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[seebass]

Here is a nice heavy female I shot this morning 11/4/12 around 830 am on my first stand I walk about a quarter mile and get to the fence line I’m going to set up on and notice I never turned my FOXPRO FIRESTORM off from my last hunt!! DEAD. I head back to the truck and grab my 4 extra batteries and load them up. 2 fresh on each side. I turn it on and it works!! So I walk the quarter mile back out and set up. The call is out in front and to the left 50 yards away. I sit halfway up a hill 15 above the call. I start with bay bee cottontail for 3 minutes and pause, nothing coming. I play DSG cottontail for three minutes and pause, nothing. I play lightning jack for 3 minutes and pause, I dont see anything but some cattle to my right 300 yards out start moving my way. I slowly swing over that way and get set up facing NNE. I wait 3 minutes and still see nothing so I let go with a female howl, followed right back with female challenge bark. PERFECT!! She jumps up out of the little shallow directly in front of me at 200 yards. She walks straight at me for 50 yards and stops slightly away broadside left. I had her in the scope the whole way. My VORTEX VIPER 4x16x40 is a crisp clear piece of glass!! I squeezed the REMINGTON 700 VSF .223 and let my 50g V-Max rip. With the sound of SMACK, she dropped DRT!

Happy hunting!

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[OrneryOlMofo357]

Good Job Carlos!

[lif2fsh]

nice job great story. What kind of speed are you getting, did it make a big exit hole?

[Shoot-it]

Vmax don't typically exit.Nice job getting that dog into range..

[Broncowilly]

Sweet Carlos! I love it!

[Bisley]

"Got a nice heavy female this morning"

Me too, but the problem was that I was expecting it to be the same smaller one I (kind of) remember at closing time/last call last night

Nice shooting. Sucks, but glad to hear I'm not the only one who does things like leave equipment on and not check it

Any luck on getting the family involved, like the HSC class, yet?

[seebass]

Grant- we gotta hook up again. Its been a year too long!

l2f- not sure, I've never chronoed the load, but I'm loading 50g V-max on top of 26.5g of Varget. I'd assume with my 26'' barrel I'm around 3400ish...? It definitely puts the hurt on the coyotes!

Shoot it- Thanks, There are a couple of sequences I've learned to use that have worked a couple of times when nothing is coming. Maybe luck but I'll take it either way.

Bronco- Glad to share! I've put in a few stands between kills, this one felt good!

Bisley- Dude... Funny!!! I thought my stand was blown... I spread my scent all over the place and left to come right back, I didn't think i had a chance. I'm sure Ill do it again sometime but no time soon hopefully! My batteries are on the charger as I type. My daughter has gone one more time and still wants to take the class, but the wife and I bought a new house, soccer is in full swing for 3 of the kids and I coach my daughters u12 team. So it's been on the back burner until the life slows down a little. But thanks for asking. Not to mention my son starts wrestling in 2 weeks and he was one match away from state last year so thats going to make for long winters sitting in gyms... fun! But yeah when the time comes Marissa will for sure take the class.

[Thumper Dunker]

At least you had a loaded rifle. Good shooting. Nice looking coyote.

[ehd]

good work with the 223

[modoc squeek shooter]

Good job Carlos! Ed

[rustygun]

Way to go Carlos. Good looking yote.

[Bisley]

Yes sir, it is that busy time of year for sure. And also one o the theories I have as to God being a Liberal woman. I mean who else would put the football season on the exact same schedule as bird season?!

I am still looking forward to hearing/reading about when you finally get them out there. Until then, keep up the good work, and good luck on all the running around.