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to tired to give the full story tonight but will say Deidra is a killer, she didn't even let me back her up much less let me know we had one coming in,,,LOL, don't know if it was the fist gut shot that sent it spinning that she followed up with another 6.8 to the shoulder that made is stink so bad but it about had me in dry heaves.
So went down to do some hog and coyote hunting with Deidra, we hit the hog feeders at about 9
m with the feeders going off every hour till midnight and never saw a hog. At 12:30 I picked her up and we started calling to only have several dry stands. We both where running LS64’s and D740/760 scopes and shooting Barnes TSX bullets hopping for some hog action as we drove from stand to stand scanning with the thermals, only seeing deer, armadillos and rabbits. About the only high point was while walking to a stand I had the mX160 on the helmet and was walking a little fast as I could see,,,,, except for the flower Deidra says I tripped over and did a face plant, almost as good as the one see did over a log the size of a fire hydrant a few weeks back, that kind of lifted her mood a little, LOL
Around 4:30am we head back towards the house determined to get a few more stands before sunrise. I had told her I had a bumper sticker in the glove box for her but she would have to kill a coyote to get it! she didn’t know that it was,, one of Skinny’s “Major League Coyote Hunter” stickers We make a stand in the spot a month ago she had missed a coyote, (before she got her RR Varmint trigger in her AR) standing in the shadows of a large Oak tree with tripods fully extended , I place the call 75 yards up wind of us, we divided the pasture with us overlapping the center and the call her scanning the right side where the last coyote had come in from and me taking the left ½ . I tell her as much as myself now is not the time to get lazy and this could produce.
Started out with some TT cowtip cottontail for about 10 minutes from ½ to ¾ volume then switch to TT coyote decoy dog fight, after about the second bark I hear BOOM,,, WACK! I said that’s a hit as I scan over to her side and see a coyote spinning at about 110 yards,, she shoots again, miss, shoots again and hits solid, down he go’s , (all in about 3.5 seconds), she was putting the stink on him and was not going to let him get away, her first shot hit him in the guts, the second while it was spinning missed and as it stopped to take off before it could get a step she busted him right through both shoulders with the TSX. she starts the giggling, and says “that was perfect,,, he was charging in and when you hit the barks he stopped and gave me the shot. I asked why she didn’t tell me we had one coming in so I could back her up? She says I did, I’m thinking yea right, facing away from me with a good cheek weld you whispered. We keep calling and I’m now watching her cause I see how she is playing, I see her go to the gun, and she is holding the thermal up to her left eye scanning, I’m scanning and see nothing, she says we had another one running in fast, but when she went to the gun she lost him, he must have spotted us and ran right out, as the moon was just coming up and casting a little light on us.
We send the dog out and pick up her coyote, and that thing stunk so bad the dog wanted nothing to do with it! It was her first coyote with her 6.8 and the first she had seen with the LS64 she was pretty excited, so much so she didn’t mind the stink long enough for the picture. She got her bumper sticker, well deserved and we have a trip to new property in a couple of weeks with big hogs and some large cat tracks, maybe a cougar, I told her that if I see that cougar she would know it when I shoot, LOL I think she keyed on that and I will never get another shot at a coyote unless she lets me, LOL
So went down to do some hog and coyote hunting with Deidra, we hit the hog feeders at about 9
m with the feeders going off every hour till midnight and never saw a hog. At 12:30 I picked her up and we started calling to only have several dry stands. We both where running LS64’s and D740/760 scopes and shooting Barnes TSX bullets hopping for some hog action as we drove from stand to stand scanning with the thermals, only seeing deer, armadillos and rabbits. About the only high point was while walking to a stand I had the mX160 on the helmet and was walking a little fast as I could see,,,,, except for the flower Deidra says I tripped over and did a face plant, almost as good as the one see did over a log the size of a fire hydrant a few weeks back, that kind of lifted her mood a little, LOLAround 4:30am we head back towards the house determined to get a few more stands before sunrise. I had told her I had a bumper sticker in the glove box for her but she would have to kill a coyote to get it! she didn’t know that it was,, one of Skinny’s “Major League Coyote Hunter” stickers We make a stand in the spot a month ago she had missed a coyote, (before she got her RR Varmint trigger in her AR) standing in the shadows of a large Oak tree with tripods fully extended , I place the call 75 yards up wind of us, we divided the pasture with us overlapping the center and the call her scanning the right side where the last coyote had come in from and me taking the left ½ . I tell her as much as myself now is not the time to get lazy and this could produce.
Started out with some TT cowtip cottontail for about 10 minutes from ½ to ¾ volume then switch to TT coyote decoy dog fight, after about the second bark I hear BOOM,,, WACK! I said that’s a hit as I scan over to her side and see a coyote spinning at about 110 yards,, she shoots again, miss, shoots again and hits solid, down he go’s , (all in about 3.5 seconds), she was putting the stink on him and was not going to let him get away, her first shot hit him in the guts, the second while it was spinning missed and as it stopped to take off before it could get a step she busted him right through both shoulders with the TSX. she starts the giggling, and says “that was perfect,,, he was charging in and when you hit the barks he stopped and gave me the shot. I asked why she didn’t tell me we had one coming in so I could back her up? She says I did, I’m thinking yea right, facing away from me with a good cheek weld you whispered. We keep calling and I’m now watching her cause I see how she is playing, I see her go to the gun, and she is holding the thermal up to her left eye scanning, I’m scanning and see nothing, she says we had another one running in fast, but when she went to the gun she lost him, he must have spotted us and ran right out, as the moon was just coming up and casting a little light on us.
We send the dog out and pick up her coyote, and that thing stunk so bad the dog wanted nothing to do with it! It was her first coyote with her 6.8 and the first she had seen with the LS64 she was pretty excited, so much so she didn’t mind the stink long enough for the picture. She got her bumper sticker, well deserved and we have a trip to new property in a couple of weeks with big hogs and some large cat tracks, maybe a cougar, I told her that if I see that cougar she would know it when I shoot, LOL I think she keyed on that and I will never get another shot at a coyote unless she lets me, LOL
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