I went out coyote hunting this Saturday evening on a property I just got permission to hunt. First, lets go back a week when I met the the owner.
It was Friday April 24th. I found out the lady was a close friend of my wife's late grand mother and many a time she would go to my wife's grand mothers farm for dinner during the depression. After chatting for awhile and getting that ever needed nod to hunt. I walked around a little bit to get the lay of the land. I only made down to the pond. To my surprise a fox was on the other side of the pond less then 75yds. I just sat down and took in the scenery. What an interesting evening that was.
Oh, the turkeys were talking to.
Now, lets jump forward to this Saturday. Since it stays light out later. I went up around 1830hrs and set up at one end of the pond near where I saw the fox the week before. I put out my enticer and pain in the rear end wired JS digital caller and sat my fat rear end down under a tree. I pulled the guts of the caller out of my pack. The thing was left on by the kids playing with it and the batteries were dead. Damn, I had to switch to plan B, out came the Cass Creek Predator Callers. I played with them for about 5mins. No response. So. I said "what the heck", I pulled out my back Stabber from Kettle Creek and gave it a try. After a series of calls on the rabbit end of the call. I heard something come running from behind over a dead fall. It scared the living fical matter out of me. It was a fox at less then 3ft. I jumped up in fright at first, but I think the fox was more surprised than me. I did let it run off guys don't worry. So, after cleaning my shorts out. I settled back down under the same tree. I started to call again on the Stabber. A minute or so into the sequence another fox came out in front of me about 40-50yds out. I played with this one for a few minutes. Well, I got tired of that after awhile. I got up and moved down to the other end of the pond, about 200yds. I sat again at the base of a tree. There were some deer, I mean a lot of deer moving through the woods. I started calling on the Stabber again. Yet another fox came running in and ran off. The deer were still moving. I pulled out the Cass with the fawn distress on it and the deer ears went up. I did that 3 times. The deer started moving closer. Back to the stabber. I called for about 30secs. when something came out onto a path that borders the woods and a marsh area. This figure was dark almost black. I know it was of the K-9 species. It was getting dark at this point and had no light. I held the shot cause I wasn't sure if it was a coyote or a domestic dog. I guess I'll just have to back up in a week or so to try again.
Now I have question. What remote caller do you guys recommend, that is not a lot of money? I have been looking at the Power Dogg from Primos. What do you think?
