A Couple (More) Good Coyotes

[cbwoods67]

Got an electronic predator call a couple months ago, and today was my first chance to get out and use it.

Set it in a pasture and hid behind a couple nearby trees in a hedgerow with my H&R Handi rifle in .223.

Hit the call and no sooner than I turned it off did the smaller one come running across the pasture. She got about 40-50 yards out before stopping. She didn't turn so I put one in her chest, which dropped her in her tracks.

Waited a minute or two and hit the call again. The bigger one (male) came running from the same spot as the first one. He was coming in pretty hot and didn't seem to have any interest in stopping. I whistled at him a couple times and he stopped at roughly the same distance as the first one. One in the chest and he also dropped in his tracks.

Not bad for about 5 minutes of calling.

I killed one during deer season that was even more mangy than the female. My only guess is the population is so high right now that they are getting diseases.

Going to try and hit them pretty hard this weekend before too many fawns start dropping.

 

[j_d]

Nice score. I have not had much luck calling yet myself. Did they attempt to circle and come in down wind? I have found tracks in the snow where I have been busted that way. Also Gotta love the handi rifle.
Josh

 

[cbwoods67]

Nice score. I have not had much luck calling yet myself. Did they attempt to circle and come in down wind? I have found tracks in the snow where I have been busted that way. Also Gotta love the handi rifle.
Josh

There wasn't much wind, so they had no clue I was there. Even after I whistled at the second one it didn't spook. It was like I had them on a string running straight at me.

 

[banana-clip]

Nice job, I havnt had much luck calling them in this year. What kind of call are you using? I got a foxpro electronic call for Christmas and only had it out a couple of times.

 

[cbwoods67]

Nice job, I havnt had much luck calling them in this year. What kind of call are you using? I got a foxpro electronic call for Christmas and only had it out a couple of times.

This is called an ICOtec. Probably some generic brand, me and my neighbor got them out of a sportsman's catalog that he gets.

 

[fast14riot]

Couple of good kills!

Good to get the mangey ones out of the population, some forms of mange can even be spread to people as well as domestic pets!

I need to get back out and call some dogs in myself.


-X

 

[cbwoods67]

Went out again today. This time over a few acre food plot.

First one came out after a couple hits of the call. Probably a thirty yard shot and got it between the shoulder and breast bone as it was almost facing me, and he dropped in his tracks. I took a pic to send to a couple relatives and after I hit the call a couple times, I look up from my phone and there is another one standing in front of the one I had just killed. Dropped my phone and as I shouldered my gun he took off across the food plot. After I whistled a couple of times he stopped broadside. I could see him plain as day, but had a hard time picking him up through the scope. Finally got on him and gave him one behind the shoulder. He ran probably sixty or seventy yards before he ran out of blood.

 

[Wicked Sharp]

That's a very good result for two days of varmint hunting. CONGRATS! What other gear do you use for your set? Are you using a decoy? What scope are you using on your rifle?

 

[cbwoods67]

Thanks. No decoy, and I'm just using the no name scope that came with the rifle. 55 grain Hornady soft point ammunition. No other gear to speak of, other than a camo hoody.

May pick up a unipod at some point so I don't have to rely on finding a tree branch at a suitable height.

 

[sodak]

Great job thinning them out! I am not one of those that say only kill what you eat - these look like they should be buried...

 

[JC972]

Awesome job, dude :thumbup:

Last coyote i shot was with a .270 several years ago. You've got me wanting to go try it again.