I received a call from my friend John. He said he had got a call from a farmer who wanted us to hunt coyotes on his farm as they were getting bold and coming right in his feed lot. The farmer said they didn’t run very far when the farmer entered the feed lot too. 4 of us went to the farm to look it over for ideal set ups. We used a siren sound to locate the bedding area of the coyotes that were in the area. And then the farmer loaded us in a wagon and drove around the edges of his farm so we would know the property lines. Next he said he would take us to look at different locations we though might be a good place to set up. We decided the top of a hill in a fence line that ran almost east and west with some Russian Olive Bushes and round hay bales along side. Two mornings latter We drove in the farmers drive and parked out of his way where he had suggested. There were four of us for this first time hunt as the farmer had said there were 6 coyotes in the pack. I had my Rugar 77-220 Swift, My friend John had his fairly new 223 H&R he had won at a wild game dinner raffle at the sportsman club, His brother had a Remington model 788. 22- 250 and his friend had his custom Remington 700 22 Cheata. We walked back down the lane to the turn off and start climbing the hill. Once up on the hill top we decide to set the E caller down on the ground between a couple of hay bales. We got up on the bales to watch to the north and south as we start the call going. The field on both sides of the fence line are hay fields with a swale with deep grasses at the bottom of the hill in the north field. There was a shallow drainage ditch going from it across the edge of the south field and a big culvert that was a driveway to another hay field. We didn’t think any coyotes could sneak thru the culvert with out us seeing it. About 10 minutes into the calling two coyotes came out of the grassy swale. With hand signals it was john and his brother who were to get the first shots. They worked out who was going to shoot which coyote . Expected shots rang out but still made me jump from them. Two coyotes lay mid way across the hay field. Another 10 minutes of calling produced nothing more. A week later we got two more.

Al