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Post by GonHuntin on Jan 6, 2004 10:46:58 GMT -5
I got up this morning with plans to go calling.......11 degree temps with a 10 mph wind and wind chills below zero changed my mind.......I haven't had much luck when it first turns off this cold, in my experience, the predators usually lay up until they have to move....... this evening would probably be good.....maybe tomorrow morning will be better.......
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Post by littletoes on Jan 6, 2004 23:02:20 GMT -5
Springtime weather! It was 35 below in Elk Washington yesterday morning! And the yotes were out! ;D
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Mikie
Hunter
Walnut Springs,TX
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Post by Mikie on Jan 7, 2004 1:53:55 GMT -5
A friend and I went out last nite calling.Didn't think we do any good ,because a bright full moon lite and cold.We did get 2 foxes,1 racoon,4 jackrabbits and missed a yote.I hit a limb on the brush in front of him.
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Post by GonHuntin on Jan 7, 2004 13:11:42 GMT -5
littletoes
I learned from trapping that the predators lay up when it first turns bitter cold......back when I ran a line, I could tell before I left the house whether I would have much of a catch.....if the weather turned bitter cold, it would take a day or so for the critters to get hungry enough to move......if it was windy overnight.....I might as well stay in bed because the traps were going to be empty......if the humidity and temps came up in the 24 hours since I had checked traps......oh baby, get the skinning knife ready!
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Post by littletoes on Jan 7, 2004 19:31:07 GMT -5
GonHuntin-I bet your are correct, but we had our best day yet this year as for seeing coyotes. We had seen 7 before noon. All on sunday, which was our coldest day to date.
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Post by GonHuntin on Jan 7, 2004 19:46:11 GMT -5
What time of day did you see them? Were they called in or just observed?
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Post by littletoes on Jan 7, 2004 23:57:27 GMT -5
The first one we spotted was that time that is light, but the sun was not up yet. That is the one my partner got at 378 yards. I used my Leica to range him when he went out to get it, he used his yardage pro to range the distance back. We both came up with the same amount, 378. We saw 4 more before 9:00 AM, but a few miles farther north. At that time it was crystal clear, the sun was out, and we spotted one lying out in the middle of a pasture, kinda sunning itself. It was around 720 to 730 yards I think. I don't quite remember that yardage exactly. I tried to "belly crawl" over to it, since it was in the bare open cow pasture, but somewhere inbetween the 200 yards that I was traversing on my face, it had gotten up and wandered onto the other side of a streambed. We saw it later a few hundred yards to our right, heading north. It just paid us no mind. But we're getting used to that!
I Know the time fairly well, because at around 9:15 AM I buried my truck to the hood in a snow bank, and that was only because the drifting snow was hiding a fairly deep ditch. None of this would have happened if I would have been watching the road, instead of the fields for coyotes. Told my buddie it was his fault. And it was. Hey, its my story!
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Post by Bobcat on Jan 8, 2004 10:29:36 GMT -5
GH,
I remember when you were tough! ;D
Bob
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Post by GonHuntin on Jan 8, 2004 12:50:27 GMT -5
Now Bob
You know I don't mind hunting in the cold......but..... when I know the chance of seeing anything is almost zero....well, it makes it that much easier to stay where it's warm!
What I really needed was you in my driveway with a cup of hot coffee and something to snack on while we drove to the first stand! Just like old times!!
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