Didn't want to hijack the poor man's double yote thread so started this one to share a similar experience...
On a recent trip to the ranch in far southeast Webb County, was sitting in my tower stand to sort of "get the big picture" so I could figure out which of a couple areas I might want to hunt (bowhunt) the next day... Our rut was going on pretty good and I was seeing some nice animals. It was an exciting Friday afternoon hunt! I was glassing a real nice buck that was a couple hundred yards out and saw in the top of the field of view of my binoculars, another buck, so I switched my focus to him...
He was a smaller young buck but he was acting really nervous... All of a sudden he turned and bolted back into the thick brush where I could no longer see him and at the same time, the biggun I'd been watching make his way to my feeder, ran right through the field of view of my binoculars like he'd been shot at... Wind was good and I was in a totally enclosed metal insulated box 13 feet up in the air 250+ yards away...
Could not figure out what has spooked the deer so badly. I had seen a coyote near the tank dam that was close by, but deer don't usually spook like that from just a yote... I fact the opposite often happens. the dang deer will literally chase the yotes off...
Well I continued to watch this area and after about 15 minutes I saw three yotes come flying across the big opening that the deer had been in only just a bit farther out. Turns out they were either trying to rut themselves or were enjoying themselves just running around... They played around in that opening a bit and I got my camera/tripod lined up on the area and my rifle trained to the general area... Well, two of the coyotes came screaming across the opening and I jumped on the rifle... figured it was just too much action and too far out to ever get any decent video of a shot or anything so I didn't mess with the camera after that.
After about another 3 or 4 minutes I got my rifle trained on one of the coyotes, what appeared to be a very large one as it ran across the opening. Now this "opening" was not a field or anything like that. It was scattered dead huisache and other brush that had been killed off by the dirt tank being flooded out for a year or so. the water killed all the brush so the area is pretty open and stretches for probably an area that is 150 yards wide by 350-400 yards long. I can pretty much see the whole thing from my tower stand. Anyway, as I was following this yote with my rifle scope, he ran by another one that was stopped and they both began to run circles around each other. I kept my rifle always on the same one.
After about half a dozen good playful circles, they both stopped dead still, one directly behind the other.... I was ready and squeezed off the shot. In the scope, as the AR-10T recoiled, I saw one of them go DRT. I did not see the other one. I scoured the area for the other one both with scope and naked eye... nothing. After a minute or two, I began to look for the one I knew went down... could not see hide nor hair of it either... I broke out my phone and jumped on the text my buddies and I had running and told them I just hammered a yote at over 250 yards and there were two of them and I tried to line them both up and may have gotten them both... I was as nervous as if I'd just shot that big ol' buck that I'd been watching!! Don't really know why, but I was sure excited about the possibility of a coyote double, 2 for 1!! It was getting on toward sundown by this time so I climbed down with my rifle and walked to the area and finally found the coyote I shot, and just behind him was the other one!! Both of them were shot right through the shoulders and stone cold dead. It was a pair and I figured they had makin' puppies on their mind to have just been out there playing like they were. Anyway it was one of my most memorable shots ever with a rifle and my first kill with this gun. It's a Armalite AR-10T with a 20" SS barrel, Timney 2.5# drop in trigger topped with a Leupold Mark 4 4.5-14X50 LR/T with a mil/mil reticle... It has always shot real good and it sure hit its mark on this hunt!
This is a pic looking from the yotes back to my tower stand.
This is a pic thru my range finder back to my tower from the yotes lying where they fell...
On a recent trip to the ranch in far southeast Webb County, was sitting in my tower stand to sort of "get the big picture" so I could figure out which of a couple areas I might want to hunt (bowhunt) the next day... Our rut was going on pretty good and I was seeing some nice animals. It was an exciting Friday afternoon hunt! I was glassing a real nice buck that was a couple hundred yards out and saw in the top of the field of view of my binoculars, another buck, so I switched my focus to him...
He was a smaller young buck but he was acting really nervous... All of a sudden he turned and bolted back into the thick brush where I could no longer see him and at the same time, the biggun I'd been watching make his way to my feeder, ran right through the field of view of my binoculars like he'd been shot at... Wind was good and I was in a totally enclosed metal insulated box 13 feet up in the air 250+ yards away...
Could not figure out what has spooked the deer so badly. I had seen a coyote near the tank dam that was close by, but deer don't usually spook like that from just a yote... I fact the opposite often happens. the dang deer will literally chase the yotes off...
Well I continued to watch this area and after about 15 minutes I saw three yotes come flying across the big opening that the deer had been in only just a bit farther out. Turns out they were either trying to rut themselves or were enjoying themselves just running around... They played around in that opening a bit and I got my camera/tripod lined up on the area and my rifle trained to the general area... Well, two of the coyotes came screaming across the opening and I jumped on the rifle... figured it was just too much action and too far out to ever get any decent video of a shot or anything so I didn't mess with the camera after that.
After about another 3 or 4 minutes I got my rifle trained on one of the coyotes, what appeared to be a very large one as it ran across the opening. Now this "opening" was not a field or anything like that. It was scattered dead huisache and other brush that had been killed off by the dirt tank being flooded out for a year or so. the water killed all the brush so the area is pretty open and stretches for probably an area that is 150 yards wide by 350-400 yards long. I can pretty much see the whole thing from my tower stand. Anyway, as I was following this yote with my rifle scope, he ran by another one that was stopped and they both began to run circles around each other. I kept my rifle always on the same one.
After about half a dozen good playful circles, they both stopped dead still, one directly behind the other.... I was ready and squeezed off the shot. In the scope, as the AR-10T recoiled, I saw one of them go DRT. I did not see the other one. I scoured the area for the other one both with scope and naked eye... nothing. After a minute or two, I began to look for the one I knew went down... could not see hide nor hair of it either... I broke out my phone and jumped on the text my buddies and I had running and told them I just hammered a yote at over 250 yards and there were two of them and I tried to line them both up and may have gotten them both... I was as nervous as if I'd just shot that big ol' buck that I'd been watching!! Don't really know why, but I was sure excited about the possibility of a coyote double, 2 for 1!! It was getting on toward sundown by this time so I climbed down with my rifle and walked to the area and finally found the coyote I shot, and just behind him was the other one!! Both of them were shot right through the shoulders and stone cold dead. It was a pair and I figured they had makin' puppies on their mind to have just been out there playing like they were. Anyway it was one of my most memorable shots ever with a rifle and my first kill with this gun. It's a Armalite AR-10T with a 20" SS barrel, Timney 2.5# drop in trigger topped with a Leupold Mark 4 4.5-14X50 LR/T with a mil/mil reticle... It has always shot real good and it sure hit its mark on this hunt!
This is a pic looking from the yotes back to my tower stand.
This is a pic thru my range finder back to my tower from the yotes lying where they fell...
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