About 11 years ago I jumped what I feel was probably the father of this one while turkey hunting and he was huge for around here. I jumped him in a hedgerow and he was gone before I could get a shot. The coyotes around my home move around from farm to farm every 3 days or so. I have a bunch of trail cams set up on travel routes. Well a month ago or so I started to see this black male and a lighter female on my cams on one particular property often. I had been putting out coyote trapping lure scent in front of the cams and they would come by marking their turf every day. I figured they had a den close, so the other night I sat up in a stand using coyote vocals.
In no time I saw this one and his mate coming through planted pines with the FLIR. I sat the FLIR down and with the PVS-30 I could tell the one was black. I dropped him and got a hit on the mate as it ran off but she had a bit of mange so I left her in the woods. Anyway, he was a bit over 38 lbs and I took the head to my taxidermist for a bust mount. He was killed roughly 3/10's of a mile from where I jumped a black one years ago. Very happy about this one.
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In no time I saw this one and his mate coming through planted pines with the FLIR. I sat the FLIR down and with the PVS-30 I could tell the one was black. I dropped him and got a hit on the mate as it ran off but she had a bit of mange so I left her in the woods. Anyway, he was a bit over 38 lbs and I took the head to my taxidermist for a bust mount. He was killed roughly 3/10's of a mile from where I jumped a black one years ago. Very happy about this one.
