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Predator Hunting => Predator Hunting => Topic started by: scott on January 21, 2016, 04:45:30 PM
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I got to my cabin just after first light this morning. I walked into a spot where two ridges meet overlooking a thick swamp area. On the way in I cut tracks on the road that were probably fox maybe a small coyote. I set up and called for 45 minutes and didn't see anything. I then walked back past the truck and down an atv road to the pond. I set up about 30 yards on the ice where there was some logs and brush on the pond. I had about 100 yards of ice and then the swamp started. Really thick with creek channels running all through it. I thought I could call one out and onto the ice. I played lightning jack to 10 minutes strait then I switched to lucky bird for 15 minutes I then went to gfp within 1 minute I had a dark phase coyote standing on the ice looking toward me. I raised the gun and turned the scope up to 16x. Placed the crosshairs right between his eyes set the trigger and shot. I couldn't believe it when he was still standing there looking at me. I cycled the gun put the crosshairs on his chest and pulled the trigger this time he took off I shot at him again. I went down to where he was standing on the ice and there was no blood or hair. I followed his tracks in the snow and I hit him on the 3rd shot. Tracked him in the swamp for about 200 yards before I lost blood and ran out of snow. When I was shooting the 3rd time I thought I saw a flash of another coyote to the right of the one I shot. The snow showed that I called in 2. Not sure what happend. I was sitting on a log gun on my knee and I felt tight on the first two shots. I took the gun to the range and my first shot was 1 inch low at 100 and my second was dead on. So it wasn't the gun. Sometimes you think you have them figured out and then they come into a set that you think they would never bother with.
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Do you reload? Could be that you used one of the reloading powders that is sensitive to the weather ...Cold and or heat.??? I read in Fish, Fur, and Game that you should bore a hole in the ice and place a woodchuck half in and half out of the hole.. Once it freezes they say just wait them out a the now established food hole. I have seen your pond and often thought now that would be a good place to try this bait station.. However can't remember if there are cabins along the other bank..
I was calling with my son.. In comes an coyotes about 80 yards away.. He places the 22250 with Win 45 grain HP right on it's chest.. I,m watching through my scope and we are both using tripods.. The coyote crumbles and falls to on it's side.. We go to the spot and we couldn't find it.. The more we thought about it must have crawled right down a chuck hole that was right where it fell..This was the Mosquito Creek hunt yet.. Coyotes always have something going for them...
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Cool story. Thanks for sharing.
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I don't reload yet. I have all the stuff I just have to get it set up. When we ice fish one day and come back the next day there are always coyote tracks around the holes we drilled the day before. I often thought about putting a squirrel half way in a hole when we get there so it can freeze then sitting on the one side of the pond and shoot to the other. There are no houses on the one side of the pond.
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It happens to the best of us Scott, no matter what type of hunting you're doing. You'll get them next time.
Good luck,
Chad
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When they get down a hole, get a 4ft strand of barb wire and use it like a drain fish... slide it down the hole and twist it up in the fur and pull them out...
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When they get down a hole, get a 4ft strand of barb wire and use it like a drain fish... slide it down the hole and twist it up in the fur and pull them out...
LOL That's hardcore stuff right there. Since I don't carry 4' of barbed wire with me I'll just take it off of a farmers nearby fence, I'm sure that he won't mind. LOL
Seriously though, that's a hardcore idea.
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Skeeter creek is big money, try not to lose any...
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;D ;D Big1 ;D ;D Dale has "suspenders" made out of Barbed Wire :P :P they don't slide around then and have various uses :P :P You will learn this stuff as you grow older :( :(...........Dale is a MARINE :P :P not currently deployed ::) but who is ready to go ;) on a moments notice :o :o :o......... 8)
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;D ;D Big1 ;D ;D Dale has "suspenders" made out of Barbed Wire :P :P they don't slide around then and have various uses :P :P You will learn this stuff as you grow older :( :(...........Dale is a MARINE :P :P not currently deployed ::) but who is ready to go ;) on a moments notice :o :o :o......... 8)
LOL I like the suspender idea, then maybe my pants wouldn't fall down either.