Post by RJ on Jan 30, 2007 22:09:37 GMT -5
Had a hearty breakfast ( steak and eggs ) with Greylag and his neighbor Joe ...
Using some tips I picked up from Outdoorz ... we headed out to scout out some Coyote cover , chase Jack Rabbits , and scout the geese flights for the late season in Feb .
Ist property we headed into had some rolling terrain with some creek bottom deep cover .... similar to the cover I saw in the Winter Magic DVD I got from Outdoorz ...
Well things heated up in a hurry ! :lol: :lol:
Greylag and Joe are working a fence line to my North ... and I head down to the creek bottom cover , when out of the blue approx 10 mins into the adventure , I see deer moving West to East ? ... the wind is good for me so I pull out the camera and snap a few pictures as they pass between us ...
The deer stop and look back ? I continue to snap frames of them with my 200mm lens until they pass by...... I'm thinking " what spooked them ? " :?
Then , I put the camera away and start to walk again I look in the distance and see two shadowy figures slinking thru the next fence line approx 200 + yards away ... I look thru my 12 power scope and see they are coyotes tracking the deer ... ( question answered ) ...
No time for the camera ... they are coming hard , so I track them in the scope and as soon as the 1st one starts into the field he locks on to me and starts to turn ... too late I smack the trigger of my Remington 700 and bowl him over with a shot in the chest ... he leaps about 5 jumps back thru the fence line and crumples ...
I snowshoe the 200 yards and see the blood trail on the other side of the fenceline....
I snap a picture of him lying in the field while another deer watches in the background ( see her in the top of the frame ? )... it is a small doe and she sprints off to catch up with the others ...
It turns out to be a young male .... mangy from just behind the shoulders to the end of the tail ( it looked like a possum tail ) ... I took a couple of quick frames of the head and teeth since they were the only healthy looking part of him ... and waited for the guys to come down my way ...
We continue on .... move some Jack Rabbits off the fenceline and Joe connects with a beauty !
Hat's off to Vern and Joe .... they are both 68 years old and can still run most guys half their age into the ground on snowshoes ! :lol: :lol:
We had a great day out .... the fresh air will make us all sleep easy tonight !
PS : Outdoorz wasn't kidding about that creek bottom cover ! .... seems to be where the yotes were today ! :lol: :lol:
Using some tips I picked up from Outdoorz ... we headed out to scout out some Coyote cover , chase Jack Rabbits , and scout the geese flights for the late season in Feb .
Ist property we headed into had some rolling terrain with some creek bottom deep cover .... similar to the cover I saw in the Winter Magic DVD I got from Outdoorz ...
Well things heated up in a hurry ! :lol: :lol:
Greylag and Joe are working a fence line to my North ... and I head down to the creek bottom cover , when out of the blue approx 10 mins into the adventure , I see deer moving West to East ? ... the wind is good for me so I pull out the camera and snap a few pictures as they pass between us ...
The deer stop and look back ? I continue to snap frames of them with my 200mm lens until they pass by...... I'm thinking " what spooked them ? " :?
Then , I put the camera away and start to walk again I look in the distance and see two shadowy figures slinking thru the next fence line approx 200 + yards away ... I look thru my 12 power scope and see they are coyotes tracking the deer ... ( question answered ) ...
No time for the camera ... they are coming hard , so I track them in the scope and as soon as the 1st one starts into the field he locks on to me and starts to turn ... too late I smack the trigger of my Remington 700 and bowl him over with a shot in the chest ... he leaps about 5 jumps back thru the fence line and crumples ...
I snowshoe the 200 yards and see the blood trail on the other side of the fenceline....
I snap a picture of him lying in the field while another deer watches in the background ( see her in the top of the frame ? )... it is a small doe and she sprints off to catch up with the others ...
It turns out to be a young male .... mangy from just behind the shoulders to the end of the tail ( it looked like a possum tail ) ... I took a couple of quick frames of the head and teeth since they were the only healthy looking part of him ... and waited for the guys to come down my way ...
We continue on .... move some Jack Rabbits off the fenceline and Joe connects with a beauty !
Hat's off to Vern and Joe .... they are both 68 years old and can still run most guys half their age into the ground on snowshoes ! :lol: :lol:
We had a great day out .... the fresh air will make us all sleep easy tonight !
PS : Outdoorz wasn't kidding about that creek bottom cover ! .... seems to be where the yotes were today ! :lol: :lol:
