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[Bill D.]

John in CA and I were talking on the phone around 2 pm and decided there wasn't time to get together so I bundled up in a goose down coat and headed out on the scooter. Destination was a couple sections of grassland about 2 miles from the house. Upon arriving, I immediately noticed new stocker calves and knew there were going to be problems with the curious bovines. I walked about 1.5 miles making three setups with no takers except a herd of calves circling the caller at each setup. Frustrated, I headed back to the scooter. When I was about 100 yards from my wheels, I had that sinking bloodless empty feeling. Looked around and decided to head with the wind for a half mile and hope to call a yote at an angle off of down wind. When the woodpecker started, a distant group of about 20 calves immediately came running in and made a half circle around the caller which was about 50 yards from my prone setup. I just kept the FoxPro going for about 10 minutes and decided to give up the ship. Before I got up, I started going through various sounds to see if anything would spook the cattle.....I would play a sound for 10 or 15 seconds and watch their reaction and then switch to another sound. I had gone through about a dozen sounds when I spotted a coyote trotting in about 150 yards out about 30 degrees off of downwind....UNBELIEVEABLE!!! When the yote got about 100 yards away, the cows ran towards him and got between us. I could see glimpses of the coyote through the cows and saw him moving to the right to get around them....dog poop.....that is downwind! I got the rifle positioned on the bipod and as soon as the coyote cleared the last calf, he stopped. Calves and coyote were like statues in a standoff so I put the crosshairs on the lower neck and zipped a bullet about 12" from a calve's leg and dropped the dog like a lead weight. The 55 gr. SXSP bullet from the 788 duece did exactly like the last coyote....stone dead and no exit! The sound playing when I shot the coyote was the dying crow but I guarantee you, he heard every single sound I played and switching sounds didn't scare bovines or canines! Some days you can't screw up no matter how hard you try.  coy_home2.jpg   78.59K   20 downloads

[ShooterJohn]

Good story Bill. Nice pictures too, I love that little scooter of yours. That's the thing I hate about cattle, they're curious. That's a pretty tight shot on that coyote but score one for you. I don't really think it matters what sounds you play as long as you give them something to listen too. Nice!

[Bill D.]

Good story Bill. Nice pictures too, I love that little scooter of yours. That's the thing I hate about cattle, they're curious. That's a pretty tight shot on that coyote but score one for you. I don't really think it matters what sounds you play as long as you give them something to listen too. Nice!

Hey John - a gun shot will clear the cattle away.....notice there aren't any calves in the pasture in the scooter pic.....haha! Those calves were still hauling butt last time I saw em! 10-4 on the tight shot but I felt very safe taking it since the calves and coyote were in a Mexican standoff. Appreciate the nice words.

[ShooterJohn]

Hey John - a gun shot will clear the cattle away.....notice there aren't any calves in the pasture in the scooter pic.....haha! Those calves were still hauling butt last time I saw em!

That's true about the shot will get them moving. I almost stampeded my hunting partners deer hunting once. I saw a coyote sneaking away from me on the far side of about 150 head of cattle. I quartered in behind them and shot that sneaky bugger with my .30-06. Everybody else was to the right of the heard, Oops! I laughed they didn't, I missed the jeep ride back to camp. I learned to be more sympathetic to my hunting buddies.

[Thumper Dunker]

great going and thats a nice one.

[Rimrock]

Another good job, Bill. I know what you mean about the cattle. Yesterday I had about 40 head that decided to lead me for a couple of miles. They would swing from one side to the other and stay ahead of me. I had the feeling like I was trying to hunt behind a parade.

[FIRST TIMER]

Nice coyote. I just bought a scooter for my wife, yamaha Zuma. I told her I got it for her to have fun on, but I got it for me to hunt on. I thought you had a great idea with the scooter. Im going out Monday to give it a try. Good hunting.

[Bill D.]

Another good job, Bill. I know what you mean about the cattle. Yesterday I had about 40 head that decided to lead me for a couple of miles. They would swing from one side to the other and stay ahead of me. I had the feeling like I was trying to hunt behind a parade.

Rimrock - guess we are going to have to carry an a 50 lb. sack of feed around on our walk-abouts.....I would probably make about 100 yards with the extra weight...haha!

[ShooterJohn]

I had the feeling like I was trying to hunt behind a parade.

Rod, you could dress them up like sheep and use them for decoys!

[Bill D.]

Thanks to all for the nice words. I don't advise on changing sounds every 10 seconds while calling......I have already eliminated the only coyote in the world that would put up with such nonsense....haha!

[ShooterJohn]

I don't advise on changing sounds every 10 seconds while calling......I have already eliminated the only coyote in the world that would put up with such nonsense....haha!

I wonder what he thought was making all of those sounds? Or maybe he thought he was going to a PARTY!

[CLL]

Good Deal , Story and pics . Thanks