Keep On Running Your Mouth And You'll Get Shot...

BangPop

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I had one of the most unusual stands of my 50+ years of calling yesterday morning. The country I was in is anything but what you normally think of as a typical coyote calling area. It's mostly dense pine and spruce timber just west of the Yellowstone Park boundary. This stand is on a high bank about 60 or 70 feet above a river bottom that is choked with waist hight grass and 15 foot high willow brush that is better suited to elk and moose than anything else. I've called here one other time without success. This time was different.
I setup on the rim of the high bank with a good view of a bowl area in the timber about 300 yards wide and 250 yards deep. Cranked up the old CS24 with some pup distress and at about the 7 or 8 minute mark I catch movement to my left. The coyote is moving at warp speed off the bank and turns at the base of the hill toward the call with me barking at him at about 40 yards trying to get him stopped. Didn't have any luck getting him stopped and he flairs out into the dense cover and I'm pretty sure I've lost him. About 30 seconds later that bugger started barking and howling from down in that willow cover about 100 yards away. This went on non stop for 40 to 45 minutes. I scanned that brush trying to spot him in there, but it simply was too thick. I'll bet that coyote barked and howled no less than 500 times. Finally I heard the barks coming from a slightly different spot but still couldn't see him then he made a big mistake. He moved about 100 yards through the cover and began barking again. I scanned the area from where the sound was and spotted him in a small pocket under a willow at 215 yards and took him out with a pretty straight forward shot. I looked at the stand timer on the remote before I turned it off and it read nearly 54 minutes.
I've been barked at by a lot of coyotes over the years, but nothing ever comes close to the coyote cussing out I got from that one. Sorry no picture.
 
That's the way to stick with it and make it happen. I expect most of us would have moved on out of frustration, congratulations on a good hunt and good explanation.
 
Those barking coyotes are annoying. Most of time I never end up seeing them. I did sneak in on one once and it worked out for me.
I know that area around West Yellowstone well. I’ve never called coyotes there but there can be a decent population in areas. There also wouldn’t be many other callers educating coyotes in that area. You also have a chance of having a wolf show up.

What do you do to minimize the risk of having a dangerous close encounter with a grizzly?
 
Those cautious ones are fun, aren't they. Had one similar experience but with a different ending. Partner and I were calling from the corner of the outer boundary fence of a ranch and a coyote ran up and down both fences (E-W & N-S) for half an hour barking and carrying on @ the call, but refused to come under the fence so we could shoot him. He came within 6' of my partner and I both several times. Guess that fence line was a hard boundary for his territory (or a bigger badder coyote which had made an impression on him).
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Congratulations on sealing the deal on a tough one.

Regards,
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Originally Posted By: BrianIDThose barking coyotes are annoying. Most of time I never end up seeing them. I did sneak in on one once and it worked out for me.
I know that area around West Yellowstone well. I’ve never called coyotes there but there can be a decent population in areas. There also wouldn’t be many other callers educating coyotes in that area. You also have a chance of having a wolf show up.

What do you do to minimize the risk of having a dangerous close encounter with a grizzly?
Grizzlies are always a concern around there. I usually keep the stands short so they don't have time to get there before I get up and leave. I worry about them more when I'm bow hunting elk. I feel like a pack horse with a .45 and 2 spare mags in my coat pocket. I fish some heavy cover near there and carry a shotgun with 4 Buck. Those bass turds will kill you.
 


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