I set up on the edge of a bush line....set up my caller about 150 yds from the main bush and 75 yard from my bushline....Once I got all set up and before my caller started to play, I let out a few coyote howls/pitches (its the sound that is like a siren) from my hand caller.....
My caller started playing and after about 5 mins or so, my mind started thinking about my next location and how I would set up.....In my limited experience after the first few minutes of calling and nothing has shown up, nothing ever does, boy was I wrong.....
At about the 7 minute mark I have one coyote coming to my call (arrow points direction of travel)....He trotts and stops, trotts and stops...Then the last 50 yds or so starts trotting straight in to the call.... I get a little nervous (thinking it might smell the human ordour from the call) so I bark out to him....bark.....bark...and he stops...I let him have it from my steven's 223 elite 3200 4x12 55gr bullet right into the chest (quartering to)....I watch it all in the scope as it hits and he spins around and around and then starts to run off....As I get my eye off him to reload I loose him in the corn stocks/taller grass in the background.....I am thinking he should be down and let the caller keep playing.....about 30 secs later I see a coyote running about 500yds back...now I start thinking maybe I did not hit it good, hope that is a different coyote......
As more time passes I begin to think I should of made a follow up shot right away on the coyote, I may have lost this one....
5 mins more pass and I see a coyote running from my left about 200 yds out and runs into the tall grass (pays no attaction to my call)...A minute later another coyote from the same place comes running across the field and makes its way to the tall grass.....I let out a few loud barks, but it does not stop... A few minutes later one of those coyotes comes out of the tall grass and trotts out into the field about 175 yds, stops to look at my caller and decoy but continues to move away...I bark a few times he stops for a few seconds...I try and find him in my scope...I can't corn stock in my way..By the time I find him in the scope he is trotting away (I need more practice at that)...I tried to get him to stop again but no luck...
I waited a few more minutes and decided to see if my first coyote was down or I did I have a long tracking job ahead of me...
Turns out I hit the coyote pretty good, through the front shoulder and into the vitals, he travelled about 30 yds...
The setup
The hit
The blood trail
The find
The finish
, but as a 'new this year' to deer hunting. What do you do with a coyote once you shoot it?
