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.
