Mitchell's back on the board!

[Grayfox]

Tough night for hunting last night. Heavy clouds for most of it with little glimpses of the moon but still enough to get out. I set the alarm for 10 last night but must have been a little tired as I slept through that and got up a little after 12. I asked Mitch if he wanted to give it another shot and he said he was in.

We hit the first and second spots with no takers and no howling. The wind was picking up a little bit out of the NE and it was almost 4 and I knew he had to work at noon so we decided to give it one more shot at a new spot we got this year. The winds out of the NE as we walk in from the West side of the rolling field. There was a cow pasture directly to the East of us and another farm to the South about 1/4 mile away and we were sitting directly South of his barn. He had piled several round bales up and we climbed up and had an even better view from there. I started with some howls and settled in to wait. After 20 minutes I turned on the cat distress and let it play, varying the volume for a couple minutes when I see one comeing in from the farm yard to South. I let Mitch know and he get on it. It starts coming in and then apparently found a mouse under the snow and kept bouncing its front feet on the snow trying to break the crust. After it did that for a while it slowly started making his way down wind of the caller. We were both on it as it slowly crested a small rise and I asked Mitch if he was on it and wanted me to stop it, he said yes and I gave a couple woofs and it locked up and Mits gun barks and the coyote makes a short run towards the caller and goes down. His 4th of the year and a good looking male. We tried walking into one more spot but when we got in there, the snow was too sparse for any visability so we called it a night.

Rob