3 more dogs down

[Grayfox]

Went out earlier in the week and had a little luck. First set I called in one that handcuffed me. It popped out 50 yards from me on my left and I had a heck of a time twisting for the offhand shot. I would have waited for it to take a couple more steps but I could feel the wind starting to hit the right side of my face and wasn't sure how long I had. Ended up hitting it but had to take a running offhand shot as it was crossing some bare spots and missed.

2nd set I was sitting on the north side of some machinery and had put on distress for a short time when a pack lit up to the West about 500 yards away. I sat quietly for 15 minutes and then howled once. They answered back. 5 minutes later I see one crossing the field from left to right. It gets straight out from me and he gets a 25 grain pill and down it goes. PD goes off and I see two more come out of the woods and are racing each other to the caller. If I would have had the shotgun with I should of had them both. I ended up with another small male but the third outran the 17 Rem. #13 and 14.

The next night I talked Mitchell into going out with me for a couple sets.We set up in the open on the South side of a field in some corn stubble with the caller to the North of us. I made the mistake of sitting about 15 yards East of him. I started the caller and immediately had an answer. We sat there for a 20 minutes and had a couple cars go by. I called again and 10'minutes later I see two heading West across the field about 600'yards out. I let Mitch know and he says there's. Three. They were out there a while but slowly start our way. We're talking to each other as they come in and Mitch keeps asking me if I'm on one as he's ready to shoot and I'm trying to figure out which coyote on the left he's trying to shoot. The one on far left looks to be out there 200 yards. We argue back and forth and eventually they're right on top of the caller. I'm on one but one crosses in front of mine so I get on that one, it stops and I shoot before we count down. Mine drops and Mitch takes two quick shots as he wasn't ready yet. Totally screwed it up for him. I still feel bad today as he hasn't had many chances to get out this year and his dad gets a happy trigger finger. either way #15 for me is down and with Mitchell's 3 gets us to 18 for the year plus two trapping.

Rob