50# East Texas Coyote (Story and Pics)

[Byron South]

Took a friend out hunting today, and had a great time. Our morning hunt went pretty good by East Texas standards. We made four or five stands and called in two coyotes and killed one. On our first stand of the evening we called in a huge coyote. I was just getting the camera on him when Jerry shot. He was huge. After that we made a couple of more stands, but the wind had picked up quit a bit, and we had no takers. We took the coyotes back to my shop and weighed the big one. a whopping 50#s.

Heres the pictures.







Good Hunting

Byron ;D

[Bobcat]

Hey Byron,

Congrats!! That is a huge coyote!! ......and 2 is 2 more than I got this weekend. I didn't get to hunt.

Good Hunting,

Bob

[cojay]

Wow a #50 is awesome. Tell your friend not to shoot next time til you have the camera on him. Congrats

[NESoDak]

Congrats!

I have come back to those pictures three times and stared at that yote trying to find a dog in the woodpile somewhere. He is a monster!

[Byron South]

Thanks guys. I just bought some new scales about a month ago, and have been trying to weigh everything we shoot. Most have weighed between 25-37#s. I new right away this one was huge when we went to take him to the truck. I decided to leave him there and go get the truck. I keep the scales in the tool box in my truck, so we tried to weigh him when I pulled the truck up. The cows saw the truck pull in and came running, so we weighed him pretty quick. he went right at 50#s. We hit a couple more stands and went to the shop, hung the scales and weighed him several more times. Everytime we weighed him though he weighed between 49- 52#s. I shoot a couple every year that are pretty big like this but have never weighed them. He appears in every respect to be full blood coyote.

cojay, he just poped out of a ditch about 75 yards out. I just got the camera on him and was zooming in when he shot. Jerry is a paying customer, and wasn't waiting on the camera, and I can't blame him.

Good Hunting

Byron ;D

[Jay Nistetter]

Paying Customer? HUH?
What do you mean you get paid?

[Byron South]

Yeah Jay. They pay me here not to take my rifle . Something or other about a game hog ? This guy was alot of fun, and a quick shot. A real killer ;D.

Byron ;D

[slammy]

WHOOOOEEEEE!

That's a bigun. That's the one with the big deep voice that sounds off while you're pickin your stuff up. Nice work Byron. Is your hunter gonna have him mounted or the skin tanned?

What kind of sound were you using? I'm trying to correlate certain sounds with certain times of the year. Or at least to disprove any constants. I'm having a lot of responses to fawn distress sounds lately.

[Byron South]

Hey Slammy,

I was using the old FOXPRO rabbit #1. I'm of the belief the kind of sound you use is not that important as long as it sounds like something to eat. I do believe in switching around with different sounds though. If it sounds like something in trouble that might be good to eat they will most of the time respond. The biggest trick to me is make the sound in the right place as to make it easier for them to respond, and when they do be able to be where I can close the deal.

I hope that makes sense. I just read what I wrote twice before I got it.

Good Hunting

Byron ;D

[slammy]

Byron,

That makes perfect sense. Experience gives you the ability to choose the set-up for the best possible outcome. Choosing the right area, or facing the most likely direction of approach seems to be the key. The ability to visualize a good ambush location. Then making sure they step into your shooting theater. The set-up is the key to success and what makes this type of hunting so exciting. To fool a predator on his own grounds also proves that it's more than just luck.

Especially those east Texas thick woods coyotes. My average kills are a lot lower when I'm at home in south east Texas.

I think you're probably right about the sounds, as long as it's a good hollerin that sounds like something to eat they will come. Like you said, just make sure when they do come you are in a position to do something about it.