Originally posted by ksbowman:
Did you get the coyote this evening?
No but it was darn close!
I'm hunting over the remains of the doe and I have a bucket of pieces and parts in my shop frig so I can keep it fresh for a while.
I wasn’t expecting to be running. Anyway I had to find the items and I didn’t want to do it in the dark. So I got down backtracked and found all the crap and then got back in the tree.
At 6:45 I heard the sound a dog makes that’s been hit and it was close. A few load cries and that was it. A short time later he was on the rim of the bowl again looking my way. I think he had me pegged. He sat in the grass for a few minutes and then vanished. I figured he was going to circle me and get down wind. And sure enough a few minutes later there was movement behind me. It was getting dark by this time and making detail out though the foliage was difficult but I could hear slow movement. The wind was obviously working because he didn’t bolt. This went on for quite awhile.
Eventually he slinked out of the timber on the east side of the tree but I had no shot. There was still enough light for me to make out the bigger details and had he walked into a shooting lane I would have shot. Once he got into the CRP field I lost him again but I could hear him moving around. This continued until dark and then I could hear him at the base of my tree. He moved about at the base of the tree for quite a while. Soon he went out and started eating. Crunch, crunch, crunch! I couldn’t see squat! Shortly after that a whole pack was howling on the rim of the bowl. I thought, “things are about to get interesting!” But, the pack never came to the carcass and everything seem to quiet down.
I didn’t want to blow my setup so I needed someone to run any coyotes still hanging around away. So I texted my wife and she drove her Yamaha, Rhino to the stand site by me guiding her in with a flashlight. When I heard her coming over the hill I shined the beam around the carcass and there set a bobcat!
Fun night!
Topic: Miss October (Read 1460 times)
