DoubleUp
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The sun had dropped below the horizon as I unloaded my bike from the truck and stowed my tripod, seat, and call. The night was a cool respite from the eighty-degree weather previously in the week. The cold front which pushed that warm air out also brought a tornado to our area on Thursday. Thankfully, we were spared any damage even though it passed within a few hundred yards. Tonight I was targeting one particular coyote. This was a pretty large field of over one thousand acres, and this coyote was hunting right in the middle of it. I had seen her on Monday night at over one thousand yards, but could not break her lose from the abundance of mice and rats in the post-harvest bean field. Coyote won on Monday night.
My intention was to beat her into the middle of the field and be setup before she left the woods to my south. The ride in was about thirteen hundred yards on the bike and the brisk southwest breeze was invigorating. I didn't have to wait long before I saw her on the thermal scanner entering the field about eleven hundred yards to the south. I figured she would work her way to the north and opted to wait until darkness really settled in before calling. When she got to within seven hundred yards I gave her a little of the bunny blues. She came on a string. The video picks up where she stopped to reorient and I gave her another shot of the blues. When she started to turn toward the downwind which was from my right to left, I gave her another little taste of the blues and turned her back. She stopped at a field ditch briefly focusing on a mouse and I took the shot at 75 yards. I had opted to try my new Ruger Gen 2 in the Ranch model 5.56 with the sixteen-inch barrel which made a compact rig with the suppressor. I was using my old Super Yoter on the new outfit. It was enjoyable to get Retribution on this one which I targeted specifically and to fool her completely in the middle of a thousand acres of open field. The ride out on the bike was sweet as I savored the victory. Coyote lost tonight, and turned out to be a young unbred female.
My intention was to beat her into the middle of the field and be setup before she left the woods to my south. The ride in was about thirteen hundred yards on the bike and the brisk southwest breeze was invigorating. I didn't have to wait long before I saw her on the thermal scanner entering the field about eleven hundred yards to the south. I figured she would work her way to the north and opted to wait until darkness really settled in before calling. When she got to within seven hundred yards I gave her a little of the bunny blues. She came on a string. The video picks up where she stopped to reorient and I gave her another shot of the blues. When she started to turn toward the downwind which was from my right to left, I gave her another little taste of the blues and turned her back. She stopped at a field ditch briefly focusing on a mouse and I took the shot at 75 yards. I had opted to try my new Ruger Gen 2 in the Ranch model 5.56 with the sixteen-inch barrel which made a compact rig with the suppressor. I was using my old Super Yoter on the new outfit. It was enjoyable to get Retribution on this one which I targeted specifically and to fool her completely in the middle of a thousand acres of open field. The ride out on the bike was sweet as I savored the victory. Coyote lost tonight, and turned out to be a young unbred female.
