derbyacresbob
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A good friend of mine told me 3 or 4 days ago a farmer friend of his was having problems with coyotes chewing up the plastic water lines in his vineyards and almond orchards.
I normally don't call coyotes this time of the year but I needed to go give it a try since this same farmer let's us hunt dove on his property.
I asked my neighbor to go along with me, he has hunted coyotes some in the past. I told him to bring his shotgun because it is not a good area to be shooting rifles in.
While the sun was going down out of sight we set up in a flat field with sage brush in it that was about a half mile square. There were grape vineyards about 300 yards away to our left.
I had my neighbor sit up against a big bush and I sat next to a big bush about 30 yards from him. I set my X-Wave about 20 yards out away from us.
I started out playing Adult Rat sound and after about 5 minutes of that I switched to Den Mayhem. Just a short time later I heard my neighbor shoot. I turned my head towards him just in time to see a coyote running very fast towards the X-Wave. Before I even had a chance to move my neighbor killed the coyote with his second shot.
The 12 ga 3" 1-1/2 oz load of TSS #4 shot killed the female coyote stone dead. It was my neighbor's first coyote kill with a shotgun.
IMG_7185 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/156463377@N08/, on Flickr
We may have to try a few more of these one stand at sundown hunts.
I normally don't call coyotes this time of the year but I needed to go give it a try since this same farmer let's us hunt dove on his property.
I asked my neighbor to go along with me, he has hunted coyotes some in the past. I told him to bring his shotgun because it is not a good area to be shooting rifles in.
While the sun was going down out of sight we set up in a flat field with sage brush in it that was about a half mile square. There were grape vineyards about 300 yards away to our left.
I had my neighbor sit up against a big bush and I sat next to a big bush about 30 yards from him. I set my X-Wave about 20 yards out away from us.
I started out playing Adult Rat sound and after about 5 minutes of that I switched to Den Mayhem. Just a short time later I heard my neighbor shoot. I turned my head towards him just in time to see a coyote running very fast towards the X-Wave. Before I even had a chance to move my neighbor killed the coyote with his second shot.
The 12 ga 3" 1-1/2 oz load of TSS #4 shot killed the female coyote stone dead. It was my neighbor's first coyote kill with a shotgun.
IMG_7185 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/156463377@N08/, on Flickr
We may have to try a few more of these one stand at sundown hunts.