Took a couple friends with the other night, one to see what coyote hunting at night is all about. Saw one, hit it too far back around 200 yds out so after doing a bunch of flips it took off. Put a couple stupid shots after it and watched go into a shallow irrigation ditch few hundred yds away. Never saw it come out so walked over and damn if I could find it. Think with a scanner it would stick out like sore thumb. Figured it stayed low in the ditch and got away. Anyway next morning thoght about and being retired with nothing to do I drove the 30 miles back there and walked the ditch again and on the walk back after thinking forget about bit I see it around 30-40 feet on the other side. Do not know why I didnāt see it the other night, it was right where we thought it was. Wide open grass pasture. So hopefully got Murphy off my back
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alf
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Nice job, I hate not finding one that I know is dead.
Harder yet to find one that runs into standing corn, so I don't waste too much time looking beyond a few rows in.
I've piled them up in standing hay & even corn stubble, and couldn't find them either.
Earlier this year I made a good hit, but couldn't find him. It was only a couple miles from town so I went back the next morning & found him right away 4-5 rows in.
Harder yet to find one that runs into standing corn, so I don't waste too much time looking beyond a few rows in.
I've piled them up in standing hay & even corn stubble, and couldn't find them either.
Earlier this year I made a good hit, but couldn't find him. It was only a couple miles from town so I went back the next morning & found him right away 4-5 rows in.
hunt0168
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Glad you found it. Sometimes you just wonder where they have gone?
Been in the same boat numerous times! Go back in the daylight and they are right there. Makes you wonder how they hide from the thermal, but they do? The best was one that died in a deep tractor rut. With snow on the ground the rut was invisible from a distance and just looked like flat field. No contrast or shadow visible. Just looked like dead flat ground. A little misjudging of the distance it was shot at and looking as though there wasn't anywhere it could have possibly been laying, I left thinking I witnessed the best disappearing act ever. I told the farmer about in the next morning and he text me 5 minutes later saying he found it right where I said I shot it. lol... Drove his tractor right to it!
Been in the same boat numerous times! Go back in the daylight and they are right there. Makes you wonder how they hide from the thermal, but they do? The best was one that died in a deep tractor rut. With snow on the ground the rut was invisible from a distance and just looked like flat field. No contrast or shadow visible. Just looked like dead flat ground. A little misjudging of the distance it was shot at and looking as though there wasn't anywhere it could have possibly been laying, I left thinking I witnessed the best disappearing act ever. I told the farmer about in the next morning and he text me 5 minutes later saying he found it right where I said I shot it. lol... Drove his tractor right to it!
struggling_hunter
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Glad you found it! Did your buddy like night hunting?
He had a good time. He didnāt want to b on the gun so he was just scanning, which is where all the fun is mostly anyway. Being in Montana the high-line is where the coyotes are of a better quality and he was saying he has relatives up there so a trip up there might b in store.