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Predator Hunting => Night Hunting => Topic started by: predator77 on August 11, 2012, 03:02:00 AM
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I decided to go out tonight since it was supposed to be in the high 50's and 72 degrees tomorrow. This is the first time I have ever went hunting specifically for coyotes for fear of educating the fox I love to pursue. The last couple season, I have seen a decline in fox sightings and a increase in coyotes yipping in the fall/winter woods. I waiting the last couple weeks for a night to be cool enough to go out.
This is how it happend tonight...
I got to my first stand and parked the truck. Unsure of exactly were I wanted to go but the sound of a deep gas well operation drove me alot further from my truck. After walking to the other end of the farm, I already thought that messed everything up by going to far in to the setup. The wind was swirling and I didn't pay to much attention to it for that reason as i would have been spinning trying to keep up with how much it switched.
11:20pm I turning on my FX5 remote and played a soft "Lone Howl" once or twice. Waited about 3 minutes and played it once again. after 5 minutes or so, I played a fawn distress on my ecaller for about 10 seconds and stopped again, all the while scanning the field with my nitlite sport II. I played the fawn distress again for about 10 seconds and stopped again. After a couple minutes of silence I sent out a coy female howl a couple times in hopes that I wouldn't call in a fox or a deer. I did this same call again after a couple minutes (not every loud). I planned on sitting in the spot for 30 minutes and just around the 27 minute mark, I hit DSG Cottontail and that was it. Two coyotes came running in within 12 seconds. I pushed my Kill Light 250s button on the forend and turned it on, all the while scanning with my headlamp. I identified the first one (closest to being down wind) and I meowed at it. She stopped and I laid her down with my new rifle. My hunt was over at 11:47pm. I didn't scout anymore places out for low enough fields to see them coming in. So, I called it a night.
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Sweeeeet!!! congrats!!
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Congratulations on getting your first one this year...Keep up the good work....ED
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Nice yote!!
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Way to go,looks like pretty big dog
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Congrats! Keep up the good work! Outstanding strategy playing with their brain!
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WTG!! Sounds like a good choice of sounds that you used.How far did you shoot her?Nice looking setup you got.
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WTG!! Sounds like a good choice of sounds that you used.How far did you shoot her?Nice looking setup you got.
At first I seen them two coming in it was at about 100 yards just seconds after hitting dsg cottontail. They we on a dead run and I shot here at 60 yards.
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Heck ,yea atta boy sounded like fun gets the ol' ticker going for sure !!
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Good job predator 77.That should help your fox hunting come fall.
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Great job! Congrats
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Yea, and with your new rifle.
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Fayette county yote? You get the first Gold Metal of the year.
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Congrats.
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She was taken in Fayette County. It was only 30.6 lbs. There was another one that came in with her. I plan on going back in about 2 weeks and switch it up some. Fingers crossed.
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Good job Ian. keep on hammering em
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Nice job Ian,
Now your getting me all fire up.We should hook up sometime this year.
:)
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Absolutely Del. ;)