My first double
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:08 am
I went out to a place this morning I haven't been to since last season. I got out there and set up well before first light and waited. After it got light enough, I started with some howls and then tried the rabbit squeal. To make a long story short, I didn't call anything in. This process lasted about an hour. During this time, something had spooked 3 deer out of a wooded area 871 yards in front of me down the field. You can see the dead male coyote in the right side of this picture.
I sat and watched for a while and didn't see anything. In a few minutes, another deer came out running from the same area. Still nothing showed up. I had been on stand for about two hours and decided to pack up and leave. I moved down along the edge of the field to see if there would be a better place to set up the next time I was there when I saw another deer about 200-250 yards beyond the trees
go racing out across the cornfield with a coyote about 100 yards behind it. The deer out ran the coyote and it started to walk back where it had come from.
The coyote was a long way out there but I thought I would try and get it's attention. I gave some challenge howls followed up with some whimpers. It heard me and started my way. When it hit the end of the tree line, another coyote joined it.
I gave a few more challenge howls and some yips. They kept coming so I just sat and watched them through the scope. They stopped just short of entering the bean field so I gave some lip squeaks and here they came again. The lead coyote was a male and the female was starting to break to my right. I had forgotten to check the power setting on my scope and still had it on 14X from doing some bench shooting last weekend. I watched the male through the cross hairs and could see he thought someone was intruding into his area. His head was lowered like he was in attack mode and his back hairs were bristled. He was coming straight at me and the female started to flank me to the right. I had the cross hairs on the dog's chest but he would not raise his head for a chest shot. He just came trotting directly at me with his head down. I tried whistling and he wouldn't stop. I decided if he wouldn't raise his head for a chest shot I'd shoot him in the face. The shot was 63 yards. I shot him right between the eyes with the 39 gr. SBK. Here's the way I found him.
The female turned and started running. I got on the howler and started giving yips and she stopped and turned broadside at 253 yards. When I shot, I heard the distinct whack of the bullet hitting home. She whirled around running and jumping wildly for about 20 yards and fell over. Her she is.
Here is a picture from where I was sitting to the first coyote, 63 yards.
Here's one from the coyote back to the leafless tree I was sitting by.
Here's a picture from the second coyote back to the tree. 253 yards.
The male weighed 38lbs. and the female was 27lbs.
I sat and watched for a while and didn't see anything. In a few minutes, another deer came out running from the same area. Still nothing showed up. I had been on stand for about two hours and decided to pack up and leave. I moved down along the edge of the field to see if there would be a better place to set up the next time I was there when I saw another deer about 200-250 yards beyond the trees
go racing out across the cornfield with a coyote about 100 yards behind it. The deer out ran the coyote and it started to walk back where it had come from.
The coyote was a long way out there but I thought I would try and get it's attention. I gave some challenge howls followed up with some whimpers. It heard me and started my way. When it hit the end of the tree line, another coyote joined it.
I gave a few more challenge howls and some yips. They kept coming so I just sat and watched them through the scope. They stopped just short of entering the bean field so I gave some lip squeaks and here they came again. The lead coyote was a male and the female was starting to break to my right. I had forgotten to check the power setting on my scope and still had it on 14X from doing some bench shooting last weekend. I watched the male through the cross hairs and could see he thought someone was intruding into his area. His head was lowered like he was in attack mode and his back hairs were bristled. He was coming straight at me and the female started to flank me to the right. I had the cross hairs on the dog's chest but he would not raise his head for a chest shot. He just came trotting directly at me with his head down. I tried whistling and he wouldn't stop. I decided if he wouldn't raise his head for a chest shot I'd shoot him in the face. The shot was 63 yards. I shot him right between the eyes with the 39 gr. SBK. Here's the way I found him.
The female turned and started running. I got on the howler and started giving yips and she stopped and turned broadside at 253 yards. When I shot, I heard the distinct whack of the bullet hitting home. She whirled around running and jumping wildly for about 20 yards and fell over. Her she is.
Here is a picture from where I was sitting to the first coyote, 63 yards.
Here's one from the coyote back to the leafless tree I was sitting by.
Here's a picture from the second coyote back to the tree. 253 yards.
The male weighed 38lbs. and the female was 27lbs.
Did you get an exit hole with either of those bullets?
