TonyTebbe
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I have a hunter coming in tomorrow, for the weekend, so I decided to go make a few stands today and check if the coyote's turned back on yet. It's been cold and windy and they've just been laying low the past few days.
I thought it'd be a good time to train my Cur/Jagd pup, Dixie. I bought her from Devin, right here on PM, when she was a young pup. She's been really showing interest and I've been spending quite a bit of time working with her, same as I did with Gunner at her age. Figured it's time to take her out and get some fur in front of her. I loaded her and Gunner up on the jeep and off we went.
We made a couple of blank stands to start off with. I thought, oh great...it's finally warming back up, sun is out and they are still turned off. Arghhh!
The next stand, I had a hard charger come in that wouldn't stop and ended up running into my scent cone and was outta there. No shot opporutnity, but hey....a solid response to jackrabbit distress!
We went deeper into the ranch and called a stand that we've killed quite a few coyotes on already this year. Gunner was sitting next to me on post and Dixie was out in front about 100 yards, milling around. About 7-8 minutes into the stand, I heard Dixie start growling. I looked up to see a big male coyote on a hillside, checking up. I decided to give him a couple more gravely jackrabbit choking sounds. I looked through my scope and noticed he was locked on the Dixie and could care less about any rabbit at this point. He stared at her forever, so I just went silent and wanted to see this scene unfold.
I was kicking myself for not having my video camera on me, but remembered I had my digital camera in my coat pocket. I rested the camera on top of my scope and started snapping pics.
The Jagd Terrier blood has really been showing in Dixie, as she's very protective at home of anything that moves or makes noise. She's quite the agressive barker. I was hoping she'd bring that attitude to stand and she did. She began barking and growling at the coyote and that's all it took...here he came to get a closer look.
She was raising cane at him, as she worked here way back to me. Gunner sat next to me and watched, waiting for his que to charge.
This big male was totally focussed on Dixie and never even seen me snapping pictures, while she was meer feet next to me. He could care less about the wind direction and stayed upwind of us. Head low, and fully convinced that he wanted that dog.
At this point, I figured it was time to set the camera down and get up on the gun, as he was only 30 yards and working his way around me. I set the camera down, swung the crosshairs through him and touched off the trigger when it hit his ribs. Boom....whop! The coyote flips over, but gets up and starts running.
That's Gunner's que to go tackle this runner. He charged after the coyote with Dixie in tow. They were too fast and I could only get Dixie in frame.
The coyote finally ran out of steam from the heartshot within 60-70 yards and had 2 dogs ready to keep him in place. Gunner works him over and teaches Dixie the fine art of recovery.
"See here girl, hear this crunching and popping? This makes sure they are down and makes the boss happy. Got it?"
Dixie with her first decoyed coyote and number 225 for Gunner. That one stand did it for her. She's focussed on stand now and actually barked at tractor trailers driving on the highway on the horizon on the last stand of the day.
All this and it's a natural bobtail coyote, to boot! The dogs are both sleeping on the back porch, while I have to go skin this one out. What gives?
Thought I'd share with yall.
Tony
I thought it'd be a good time to train my Cur/Jagd pup, Dixie. I bought her from Devin, right here on PM, when she was a young pup. She's been really showing interest and I've been spending quite a bit of time working with her, same as I did with Gunner at her age. Figured it's time to take her out and get some fur in front of her. I loaded her and Gunner up on the jeep and off we went.
We made a couple of blank stands to start off with. I thought, oh great...it's finally warming back up, sun is out and they are still turned off. Arghhh!
The next stand, I had a hard charger come in that wouldn't stop and ended up running into my scent cone and was outta there. No shot opporutnity, but hey....a solid response to jackrabbit distress!
We went deeper into the ranch and called a stand that we've killed quite a few coyotes on already this year. Gunner was sitting next to me on post and Dixie was out in front about 100 yards, milling around. About 7-8 minutes into the stand, I heard Dixie start growling. I looked up to see a big male coyote on a hillside, checking up. I decided to give him a couple more gravely jackrabbit choking sounds. I looked through my scope and noticed he was locked on the Dixie and could care less about any rabbit at this point. He stared at her forever, so I just went silent and wanted to see this scene unfold.
I was kicking myself for not having my video camera on me, but remembered I had my digital camera in my coat pocket. I rested the camera on top of my scope and started snapping pics.
The Jagd Terrier blood has really been showing in Dixie, as she's very protective at home of anything that moves or makes noise. She's quite the agressive barker. I was hoping she'd bring that attitude to stand and she did. She began barking and growling at the coyote and that's all it took...here he came to get a closer look.
She was raising cane at him, as she worked here way back to me. Gunner sat next to me and watched, waiting for his que to charge.
This big male was totally focussed on Dixie and never even seen me snapping pictures, while she was meer feet next to me. He could care less about the wind direction and stayed upwind of us. Head low, and fully convinced that he wanted that dog.
At this point, I figured it was time to set the camera down and get up on the gun, as he was only 30 yards and working his way around me. I set the camera down, swung the crosshairs through him and touched off the trigger when it hit his ribs. Boom....whop! The coyote flips over, but gets up and starts running.
That's Gunner's que to go tackle this runner. He charged after the coyote with Dixie in tow. They were too fast and I could only get Dixie in frame.
The coyote finally ran out of steam from the heartshot within 60-70 yards and had 2 dogs ready to keep him in place. Gunner works him over and teaches Dixie the fine art of recovery.
"See here girl, hear this crunching and popping? This makes sure they are down and makes the boss happy. Got it?"
Dixie with her first decoyed coyote and number 225 for Gunner. That one stand did it for her. She's focussed on stand now and actually barked at tractor trailers driving on the highway on the horizon on the last stand of the day.
All this and it's a natural bobtail coyote, to boot! The dogs are both sleeping on the back porch, while I have to go skin this one out. What gives?
Thought I'd share with yall.
Tony
