purdygood
Active member
Well,I finally got one today.It was great.I set up before the sun came up along a brushy old fence line on a dry lake bottom surrounded by cotton fields.The wind was blowing 5-10 mph from the SSW.I had my back against an old fence post looking to the north.I had the Yellow Hammer woodpecker in the tape player and was waiting for the sun to start to show.Well at about 7:10 it was finally light enough to see movement if it were there out to about 100 yards.I started the tape and went back and sat at my post.It wasn't 5 minutes and I seen one coming along the cotton field to my North and on the left.I put him in my scope and could barley make him out.He stopped for a second ,his contrasting light coat against the brown dirt allowed me to keep him in my sights as he kept coming in to the call.Then at about 50 yards he decides to cross thru the brush and weeds and get on my right side in front of me.I could see him thru my scope he was looking feverishly for that woodpecker.Well at about 20 -25 yards I introduced him to my Nosler.
I hit him and he dropped .I waited for a short while ,didn't see anymore so I got up paced it off at 19 paces.I hit him as he was quartering towards me in the shoulder where it meets the neck.It wasn't pretty.The nosler 70 Gr. BT expoded on impact with the shoulder and made a softball sized entrance and no exit.
I guessed him at about 30 lbs.He had a huge head and a big body.I thought for a second I had shot somebodies German Shepard.I will post the pics as soon as I get them downloaded.
I made five more stands that were dry so I took off to the house and was home by 9:30
This is my first coyote to actually call in and shoot all by my self.WOOHOO!!!
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Ray
"Any bad day huntin' is bettern any good day workin'"
"If they run they will only die tired"
[This message has been edited by purdygood (edited 12-22-2001).]
I hit him and he dropped .I waited for a short while ,didn't see anymore so I got up paced it off at 19 paces.I hit him as he was quartering towards me in the shoulder where it meets the neck.It wasn't pretty.The nosler 70 Gr. BT expoded on impact with the shoulder and made a softball sized entrance and no exit.
I guessed him at about 30 lbs.He had a huge head and a big body.I thought for a second I had shot somebodies German Shepard.I will post the pics as soon as I get them downloaded.
I made five more stands that were dry so I took off to the house and was home by 9:30
This is my first coyote to actually call in and shoot all by my self.WOOHOO!!!
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Ray
"Any bad day huntin' is bettern any good day workin'"
"If they run they will only die tired"
[This message has been edited by purdygood (edited 12-22-2001).]