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[Bill D.]

Returned today to the ranch where I killed the big coyote with a black neck a few weeks ago. The rain and mud has kept the quads out so the area has had very little disturbance. Due to the mud, I had to walk 1.5 miles before I could reach the hills and start calling. On the first setup, I was on a slope overlooking a shallow draw with the caller about 75 yards away. Within 3 minutes of Utah Jack squalling on the FX3 FoxPro caller, I spot a streak of white coming over a hill 600 yards away. Plenty of time to lower the volume and get positioned. As I watched the coyote appear and then disappear over the rolling terrain, thoughts about how this scenario would play out raced through my mind. I knew it was going to be a hard charging coyote and wondered if barking would halt the dog's progress before it overran the caller. I was relieved to see the coyote had slowed to a trot as it cleared the last rise and only 125 yards separated my opponent from the digital caller. When my worthy foe was about 75 yards from the Foxpro, I let out a loud bark, and then another, but to my dismay the coyote sped up to seek the tasteless meal of electric rabbit. Instead of chancing the moving shot, I watched as the coyote came within 3 feet of the caller and jumped straight up in the air and scooted ten yards to the left and stopped broadside to me as she gazed over her shoulder at the gizmo that had so easily seduced her desire for bunny steak. With crosshairs firmly planted on the front shoulder, a Sierra 50 gr. Blitz was rapidly on its' way to end the tireless game I love to play. She was a yearling and probably weighed about 20 lbs. Bullet did not exit. Four more setups....nada!  Coy_leon1.jpg   102.58K   21 downloads

[Bozsik]

Way ta go, Bill.db

[ShooterJohn]

bunny steak

I thoroughly enjoy reading your hunting stories Bill. Nice little girl you got there too. Bunny steak! I know Thumper Dunker gets a lot of those! :lol:Bill, what stock do you have on that 788? I've got the plain old brown wood ones on mine.

[Point Blank]

Thats great Bill! Wish I had gotten one like that for my first yote! But im only 11 and just getting started at the same time as getting it during the time he was shedding. That wouldda' been the best one I have ever got if I had. It has a great pelt and no exit hole is great! Point Blank

[Bill D.]

Thats great Bill! Wish I had gotten one like that for my first yote! But im only 11 and just getting started at the same time as getting it during the time he was shedding. That wouldda' been the best one I have ever got if I had. It has a great pelt and no exit hole is great! Point Blank

You are way ahead of me.....didn't get my first coyote until I was 18.......in 1965! I am schedule to take a 10 year-old young man out in a couple days to try for his first coyote. If he scores, it will be a toss up as to who is the most excited!

[Rimrock]

As usual, another good story, Bill. Thanks for sharing.

[Bill D.]

Bill, what stock do you have on that 788? I've got the plain old brown wood ones on mine.ShooterJohn - It is the original birch stock. I sanded it down to bare wood and then painted it with a base color. Next, I took some of the cheap foam rubber paint brushes and used scissors to cut a saw tooth pattern on the edge. Then, I just kept alternating with different flat colors and streaking it on try to create a bark-like pattern. Finished it with a couple coats of flat clear stuff. Blends better in Texas among the mesquite trees. Trouble is, using a remote caller, the coyotes never get to see my great art work...haha!

[Bill D.]

ShooterJohn - I forgot to mention that I have a golden paw painted on the bottom of the pistol grip since this particular rifle has literally taken hundreds of varmints. A friend, Dr. Bubba, over a GGVG, started calling my rifle "Golden Paw" and every time I post a picture of a dead critter with this rifle, he always responds with this picture.  GoldenPaw_billd.jpg   12.24K   18 downloads

[joel1316]

Yes, as always great stories.... Nothing like imagining the story in our minds.Goldenpaw? Sounds like a sequal to another James Bond: 007 movie

[onecoyote]

Bill D, you've had the sickness that long huh. Good story and great pics, keep em coming..

[Cranky Farmer]

Excellent! When you taking the ranchers son out?

[Thumper Dunker]

That coyote has a white tip tail not black! neat

[Bill D.]

Excellent! When you taking the ranchers son out?

Just talked to the rancher a while ago and he said to come out tomorrow......said his son is afraid to go with me because he might miss a coyote.......I should be able to erase that worry easy enough. The only person I get mad at for missing is myself!

That coyote has a white tip tail not black! neat

Good eye, Thumper. White tip is not real common but I have seen it a few times before. Must be some hanky panky going on with red fox....haha!

[MojaveJ]

The real pretty ones have silver tips but I haven't seen any out here we used to get several of them a year back in Kansas. Saw one up in Wyoming while antalope hunting but that 100gr core lokt out of my 243 didn't leave anything worth taking pictures of.