Snowshoes
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This weather going from, -8F yesterday to +36F this morning is enough to drive a guy nuts! Just to top it off it was raining out and had been for awhile. What started out to be an additional 2 inch fresh dump of snow last night, was now slush.
I decided to go back to where I seen the 5 coyotes yesterday in hopes of catching some headed back to their bedding area. Pulled onto a snow covered slushy hi-way that was very slippery. I only had a couple miles of hi-way driving so thought, no big deal as I would just putt along. Traveled a mile and a half down the hi-way when out of the ditch, comes a small whitetail buck which promptly runs square into my truck grill. The buck skids across the hi-way but is back onto it’s feet and continues his quest across the field to find some female companions.
Well that sucks! Was able to brake before hitting the deer but didn’t get slowed down much from my already slow traveling speed. Sure is a lot of plastic on the front of these new trucks and it doesn’t seem very deer impact resistant either!
After a quick look at the damage, I decide there is nothing I can do here, so continue the half mile trek down the hi-way to my turn off.
The windshield wipers had been on steady since leaving home and I really question my sanity of going out and sitting in the rain for an hour or so.
I walk to my look out spot and its a half a hour of relentless rain before finally seeing a coyote. Not sure what this coyotes hurry was but it seemed to be traveling at Mach-1 and was into the trees in no time. Never even moved the rifle!
A few minutes pass and I see a group of four coming across the field and figured they may have been the reason for the first ones hasty travels. The four cut further to the west than I hoped but still within range. When the first one stops, I settle the cross hairs onto its chest and with a touch of the trigger, down goes coyote number one. ( later ranged at 217 yards). The other three scatter to the bush before I can get any of them into my sights.
Sit for another half hour just to make sure I’m good and soggy before bugging out. I know my outer clothes are fairly damp but my base layer’s are still dry and I wanted to keep it that way!
On the walk back to the truck I notice movement in the cattails at the one slough. Just thinking it was a magpie I really didn’t pay it too much attention but then a second glance perked my interest. A quick look with the binoculars confirms “ coyote”, and as an added bonus, it seems totally unaware of my presence.
I get set up and now to wait and see what the coyotes next move is. Eventually it trots into the field and with a couple barks I stop it for a shot. The 64 gr. bullet hits it’s mark and I have coyote number two down ( range at 211 yards).
Normally I would do another set but in these conditions, it wasn’t happening today.
Hopefully the body shop can do the repairs in a timely matter and I’m not without a truck for very long. May have to get a rental truck for a few days.
I decided to go back to where I seen the 5 coyotes yesterday in hopes of catching some headed back to their bedding area. Pulled onto a snow covered slushy hi-way that was very slippery. I only had a couple miles of hi-way driving so thought, no big deal as I would just putt along. Traveled a mile and a half down the hi-way when out of the ditch, comes a small whitetail buck which promptly runs square into my truck grill. The buck skids across the hi-way but is back onto it’s feet and continues his quest across the field to find some female companions.
Well that sucks! Was able to brake before hitting the deer but didn’t get slowed down much from my already slow traveling speed. Sure is a lot of plastic on the front of these new trucks and it doesn’t seem very deer impact resistant either!
After a quick look at the damage, I decide there is nothing I can do here, so continue the half mile trek down the hi-way to my turn off.
The windshield wipers had been on steady since leaving home and I really question my sanity of going out and sitting in the rain for an hour or so.
I walk to my look out spot and its a half a hour of relentless rain before finally seeing a coyote. Not sure what this coyotes hurry was but it seemed to be traveling at Mach-1 and was into the trees in no time. Never even moved the rifle!
A few minutes pass and I see a group of four coming across the field and figured they may have been the reason for the first ones hasty travels. The four cut further to the west than I hoped but still within range. When the first one stops, I settle the cross hairs onto its chest and with a touch of the trigger, down goes coyote number one. ( later ranged at 217 yards). The other three scatter to the bush before I can get any of them into my sights.
Sit for another half hour just to make sure I’m good and soggy before bugging out. I know my outer clothes are fairly damp but my base layer’s are still dry and I wanted to keep it that way!
On the walk back to the truck I notice movement in the cattails at the one slough. Just thinking it was a magpie I really didn’t pay it too much attention but then a second glance perked my interest. A quick look with the binoculars confirms “ coyote”, and as an added bonus, it seems totally unaware of my presence.
I get set up and now to wait and see what the coyotes next move is. Eventually it trots into the field and with a couple barks I stop it for a shot. The 64 gr. bullet hits it’s mark and I have coyote number two down ( range at 211 yards).
Normally I would do another set but in these conditions, it wasn’t happening today.
Hopefully the body shop can do the repairs in a timely matter and I’m not without a truck for very long. May have to get a rental truck for a few days.
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