realhunter
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Tonight the wind was howling 25 mph from the NW. Big front coming through Indiana today... But, we decide to go out anyway. We make our first set ( a bust ) set up on some hay-bales that bordered a couple wood lots. We alternated between a foxpro wildfire & a icotech gc 500 on rabbit distress for approx 40 min... no dice.
Walk back to truck... get to truck. I say hey that drainage in ft of us looks good & its out of the wind a bit, lets give it a try. So we walk down to a group of small trees in the field I set out the icotech & mojo decoy, Jones sets out the foxpro & another unkown motorized decoy approx 50 yds from the first to the west.
I run 4 or 5 cottontail distress series' on the icotech... nothing... the foxpro was having some issues. Then it started working. About 30 second in to the call a coyote appears on the ridge around 250 yds out. I then hit the icotech cottontail, and boom here she comes. She made it to 40 yds & Donald & I double tapped her
I immediately hit pup distress & not 40 seconds later - boom, male shows up on same ridge. But, he was not moving without a visual. We hit a few distress cotton tail calls, but nada he was hung up & even layed down... So I told Jones, I'm gonna try him there. I estimated 250 - that was too far, miss! he runs 20 yds & stops ... bang - miss again! He's on a dead run now to the east...I lead him two full mils in the scope & bang, heard the bullet hit " whoop " & a cartwheel!! Best shot I've ever made lol... 195 yds on a dead run!
Walk back to truck... get to truck. I say hey that drainage in ft of us looks good & its out of the wind a bit, lets give it a try. So we walk down to a group of small trees in the field I set out the icotech & mojo decoy, Jones sets out the foxpro & another unkown motorized decoy approx 50 yds from the first to the west.
I run 4 or 5 cottontail distress series' on the icotech... nothing... the foxpro was having some issues. Then it started working. About 30 second in to the call a coyote appears on the ridge around 250 yds out. I then hit the icotech cottontail, and boom here she comes. She made it to 40 yds & Donald & I double tapped her
I immediately hit pup distress & not 40 seconds later - boom, male shows up on same ridge. But, he was not moving without a visual. We hit a few distress cotton tail calls, but nada he was hung up & even layed down... So I told Jones, I'm gonna try him there. I estimated 250 - that was too far, miss! he runs 20 yds & stops ... bang - miss again! He's on a dead run now to the east...I lead him two full mils in the scope & bang, heard the bullet hit " whoop " & a cartwheel!! Best shot I've ever made lol... 195 yds on a dead run!
