface splash seem to be conquered. I've killed maybe 20 coyotes with that Unmussig 38 now and not had any surface splash at all. Hit a big bone though, or hit at a raking angle with lots of meat and guts to let that bullet travel, and it will leave some monstrous exits. But, the problem I was having with some bullets was with monstrous ENTRANCE wounds and insufficient penetration for clean kills. Not a problem with these bullets. They are absolutely ferocious coyote killers at 4300 fps.

- DAA
 
Oh... a P.S. about the insects. I've seen lots of coyotes eating bugs. Some years around here they get to eating the Mormon crickets even. Those things are just flat NASTY. The fact that a coyote will gorge on them is proof positive of how adaptable and ready to take what it is given a coyote can be!

- DAA
 
Good job whackin and stackin. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif I've been holding off calling here, waiting for the fur to prime.
I'm thinking anothr few weeks.
Were you up high?

We don't have have Mormon crickets here, we just have hoppers and small black crickets. Do you know if anyone uses the mormon crickets for fish bait?
 


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