down and the cross hairs settled in tight behind the shoulder, I thought to myself, “Don’t panic and blow it now,” and gently squeezed the trigger. I put a 55-grain Hornady through the pump station and the coyote started spinning in place. I knew another round was not needed but I could not resist it. I fired again and it went down. The gorgeous female weighed 32 pounds. (I had the hide tanned and gave it to Tim’s son.) Tim and his boy were excited but
I wished they could have watched the show. But that’s hunting! On yet another hunt, this time
with my buddy Tom, we were in South Dakota pheasant hunting. (Tom also had never been calling.) For a number of years a bunch of us
would annually take our wall tents and set up a camp in the middle of nowhere. My good friend and ranch owner Larry Anderson, who lives near Winner, al- lowed us to camp on his grandmother’s old homestead. The buildings are long gone now but the site has a number of trees and is out of the wind, over a mile away from any neighbors. It is just awe-
some. (The group still goes every year. However, I can’t always make the trip.) These trips are so much fun. Shooting hours for pheasants begin at 10:00 a.m. (noon the first week of the season). In the mornings some of the guys would stay in camp, some would go for a country drive, but my routine was to go calling coyotes early in the morning. On the way back to camp, I’d stop at a little prai- rie dog town and crank off a few rounds. Then race to camp, grab a sandwich, my shotgun, and my bird dogs, then hunt pheasants with the boys until we got our limit. Then, if there was time after cleaning our birds and having supper, go out calling coyotes again until dark. Tom wanted to give coyote calling
a try so at daylight, off we went. We set up on the north end of a big sorghum field. The field was maybe 150 yards wide but a good half a mile long with hay on both sides. Tom and I set up about 20 yards from the end of the field across the truck lane. I could look down the east edge of the sorghum into a hay field. There was very little cover so Tom was lying prone off to my right where
he could cover the end of the field. I was lying on my side, resting on one elbow. The truck lane had a shallow ditch on each side and we were lying in the ditch across the lane from the sorghum. There was some grass growing in the ditch. It was maybe two to three feet tall but very thin – not enough to really hide in. We had a big hill behind us to the north; wind was not a factor as it was coming out of the southwest. I had called off and on for maybe
10 minutes when off to the right, maybe 125 yards away, beyond Tom, toward the far side of the sorghum, out
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