Grab my back pack shot gun and home built cross sticks, cross the back yard to the path along the horse pasture board fence, leave the caller under the bottom fence rail. Walk to one side of the mowed strip and hang one group of goose feathers from a branch so they will twist and turn in the wind. Take the weasel ball up the fence line path a short bit but still where I will be able to see it from my blind. Walk up the path and cross to the blind on a deer runway thru the autumn olives. Get in the blind just as I am barley able to see the board fence and get those coons squabbling sounds coming from the caller. Break the action of the Charlies Daily shot gun and slip in 2 # 4 buck shells in the choked extra full and full barrels, silently close it I’m ready.
I have patterned this shot gun with # 4 buck and Hevi Shot coyote buster and can put a lot of pellets in a 18” circle at 40 yards so I have faith in the shot gun to 50 yards. At about the 12 minute mark I see the first coyote step into the clearing and it sees the goose feathers twisting and flipping in the little breeze and turns to come to them as I settle the forearm on the rest and bead on the coyotes head, Let it get just about to the feathers when I see the second coyote step in the clearing, shift the bead to cover its head and fire quickly shift to the first coyote and fire.
First coyote is still trying to leave the area as I stuff two more shells in the chamber, back legs are working but the front isn’t. I walk closer and do the finishing shot on the trailing coyote, both are females the trailing one appeared older than the lead coyote. Gather my gear and head for the house and tractor & trailer. Load the coyotes up who probably had saleable summer fur if I had not put so many holes in them with the shot gun. Take them to my pit and throw them in a cover with some dirt, If I had left them in this heat it would have been a really bad stink in probably hours And I walk my dogs there twice a day, they would have wanted to sample some rotting coyote.
Al