Yote in the freezing rain
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Dirty Steve
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Congratulations! Looks like your snow is receding. I am in central NY. Yesterdays rain finished of most of our snow. Now the mud.
Iād assume all of ours will be gone by the weekend as well here in southern Ontario.Congratulations! Looks like your snow is receding. I am in central NY. Yesterdays rain finished of most of our snow. Now the mud.
alf
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I treat myself like a classic car, if there's a chance of rain, I'm not leaving the house.....
Well in all fairness I knew he was in the area and it wasnāt raining when I got there. It rained on and off most of the day and was just a wet misty day
One thing I've "Lerned" from calling coyotes is:
Their trigger can be tripped anytime to respond.
I've called them in in raging blizzards.
60 mph winds.
100* calm still days.
Fog so thick, viz was 60 yards max (best day ever with 15)
Light rain in thick cover with a shotgun has been fruitful.
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Also spent many days when I thought conditions were perfect and not seen a thing.
Ya just never know.
Their trigger can be tripped anytime to respond.
I've called them in in raging blizzards.
60 mph winds.
100* calm still days.
Fog so thick, viz was 60 yards max (best day ever with 15)
Light rain in thick cover with a shotgun has been fruitful.
.
Also spent many days when I thought conditions were perfect and not seen a thing.
Ya just never know.
AWS
Custom Accessory Maker & Retired PM Staff
Spending time in the PNW in for a number of years you don't think about rain as a deterant. It does make the ground silent getting to your stand.
Even here on the desert the main concern about rain is the roads becoming impossible. Rain here is pretty rare other than a couple months in summer with our total rain fall on a good year of 7".
So one day before leaving on hunting trip I went to a range that was about a 1000 ft higher than where I live and it was snowing heavy. It was snowing so hard at times you couldn't even see a 100 yard target. Well I got the rifle sighted in, the snow was rare enough that they still talk about the weirdo sighting in rifles in a snow storm. Well on the way back home I passed a spot that always looked good and I could park right off the highway. .I had dropped far enough in elevation that the snow had turned to mixed snow rain and the visibility was.pretty good. Called in a soaking wet coyote I just a couple minutes. .even desert coyote respond in freezing rain.
Even here on the desert the main concern about rain is the roads becoming impossible. Rain here is pretty rare other than a couple months in summer with our total rain fall on a good year of 7".
So one day before leaving on hunting trip I went to a range that was about a 1000 ft higher than where I live and it was snowing heavy. It was snowing so hard at times you couldn't even see a 100 yard target. Well I got the rifle sighted in, the snow was rare enough that they still talk about the weirdo sighting in rifles in a snow storm. Well on the way back home I passed a spot that always looked good and I could park right off the highway. .I had dropped far enough in elevation that the snow had turned to mixed snow rain and the visibility was.pretty good. Called in a soaking wet coyote I just a couple minutes. .even desert coyote respond in freezing rain.