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[tommybuilt]

I was back in South Dakota last month and was able to get out with my brother for a couple of stands. This spot is public and my brother had hunted here last winter, killing a coyote here on Super Bowl sunday. We had about a mile walk in with the wind in our face. When we got to our spot and I was taking the foxpro out of my backpack my brother spotted a coyote sneaking away out of the slough grass. He got a shot at it but wasn't able to connect. I said lets go ahead and call anyway. I set the call out about 20 yards in front of us and my brother was about 30 yards to my left. Fired up the 416b on pup in distress, let it play for a couple of minutes, shut it off for a couple, started it again and picked up a coyote coming from the top left, about 300- 350 yards. I tried to whistle at my brother, but it was too hot and dry (low 90s that day) so I just yelled at him, He picked up the coyote at about 200 yards, but lost sight of it behind the hill. I stood up and set up on the wood fence post I was leaning against, got him in my crosshairs and then remembered I didn't have a round in the chamber, so I loaded a round and got back on him. He stopped on his own about 100-125 yards out so I took the downhill shot and hit him high in the back. He went into the death spin and made it into the slough grass about 30 yards away. My brother found him dead in the water, that's why he looks like a wet rat. I guessed him to be last years model.
.204 made a golf ball sized hole in the top of his back where it hit a rib, no exit hole.
We did one more stand with no takers and then spent an hour or two shooting prairie dogs.
My brother and I have been hunting together for years but this was our first coyote hunt together.

[Frank]

Cool story, hunt and pics... And what a great way to spend time with your brother. That green looks so nice, compared to much of our So Cal "brown" areas.

Looks like a nice dog. Dragging them through water &/or sand can definitely change their appearance. Sometimes completely. LOL

The 416B is one of my e callers, and one, if not my most favorite of all the e callers friends and I have owned... which is a fair number of them. Long story, short... the parts on the 416 is of high(er) quality & cost, & why Foxpro quit using those components & making the 416 altogether. I've been told this more than once by different reps there. So never sell it in other words. LOL

Anyway,

[treffryraxter]

Way to go! Didn't water board him trying to get the location of his pals did you?

[Bennie]

Congrats on the Coyote and time spent with your brother.

[OrneryOlMofo357]

Great lookin territory. California used to look like that with rain. Congrats!

[Shoot-it]

Nice job un tell i read your story i was thinking that think looks it was dragged threw a pond.The hills here look like that in spring like Grant said but once the heat comes they dry up.
I need to get out and do some calling to i starting to miss it but A zone archery is going then it will be rifle.

[Thumper Dunker]

Real cool area . Way to go on the coyote.

[rustygun]

Good job with the brother hunt and scoring the yote. Love all the green in the photo's.

[tommybuilt]

Thanks for the comments guys. Talked to my folks yesterday. Not so green there anymore. 3 weeks of high 90s low 100s and no rain has really dried them out. Dad thinks it might be the worst he's seen in his 80 years. The crops are really suffering. We did see lots of deer, pheasant, a couple of badger and listened to the coyotes howl everynight from my parents backyard. I hope to get back this fall for some pheasant and coyote hunting.

[DirtyDave]

Where at in SD? Its a great state for hunting. My Mom is from Hecla SD, we hunt there every fall.

[tommybuilt]

Dirty, I'm from Chamberlain. Don't know that I've ever been to Hecla, but I know it's up by Aberdeen. My wife has alot of family in Aberdeen, and I have been on several pheasant hunting trips to that area. Thats a game rich area for sure.

[DirtyDave]

Yeah its north of Aberdeen on the 37. Only 4 miles from the ND border. Cant wait for November!