Split the difference ?

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shoots100

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My coyote season has been dismal at best and Sat night stayed on par.
Friday we had two dogs yapping at us from behind a house on a ridge and they toyed with us for over an hour before they laid down and went to bed.
Normally I'd try to sneak up on them, but that wasn't happening with 18 inches of crusty snow on the ground and 500+ yards between us.
We decided to hunt the backside of that ridge Sat evening when sane people are inside staying warm.
We snuck in from a neighboring farm and heard them yapping from the other side of the ridge we saw them the night before.
After a couple of male and female howls we spotted them coming over the ridge, but of course in the only direction we can't shoot.
A slight breeze was in our faces, so I wasn't worried about them catching our scent, but they ended up taking the path of least resistance and followed the fence line of the neighboring horse farm down the hill into the woods, yapping the whole way.
I thought they eluded us again, but I didn't give up and got them riled and moving in our direction through the woods with some territorial calls.
Still upwind, I got them to commit with some barks and whines, then I let silence do its thing.
I don't know how I missed a 160+ yard not rushed shot at two dogs sitting right next to each other with my 20 cal death machine, but it happened.
Maybe I shot in between them ?
It was good to converse with coyote again and next time I hope I'll be able to finish the job.
The shot happens around the 2:56 minute mark if you don't want to watch coyote being coyote.
SJC
 
It happens shoots. Some of my worst missing streaks come after these long stretches of not getting out after them. Seems to be the way the last couple years. It's finally warming up in my vicinity and it looks to be sticking around a bit. Unfortunately it looks like rain and snow for a few days this week, but the snow should get knocked back considerably. Hoping to make up for some lost time and hopefully hold hard when the time comes! We shall see.

Better luck on the next ones buddy. I hope your knee issue is improving. Less snow should at least make things more bearable.
 
Dammit, I was expecting a twofer.

I'm not sure which is worse, not getting a shot, or a swing & a miss. If the stand isn't boogered, I guess I prefer to not educate them, & get after them at a later date.

I had an argument with a pair the other night, & couldn't get them to budge from their safe spot. I wanted to wait them out, but the cold was getting to me after an hour on stand, so I bailed.
 
It's just been my luck lately.
This is on a property that we need to drop dogs.
It's so frustrating after taking great pains (literally) sneaking into a spot, calling them in, watching them slink away and using everything and the kitchen sink to get them both to commit, then miss.
The video was three minutes and twenty seconds long, but I edited me venting my frustrations for my piss poor performance over the last month in the last eleven seconds.
I'm thinking it's because I washed my lucky underwear, never wash your lucky underwear.
SJC
 
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