caleb
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This past tuesday night and most of wednesday droptine37 (Sean Considine), Briarwood Bottoms (Chad Oester), and I were down by Kewanee Illinois chasing 'yotes. It was the best coyote hunting I have ever experienced. We were hunting a mix of cattle pastures, reclaimed mine ground, and crop fields. We borrowed a buddies Foxpro FX3, and yes, I will be buying one soon. Sean and I started right behind his in-laws house tuesday afternoon and hadn't been calling five minutes on the first set-up when a pair came running in. We only saw the female at first, and I tried to get her to stop in several openings, to no avail. By the time she stopped she was about forty yards from me, almost downwind of Sean and neither one of us had a perfectly clear shot, so I tried to shoot through a thin screen of brush. I rolled her, but then she got up and ran, never offering a good follow up shot. I wasn't very happy about that. That was when we spotted the big male heading out the other direction. No shot on him either. After that we called in yotes at about every other setup. I had some good shot opportunities from about 125 to 200 yard range. Chad shot his first one on a dead run at 150 plus. He made an excellent kneeling shot on another on the next morning as they tried to circle downwind of us. I passed up about a 275 yard shot thinking I was going to get a better shot, but it never came. All in all we saw about 15, called in nine, shot five and recovered four. This was all in about twelve hours of hunting. I think it is safe to say this place is infested with yotes. These are the four that we killed.
If you noticed I don't have any stories about Droptine37 killing any. I was trying to set him up for a shot so he could break in his neww 22-250. Luck would have it that I had the shots on the first couple set-ups. Wednesday Sean had a shot at one moving below him in a ravine through brush and he missed, understandable. About an hour later we had a big wolfy looking male come running in on a beeline, stop in the wide open at about 75 yards. And sean missed him three times. Every shot that yote would shift up a gear. It was hillarious, for me and chad anyway. Sean insisted that his gun was off, I didn't think it could be, so we checked it by tacking a target to a fencepost and stepping off about eighty yards. This was the result.
Can't get much better than that. Keep practicing grasshoppa, one day you will be a coyote killa.
Also be sure to check out the sheds that Sean's Father-in-law's hired hand found while feeding cattle four or five years ago! I will post them in the shed hunting conference. Unbelievable is all I can say.
If you noticed I don't have any stories about Droptine37 killing any. I was trying to set him up for a shot so he could break in his neww 22-250. Luck would have it that I had the shots on the first couple set-ups. Wednesday Sean had a shot at one moving below him in a ravine through brush and he missed, understandable. About an hour later we had a big wolfy looking male come running in on a beeline, stop in the wide open at about 75 yards. And sean missed him three times. Every shot that yote would shift up a gear. It was hillarious, for me and chad anyway. Sean insisted that his gun was off, I didn't think it could be, so we checked it by tacking a target to a fencepost and stepping off about eighty yards. This was the result.
Can't get much better than that. Keep practicing grasshoppa, one day you will be a coyote killa.
Also be sure to check out the sheds that Sean's Father-in-law's hired hand found while feeding cattle four or five years ago! I will post them in the shed hunting conference. Unbelievable is all I can say.
