azcoyotehunter
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Took a buddy of mine hunting with me this morning.
We headed out to an old honey spot of mine, we were getting our gear out of the truck and loading up when I spot a couple black dogs, then a couple more. I went back to the truck and got the video camera out (you can here all the coyotes in the area reacting to their barking). The ones on the video were still pups, mama ran off on us. There was a dead cow up the road, looks like all the coyotes had been feeding on it for a while (tons of dog turds in the area, it's all you could smell!)
We get moving up the road, I start to call and 2min into the call here comes a fast moving coyote right to the call. I mute it and he stops 20 yrds from it. I look over at my buddy and he has his sights on it, but keeps screwing with his rifle. Finally he lets a shot off as it starts walking away. He misses. He turns to say something to me and I give him the Shhhh sign. I keep calling on the stand and here come two more behind us, I point them out to him, he swings around and shoots over his left shoulder and misses again! I'm getting ready to laugh when I hear him yell out "I'm hurt!!" I look over and he has blood running down his face. He hasn't shot his new 7mm much so:
1) He forgot it was a 3-position safety (first dog)
2) Forgot about the recoil; the scope gave him a nice 1" gash on his eyebrow.
We patch him up and get calling a few more stands, I call in a nice female at the 8min mark that spots me and takes off. I keep my cross hairs on her as she heads up him through a lot of brush, when she is 20yrds from the peak of a hill I let out a "AAAAwwwwoooooooooo" she stops for a second and I shoot her in the butt!
Later down the road I'm opening a gate and while waiting for my buddy to go through I hold up my new bino's and what do I see across the valley, a coyote standing in the open. I quickly get my rifle out and go prone, I guess the range at 500yrds, I put the 500yrd BDC reticle on him and let a round fly. Shot right over him, my buddy gets his range finder out, 420yrds... oops!
Spotted a nice buck in the brush and took a picture with my new digital photo binoculars.
All in all not a bad day, last time I checked my buddy was sitting at Urgent Care with his wife waiting to get stiches.
We headed out to an old honey spot of mine, we were getting our gear out of the truck and loading up when I spot a couple black dogs, then a couple more. I went back to the truck and got the video camera out (you can here all the coyotes in the area reacting to their barking). The ones on the video were still pups, mama ran off on us. There was a dead cow up the road, looks like all the coyotes had been feeding on it for a while (tons of dog turds in the area, it's all you could smell!)
We get moving up the road, I start to call and 2min into the call here comes a fast moving coyote right to the call. I mute it and he stops 20 yrds from it. I look over at my buddy and he has his sights on it, but keeps screwing with his rifle. Finally he lets a shot off as it starts walking away. He misses. He turns to say something to me and I give him the Shhhh sign. I keep calling on the stand and here come two more behind us, I point them out to him, he swings around and shoots over his left shoulder and misses again! I'm getting ready to laugh when I hear him yell out "I'm hurt!!" I look over and he has blood running down his face. He hasn't shot his new 7mm much so:
1) He forgot it was a 3-position safety (first dog)
2) Forgot about the recoil; the scope gave him a nice 1" gash on his eyebrow.
We patch him up and get calling a few more stands, I call in a nice female at the 8min mark that spots me and takes off. I keep my cross hairs on her as she heads up him through a lot of brush, when she is 20yrds from the peak of a hill I let out a "AAAAwwwwoooooooooo" she stops for a second and I shoot her in the butt!
Later down the road I'm opening a gate and while waiting for my buddy to go through I hold up my new bino's and what do I see across the valley, a coyote standing in the open. I quickly get my rifle out and go prone, I guess the range at 500yrds, I put the 500yrd BDC reticle on him and let a round fly. Shot right over him, my buddy gets his range finder out, 420yrds... oops!
Spotted a nice buck in the brush and took a picture with my new digital photo binoculars.
All in all not a bad day, last time I checked my buddy was sitting at Urgent Care with his wife waiting to get stiches.
