I hit a Gold Mine !

[Adrian J Hare]

Setup at first light in this new area on a field. The wind is not great as it from the North West and blowing enough to cause small driffs on the road. I started calling with the DST Cottontail and worked with all the calls like the DST Jack rabbit and ended with a female howl. The set was not good so I get up and move to another location about 300 yards and reset up. Interesting thing is I thought I would try a Coyote decoy and can now see why no one uses them that often. I start with a Cottontail DST and work the volume up to 40 on the caller. The wind is picking up a bit so volume is important to me so I change over to a JackRabbit DST at 20 minutes into on and off calling and as soon as the Jack is done I wait 1 minute and try a Female Invatation howl and within a minute I see one come out around 250 yards. He looks and turns and heads back away into the swamp. I bark but it does nothing. I quickly turn on the KiHi for 30-40 seconds at 40 and pause it and take a hand call and start a Jack distress and out he comes again for a look and he turns again away. I bark and he stops and I take the shot and down he goes and gets up and runs in to the swamp.

I get up and leave the equipment and snow shoe in the direction and take up the track. Blood all over so hes hit well and I only do about 40 yards into the swamp and there he is still alive looking at me. I take a follow up shot and end the hunt once again.

The field Pic is at the setup point and the background was where the dog came out..

Morrow of the story is - I'll leave the coyote decoy in the truck from here on as I believe it caused more of a problem that he shy ed away from the set because of the presents of the decoy....

[WalknTall]

Love your stories and pictures!

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[sumner4991]

That's a big one! Well done.

[vixenmaster]

Well done my friend, big nasty Yote!

[Fletch2]

Great story

[mr meat]

congrats on another!

[MADMAX2]

Adrian you have a hot spot! CONGRATS!!

[onebigskittle]

WTG!! Nice decoy

[the elf]

Hi--Do you use factory .243 ammo ? or do you have a favourite
handload ?
Whatever you use it sure seems to be working very well.
Don't stop now----only about a few million to go.

[ComfyBear]

Just curious, what do you do with them after you shoot them?

[Adrian J Hare]

Thanks Guys

I use factory ammo Hornady V-max 58 gn

Hides are gave away unless if they have mange. The last 3 before this one was bad with mange. This dog has a little but not bad...

[mbc4]

A machine that kills these nasty creatures! that is you fore shure

[VixChix]

Way to go, Adrian! Lookin' good once again!

Those coyotes won't be eating any fawns this spring!

[R.J.]

That is a big yote ! .... Congrat's !

[lscha]

That's a nice looking 'yote. Love the pics and story.