stopped about 100 yards away, broad- side, looking our way. I whispered to Gail to take the shot. This dog was re- ally nervous and appeared to be ready to scram. I am looking at it through my scope and wondering why Gail is not shooting. I whisper that she had better hurry up. She says that she can’t see it. I glance at her and she is moving the gun around, trying to spot the dog in the scope. She told me to take the shot. I waited. After the third time she told me to take him I decided to do just that. As I put the crosshairs on center chest I was wishing I had my 22-250 … and squeezed the trigger. The little rifle cracked and down it went. The grass in the field was maybe 20" high and I could get glimpses of the coyote strug- gling. With the little gun I figured I had better try to hit him again. I shot twice more, not connecting. The dog got his stuff back together and took off across the field. One more shot before he made cover, another miss. I had a bad feeling about this one. He looked pretty healthy once he got going.
We made our way to where the coyote had been and found a pretty good blood trail. We followed the sign
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125 yards or so out of the field, through the trees, but it quit bleeding and lost the trail just before it led into the swamp. My guess is that I hit it a little high, near the spine, temporarily taking out his drive train. I felt bad about not recovering that coyote, but it happens. Gail really felt bad for not being able to find the coyote in her scope. She said she wanted to impress me by bagging that dog. Heck, her going hunting with me was enough to impress me. Funny, we have not gone coyote hunting to- gether since. We are planning on going to South Dakota pheasant hunting this fall. If we can make the trip she is in for the time of her life.
The following hunt was with an old and good friend, Steve Saylor. I have no idea why but everyone calls him Blue. Blue is a real outdoorsman. He has hunted, fished all his life, even doing some trapping in his early years. We have worked together for many years so often share hunting stories. Being in the construction business, winter weather usually shuts things down so typically we have a lot of time on our hands. Blue had decided to try his hand at calling predators. I loaned him some videos
and offered advice when asked. Well, Blue was not having any luck at all. He went out several times but never saw a single dog. A couple of times while leaving his stands, he found tracks in the snow where dogs had circled him, smelling his tracks, then slipping away. He was getting frustrated at not having any success. I told him to just keep try- ing. With as much woods savvy Blue has, the only thing he was lacking was self-confidence. One day he asked me to go with him to show him how I do it. Of course, I accepted the invitation. We headed to one of his spots at daylight one winter morning. There was 8" or so of nice, fluffy three-day-old snow. From the gravel road we looked over the area. There was about 75 acres of logged off woods only 200 yards wide, running east and west and was quite long. Blue, from previous scout- ing trips, said that coyotes bed in the thick briers and tree tops that remain. On the north, east, and south sides were picked bean fields. Wide and thick fence rows ran east of the north and south corners. The fence rows had lots of trees, brush and rocks, and were about 15 yards wide. The wind was from the
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