figured if a coyote was coming he would at least pick up his gun. I kept looking at him when he casually picked up his rifle and turned a little to his right front. I’m looking in the direction he is looking and I don’t see a thing. What in the world is going on! About that time I see a pair of ears bouncing in our direction, coming over a rise about 125 yards away. Oh yeah! It’s show time.
The coyote is loping along at
about two-thirds throttle, heading to our downwind side. About 20 yards before the coyote gets downwind I barked a couple of times and stopped him at about 60 yards away. The coyote is on Mike’s side of the fence, standing broadside, looking at us. I have him in my scope, crosshairs center chest, wait- ing for Mike to shoot. I wait and wait. I am thinking, “I like you Mike but if you don’t shoot pretty soon I am go- ing to shoot this one for you.” On top of that, I really thought he would miss anyway. Well, Mike finally shoots and I was pleased that he scored a hit. It was well back and the dog started to spin, jump around, and begin to move away. All right! I am going to get a shot after all. I got the crosshairs on the forward part of the dog’s chest and touched one off. Down it went. It was a mangy, nasty looking male but still, Mike got a coyote … and on his first stand ever. I crawled under the fence all
excited and hustled over to Mike. I congratulated him and said, “Way to go, man! Give me five!” I was excited as heck. He slowly got up, hesitated a little but gave me five and looked at me like I was nuts. I thought he was nuts for being so laid back. He was pleased, yes, excited not at all. I just could not get him to understand that getting a coyote on your very first hunt is really something. I guess I am weird. Just ask Mike. We dragged the coyote toward
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right. This also was cattle pasture but there was some grass and short bushes for cover.
The wind was now blowing pretty hard so I called with the standard Crit’R•Call. After about 15 minutes nothing showed up. I grabbed my howler and let go with some coyote in distress ki-yies. About two minutes later I hear Mike once again go, “Hey.” He was about 40 yards above and behind me. I turned around and saw he was casually looking over and beyond me toward the ridge. I looked hard at the
ridge but I couldn’t see anything. I just sat there wondering what in the world does he see now. About a minute later Mike says, “Hey” again but louder this time. Looking back at him, he raised his arm and points to the ridge. I am think- ing that this is insane. I looked across the ridge and I’ll be darned. There stood a coyote on the end of the ridge above the big valley. As I shifted my rifle the coy- ote began moving to my right along the ridge, just below the top. He was about 250 yards away. This dog was really nervous and I thought he was not going
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