Downed Yote
Jul 18, 2011 14:30:29 GMT -5
Post by shivesy on Jul 18, 2011 14:30:29 GMT -5
Yesterday was a peaceful day at the homestead so I took a nap around 4pm and woke up at 7pm. At that point I felt so quilty for wasting the day away. So I decided that I would try my luck at some yote huntin in hopes that the quilty feeling would go away. I just purchased a gen 3+ scope about a month or so ago and I had it zeroed on my rock river 223 but it was just sitting in the safe as a virgin. My golf cart had a full charge and my caller had all new batteries, so I loaded it all up in the old Isuzu Trooper and headed out by myself around 11pm last night.
Drove over to my hunting lease, unloaded the cart and headed to a 10 acre field that offers some real good viewing. The moon was out and it was just about full. There was a slight hint of coolness in the air and I was thinking to myself how much fun this really was gonna be. Once I got to the field I set my fawn decoy up and set out my caller in the middle of this opening. The grass was short in some spots and a foot or two tall in others spots. I did a wind check and drove downwind around 50 yards next to a small clump of trees. Unloaded my trigger stick, rifle and turned on my caller remote. Everything was all situated as I turned on the scope. I checked out the field before I turned on my caller. Boy this scope is nice I said to myself as I was panning the field in a half circle motion. I didn't see anything, okay now lets just hit this #4 preset button on this remote that has a fawn in distress call already programmed to it.
BAMM!!! Four eyes popped up over the tall grass just 50 yards on the other side of the decoy. Maybe just a couple of deer I thought. Then both animals cleared the tall grass and started trotting towards the caller, yes they both were coyotes, just as clear as day. Dang I thought, I better not screw this up as the hair on the back of my neck stood up. Both of them were trotting at a decent pace and I knew that if they get any closer that one of them would smell my scent at the decoy site. I decided then to take a head-on shot at the lead dog while it was in route to the caller. I knew I had hit him as his one leg went out from under him. He hobbled off behind some tall grass to the left of the set-up and I lost site of him. No time to feel guilty here, where is this other yote at. As I was panning back to the decoy, he was still standing broad side not 15 yards from the caller watching his buddy dieing over behind the tall grass. I took another shot at this second yote and missed him. He took off in a full run to my right and stopped in a patch of tall grass approx. 125 yards. Again I tried another shot at his eyes and down they went.
Here below is the first yote that I shot at and the 45 gr. hornady ballistic tip just about severed his leg from his body. I took around 10 min. looking for the second yote and gave up due to the tall grass. Sure was fun!
Drove over to my hunting lease, unloaded the cart and headed to a 10 acre field that offers some real good viewing. The moon was out and it was just about full. There was a slight hint of coolness in the air and I was thinking to myself how much fun this really was gonna be. Once I got to the field I set my fawn decoy up and set out my caller in the middle of this opening. The grass was short in some spots and a foot or two tall in others spots. I did a wind check and drove downwind around 50 yards next to a small clump of trees. Unloaded my trigger stick, rifle and turned on my caller remote. Everything was all situated as I turned on the scope. I checked out the field before I turned on my caller. Boy this scope is nice I said to myself as I was panning the field in a half circle motion. I didn't see anything, okay now lets just hit this #4 preset button on this remote that has a fawn in distress call already programmed to it.
BAMM!!! Four eyes popped up over the tall grass just 50 yards on the other side of the decoy. Maybe just a couple of deer I thought. Then both animals cleared the tall grass and started trotting towards the caller, yes they both were coyotes, just as clear as day. Dang I thought, I better not screw this up as the hair on the back of my neck stood up. Both of them were trotting at a decent pace and I knew that if they get any closer that one of them would smell my scent at the decoy site. I decided then to take a head-on shot at the lead dog while it was in route to the caller. I knew I had hit him as his one leg went out from under him. He hobbled off behind some tall grass to the left of the set-up and I lost site of him. No time to feel guilty here, where is this other yote at. As I was panning back to the decoy, he was still standing broad side not 15 yards from the caller watching his buddy dieing over behind the tall grass. I took another shot at this second yote and missed him. He took off in a full run to my right and stopped in a patch of tall grass approx. 125 yards. Again I tried another shot at his eyes and down they went.
Here below is the first yote that I shot at and the 45 gr. hornady ballistic tip just about severed his leg from his body. I took around 10 min. looking for the second yote and gave up due to the tall grass. Sure was fun!
