Post by cambygsp on Apr 26, 2008 17:23:22 GMT -5
Today was the first morning I could get out for a turkey hunt. Last weekend my son passed on the youth hunt, he said he just couldn't get motivated (girls I think).
This morning however we did hunt, we went to our spot on Meadow Church Rd in Lawrence County. Got there about 5:15am and was in the woods by 5:30. No birds were chirping yet so we made our way in a bit found a log and waited for the gobble to start. We weren't sitting there 2 minutes and one cracks off, sounds like it's maybe 150 yards to our left. My son says he is setting up here, so I move on. I get all the way back to the "Y" and hear two going off, so I set up.
I start talking to one gobbler that seems to be getting closer, but it's comming from my rear, this goes on for about 20 minutes. My decoys are set up on a logging trail and I'm up a small hill. I look down at my decoys and I see movement passed them, I think TURKEY!
I see the movement again......it's not a turkey it's a coyote! This dog is stalking my decoys, he is taking about one step every couple seconds and he is hunched down. My gun is already up on my knee because I thought the turkey I was chatting with was gonna show. The coyote pops out in a little open area and I let him have it! 25 yards with a 3 inch turkey load, and he rolls.
Never heard a gobble after i shot the dog. About an hour and a half later my son hits me on the radio and says he wants to see the coyote, so he comes to where I was. We look at the coyote and start heading back to his set up.
When we get to his set up, I see movement again about 40 yards passed his decoys. At first I thought it was a deer, but on a closer look it's another stinking coyote!
Couldn't get a shot on him as he took off up the hill about the time when I pull up!
So anyway we will be back at it in the morning!
This morning however we did hunt, we went to our spot on Meadow Church Rd in Lawrence County. Got there about 5:15am and was in the woods by 5:30. No birds were chirping yet so we made our way in a bit found a log and waited for the gobble to start. We weren't sitting there 2 minutes and one cracks off, sounds like it's maybe 150 yards to our left. My son says he is setting up here, so I move on. I get all the way back to the "Y" and hear two going off, so I set up.
I start talking to one gobbler that seems to be getting closer, but it's comming from my rear, this goes on for about 20 minutes. My decoys are set up on a logging trail and I'm up a small hill. I look down at my decoys and I see movement passed them, I think TURKEY!
I see the movement again......it's not a turkey it's a coyote! This dog is stalking my decoys, he is taking about one step every couple seconds and he is hunched down. My gun is already up on my knee because I thought the turkey I was chatting with was gonna show. The coyote pops out in a little open area and I let him have it! 25 yards with a 3 inch turkey load, and he rolls.
Never heard a gobble after i shot the dog. About an hour and a half later my son hits me on the radio and says he wants to see the coyote, so he comes to where I was. We look at the coyote and start heading back to his set up.
When we get to his set up, I see movement again about 40 yards passed his decoys. At first I thought it was a deer, but on a closer look it's another stinking coyote!
Couldn't get a shot on him as he took off up the hill about the time when I pull up!
So anyway we will be back at it in the morning!
