FOUL LANGUAGE ALERT: Sorry, did my best to edit. A couple slipped through.
Ok, so it took a little longer than five minutes to shoot five coyotes last night, but this is almost as incredible as shooting nine hogs out of one group the other night.....
Same cut corn field that I got the hogs in last Friday night: SUS VENATOR CLUB: the hard way in | Lone Star Boars
My regular hunting buddy was able to join me on an outing for hogs in the corn field. Just a few minutes after getting set up, we see a large lone boar about 300 yards away. Neither one of us were totally squared away when we set out to intercept the hog.
My buddy has a PVS-14 but we've never used it to spot and navigate with. I fact, I don't even think he's tured it on since he got his thermal clip on last year. It sure would have come in handy because this hog was on a collision coarse with us and we just didn't know it.
What we thought was half/way through the stalk to where we last saw the hog was interupted when the boar smelled or heard (or both) us from about 20 yards away. We heard something take off running away from our position and by the time we could our guns up to look the hog was now about 75 yards away from us running at a good clip.
But he found a change in the landscape and stopped just behind a bend in the grass line that separated a small tall grass field from the main corn field. Too bad for him he was not hidden at all from us and my buddy let him have it with his DPMS Gen2 - 308 (I'm jealous of how light and handy that rifle feels compared to my regular DPMS 308)
A short while later we spot something way down, all the way across the field. It's too far to positively ID
3/10 or so of a mile away, and whatever it is too far to know for sure, but based on Friday we're expecting it to be more hogs.
But between the unidentified black objects and us, we see a coyote. A coyote that is eating something. My buddy and I agree not to shoot because doing so will send a bullet and the suppressed gun shot in the direction of the hogs that we're approaching.
Ok, no problem. But if by some miracle we get past that coyote and I no longer have to point in the general direction of the hogs to shoot the coyote, I'm going to shoot. 200 steps later, I place my rifle on the tripod and have a look, while my buddy checks on the hogs. Sure enough that coyote is still there and is still preoccupied with his dinner.
Evidently we didn't both agree on the next action taken and there's some back and forth and disagreement over the consequences of shooting something else 600-700 yards away from what we're trying to stalk closer to. In my mind since we're walking into a stiff east wind, I didn't see the problem.....
Take a notice of the time stamp between the first four shots. Totally unbelievable????!!!!!
Also, I did my best to edit out excitable foul language, but I couldn't get it all since I'm very new to playing with video online.
Ok, so it took a little longer than five minutes to shoot five coyotes last night, but this is almost as incredible as shooting nine hogs out of one group the other night.....
Same cut corn field that I got the hogs in last Friday night: SUS VENATOR CLUB: the hard way in | Lone Star Boars
My regular hunting buddy was able to join me on an outing for hogs in the corn field. Just a few minutes after getting set up, we see a large lone boar about 300 yards away. Neither one of us were totally squared away when we set out to intercept the hog.
My buddy has a PVS-14 but we've never used it to spot and navigate with. I fact, I don't even think he's tured it on since he got his thermal clip on last year. It sure would have come in handy because this hog was on a collision coarse with us and we just didn't know it.
What we thought was half/way through the stalk to where we last saw the hog was interupted when the boar smelled or heard (or both) us from about 20 yards away. We heard something take off running away from our position and by the time we could our guns up to look the hog was now about 75 yards away from us running at a good clip.
But he found a change in the landscape and stopped just behind a bend in the grass line that separated a small tall grass field from the main corn field. Too bad for him he was not hidden at all from us and my buddy let him have it with his DPMS Gen2 - 308 (I'm jealous of how light and handy that rifle feels compared to my regular DPMS 308)
A short while later we spot something way down, all the way across the field. It's too far to positively ID
3/10 or so of a mile away, and whatever it is too far to know for sure, but based on Friday we're expecting it to be more hogs.
But between the unidentified black objects and us, we see a coyote. A coyote that is eating something. My buddy and I agree not to shoot because doing so will send a bullet and the suppressed gun shot in the direction of the hogs that we're approaching.
Ok, no problem. But if by some miracle we get past that coyote and I no longer have to point in the general direction of the hogs to shoot the coyote, I'm going to shoot. 200 steps later, I place my rifle on the tripod and have a look, while my buddy checks on the hogs. Sure enough that coyote is still there and is still preoccupied with his dinner.
Evidently we didn't both agree on the next action taken and there's some back and forth and disagreement over the consequences of shooting something else 600-700 yards away from what we're trying to stalk closer to. In my mind since we're walking into a stiff east wind, I didn't see the problem.....
Take a notice of the time stamp between the first four shots. Totally unbelievable????!!!!!
Also, I did my best to edit out excitable foul language, but I couldn't get it all since I'm very new to playing with video online.
