Sunday Coyotes

[GANDER]

We were out chasing coyotes Sunday and had a pretty good day. The first stand Jeff and I had set up a little ways from each other and had 3 come to the caller. I kept thinking why is he not shooting? We were filming so I was thinking he was letting me get all the footage I could. They left and then returned for round two. Still no shots rang out. After they had left. Jeff came over to tell me his firing pin on his rifle was froze up.
We went to another spot and saw one walking in about 400 yards infront of us. I quickly set up the caller along the ditch and we went and sat down. Almost instantly we had one coming in. He was at 75 yards and running to the caller. Jeff, got on him and I heard CLICK! Again..Jeffs gun wouldn't go off. I got on the dog and leveled it with a shot out of my 204. We had another bounding in from the left. He stopped at 80 yards I tried to get fancy and earhole him. Needless to say... I missed.


Next stand we moved to was along the same ditch about 500 yards east. Now Jeff was shooting my rifle. We were just about to give up and Jeff had stood up. A coyote appeared 200 yards down the road from us. As the dog was focused on the decoy, Jeff got ready. The dog stopped at 120 yards and Jeff was on him. At the shot the coyote jumped and spun around standing broadside. Jeff shot again and put one right over his back. This time the coyote didn't stick around and headed for the woods. I looked over to see Jeff hanging his head.

We made out final stand and had one coming in. He was trying to circle down wind. I was the only one to have a shot. Jeff handed me the rifle. I let him get to about 70 yards and gave him a dose, in the neck. He was down.



Saw 12 coyotes, shot 2 and missed 2. Should have been alot more but those things happen. All in all a GREAT day to be in the field.

[sniper7]

damn sounds like a blast! If you want someone else to join you, let me know!!!! I love to blast yotes.

I'll bring the AR though!

[sully3acr]

2 are better than none. I was in Nebraska this past weekend and called 3 my buddy got a shot at 1 (MISS). It was just good to get on some dogs! We need to hook up and get on some here in CO!

[Fourthwind]

Saw a bunch of yotes out during the afternoon on Saturday. I was taking my parents to the airport and saw 5 dogs just while driving! Don't think I have ever seen that many dogs at 3 in the afternoon.

[theGinsue]

I've got a co-worker that lives out in rural Ellicott that recently had a dog killed and another dog seriously wounded from yotes that tore through her fence but she isn't "ready yet" to let me go after them. DANG!

Still looking for a place around the Springs (there are a lot of 'em just East of here) that will let me solve this predator problem for them.

Good job on the ones you harvested!

[Red_Chili]

I'd love to pick up 'Yote hunting if anyone wants to shoot me a PM. Getting tired of watching all the DVDs and mental hunting...

Funny, we have coyotes around downtown Littleton and one neighbor lost a dog to one a few months ago, letting him out to pee around midnight. Just like that. So I don't dare practice calling in the neighborhood with my Shelties.

And for some reason my wife won't let me get away with it in the house. Huh.

[MagicOPromotion]

I bought some traps this spring after seeing all the coyote pictures on my trailcams and seeing over 5 this year while hunting. Also, there is a study going on right now in South Carolina where they are finding that over 70 of the fawns that they have GPS collared, have been killed by coyotes. Does anyone here trap coyotes and have any tips to offer? _______=== XRumer 5.0 Palladium RULEZ! ===

[GANDER]

Well I can tell you none of us trap here anymore. They outlawed that in our state in the 1990's.

[GunTroll]

Maybe he's talking live traps. Worthless anyways. What would you do when you catch one? Drive it over to someones else's land or near their land and let it go?