Hunted at TBR. Even before I arrived, temps had already dropped down to below the predicted low for the night and it wasn't even dark yet! Walking out to the stand, I could feel the tiny ice crystals falling from the sky and figured it was going to be a chilly night. Fortunately, Mr. TBR had gotten the heaters back in the stands and so long as the windows were not open, I wasn't shivering. Of course the problem was that if the windows weren't open everything was getting wet from condensation. So things were chilly and a bit damp.
Deer were all over the place. The fawns frolicking a full speed back and forth across the pasture and around groves of trees. I saw more deer in the first couple of hours than I usually see during the course of a whole evening. Then the deer disappeared and nothing happened for an hour or so.
At that point, I spied a coyote working the far tree line. By the time I got my rifle up, she had cut into the woods on a trail. I whistled and barked at her and she turned around but did not come back toward me. I shot her and she went down and then I heard the buzz buzz of the recorder saying it was about to start recording, LOL. Timing is everything. So I did not include the video of the blob on the ground.
The shot entered the right front shoulder and exited the left rear shoulder. She was down but lifting her head and a second shot finished her.
About an hour after that, I spied a bobcat working inside the tree line, appearing and disappearing between the trees and other foliage. As I was getting my rifle up, she stopped and smelled the blood of the downed coyote (now dragged away) and turned and headed into the woods. I used a wounded/distressed rabbit squeal and coaxed her back out to the tree line where I shot her. The shot entered the right chest/neck area and she was DRT.
Both shots were within a yard of one another at about 120 yards. I was shooting my 6.5 Grendel and using an Armasight Zeus 3 640. As seen in the video, the cat was taken when zoomed to 2x, giving a simulated 6x magnification.
It was 24 degrees by that time and I figured it was a good time to head home before the roads got too bad. The drive was pretty squirrelly for the first 20 miles or so, but then things dried out.
Deer were all over the place. The fawns frolicking a full speed back and forth across the pasture and around groves of trees. I saw more deer in the first couple of hours than I usually see during the course of a whole evening. Then the deer disappeared and nothing happened for an hour or so.
At that point, I spied a coyote working the far tree line. By the time I got my rifle up, she had cut into the woods on a trail. I whistled and barked at her and she turned around but did not come back toward me. I shot her and she went down and then I heard the buzz buzz of the recorder saying it was about to start recording, LOL. Timing is everything. So I did not include the video of the blob on the ground.
The shot entered the right front shoulder and exited the left rear shoulder. She was down but lifting her head and a second shot finished her.
About an hour after that, I spied a bobcat working inside the tree line, appearing and disappearing between the trees and other foliage. As I was getting my rifle up, she stopped and smelled the blood of the downed coyote (now dragged away) and turned and headed into the woods. I used a wounded/distressed rabbit squeal and coaxed her back out to the tree line where I shot her. The shot entered the right chest/neck area and she was DRT.
Both shots were within a yard of one another at about 120 yards. I was shooting my 6.5 Grendel and using an Armasight Zeus 3 640. As seen in the video, the cat was taken when zoomed to 2x, giving a simulated 6x magnification.
It was 24 degrees by that time and I figured it was a good time to head home before the roads got too bad. The drive was pretty squirrelly for the first 20 miles or so, but then things dried out.
However, if Angry Bird did, I would have had him bring me my better camera. My cell phone doesn't do the best night shots and the camera was sitting on the console in the truck, where I placed it so that I would not forget it when I suited up to hunt. 