Coyote Encounters MonoFlex
 

Coyote died yesterday morning; photo were made this morning.






















Omega X7 was the rifle. The load was 250g MonoFlex, 110g Blackhorn, crush rib sabot, W209 primer. The reason i was out there in the flowers, is because i wanted to tag a whitetail doe. None were there, but as i was glassing, this dog was spotted out about 1/2 mile, perhaps less. It was hunting right toward me, and i watched it, and watched it, and it kept on coming toward me. When it dipped out of sight i waited, and waited. My feet got cold from standing so long. Then i figured it was time to take the rifle off my shoulder. Seemed like the critter might just appear right in front of me, so i cocked the rifle, and waited. Of a sudden, the coyote appeared in a little swale to the right. Carefully, i moved my feet, and shouldered the rifle. It kept moving, but then stopped, but before i could aim it moved on. It was obvious i couldn't hold the rifle steady enough to make the shot, so i moved my hand, and braced my elbow on my chest. When it stopped, i was able to kinda hold steady, and when the trigger broke, the coyote started jumping, and flipping, but didn't run off.

Had to unbutton my coat to get to the vials of powder, and bullets, and the rifle was reloaded. The primers were in my jeans pocket. When reloading was finished the coyote wasn't visible. Curious about the range, i used the laser on the slope just behind where the coyote was standing. Reading was 138 yard, so i figured the critter was at near 135 yard when shot. It seemed like the coyote should be laying down there somewhere, but it crossed my mind, that it may have run off. After a few steps, i saw something there, and the binocular showed it was the coyote. It was obvious, after seeing the bullet's exit, the coyote was never going to be able to run off. The bullet exit hole is visible. It certainly was a lucky shot.







Flowers for my bride

Yep, he's dead. Great shot Ron.

Ron.

Good shot? One could say, perfect shot. Lotta tracks in that field, no doubt why he was there.

OldBob

Very nice, we need a lot more people doing this as well. Congratulations, and great shot!!!

Do you skin them at all for the hide? Very nice shot there. And a heck of a hole.

Great shot on the coyote.

Great job Ron! I'd been happy making that shot with a rest! Very good shooting for sure! Pretty yote too, nice coloring. I have one of similar color mounted. Good size it appears.

Way to go. I shoot at every one I see.

Yesterday with all the bright red blood on the pelt, around the exit, it looked like it was destroyed, and i figured it was worth about $5, if i worked it over. Green pelts aren't being purchased. Apparently the price of oil has driven down the demand for fur. Today, it didn't look so very bad, but i wasn't prepared to haul it out.

Today my goal was to get some photo, and look for whitetail, and bring out some flowers. The only deer i saw in there, were Mulies, and my tag isn't good for them.

Great shot, a good coyote is a dead coyote. Snow? Its supposed to be 70 today in Charlotte with Christmas day pushing 75

Yeah, big holes don't do much for selling hides.

I shot a real pretty big ol red fox with my ML many moons ago. That thing had big holes. The taxi did wonders with it, you'd never know. Actually my bobcat too had a giant hole. Doesn't matter so much with the long haired critters and a good taxidermist.

Good luck making a hole like that in a deer Ron :)

Oh, and what type of flower is that?

LOL, I thought it might be...but wasn't sure. :D

They just grow random out there?

No, they are planted, and normally harvested. The photo shows the field of cut sunflower plants.....














This is the first time i ever saw sunflowers planted on state land. Years ago i was able to kill a couple of whitetail on state land that was planted with corn. The producer explained to me that the agreement with the state, was he seeded, and fertilized, and irrigated the crop, then left 1/3 of the corn uncut. What the agreement is here, i don't know.

What it looked like to me was all of the sunflower plants are cut, but there seemed to be areas in the field where the heads had all the seeds still attached, and there seemed to be areas where the heads had no seeds.

No whitetail have been in the sunflowers yet, but i have seen mule deer out there twice. The closest i was able to get to the deer was 300 yard, so i wouldn't have had much chance with my muzzle loader. Have seen Sharptail grouse, and the coyote, but no whitetail. Chances of killing a whitetail seem bleak.

I didn't realize they farmed sunflowers? I wondered how they got all the seeds they sell.

good coyote fur is in demand. more so than other furs. people here will pay 25.00 on the carcass and expect at least 75.00 skinned and streached.thats not a big hole,the boys with 7 mags make big holes!!!!

I knew they farmed em, just didn't think that they would on the state ground like that...which prompted my question.

Boy I bet that place is pretty in the summer! :biggrin:

Some time ago, (maybe 20 years) our State Dept brought over many wolves from Minnesota and scattered them across our Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Now the state-run DNR Dept gets constant complaints about them, for they have multiplied into larger numbers than the DNR ever expected in 20 years or-so. Some have either swam or crossed the three mile-long Mackinaw Bridge and now in the Northern Lower part of Michigan.

Wolves will be treated like coyotes here in Michigan soon......... hunted hard. All we're waiting on is approval from the DNR. An open bounty in the Upper Peninsula is coming soon. That part of Michigan has seen it's deer herd cut in half in only two years. Two consecutive terrible winters and those darn wolves........

We had a season on wolves in Minnesota for a couple years. Then the Feds put a stop to it. Your state DNR has no power over Federal rulings.

They started to plant them around here and from what I understand it is for the oil. That bio diesel stuff or something like that. I don't think they even separated the seeds. With the large fields of them planted there are always tourists taking their pictures in the flowers.

There is a wolf season in WI and the quota is reached quite quickly and then the season is closed by the DNR. Both trapping and hunting. What that tells me when they close the season early - POPULATION is higher than they knew.
I lost good grouse habitat because of wolf depredation reports on dogs. Mainly bear hounds but there are some bird dogs in there too! I steer clear of those areas by 4 miles or more.
JW

The higher fees to hunt them in northern Ontario kept many from hunting and keeping them in check. Hunt there now and all you see are wolf tracks.

Not any more JW

Wolf hunting and trapping
Attention: A Federal court decision has relisted the gray wolf as an endangered species in the western Great Lakes region, including Wisconsin.
All wolf harvest zones are closed.
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/hunt/wolf.html