Ihateyotes
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Went out just as it got dark tonight to the pasture across the street. They are bailing it right now and this time of year the wind always blows to the north which makes it a challenge to hunt. As soon as I crossed the fence I turned on my NV scope and started scanning and saw a form to the east on a berm behind a gas well which I thought was a coyote (approx. 200yds) but I lost it in the tall grass. I crawled up on a row of round bales and set up my bipod.
I scanned the pasture again and came back to the berm and saw some eyes further down but on top of a new round bale. I got out my mouse squeaker and started singing the dying mouse blues. I kept watching and the eyes got up and jumped down off the hay bale. This is the first time I have seen a coyote on top of a round bale. I saw her heading back to the South and lost her again. Hit the squeaker a few more time and see eyes again, she is on top of another round bale and jumps down and heads north. I hit the squeaker a few more time but nothing shows so I decide to get down and cut the distance down and see if I can get to a position to see around the berm.
I am sneaking from round bale to round bale and here she comes around the berm heading east towards me but she is watching the rows of round bales where I was sitting. I get down setup my bipod trigger stick and wait as she disappears behind a couple of the new bales as she tries to get downwind of the "mouse". I placed the crosshairs on her chest and squeeze. I was rewarded with a smack and her in the dirt but still moving. Since I shot one in the same pasture two days ago and she got back up and disappeared over a terrace (gentleman bailing found her the next day, buzzards had turned her in to a pile of hair)I sent another round in to her and she stayed down.
She is young but was definitely using every tool she had learned up to that point but luckily I did not add to her bag of tricks. The blood on her neck is from her flopping and from the shoulder entrance hole. The second shot impacted about 4" further back and about an inch higher but you cant see it in the picture.
I scanned the pasture again and came back to the berm and saw some eyes further down but on top of a new round bale. I got out my mouse squeaker and started singing the dying mouse blues. I kept watching and the eyes got up and jumped down off the hay bale. This is the first time I have seen a coyote on top of a round bale. I saw her heading back to the South and lost her again. Hit the squeaker a few more time and see eyes again, she is on top of another round bale and jumps down and heads north. I hit the squeaker a few more time but nothing shows so I decide to get down and cut the distance down and see if I can get to a position to see around the berm.
I am sneaking from round bale to round bale and here she comes around the berm heading east towards me but she is watching the rows of round bales where I was sitting. I get down setup my bipod trigger stick and wait as she disappears behind a couple of the new bales as she tries to get downwind of the "mouse". I placed the crosshairs on her chest and squeeze. I was rewarded with a smack and her in the dirt but still moving. Since I shot one in the same pasture two days ago and she got back up and disappeared over a terrace (gentleman bailing found her the next day, buzzards had turned her in to a pile of hair)I sent another round in to her and she stayed down.
She is young but was definitely using every tool she had learned up to that point but luckily I did not add to her bag of tricks. The blood on her neck is from her flopping and from the shoulder entrance hole. The second shot impacted about 4" further back and about an inch higher but you cant see it in the picture.
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