A good friend asked me to go to Cabellas with him Saturday morning. Since I have a hunting spot near there I suggested we do a little coyote calling when he was done shopping. He said he would like to see me call in a few, so we went. Less than 4 minutes into the first stand we had coyote down. He came in perfect! As we headed to the next stand we were spotted by a nice big male coyote and he headed for the timber. We decided to park and walk to the intended calling spot, hoping just maybe he would come back. Well let me tell you, everything that could go wrong on a stand did! We got busted on the way to the stand. Then an oilfield tanker came by real slow as we approached our spot. He not only hollered once, but twice that he was going real slow so not to dust us on his way by! Less than a minute into the stand another tanker came by REAL SLOW! What the heck we kept calling. The wind kept changing, which is not a thing on a tight stand. I started out using cottontail duet. At the 4 minute mark I switched to DSG cottontail, 8 minute mark lightenin’ jack. After a few more minutes crows showed up. I decided to show HL how close they would get and how many would show. So I switched to crow party. They really put on a good show and squawked. Around the 15 minute mark, I decided I would try one more sound. I changed to the coyote pup distress sound and in seconds the big male coyote came charging in all the way to the call, then turned to run. I let him have a round from the .223 and then another to put him down for good. We made one more stand hoping to call in a bobcat, but there were no takers on this one, still all in all a pretty good morning.
