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Great pics young man. Congrats

Jim, I know what you mean about coyote numbers.. My friends had the govt. hunter in a plane fly their ranch and he took over 150 coyotes in a couple days.. Just after he left , I drove out to see them and shot a big dog at the end of their lane.. One slick animal.


Mt. Great cat pictures..

Nice rifle.

had so much fun with the .17 Rem couple weekends ago that I decided to take her out again this morning. I knew the day was going to be short because the wind was forecast to start by or before noon.
2nd stand of the morning got a "two of a kind" pair to come lookin for a fight. Both male. Shot one at 100 yards and #2 at 165 yards.
DSCN1373 by Tim Richard, on Flickr
Then on my 3rd stand I decided to start with good ol rabbit and didn't take long to have another pair rolling in. They got separated quite a ways as one was charging and the other hung back to survey the situation. Almost couldn't get the charger stopped but finally about 40 yards out she did. Hit her but she spun and was on a death sprint back out but only made it about 30 yards before she rolled up. Guess her mate thought she had rolled the rabbit because he then came charging right on it. Dropped him there with her at about 75 yards.
DSCN1374 by Tim Richard, on Flickr
Made two more stands before the wind sent me packin for the house. As I was tootling along the highway I spotted a mangy sucker standing not 100 yards off the road. Upon a closer look I noticed a 2nd coyote laying down next to the mangy sucker. Just so happens they were only 400 yards from a ranch house and it's a ranch that I can hunt. So I turned around and went back and talk to the rancher, and of course he told me to "go get em". Was an easy stalk since there was a big ditch that brought me to within about 75 yards of em and plenty of wind so no worries that they'd hear me. When I came out of the ditch, there was more grass then I thought and I couldn't see them. So I got set up with my shooting sticks and did a couple voice howls. #1 stood up and I dropped her at about 75 yards. Mr. mangy made a dash for the hills but found out he couldn't out run the bullet. Turns out the female was missing a front leg. When I got back to the ranch house and talked to the rancher he told me he had shot a leg off of one a couple years ago. Bet this was her. Both were old coyotes with badly worn teeth. Both got left behind.
DSCN1375 by Tim Richard, on Flickr

Quite a mornings worth of fur right there,good job...

Excellent!!!!

Thank you Fieldgrade.

My friend a fur buyer where I live told me that he would buy coyotes taken up to the middle of Jan. this year and he was paying up to $50.00 on the hoof! He does not take skinned or finished coyotes because he wants to do that for himself. Says he gets more money that way. He also said he has done around 500 coyotes so far this winter.

He told me this in early January. We have had so much snow this winter that it has been real hard to get around.

Kind of late with my story, but had to tell it!!!

Ken

If I could shoot, the pile would have been double this. Saw 3 Friday night, saw 17 or 18 Saturday night in 4 sets.

Still a nice pile o fur, how are the pelts? ,need to get out a couple more times,
And I think you are a little west of me,if memory serves

Nice!!

3 of the 4 were good. One got left for the buzzards.

good grief, must be thick in those parts.

It was crazy. Night before I only saw 3 for 5 sets, which is more typical up there.

Shot a coyote on the way tot he Ambulance meeting this evening.

He was a ways off the road....so I had to leave it.


I will take the tractor out tomorrow and gather him up for a picture.

Good idea.....most farmers don't like it when you leave them in their fields....

He might be a nice enough coyote to skin Charlie.

Looked pretty good, right before dark when I shot him.


It will be easy to get permission to drive the tractor out there.............

How much snow ya got up there big jim? Any effect on deer or antelope yet? Thanks

Its pretty snowy.

Most places would have a foot on the level, with drifts being 4 or 6 feet deep.


Have not heard about antelope. The moved out and have not seen them.

The deer are making due....mostly eating haystacks. They are bunched up pretty well....for survival I guess.

Nothing to see 200 mule deer in a bunch right now.



I did go get that coyote. He must have had about a 70 pound ground shrink. I did not know they made coyotes that small.

Good deal one less fawn killer