Tim Neitzke
New member
Well we got a nice little snow on Sat,but it came to late and all the yotes had done their traveling for the day. My friend Brad and I decided to do a little calling,but had no luck.
The area had a couple local yotes that had been seen many times in the last week. They had been trying to get some of the land owners chickens and ducks.
Sunday morning the snow was almost gone, I'd say 1/4" left and proly only 50% coverage. I hit the road and managed to find 3 yote tracks leading into the area close to the farm with the birds and live stock. So I got the gang around and we did a push in the brush area only to get one yote on the run. Tracking was very slow due to the thin snow,but with some time Brad and I tracked it up and got it going again. Infact I had to pass on the shot as I jumped it to close to some houses, was toteing a shotgun too. The yote busted out in the open and managed to run 2 miles before taking cover in a ditch. Well since I was on foot I was the last to make it to where the yote was seen last. The guys put the squeeze on ,only come up empty ! What the heck I thought , you guys let it get away after I walked 2 miles !
After a bit of back tracking we came upon the track and followed it to the ditch . With my bud Odie watching over me with his shotgun , I jumped down in the grassy ditch checking for undercuts in the bank,holes etc. Found it hunkered down in the the bottom of the ditch and it was only 5-6' away ! So I eased out my 22 revolver from my pack and gave it one in the head . Yote 0 hunters 1, Woohoo !!
Now all I have to do is get it skinned. Hopefully , my painful leg craps will go away soon so I can. Man the first long walk (4- 4 1/2 miles total) of the season is a killer on me...lol
Thanks for reading.
I moved 3 times tryin to keep the blood out of the pic, but the CCI MiniMag Hp, really had it leakin.....
The area had a couple local yotes that had been seen many times in the last week. They had been trying to get some of the land owners chickens and ducks.
Sunday morning the snow was almost gone, I'd say 1/4" left and proly only 50% coverage. I hit the road and managed to find 3 yote tracks leading into the area close to the farm with the birds and live stock. So I got the gang around and we did a push in the brush area only to get one yote on the run. Tracking was very slow due to the thin snow,but with some time Brad and I tracked it up and got it going again. Infact I had to pass on the shot as I jumped it to close to some houses, was toteing a shotgun too. The yote busted out in the open and managed to run 2 miles before taking cover in a ditch. Well since I was on foot I was the last to make it to where the yote was seen last. The guys put the squeeze on ,only come up empty ! What the heck I thought , you guys let it get away after I walked 2 miles !
After a bit of back tracking we came upon the track and followed it to the ditch . With my bud Odie watching over me with his shotgun , I jumped down in the grassy ditch checking for undercuts in the bank,holes etc. Found it hunkered down in the the bottom of the ditch and it was only 5-6' away ! So I eased out my 22 revolver from my pack and gave it one in the head . Yote 0 hunters 1, Woohoo !!
Now all I have to do is get it skinned. Hopefully , my painful leg craps will go away soon so I can. Man the first long walk (4- 4 1/2 miles total) of the season is a killer on me...lol
Thanks for reading.
I moved 3 times tryin to keep the blood out of the pic, but the CCI MiniMag Hp, really had it leakin.....
