I had a pronghorn hunt in Wyoming this last week and couldn't resist calling in some coyotes while I was there. I was able to get 4 in the three days I was suppose to be hunting pronghorn. If I was a little better, I could have easily double the number of coyotes. After not killing a coyote for about 4 months, It was fun to get after coyotes again.
The pair in the picture below came in really slow. After 35 minutes of calling on the stand I was about to give up but decided to scan with my binoculars before getting up. I spotted these two coyotes moving in but they were still over 1000 yards out. I hadn't called for over 5 minutes so I did a few distressed rabbit screams and they picked up the pace. At about 500 yards they split up and I lost view of one of them in the sage. At about 200 yards the female started circling downwind so I dropped her before she caught my wind. I had lost sight of the male but immediately started calling after the shot, hoping to stop him for a shot. He ended up being held up and 500 yards out and started to come in hard, thinking his mate had something going on. I was very surprised to see him come in because I was shooting an AR10 6mm Creedmoor with a muzzle brake that is loud. I was able to drop him when he stopped at about 200 yards. Dropped the male 43 minutes after I started calling. Stands like this remind me to be patient when I know I'm in a good spot and give a stand a little longer than I normally would.
The pair in the picture below came in really slow. After 35 minutes of calling on the stand I was about to give up but decided to scan with my binoculars before getting up. I spotted these two coyotes moving in but they were still over 1000 yards out. I hadn't called for over 5 minutes so I did a few distressed rabbit screams and they picked up the pace. At about 500 yards they split up and I lost view of one of them in the sage. At about 200 yards the female started circling downwind so I dropped her before she caught my wind. I had lost sight of the male but immediately started calling after the shot, hoping to stop him for a shot. He ended up being held up and 500 yards out and started to come in hard, thinking his mate had something going on. I was very surprised to see him come in because I was shooting an AR10 6mm Creedmoor with a muzzle brake that is loud. I was able to drop him when he stopped at about 200 yards. Dropped the male 43 minutes after I started calling. Stands like this remind me to be patient when I know I'm in a good spot and give a stand a little longer than I normally would.