Big male down!

[Grayfox]

The last two nights have been tough. Last night Mitch and I hit 4 spots and didn't hear or see a thing, and this morning (hunting by myself agian,Mitch decided to go snowboarding instead)I thought I was going to go home empty handed agian but got real lucky and got this big,heavy furred male.

The first 5 spots I didn't see or hear a thing. I was actually thinking about packing it in and heading for home but decided to hit one more spot that I drove by earlier and looked good.

So this is a 1/4 mile wide X 1 mile long piece with the road to the North

along the 1/4 mile stretch. I hid the truck and started South along the West treeline. I decided to walk to the second hill because it would give me a better view to the South fields and it nearly cost me.

The wind is from the SE and I put the decoy and caller out SW of me, 50 yards out and hurry back to get set up. I start with some distress and after 20 minutes give a few howls. I happened to look back NW of me and though I saw something on the other side of the field near the barnyard. Turns out it was nothing but as I'm looking at it I see a coyote out of the corner of my eye bugging out. It runs South paralleling me. I got it in the scope once but it took off before I could shoot. It was on the top of a hill with the treeline beyond and I was having a heck of a time finding him agian. I didn't know if he stopped or kept going so I hit pup distress and sat back. I turn back to the NW agian and see another one running South,hit the brakes and head back North. I followed him in the scope and when he stopped to look back at 165 yards I squeezed a round off and knocked him over. Beautiful heavy fur on this one. The neck is so furred it looks like a buck in rut. Here he is where he layed and another with me. I'm heading out of town for work this week and won't be hunting until next weekend so good luck to everyone heading out this week.

Rob

[CASTnBLAST]

Nice but I am more impressed with the camo job, that must have taken some time! Looks like a D-Tech barrel ??

[Fish&Fowl]

Nice looking dog Grayfox! I see you said you didn't howl until after the first 15-20 minutes...how long do you usually stay on a stand?

[FCspringer]

Nice yote. man the guys in ND have there hands full. I was out there this weekend by Lisbon and at sun down I could hear Yotes in all directions. It was mind blowing. There had to be 30 or so talking at the same time. It would be a fun area for callers. They better get ta shootin em off out there.

[Gordie]

Nice yote. man the guys in ND have there hands full. I was out there this weekend by Lisbon and at sun down I could hear Yotes in all directions. It was mind blowing. There had to be 30 or so talking at the same time. It would be a fun area for callers. They better get ta shootin em off out there.

I have a friend that live on Devils Lake and he says he could really shoot them up but hasn't done it yet . I told him that this would have been a great year as the fur prices are up he said he knows that but doesn't have the rifle for it yet.

He sees at least 2-3 a day on his way to and from work.