Think I hit a gold mine

[AdrianJHare]

Setup at first light in this new area on a field. The wind is not great as it from the North West and blowing enough to cause small driffs on the road. I started calling with the DST Cottontail and worked with all the calls like the DST Jack rabbit and ended with a female howl. The set was not good so I get up and move to another location about 300 yards and reset up. Interesting thing is I thought I would try a Coyote decoy and can now see why no one uses them that often. I start with a Cottontail DST and work the volume up to 40 on the caller. The wind is picking up a bit so volume is important to me so I change over to a JackRabbit DST at 20 minutes into on and off calling and as soon as the Jack is done I wait 1 minute and try a Female Invatation howl and within a minute I see one come out around 250 yards. He looks and turns and heads back away into the swamp. I bark but it does nothing. I quickly turn on the KiHi for 30-40 seconds at 40 and pause it and take a hand call and start a Jack distress and out he comes again for a look and he turns again away. I bark and he stops and I take the shot and down he goes and gets up and runs in to the swamp.

I get up and leave the equipment and snow shoe in the direction and take up the track. Blood all over so hes hit well and I only do about 40 yards into the swamp and there he is still alive looking at me. I take a follow up shot and end the hunt once again.

Moral of the story is - I'll leave the coyote decoy in the truck from here on as I believe it caused more of a problem that he shy ed away from the set because of the presents of the decoy....

[redkneck]

Great work, that is one fine coat there!

[Ravin R10 man]

bet it was a big male too