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Posted By: AK375DGR Shooting Song-Dawgs - 10/31/20
Ok,,,,, so when did you start, how old were you, and what Rifle, and Cal. did you use....... and what was your mode of transportation...... grin
I'll start it off, with my stats.....
1963....
13 yrs old...
.25-35 Win. 94..... see attached.
Horse Back..... 7,000 acre Cattle Ranch NW corner of Nev., not to far from Ft. Bidwell, N. Calif.
Lj cool

Attached picture LJ's Winchester Varmint 1894 Win. .25-35 .jpg
Posted By: Fireball2 Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 10/31/20
30/06 loaded with 110 grain varmint bullets. They worked. Who knew?
Posted By: huntsman22 Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 10/31/20
1968 or '69

12 or 13 years old

winchester 62-A 22 LR

shanks mare....

central CO, not too far from Evergreen, co....


And I've killed at least one every year since, except the year I got married. I reckon I'd rather stay to home that year and get pokes, instead of burning powder.....
Posted By: dale06 Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 10/31/20
Late 1960s. Twelve gauge out a 40 mph pickup window. In west central Ks. It was legal then, may still be so.
Posted By: 10gaugemag Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 10/31/20
Originally Posted by dale06
Late 1960s. Twelve gauge out a 40 mph pickup window. In west central Ks. It was legal then, may still be so.

'Pretty sure it still is.
Posted By: bmoney Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 11/05/20
2010. Been using a Stevens 200 in 22-250 close to 90% of the time. I have killed a couple with 223's and a 243. My 25-06 will see some action this year for sure.
Posted By: JefeMojado Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 11/06/20
1968

14

K98 Mauser father brought back from the war

Short walk from the house, Whitewater Creek in southern Cochise county Arizona

Hunted them every winter since that one many years ago, have killed well over a 100 some winters, others half that, just can't quit just yet. Getting ready to get back after them again as soon as it feels like winter again.
Posted By: huntsman22 Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 11/06/20
never broke 100, but come close a few times.....
Posted By: smokepole Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 11/06/20
Originally Posted by huntsman22
I reckon I'd rather stay to home that year and get pokes, instead of burning powder.....



Pokes, not 'yotes??
Posted By: Kenlguy Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 11/06/20
About 1973. First time was in the middle of a cold frosty night. Rem. 788 and a hand held spotlight. Plopped myself down and started blowing on the call. Stopped long enough to hear the pitter patter of something running in the dark. Scared the crap out of me because I thought it was a range cow charging me. Lit up a coyote fifty yards away looking at me.

He got away clean.
Posted By: ElmerKeith Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 11/12/20
Originally Posted by JefeMojado
1968

14

K98 Mauser father brought back from the war

Short walk from the house, Whitewater Creek in southern Cochise county Arizona

Hunted them every winter since that one many years ago, have killed well over a 100 some winters, others half that, just can't quit just yet. Getting ready to get back after them again as soon as it feels like winter again.


Do you still have this gun?

If my paternal grandpa wouldn't have spent six years in Joe Stalin's vacation camp I would say, it probably could have been his K98k before.
Posted By: Bighorn Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 11/12/20
Probably around 1962, when I was 16. Used the '06 my folks gave me for Xmas when I was 14. Was driving my '56 Ford Fairlane down a country road near our farm. Still have that rifle.
Posted By: CGPAUL Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 11/12/20
Gee`s, shouldn`t even even mention this...1955 with my new fox call, both short range and long range, Burnham Bros. Marbel Falls, Tx., course was designed to attract both...which it did. Had a bounty on yotes then, $20 I believe..they were scarce and skidish. Called in many more red Fox.
Sav. Mod. 20, 250-3000, 87 grns Winchester S.P. $3.85 a box. k2.5 3/4 Weaver scope, post and cross hair.
Ankle express...had two primary dairy farms I hunted..both located about 5 miles from home. Can`t tell you how many times I got a ride out by Officer Posse. Never said it, quess he didn`t think it good idea walking through town at the time....but I always had to walk home.
Fun..
Posted By: Region6 Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 11/12/20
1995, red fox with my bow. Took two today with my 1873 in 44-40.

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Posted By: sscoyote Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 12/08/20
The 1st one I ever called in was 1977 west of the USAFA, and I was lucky enough to watch it come in from a long distance along a snow-covered 2-track, and I got addicted right then and there. Had a Ruger 77V 6mm, and I missed the opportunity. The shot and encounter was detailed in Predator Masters Magazine many years ago now, entitled "Predator vs. Predator", and the article was the most overedited piece of trash I ever had published.,
Posted By: 10gaugemag Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 12/08/20
Originally Posted by smokepole
Originally Posted by huntsman22
I reckon I'd rather stay to home that year and get pokes, instead of burning powder.....



Pokes, not 'yotes??

Pokes=Puzzy
Posted By: shootsacreed Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 12/09/20
Right around 1989, target of opportunity whilst deer hunting in PA, Israeli Arms Timberwolf, .44 Magnum, big hole!
Posted By: 6MMWASP Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 12/09/20
1968 on a slow day deer hunting with a 257 Wby. I actually thought I would make a few bucks on the hide. 100 grain Hornady's going straight away. I didn't have enough big pieces of the hide to make 1 glove.

Still a fan of early Hornady Pre interlock bullets in any caliber between 243 and 308.
Posted By: johnw Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 12/12/20
My first several coyotes were all taken south of Cimarron CO. I was pretty young and didn't know that some guys actually hunted for them. Most guys in that area shot them as targets of opportunity and hung them on a fence.

By 1970 we lived in Illinois and coyotes were there in very limited numbers, but rarely seen. Picture in the newspaper if you shot one rare.

By the time I had my drivers license in 1974 they were expanding their range and becoming a bit more common.Saw and shot my first Illinois coyote in 1975, with my .17 Remington.
Was home on military leave in midwinter 78-79, and they seemed to be everywhere. I shot 2 coyotes and 5 fox while on that leave, IIRC. Today, you'll kill a dozen or more coyotes and feel lucky if you spot a fox.
Posted By: Benbo Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 01/13/21
Hunted them several years before actually killing one!

First kill was about 1990

Age 16

700 bdl 22-250
52 gr horn hp probably over 4064

Central Illinois

About a 1990 F150.
Posted By: Benbo Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 01/13/21
I’d rather hunt coyotes than almost anything else!

Told my buddy tonight about the one I called in yesterday..... shot him with an AR

I also told him if there was a 150’s whitetail and a coyote out in the field I’d shoot the coyote first and then try for the deer.

Llllllove killin yoties!
Posted By: DANNYL Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 01/19/21
Same here Benbo
Posted By: 240NMC Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 01/26/21
Back in 1889 I was using a prototype lever action 6.5 Creedmoor on the Kansas plains during a tornado and shot my first coyote at 900 yards and was 80 pounds and 6 feet long. Hunted with the 6.5 lever action for a hundred years and never missed at any range. Heck the coyotes would almost lay down and die when they saw me.......:-)
Posted By: CamNWIA Re: Shooting Song-Dawgs - 01/26/21
Around 1985 with a Remington 6mm. Drove dad's truck in the ditch trying to head one off that was cutting across the section...neighbor pulled me out. Didn't even get grounded. Coyote got away tho...
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