Well it's black powder season this morning in NC so I was there with my ole smokepole with baited breath. I saw nothing early so I picked up my deer & deer hunting magizine and started reading some good hunting stories. I keep all the new issues unread untill gun season so I have something new to read. LOL. Anyway, at 8:15 AM, after looking up from a paragraph I just read, out of my right side window, I saw what to me is better than an 8 point buck walking towards the front cut field. I got my pole out the window and took off the safety, whistled twice and it stopped broadside. He then had a very bad day cause I lit him up! I didn't want it torn up too badly so I aimed for the lungs and that's where it got him. I have already taken to to my taxidermist for a full body mount. You guessed it, it's a mature male coyote. It's the very first one I've ever seen in this area. Didn't even know there was any around here. But I'm sure glad he WAS! I haven't gotten a deer yet this season but I've got Monday and Tuesday of this week and Monday ond Tuesday of next week to connect hopely.There is so many rubs and scrapes this year I can't count them. Way more activity this year than past years here. It's just a matter of time when old daddy long legs shows up looking for miss right. Good luck to all of you.
BBO