After viewing the abundance of coyote sign at Willow Slough during the K&C hunt, Rick and I decided we'd try to return before the end of the season.
Saturday was the day, so we loaded up and headed north. By the time we made the drive and got signed in, it was well after first light before we settled in for
our first stand. We drew a blank on the first so after 30 minutes we moved on. We crossed a road and noticed a line of super thick trees with a bean stubble
field on the down wind side of it. We headed in along a ditch line intending to set up with the small water filled ditch to our backs and the open bean field
up wind of our stand. As we walked in, I saw what I believed to be a coyote or a small deer cross an opening going from the ditch line to the thicket of trees.
We walked in about another 50 yards and got set up with Rick looking north toward the thicket, while I covered our downwind side to the south.
Rick began calling with a jackrabbit distress sound on his Western Rivers e-call. After about 5 minutes I heard the safety on Rick's Remington click off. A second later his .22-250 went off. I turned around in time to see a coyote spinning in the bean stubble. As I turned to send in a shot of my own, the coyote sprung into the air in a pirroette spin then hit the ground running. It dissappeared into the tree thicket. We gathered up our equipment and walked on down to see if we could locate the wounded coyote. We found some blood where the coyote had wallered on the ground and were able to follow a blood trail into the thicket, but it quickly ended and we were unable to find the coyote. We hunted the thicket for about an hour before we finally gave up and moved on.
Rick said that when he spotted the coyote it was standing in the stubble field along the edge of the tree thicket. It was about 150 yards away and was looking very much like a bush.. He said just when he got on the coyote and began to squeeze his trigger the coyote turned to head back into the thicket.
We did four more stands on the property with no more takers, before it began to snow and rain at a moderate rate. We ended the day at about 1:00 and headed to the new Cabela's at Hammond. Looks to me like we'll be returning to Willow Slough again next year.
Good hunting y'all.. Coyote 6974
Rick began calling with a jackrabbit distress sound on his Western Rivers e-call. After about 5 minutes I heard the safety on Rick's Remington click off. A second later his .22-250 went off. I turned around in time to see a coyote spinning in the bean stubble. As I turned to send in a shot of my own, the coyote sprung into the air in a pirroette spin then hit the ground running. It dissappeared into the tree thicket. We gathered up our equipment and walked on down to see if we could locate the wounded coyote. We found some blood where the coyote had wallered on the ground and were able to follow a blood trail into the thicket, but it quickly ended and we were unable to find the coyote. We hunted the thicket for about an hour before we finally gave up and moved on.
Rick said that when he spotted the coyote it was standing in the stubble field along the edge of the tree thicket. It was about 150 yards away and was looking very much like a bush.. He said just when he got on the coyote and began to squeeze his trigger the coyote turned to head back into the thicket.
We did four more stands on the property with no more takers, before it began to snow and rain at a moderate rate. We ended the day at about 1:00 and headed to the new Cabela's at Hammond. Looks to me like we'll be returning to Willow Slough again next year.
Good hunting y'all.. Coyote 6974
