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Post by bula on Feb 25, 2022 9:04:42 GMT -5
Yup, congrats on a neat accomplishment. I've not gotten one. This far north, they run bigger. Next weekend will going to camp, in the hills, for a dose of woods and hills. A nephew coming up from VA to play. A bit of fun, just in the planning !
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Post by bigbore5 on Feb 27, 2022 6:50:29 GMT -5
Congrats. That's a big yodel dog.
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Post by x101airborne on Feb 27, 2022 10:12:07 GMT -5
Congrats. That's a big yodel dog. For our area it really is. Our normal males that I have killed run around 35 or so pounds. That is a pretty typical weight. Females range around 30 pounds or so. We just dont get enough cold weather to make them grow any larger. Next time I am taking a revolver. I have killed several with my Security Six, but that was just being lucky to walk up on them in timber and "Oh, coyote, I only have a pistol.". I wonder if I can still seal the deal when it comes to handgunning called in yotes.
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Post by bigbore5 on Feb 27, 2022 22:22:40 GMT -5
I use my service six as a working gun. Have gotten several by chance with it. I usually am loaded with the 359640 from MP with the penta hp on a stiff charge of h110. Really decisive on impact especially considering our NC coyote are about 25 pounds for a male.
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Post by x101airborne on Feb 28, 2022 7:58:39 GMT -5
I run the 140 grain Sierra JHC over a stiff charge of H110. REALLY flat shooting but DO NOT forget your plugs or you will have a headache the rest of the day!
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Post by gunsbam45 on Feb 28, 2022 20:57:08 GMT -5
I wonder if I can still seal the deal when it comes to handgunning called in yotes. [/quote]
Only one way to find out! Sounds like a good morning.
I decided I was gonna start taking a .22 Mag revolver along any time I called this year in case a bobcat appeared at close range so I wouldn't destroy a hide. I had a big red coyote walk right in front of me and a friend a couple months ago so close we couldn't move. He came off a pond dam and right down the cow trail we were set up on. Almost stepped on the guy next to me and stood just beyond arms reach from me for a few seconds before heading closer to the call. Just as I pulled the hammer back once he got by he dropped off a shelf below us and we didn't see him again til he was in tall grass about 75 yards SE of us. The wind was right, but I'm very surprised he didn't smell us or see us that close. I thought I had that one with the 648 for sure but he just vanished like a ghost before I got the trigger pulled. It's neat to have them that close, doesn't happen every day.
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Post by lah on Mar 1, 2022 19:58:42 GMT -5
Great story, could feel the heart thing. I've never killed one that big.
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Post by x101airborne on Mar 2, 2022 9:58:19 GMT -5
I have killed probably around 45 to 50 of them over my 44 years on this Earth so far. Out of a study group that small, this is by far the biggest ever. Heard a lot of coyote singing last night down on the creek. Maybe tonight I will take my thermal rifle and sleep in the truck.
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Post by bula on Mar 2, 2022 11:59:29 GMT -5
At camp once, we put an electric caller linked to my friends phone out in the middle of our 218 acres and 3 of us picked nearby deer stands and waited, one night. One gray fox taken. Sigh. We have a coyote den on the property and they can be heard from two directions often enough in the late eve.. I can hear 3 different packs sound off near midnight here at my home in N.,E. Ohio. They are EVERYWHERE. Why my "camp 22" is now a 32mag. I know of 3 that weighed 60 plus.. When I've shooe'd them outta the driveway, they are the same size as my 60lb Lab. When my Lab won't leave the landing, I know it's a bear. Sigh, it is not DisneyLand out there and I prefer it this way . I do not mean to take away from the OP's accomplishment. The biggest in the sre, is the biggest in the area. That's the trophy beast. Congrats ! At camp, we do need to knock the coyote numbers down, it is hurting the grouse and turkeys that WE want.
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Post by bula on Mar 2, 2022 12:51:12 GMT -5
x101Airborne, what are you using for a caller ? Have played at duck and varmint calling. At this stage of life, it will be electric, just will.
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Post by longoval on Mar 2, 2022 16:49:40 GMT -5
Never seen one that big, congrats!
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Post by x101airborne on Mar 2, 2022 18:28:04 GMT -5
x101Airborne, what are you using for a caller ? Have played at duck and varmint calling. At this stage of life, it will be electric, just will. I have abandoned my electric callers. I just cannot get the quality of sound out of one to suit me. I have enjoyed and had many kills with my Foxpro (forget the model) but it is one of the plastic ones with the double speakers that swing out. My father bought a Foxpro Krakatoa and it is a 900 dollar piece of junk. Metal speaker and batteries that require special chargers, battery packs are 100 dollars (for Foxpro brand) and you have to watch them for overheating and catching fire. I have used cheap callers from Cass Creek but they replay the same sounds every 10 seconds and it gets very repetitive. I think the predators can tell it. They have given me some success but it is not reliable. I dont have much experience with any other brand to be of much help.
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