Well, once again this year my parents made there annual trek to the left coast for there visit and as usual, we loaded up my Dad and put a lot of miles on the Furbuckets in search of some coyotes and cats.
Yesterday was an awesome day as far as the weather goes and an even better day because we managed to take a coyote and a cat. On about our 4th stand of the morning, I had this coyote come from my right side and work his way all the way to the FX5 while "Lightning Jack" was screaming. I had to stop him short of winding where I walked so he wouldn't spook. Unfortunately Dad couldn't get around on him without moving too much so I sealed the deal. Turned out to be 30lb and some change female.
Not long after that we found ourselves in a sweet little spot that had BobCat written all over it. Well wouldn't you know, after a whole 2 minutes of "Lightning Jack" we had a nice big cat come strolling in on my Dad's side. We let the cat work her way all the way to the FX5 and right in front of the camera until we muted the call and let her stop. Dad put the .204 right through the bottom of her chest/heart and she jumped about 3 times like she was on fire, ran about 30yds and gave up the fight. Man those things are tough.
We decided to call lunch after that and then made a couple uneventful stands until this morning. On our second stand of the morning at the 14 minute mark we were getting ready to head out, when my Dad says "HERE HE COMES"... Look out there and no kidding here comes a coyote just loping down to the FX5. We get Dad on him and we let him come to within 20 feet of the FX5 before we make him famous. BAM, Dad put one on the right side of his chest through the right shoulder. He goes into the spin cycle and just to be sure, he gets anchored for good.
We made a couple more stands, called in 6 more coyotes that for some reason or another managed to whoop our butts by either coming in down wind or doing 300mph straight to the call and not stopping for a shot. But at least we managed to scrape one out for the old man. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
So all is said and done, a couple days, a couple states and a couple critters for the picture book and the parents are off to Long Beach harbor to board the Cruise ship for vacation, hmmmmm. Yep, i'd rather be coyote hunting. Thanks Mike, for being there with us. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowingsmilie.gif
Yesterday was an awesome day as far as the weather goes and an even better day because we managed to take a coyote and a cat. On about our 4th stand of the morning, I had this coyote come from my right side and work his way all the way to the FX5 while "Lightning Jack" was screaming. I had to stop him short of winding where I walked so he wouldn't spook. Unfortunately Dad couldn't get around on him without moving too much so I sealed the deal. Turned out to be 30lb and some change female.
Not long after that we found ourselves in a sweet little spot that had BobCat written all over it. Well wouldn't you know, after a whole 2 minutes of "Lightning Jack" we had a nice big cat come strolling in on my Dad's side. We let the cat work her way all the way to the FX5 and right in front of the camera until we muted the call and let her stop. Dad put the .204 right through the bottom of her chest/heart and she jumped about 3 times like she was on fire, ran about 30yds and gave up the fight. Man those things are tough.
We decided to call lunch after that and then made a couple uneventful stands until this morning. On our second stand of the morning at the 14 minute mark we were getting ready to head out, when my Dad says "HERE HE COMES"... Look out there and no kidding here comes a coyote just loping down to the FX5. We get Dad on him and we let him come to within 20 feet of the FX5 before we make him famous. BAM, Dad put one on the right side of his chest through the right shoulder. He goes into the spin cycle and just to be sure, he gets anchored for good.
We made a couple more stands, called in 6 more coyotes that for some reason or another managed to whoop our butts by either coming in down wind or doing 300mph straight to the call and not stopping for a shot. But at least we managed to scrape one out for the old man. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
So all is said and done, a couple days, a couple states and a couple critters for the picture book and the parents are off to Long Beach harbor to board the Cruise ship for vacation, hmmmmm. Yep, i'd rather be coyote hunting. Thanks Mike, for being there with us. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowingsmilie.gif