Dirtwalker (liam), is now 12.. first year to be able to hunt anything but deer... our weather has been brutal this winter. As I type this, the wind chill is -32 below....
A couple weeks ago, we found a fresh deer kill on the edge of a hayfield that backs up to the mountain. Thin band of quakies, then timber. There were lots of tracks around the deer and magpies were working it over good during the day. I figured it would be a good place for him to get his first coyote. We have a lot of them... When he got out of school we got bundled up and went up and got set up in the quakies across the field and downwind of the deer.. about 15 minutes before dark and his patience and comfort had run out... we were just about to call it, when something stepped out. I knew right away it wasnt a coyote. He said "what should I do?" I whispered to him to put it on the shoulder and hammer him... I think it happened so fast and was so unexpected that he didnt have time to get excited. He fired and made an absolute perfect heart shot. It leaped about 20 feet in the air and ran back into the trees. Boy oh boy, was he excited then.... the cold and misery was forgotten... it outweighed liam by 40 pounds...
A couple weeks ago, we found a fresh deer kill on the edge of a hayfield that backs up to the mountain. Thin band of quakies, then timber. There were lots of tracks around the deer and magpies were working it over good during the day. I figured it would be a good place for him to get his first coyote. We have a lot of them... When he got out of school we got bundled up and went up and got set up in the quakies across the field and downwind of the deer.. about 15 minutes before dark and his patience and comfort had run out... we were just about to call it, when something stepped out. I knew right away it wasnt a coyote. He said "what should I do?" I whispered to him to put it on the shoulder and hammer him... I think it happened so fast and was so unexpected that he didnt have time to get excited. He fired and made an absolute perfect heart shot. It leaped about 20 feet in the air and ran back into the trees. Boy oh boy, was he excited then.... the cold and misery was forgotten... it outweighed liam by 40 pounds...
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