Howler

OK, so I had a buddy call me yesterday morning at about this time, and said he had a rancher call him and wanted us to come and try to kill a few more coyotes because he was calving and seeing more of them than he liked. SO, we drove 90 miles to try our luck. We didn't have much luck, which didn't surpriseus with temps. getting into the 60's, but we did manage to call in 3 and kill two of them. All three came to howls and yips, no distress sounds worked. Here's the only one I got to shoot at. My buddy lazered the range at 320 yards. I hit her the first shot and she was doing the death spin,so I hit her again, which knocked her over, but she got up and was still trying to go, so I hit her again. First two shots were probably killing shots, third shot I hit her high in the front leg. Pretty badly rubbed on the hind hips and sides. We saw 2 other coyotes but didn't get them called in. It was sandhill country, and it's a challenge to call and kill coyotes in. One moment you see them coming over a small hill, then they're gone, then you see them again coming over another small hill, then they're gone again. It becomes a guessing game as to where you will see them again, and if they're still coming or if they are now going.Fun country to call in, but challenging none-the-less.

Rammer

way to go howler! I'm goin to try my luck this evening. I got about 8 hours of scrubbing to do on my semi before I can play tho.

Howler

8 hrs. of scrubbin', sounds like more fun than one man should have.
What a difference 24 hours can make. upper 60's and 70's for the last two days, and today we got high winds, 4"-8" of snow forcasted with a high of 33 degrees! Looks like 'ol man winterisn't done yet!

Rammer

I only spent 4 hours scrubbing Said the heck with getting it too clean till summer.

THe wind blew 20-40mph all weekend here, no calling for me.

#40Fan

yodeldog3

I know what you mean Howler, in the sandhills you can see two miles, but you can"t see 100 yards. Inbetween pickin sand burrs out of yor backside!!

Howler

Ahhh, we out here in the west have and use without fail a neat little tool that we don't leave home without, it's called a butt pad!In this part of the country, you don't sit down, kneel down, or put your hand down on the ground with out at least doing a thorough search for cactus!! I've fallen down and I have put my hand down in it and it only takes once to learn!! Even I can learn that lesson very quickly!![8D]

#40fan, I'll get some points added for ya!! Did that one come to the call?

#40Fan

Not really sure, Howler.

I called for about 30 minutes using only howls except for right at the end, I decided to throw in some fawn in distress. When I decided to call it quits, I stood up and started to reel in my speaker cord and spotted that dog trotting off from me. He was about 100 yards when I seen him and he was directly in front ofwhere I was sitting. So I am not sure if he was there the whole time, or somehow sneaked in on me. I was sitting on a hill with an unobstructed view of where he was, but never did see anything until I was picking up my gear.

Only dog I saw all morning too.

Howler

It never stops amazing me how it is that when you set up and can see "everthing" for several hundred yards, but yet some how one will just "pop up" from no where right infront of you. I've back tracked several over the years just to see how they got to me without seeing them coming, and often times I had no excuse because from the tracks in the snow, they were in sight but for what ever reason, I just didn't see them coming.

Rammer

ITS SNOWING ITS SNOWING!

Maybe if it snows enough, I will be able to see them come in. I'm tired of looking for 'em in the brown landscape. [:@]