but on the walk in I heard a couple howling across the road. So after the first stand, I back out and hiked out across the road about 1/2 mile, and two minutes into the stand I see him coming from down wind 
( what little wind there was) So as soon as he came up over the hill @ 175yrds I downed him 
Picked the call back up and started calling, 5 minutes later I see a coyote quartering from left to right, from about the same place as the first one. So I woooffed him, with nothing stopping him I banged him @ 215yrd (leica after the shot) Picked the call back up and three minutes later I see one about 1/2 mile away leaving in a quick manner, figured that this was it, two was a great start anyway I go over to pick the first one up and a pool of blood and a trail to where the second one lays, dumb me shot the same coyote twice 
Second stand produced nothing but alot of tracks and a good idea that there are alot in this area, with the wind blowing light north to south, I walked about a mile north. Pick a darker spot on the side of a hill and started my stand, 3/4 of the way though my stand I hear grouse flush in the distance, I glass the grouse, and on the top of the hill is a coyote, he starts down the hill, then another, and another, and another and yet one more, five coyotes in all
They go into a small washout, I'm looking all over, and then there they are 
250 yrds. Four of them sat down and one was fixed on me . Then all at once they came , down the next small washout out of sight, possitioned my rifle and shotgun just in time, they came up and ran right to me, first one went down at under 20 feet with "dead coyote" the shell jambed and I grabbed the rifle, coyotes running everywhere, I picked one out and fired twice before he got into the first drywash, when he came up he was hauling ass, next shot conected @ 250 First Shotgun/rifle double Next two stands I bumped singles on the way in and backed out and left them for the next time. The next stand was on a huge hill overlooking a large valley
I started the calling and about 10 minutes into the stand, I started back up another set, just as I started a coyote let out a howl that scared the crap out of me 
He was 150yrds (leicea again after the shot) right below me, he started barking at me so I swung the rifle and put him down with 55 grain V-MAX Ended up making two more stands that afternoon and bumped one more on the way in, the good thing is I got those spots on My "to do list"
Either the coyotes were just responding well yesterday or I'm getting better 
All the calls were made with a Sceery Jackrabbit distress.- october 4th four!.jpg (14.65 KiB) Viewed 5417 times
