Snowshoes
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This morning I was set up in the same location as yesterday and with seeing a dozen or so coyotes at the barns upon my arrival, hopes were high!
Fifteen minutes later I watch three nice coyotes head north and that’s good because that’s where I plan to sit tomorrow. In the next 30 minutes I watch an additional three head north, two south and one east through cattails towards me. I let this one pass as it wasn’t a good looking coyote. In the next fifteen minutes I see another five coyotes roaming around the barns and soon another good looking coyote heads north which is encouraging for tomorrows hunt.
A couple minutes later I catch movement on the ice and I see what looks to be a good coyote headed my way. Closer inspection with the binoculars reveals it has shoulder mites and I manage to let this one pass also.
A few minutes later I see a pair coming down the cattail trail and I ready myself for their arrival. The lead coyote (which looked to be decent) stops dead in its tracks when it hits the spot where I dropped the coyote at 149 yards yesterday. It spins around and trots back the way it came. The second coyote which I thought would follow the other one, continued to where I shot the one yesterday and begins sniffing where the coyote had laid.
I can see this isn’t a good coyote but I wasn’t letting any more pass by. Cross hairs onto the chest and a 52 gr hp puts a second coyote down in that spot.
As long as the weather forecast doesn’t change, tomorrow might have potential for harvesting a decent coyote or two. Time will tell!