Let me start off by saying I really enjoyed hunting in the tournement this weekend. I hunt to hunt but there is something different about hunting in a tournement. i hope to see more events like this one in the future.
Friday night we hunted from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m. 1st set I called in a red that caught me by surprise, when i turned he was 30 yards away just standing there, i must have hit him too much with the light, he bolted and a saw eyes again at 40 yards for just for a second and then he was gone, i kept calling and had another red come in from down wind, he circled the caller but would never get closer than 60 or so yards to the downwind shooter. that is all the eyes we saw for the rest of the night.
Saturday we hunted from 7 p.m. until about 12 a.m. snow was heavy at times and it was windy. Only had eyes on one stand, was about 15 minutes into the set and was playing js grey fox pup. when i was going to turn around and grab the caller because i heard coyotes about 250 yards away. when i turned I saw eyes coming from the upwind side and about 70 yards to my left, i first thought i was as coyote by how way it was moving. It circled to the downwind side and ran up a hedge row, i realized it was a red so i cut the caller and started to mouse squeak when he was about 70 yards out, he ran in to about 50 and stopped so a lip squeaked, he took a couple of bounds and i shot him at about 40 yards with 3in BB's out of the stoger. quick and clean.
Once again, i want to say thank you for the hunt.
Scott
