2nd Annual Coyote /Fox Photo Contest
01-12-2005, 08:33 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fairport ny USA
Posts: 1,055
2nd Annual Coyote /Fox Photo Contest
Guys,
Just like last year, I am going to start a photo contest for the "best" photo featuring us posing with our predators. The board members will vote for their favorite picture that is posted on this thread.
The photo that receives the most votes will win a Bark At The Moon Coyote Club Camo Hat. If anyone else wants to donate any prizes, just mention it here.
The contest will run from January 11/2005 until February 28, 2005 and should feature only critters taken during this time frame. The voting will take place for one week after the contest has ended.
Good luck and have fun!
Just like last year, I am going to start a photo contest for the "best" photo featuring us posing with our predators. The board members will vote for their favorite picture that is posted on this thread.
The photo that receives the most votes will win a Bark At The Moon Coyote Club Camo Hat. If anyone else wants to donate any prizes, just mention it here.
The contest will run from January 11/2005 until February 28, 2005 and should feature only critters taken during this time frame. The voting will take place for one week after the contest has ended.
Good luck and have fun!
01-19-2005, 05:45 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Elizabeth Colo. USA
Posts: 4,413
RE: 2nd Annual Coyote /Fox Photo Contest
O.K., finally got last weekends action downloaded, so here's the story. Last weekend my cousin and her husband came out to the Denver area for a ball game, and my cousins husband is new to calling and wanted to go with me for a day, so I took him out to a new 40,000 + acre ranch that I just got permission on a month ago. This ranch has the most wide open terrain or any that I have ever hunted, which is good and bad. It's good because you can see them coming from a longs ways away and you can usually get more than one shot, although the coyotes are very good about using depressions as travel routes to come and go, the bad part is they can see and hear a vehicle coming from a long ways away, so the appoach to the stand hard to hide!!
So, in a nut shell, I called in 5 coyotes for the day. My cousin met us at 2 p.m., and so I hunted the late afternoon by myself. This open terrain also allows the coyotes to go way down wind and look at the situation as well as smell the situation, so most of the shooting was longer than I like. So, 1st stand, called one in, but no shot. 4th stand called another single, but no shot, although one of us should've taken a shot. 6th stand, at 1 p.m., another single and it also went way down wind. Finally, I told him to take a shot, he missed, so I fired and missed, and well he ran out of bullets, he shoots a .223 wssm which I guess only holds 3 shells, BUT I had a AR10 .243 which holds 10 rds., so finally on my 6th shot, I connected on this first coyote. I am using 95 gr. BT shells, and I got a full pass through, killed him dead at a stepped off range of 350 yards!!
So, like I said, at 2 p.m., he had to leave to head home and I went on. On the last stand of the day, as I was walking over a hill looking to do a set, at about 3:45 p.m., I had two coyotes howl maybe 1 mile from me. I did a bunch of glassing and could not see either coyote, so I assumed that they were in the next drainage from me, so I got set up. On this set I started with a few high pitched howls and then waited about 10 minutes. I didn't see either coyote coming, so I then went to my dying rabbit blues on my own double reed horn tip call. About another 10 minutes went by before I spotted the first one coming at about 600 yards. He was coming, but very slowly and it kept looking to it's right, my left, and sure enough I spotted the 2nd coyote coming, and it was only about 450 or so yards, and coming a bit faster. So, I then went to some lip squeeks, and finally took my first shot at about 225 or 250 yards., and missed[
] BUT some how I managed to get a bullet in the kill zone on the 2nd shot. And honestly, I am uaually not that great on running shots, so for me to get two on the same day at, what I concider long range, was not much short of a miracle
As you can see in the pictures, cover is very, very limited on this ranch, so camo matching your surroundings is a must. I really like the white army surplus ponchos., them seem to work pretty well.
So, in a nut shell, I called in 5 coyotes for the day. My cousin met us at 2 p.m., and so I hunted the late afternoon by myself. This open terrain also allows the coyotes to go way down wind and look at the situation as well as smell the situation, so most of the shooting was longer than I like. So, 1st stand, called one in, but no shot. 4th stand called another single, but no shot, although one of us should've taken a shot. 6th stand, at 1 p.m., another single and it also went way down wind. Finally, I told him to take a shot, he missed, so I fired and missed, and well he ran out of bullets, he shoots a .223 wssm which I guess only holds 3 shells, BUT I had a AR10 .243 which holds 10 rds., so finally on my 6th shot, I connected on this first coyote. I am using 95 gr. BT shells, and I got a full pass through, killed him dead at a stepped off range of 350 yards!!
So, like I said, at 2 p.m., he had to leave to head home and I went on. On the last stand of the day, as I was walking over a hill looking to do a set, at about 3:45 p.m., I had two coyotes howl maybe 1 mile from me. I did a bunch of glassing and could not see either coyote, so I assumed that they were in the next drainage from me, so I got set up. On this set I started with a few high pitched howls and then waited about 10 minutes. I didn't see either coyote coming, so I then went to my dying rabbit blues on my own double reed horn tip call. About another 10 minutes went by before I spotted the first one coming at about 600 yards. He was coming, but very slowly and it kept looking to it's right, my left, and sure enough I spotted the 2nd coyote coming, and it was only about 450 or so yards, and coming a bit faster. So, I then went to some lip squeeks, and finally took my first shot at about 225 or 250 yards., and missed[] BUT some how I managed to get a bullet in the kill zone on the 2nd shot. And honestly, I am uaually not that great on running shots, so for me to get two on the same day at, what I concider long range, was not much short of a miracleAs you can see in the pictures, cover is very, very limited on this ranch, so camo matching your surroundings is a must. I really like the white army surplus ponchos., them seem to work pretty well.
