bushpilotmexico
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Our weather has just been terrible lately with high winds and rain almost every day. The forecast last night for this morning was sunny with cloudy periods. I got up at 3:45 am kind of figuring that with so much rain maybe the yotes would be taking advantage of the break in the weather to fill their bellys.
I drove out to one of my favorite spots and got settled in....daylight is coming sooner and sooner as we close on on the longest day in June.
Steve Thompson had sent me some of his custom calls to try out (check out http://sdsnake.com/coyote.html) I had told Steve earlier that the weather just wasn't cooperating.
Along with the other callers and howlers Steve had sent me his bite caller to try. This caller is one of the best I had the privilege to put my lips on, great sounds and lots of volume.
Ten minutes into the calling I saw this yote looking at me from the top of a hill to my left. She was on the high ground and I was sitting in the low ground. She knew something was up and I couldn't coax her any closer.
I decided to take the shot, ranged her at 157 yards, put the crosshairs of the Nikon Buckmaster on her chest (she was sitting on her rear end) and squeezed the trigger. I could hear the 75 grain Hornady V-max strike home.
This photo proudly shows Steve's newest bite call:
She was a young dry female:
Afterwards, about 6:00am I decided to check out the carcass that had been so productive lately. Yup, as I drove down, stopping the Pathfinder about 1/2 mile away and used the binos I could see a yote gnawing on the MacDonald's hamburger.
I drove closer, parked the Pathfinder out of sight, crawled up the steep bank, under a barbed wire fence and belly crawled as close as I dared. I ranged her at 327 yards.
Slipped a round in the Sako L576, cranked on 2.7 MoA, cranked the Buckmaster up to 14 power, found her in the crosshairs and squeezed the trigger.
I swore I heard the V-max hit but she took off as if someone had put turpentine on her rear end, running up a gully and out of sight.
I walked over and when I searched the gully found her, she had managed to run about 100 yards before dropping.
I drove out to one of my favorite spots and got settled in....daylight is coming sooner and sooner as we close on on the longest day in June.
Steve Thompson had sent me some of his custom calls to try out (check out http://sdsnake.com/coyote.html) I had told Steve earlier that the weather just wasn't cooperating.
Along with the other callers and howlers Steve had sent me his bite caller to try. This caller is one of the best I had the privilege to put my lips on, great sounds and lots of volume.
Ten minutes into the calling I saw this yote looking at me from the top of a hill to my left. She was on the high ground and I was sitting in the low ground. She knew something was up and I couldn't coax her any closer.
I decided to take the shot, ranged her at 157 yards, put the crosshairs of the Nikon Buckmaster on her chest (she was sitting on her rear end) and squeezed the trigger. I could hear the 75 grain Hornady V-max strike home.
This photo proudly shows Steve's newest bite call:
She was a young dry female:
Afterwards, about 6:00am I decided to check out the carcass that had been so productive lately. Yup, as I drove down, stopping the Pathfinder about 1/2 mile away and used the binos I could see a yote gnawing on the MacDonald's hamburger.
I drove closer, parked the Pathfinder out of sight, crawled up the steep bank, under a barbed wire fence and belly crawled as close as I dared. I ranged her at 327 yards.
Slipped a round in the Sako L576, cranked on 2.7 MoA, cranked the Buckmaster up to 14 power, found her in the crosshairs and squeezed the trigger.
I swore I heard the V-max hit but she took off as if someone had put turpentine on her rear end, running up a gully and out of sight.
I walked over and when I searched the gully found her, she had managed to run about 100 yards before dropping.
