First Triple!

[Grayfox]

What a way to start this full moon. I got up around midnight and headed out. Wind was from the NW and there was a dusting of snow on the ground. The light flurries continued as I drove around a few of my spots to see which ones were going to work. The best looking ones being the freshly plowed ones.

I didn't have my little buddy with as he's had his sophomore testing every day this week and he's been bowhunting every morning before school, trying for a good buck we've got pictures of behind the house. Hopefully we'll get him out this weekend yet.

I drove to one of the new properties I picked up this summer and set out. It's a 80 acre plowed bean field with woods to the West and North and a tree line and another bean field to the East with a swamp beyond that. Road is on the South. I set up tight agianst the woods on the West about 60 yards from the road and put the caller 40 yards NE of me. I started with bluejay distress on low volume and immediately saw one coming in hard from the NE. It never seemed to try and get down wind. It stopped at 80 yards and the 17 REM dropped it in it's tracks. I immediately switched to the pup distress and within a minute or two had the second one coming in on the tracks of the first. It ran up to the downed one and appeared to lay down for a second then got up and circled it. When it stopped to look back I squeezed another round off and after a few spins that one lay still. I kept the caller going and began scanning with my binoculars. I soon saw one coming in from the East through the treeline. It came in slow and stopped several times. I waited until it turned NW and gave me a good shot and put that one down as well. I let the caller play for a bit but nothing else showed. Ended up with a male and two females and the fur looks real good on all of them. A couple cockle burrs is about it.

I hit two other spots after this set but the wind and snow picked up and the moon all but disappeared and I didn't want to risk burning any spots so I called it and headed home.

I'm heading out to fire up the heater in the garage and start skinning so good luck to anyone getting after them this full moon.

Rob

[bloc004]

Awesome!!!! Are you using a spotlight when you shoot or does the moonlight and scope give you enough light?

[Grayfox]

No spotlight. Plenty of light to shoot without a light last night. Looks like all the snow melted today so we'll see how it looks tonight. Might have to try picked bean fields tonight or hope for a good frost.

Rob

[Cheetah]

Good stuff Grayfox. Thanks for sharing.

[certified jumbo]

you are the man. that is truly impressive.

[Moose-Hunter]

I've never seen a triple let alone taken one! Congrats!! If you ever need any help with all those yotes... I'm just a IM away.

[Muskie456]

Grayfox,

Not that you aren't doing great around here but I just took a trip to Sask. and we saw all kinds of yotes. You would have a hay day up there. We would see them in the middle of the day. We must of seen 10-12 during the week and we weren't even looking for them. Well done on the triple.