Post by NechesBobcat on Feb 22, 2004 3:16:10 GMT -5
Well I had mentioned that I was going to give it a try this weekend, and I did.
I made my first stand this morning (yesterday morning actualy) 15 minutes before sunrise. My gandmother's cat showed up the other day with a patch of fur missing and the fact that she lives next to my hunting lease got me thinkin'. I parked my truck in my grandma's driveway and walked behind her house about 50 yards into about an 80 acre clearing with scatered clumps of about waste high grass and a dirt road circling it. I sat down on the outside edge of the dirt road facing North with the clearing in front of me about 100 yards from the Neches River.
I started with two howls from my Bill Austin short range howler. 3 minutes later I howled once more. 2 minutes later I made some beautiful dying rabbit music on my Mini-Blaster. About 10 seconds into the poor little dying rabbit sound I caught a movement to my right out of the corner of my eye about 7 yards away and closing.
My first thought was RACOON. I thought surely something moving this fast and straight to me and git that close without me seeing it until now has to be a racoon.
1 second later as my eyes focus....
It was the biggest most beautiful coyote I've ever seen.
He loped up about five yards away and I was sitting there with my remington 870 loaded with 3 1/2" OO Buck laying across my lap and blowing away on my mini-blaster. He gave me a look that was worth a million words and was out of sight in the next second with me sitting there thinking, "Did I realy just see that?"
Before the sun had come up over the trees the coyote probably had 3 counties between me and him but I was optimistic and thought this could only mean that it was going to get better.
To make a long story short...
I made many more stands and the only other living thing I saw was a turtle which I turned into tutrle soup with my 22-250 at about 150 yards.
And after a little scouting around that first stand I found a much better spot to call from that I will definatly use in the future. As always I learned one more lesson from my mistakes that will help me another day.
Neches Bobcat
I made my first stand this morning (yesterday morning actualy) 15 minutes before sunrise. My gandmother's cat showed up the other day with a patch of fur missing and the fact that she lives next to my hunting lease got me thinkin'. I parked my truck in my grandma's driveway and walked behind her house about 50 yards into about an 80 acre clearing with scatered clumps of about waste high grass and a dirt road circling it. I sat down on the outside edge of the dirt road facing North with the clearing in front of me about 100 yards from the Neches River.
I started with two howls from my Bill Austin short range howler. 3 minutes later I howled once more. 2 minutes later I made some beautiful dying rabbit music on my Mini-Blaster. About 10 seconds into the poor little dying rabbit sound I caught a movement to my right out of the corner of my eye about 7 yards away and closing.
My first thought was RACOON. I thought surely something moving this fast and straight to me and git that close without me seeing it until now has to be a racoon.
1 second later as my eyes focus....
It was the biggest most beautiful coyote I've ever seen.
He loped up about five yards away and I was sitting there with my remington 870 loaded with 3 1/2" OO Buck laying across my lap and blowing away on my mini-blaster. He gave me a look that was worth a million words and was out of sight in the next second with me sitting there thinking, "Did I realy just see that?"
Before the sun had come up over the trees the coyote probably had 3 counties between me and him but I was optimistic and thought this could only mean that it was going to get better.
To make a long story short...
I made many more stands and the only other living thing I saw was a turtle which I turned into tutrle soup with my 22-250 at about 150 yards.
And after a little scouting around that first stand I found a much better spot to call from that I will definatly use in the future. As always I learned one more lesson from my mistakes that will help me another day.
Neches Bobcat
