Guys,

I started the season in grand fashion yesterday!

I really needed some fresh pictures for an article due in October, so I reluctantly blew off my afternoon deer hunt and headed out in pursuit of an eastern coyote. Forty dollars in gas and one hour later I was at my destination.

It was nearly 80 degrees and I was sweating and swatting mosquitoes. I activated the remote to elicit some baybee cottontail and after only 20 seconds saw a coyote trotting to the call. I could not believe my eyes!

I'd like to tell you that I was calm and collected, but the opposite was true. My heart was pounding! I let the coyote approach to 75 yards and figured that was enough. My .223 dropped him on the spot!