cmiddleton
New member
went out today to try to fill that dang elk tag.
yesterday i saw a cow elk but by the time i got out of the truck and across the fence it took off i didn't shoot cuz a bad hit elk can go a long ways.
this morning we went and looked for elk but when they were not out in the flats we started coyote calling.
the first set started out in a hard snow we were fighting to keep the bino's and scopes clear of snow.
i was blowing a jack rabbit maybe 5 minutes when i spotted the big blond female coming fast left to right at 150 yards.
i told mike "right there" and we both drew a bead on her.
she stopped broadside and i touched off.
i saw her bang flop then not even a wiggle.
on the way out to her sorefeet said he was just tightening the trigger when the coyote disappear out of the scope.
she was a BIG female
the next stand was dry
the third stand i played the jack again on my tally ho and at about 7 minutes i had some howling at me.
i howled back with what i call a muster call then went back to the rabbit.
i paused quite a while when mike spotted one standing on the skyline 4 or 5 hundred yards out.
i blew the jack at her and the race was on she covered that distance in seconds.
i told mike "right there"
he got on her and shot at 80 yards hitting her head on with the 223.
she banked and after 30 yards she stopped
mike popped her again she leaped straight up and landed hard.
when the fog lifted and the snow stopped we had no more takers
once we could see clearly threw the scopes and binos we ran out of things to look at.
i knew the area we moved into gets called hard by every body but i thought i could pull one in anyway
on our last set we ran into Jeramey from here. nice to see another PM member out having fun.
as roger raglan would say "i had a pretty good day"
yesterday i saw a cow elk but by the time i got out of the truck and across the fence it took off i didn't shoot cuz a bad hit elk can go a long ways.
this morning we went and looked for elk but when they were not out in the flats we started coyote calling.
the first set started out in a hard snow we were fighting to keep the bino's and scopes clear of snow.
i was blowing a jack rabbit maybe 5 minutes when i spotted the big blond female coming fast left to right at 150 yards.
i told mike "right there" and we both drew a bead on her.
she stopped broadside and i touched off.
i saw her bang flop then not even a wiggle.
on the way out to her sorefeet said he was just tightening the trigger when the coyote disappear out of the scope.
she was a BIG female
the next stand was dry
the third stand i played the jack again on my tally ho and at about 7 minutes i had some howling at me.
i howled back with what i call a muster call then went back to the rabbit.
i paused quite a while when mike spotted one standing on the skyline 4 or 5 hundred yards out.
i blew the jack at her and the race was on she covered that distance in seconds.
i told mike "right there"
he got on her and shot at 80 yards hitting her head on with the 223.
she banked and after 30 yards she stopped
mike popped her again she leaped straight up and landed hard.
when the fog lifted and the snow stopped we had no more takers
once we could see clearly threw the scopes and binos we ran out of things to look at.
i knew the area we moved into gets called hard by every body but i thought i could pull one in anyway
on our last set we ran into Jeramey from here. nice to see another PM member out having fun.
as roger raglan would say "i had a pretty good day"
