TonyTebbe
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A couple of weeks ago I went out to Oklahoma for some calling. I spent 4 days calling in Western Oklahoma with prostaffer Joe Allison (Moonlightmadness) and Kelly Jackson. The wind made for some tough calling, and the temps ranged from 75 one day to 22 and snow the next. Some days, the winds changed from S to SW to W to NW to NW, to E...in a matter of hours. It made for some creative thinking on setting stands up. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
We had some great howling action and really had them fired up on some stands. One stand, we were walking back to the truck after a blank stand that consisted of my best rendition of a coyote fight. Kelly was in the lead, talking on the cell phone. He told the person "I gotta go", then dropped down and told us that he had a coyote spotted. The coyote was standing by the truck, while cars were driving by. A few wimpers on the howler and he spotted 2 more hard chargers coming from a totally different block of timber. A few challenge howls and a pack to our South lit up, no more than 600 yards away. Bare in mind, this was 2pm in the afternoon...broad daylight.
On another stand, we called up 4 hard chargers. We assume it was a [beeep] and 3 dogs. We shot the female, which was in heat and sent some lead after the others. It made for some great filming in the snow. Another stand, Kelly called up a nice male and I anchored it. He kept calling and another male came to the same spot and smelled the nose of the first coyote. Kelly dumped it and it landed on top of the first one. He kept calling and a third male came from way across the valley and I dumped it. Another stand, I called up a hard charging female with a huge male behind her. I lipsqeaked the female for the longest time, waiting for the male to crest the hill. I dumped the male and the female shot out of there so fast that Kelly couldn't get on her. She actually cleared a 4 foot fence in a single bound. I would have swore she had a cape with an "S" on it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
To top it off, we left the camera in the truck and split up one afternoon to have a little contest. Joe and Kelly walked up a creekline, while I walked the other direction to see who could kill first. It wasn't more than 3 minutes later that I had a huge bobcat staring eye to eye with me at 8 steps. I had to lipsqeak out the opposite side of my mouth to coax him into shooting position, as he was frozen still in the middle of the snow covered road I was next to. As soon as he cleared the fence, I hammered him with a 68 grain HP from my AR. He jumped straight up in the air about 5 feet up and ran right at me. He made a circle to get back across the road and flipped end for end in the ditch. It was my first Oklahoma cat and it was good one. A nice big and bold male.
The big male coyote that I mentioned is next to the cat. He swamped the others.
After that we drove over to Eastern Oklahoma to attend the OPHA hunt in Poteau. It was a great time to meet up with old friends and make new ones. We ended up call up 6 or 7 more coyotes there and tagging 3 of them.
In total we called up 39 coyotes and 1 cat on this trip. I'll be heading back there again this fall. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
Tony
We had some great howling action and really had them fired up on some stands. One stand, we were walking back to the truck after a blank stand that consisted of my best rendition of a coyote fight. Kelly was in the lead, talking on the cell phone. He told the person "I gotta go", then dropped down and told us that he had a coyote spotted. The coyote was standing by the truck, while cars were driving by. A few wimpers on the howler and he spotted 2 more hard chargers coming from a totally different block of timber. A few challenge howls and a pack to our South lit up, no more than 600 yards away. Bare in mind, this was 2pm in the afternoon...broad daylight.
On another stand, we called up 4 hard chargers. We assume it was a [beeep] and 3 dogs. We shot the female, which was in heat and sent some lead after the others. It made for some great filming in the snow. Another stand, Kelly called up a nice male and I anchored it. He kept calling and another male came to the same spot and smelled the nose of the first coyote. Kelly dumped it and it landed on top of the first one. He kept calling and a third male came from way across the valley and I dumped it. Another stand, I called up a hard charging female with a huge male behind her. I lipsqeaked the female for the longest time, waiting for the male to crest the hill. I dumped the male and the female shot out of there so fast that Kelly couldn't get on her. She actually cleared a 4 foot fence in a single bound. I would have swore she had a cape with an "S" on it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
To top it off, we left the camera in the truck and split up one afternoon to have a little contest. Joe and Kelly walked up a creekline, while I walked the other direction to see who could kill first. It wasn't more than 3 minutes later that I had a huge bobcat staring eye to eye with me at 8 steps. I had to lipsqeak out the opposite side of my mouth to coax him into shooting position, as he was frozen still in the middle of the snow covered road I was next to. As soon as he cleared the fence, I hammered him with a 68 grain HP from my AR. He jumped straight up in the air about 5 feet up and ran right at me. He made a circle to get back across the road and flipped end for end in the ditch. It was my first Oklahoma cat and it was good one. A nice big and bold male.
The big male coyote that I mentioned is next to the cat. He swamped the others.
After that we drove over to Eastern Oklahoma to attend the OPHA hunt in Poteau. It was a great time to meet up with old friends and make new ones. We ended up call up 6 or 7 more coyotes there and tagging 3 of them.
In total we called up 39 coyotes and 1 cat on this trip. I'll be heading back there again this fall. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
Tony
