Rod Haydel
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....to Louisiana! HA!
Me and Byron have been trying to hook up on a hunt for quite so time now but our schedules kept us from it until yesterday. I lined up some property with a land owner that I have have tremendous success on in the past and to say that I was excited is an understatement. He let us in on only half of the property. We had 1 mile wise by 6 miles long of broken pasture, swamp and cutovers to hunt so the plan was to use my fourwheeler to hopscotch our setups. On the first setup we placed a coyote decoy on a rise looking and the foxpro. Wind in our face and about 3 minutes into it I was thinking something aint right about the time Byron said "BACKDOOR, there's 3". I was on the camera and had to roll with the tripod and steady up quick as I could the first one was coming quick with a limp. In the move I had breathed into the lens so I had to wing it. I knew where the first one was and Byron said it was mangy. Well, Byron knows through experience with me on the camera I am going to stay on the first on thats closer although he really wanted to take one of the bigger ones bringing up the rear. He put him down quick and got on the others but didnt connect at about 350 yards. We were off to a good start!
Jumped on the 4wheeler and this time hit a low swampy area and set up next to a cypress tree.
Again we utilized the decoy and foxpro in a strip of thicket between the open field from the first set up and the swamp. Well we were 10 seconds into it and Byron's typical "RIGHT THERE!" got me pumped up. I laugh because right there can mean anywhere! I have to look at him to see where Byron's looking then find the coyote and then get on him. He was hoping through the grass coming hard when Byron muted the call and got him to stop. I was on him and Byron took him down. We continued to call but nothing else showed. Byron knew he was big, but like I said EVERYTHING'S not bigger in TX! He weighed 74 lbs! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif Don't believe me?
How's that. Okay us coonass's stretch the truth a bit but he IS a good one! We were on a roll now 2 stands 4 called in 2 kills and on camera to boot!
Our third setup found us ducking for cover as we saw a coyote hunting for breakfast as we got to our stand. Easy kill it seemed like as he was hunting and the wind was right. That's when our luck changed. Two 18 wheelers headed into a the adjacent field to service an oil rig. We headed from there into virgin territory. Several more stands were attempted but it seemed as if someone just turned off the switch.
Time to get some lunch so we did our typical lunch of Mexican food. It's a standing joke between us that we can not kill anything it seems until we have a little Mexican food but just in case I had already that morning had a breakfast burrito from Micky D's so it looked as if it was working. That afternoon we had already had a plan together we were going to the far end of the property and work our way back up when we were rudely interruptted by HOGS! We rounded the corner and about 15 were standing in the road. All were about the same size so I picked one out and busted him about 200 yards out. The land owner warned us to shoot all we could due to the damage they were causing our we would be back. So I cranked out more rounds till they were gone. Then more came out! This time a couple big sows were with them so a repeat was in order.
We looked around in the cutover for about two minutes but found no hog and daylight was running out when Mike Dillion called to put a voodoo curse on me. He told Byron to call him immediately after I missed. 2 more stand left us with nothing showing for the party so we rushed to the last stand of the day with 5 minutes of shooting light left. The last seconds of light showed another mangy limping coyote headed toward us but he didnt seem real interested. With the light fading fast. I attemoted a shot (acually several) at I would guess 300 yards or better. Hard to range in that kind of light. [beeep] Mike Dillion this is war! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif Marie Labeaux
has taught me a few things and your on my list. I got the doll fixed up even with a FX5 across the back!
All in all we had a great day with great company!
Me and Byron have been trying to hook up on a hunt for quite so time now but our schedules kept us from it until yesterday. I lined up some property with a land owner that I have have tremendous success on in the past and to say that I was excited is an understatement. He let us in on only half of the property. We had 1 mile wise by 6 miles long of broken pasture, swamp and cutovers to hunt so the plan was to use my fourwheeler to hopscotch our setups. On the first setup we placed a coyote decoy on a rise looking and the foxpro. Wind in our face and about 3 minutes into it I was thinking something aint right about the time Byron said "BACKDOOR, there's 3". I was on the camera and had to roll with the tripod and steady up quick as I could the first one was coming quick with a limp. In the move I had breathed into the lens so I had to wing it. I knew where the first one was and Byron said it was mangy. Well, Byron knows through experience with me on the camera I am going to stay on the first on thats closer although he really wanted to take one of the bigger ones bringing up the rear. He put him down quick and got on the others but didnt connect at about 350 yards. We were off to a good start!
Jumped on the 4wheeler and this time hit a low swampy area and set up next to a cypress tree.
Again we utilized the decoy and foxpro in a strip of thicket between the open field from the first set up and the swamp. Well we were 10 seconds into it and Byron's typical "RIGHT THERE!" got me pumped up. I laugh because right there can mean anywhere! I have to look at him to see where Byron's looking then find the coyote and then get on him. He was hoping through the grass coming hard when Byron muted the call and got him to stop. I was on him and Byron took him down. We continued to call but nothing else showed. Byron knew he was big, but like I said EVERYTHING'S not bigger in TX! He weighed 74 lbs! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif Don't believe me?
How's that. Okay us coonass's stretch the truth a bit but he IS a good one! We were on a roll now 2 stands 4 called in 2 kills and on camera to boot!
Our third setup found us ducking for cover as we saw a coyote hunting for breakfast as we got to our stand. Easy kill it seemed like as he was hunting and the wind was right. That's when our luck changed. Two 18 wheelers headed into a the adjacent field to service an oil rig. We headed from there into virgin territory. Several more stands were attempted but it seemed as if someone just turned off the switch.
Time to get some lunch so we did our typical lunch of Mexican food. It's a standing joke between us that we can not kill anything it seems until we have a little Mexican food but just in case I had already that morning had a breakfast burrito from Micky D's so it looked as if it was working. That afternoon we had already had a plan together we were going to the far end of the property and work our way back up when we were rudely interruptted by HOGS! We rounded the corner and about 15 were standing in the road. All were about the same size so I picked one out and busted him about 200 yards out. The land owner warned us to shoot all we could due to the damage they were causing our we would be back. So I cranked out more rounds till they were gone. Then more came out! This time a couple big sows were with them so a repeat was in order.
We looked around in the cutover for about two minutes but found no hog and daylight was running out when Mike Dillion called to put a voodoo curse on me. He told Byron to call him immediately after I missed. 2 more stand left us with nothing showing for the party so we rushed to the last stand of the day with 5 minutes of shooting light left. The last seconds of light showed another mangy limping coyote headed toward us but he didnt seem real interested. With the light fading fast. I attemoted a shot (acually several) at I would guess 300 yards or better. Hard to range in that kind of light. [beeep] Mike Dillion this is war! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif Marie Labeaux
has taught me a few things and your on my list. I got the doll fixed up even with a FX5 across the back!
All in all we had a great day with great company!