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[whaler1]

Haha she is pretty!  Fantastic. 

[orangediablo]

Whacked a double late yesterday.  Embarrassing video and story later today...

[whaler1]

Awesome!

[orangediablo]

Packed up the truck, get to my spot at 8pm, grab my gear.....realized I forgot my rifle...awesome.  Head back home, grab the gun head back out.  With all the snow melt,  the area im in is soaked...soppy field all the way back.  At my spot, setting up tripod, call and hit it.  20 min later, triple comes in.  Get excited, point, and pull the trigger on atrocious,  embarrassing shot.  Pup distress kicks in, the three dogs stick around and end up getting a 34# female and 39# male.  First blood with the new rifle.  Accurate enough,  but, but the actions is ROUGH compared to my Tikkas (which you can hear in video). 

 

 

[fish whistle]

What caliber is your new rifle ? Nice to see them drop in their tracks !

[orangediablo]

22 ARC with 62gr ELD-VT

[fish whistle]

That’s awesome, great caliber 👍 I recently bought a Ruger American in that caliber to add to my collection of coyote guns.  I’m typically a .223 guy for coyote but use .243 as well..   tried a .204 for a couple years but didn’t work out here in Maine ,  To fast to small of a bullet for our dogs. Having enough energy and penetration for those frontal shots is important.  Excellent choice!!

[orangediablo]

That's what I'm running, American Gen II.  Rifle works fine,  but trigger and action need work. 

[whaler1]

Smoke em

[orangediablo]

Break in the weather, and wind was good for a few spots, so headed out.  First two spots, dud.  Third set was hope and a prayer as they would have to cross downwind of me where its safe to shoot, so with 10ish days left....nothing to lose.  Coyote vocals, nothing, hit rabbit and ran directly to the call.  Whacked the bigger one (about 39#), left the second one for next year.

Edited March 21 by orangediablo

[fish whistle]

That 22 ARC makes quick work of them !   Dead before they hit the ground 👌

[orangediablo]

I may or may not know someone selling a barrel/upper... 

[fisherman21]

3 sets last night. Nothing but foxes wanted to play until the last set of the night. Big male came in upwind of the call and caught us off guard. Was only about 30 yards from the call when we saw him. Dumped him like 6ft from the call. 

 

Edited March 23 by fisherman21

[whaler1]

That’s great!

[fisherman21]

Had a quad come in last night and dumped two. Trying to make the most of this last week. 

[Chromeslayer]

[whaler1]

That’s great!

[whaler1]

Had another visitor this morning. Still have a few days to go

[orangediablo]

Went out for one last time last night...beautiful weather.  7 sets, called in one coyote...what a bummer.

[fisherman21]

My little guy really wanted to get out for a coyote this year. I figured we would do one set on the last night of the season, and it all came together!