SoonerMedic
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Like the title says, it's nothing super special....But, it was a cool little 2 hour or so hunt. I'll give you the rundown in short detail.
I call my dad at about 5:30 and asked if he wanted to go with me to shoot some pigs. He said he would like to, but he doesn't have his hunting license (he is not a hunter in the sense that I would call myself a hunter. He's gone before but isn't very passionate about it whatsoever.). Ok dad, not a problem. If you want to go with me you could just follow me and watch or whatever. He agreed to come with me and just be a second pair of eyes. We walk for about 45 minutes or so and get to a clearing and he thought he saw something about 250-300 yards away. I look through the rifle scope (Using his Colt Sporter AR, Nikon scope, suppressor, Deer Season XP rounds) and see nothing. We stand there for a few more minutes while we fiddle with his phone trying to drum up a rabbit in distress call as we both decided our best bet is to probably shoot a yote. I'll backtrack a moment briefly and say that before we went out I talked to the landowner who is a 50+ year friend of the family and he advised of a coyote issue. No sweat, we got this.
So we get a distress call and he plays it for a minute or two and we look. Well, we see somebody on a 4 wheeler tooling about in the area where he thought he saw something and then we see a big red coyote running away from the guy. I give him a minute to move further down the hill and into the wooded area and I see a smaller dog just standing on the hillside mean mugging my dad and I. I didn't appreciate the way he was looking at us so I pull up, squeeze the trigger and connect on the best offhand shot I've ever taken in my life. We estimated it to be about ~200 yards (according to google maps).
Other than the successful shot, I just really enjoyed getting my dad out there with me to do a bit of spot and stalk type hunting. Actually, just getting out there and hunting with him for the first time in general was cool. I think he'll be getting his hunting license soon so that we can try to get on some pigs. He really wants to take his gun pig hunting lol.
I call my dad at about 5:30 and asked if he wanted to go with me to shoot some pigs. He said he would like to, but he doesn't have his hunting license (he is not a hunter in the sense that I would call myself a hunter. He's gone before but isn't very passionate about it whatsoever.). Ok dad, not a problem. If you want to go with me you could just follow me and watch or whatever. He agreed to come with me and just be a second pair of eyes. We walk for about 45 minutes or so and get to a clearing and he thought he saw something about 250-300 yards away. I look through the rifle scope (Using his Colt Sporter AR, Nikon scope, suppressor, Deer Season XP rounds) and see nothing. We stand there for a few more minutes while we fiddle with his phone trying to drum up a rabbit in distress call as we both decided our best bet is to probably shoot a yote. I'll backtrack a moment briefly and say that before we went out I talked to the landowner who is a 50+ year friend of the family and he advised of a coyote issue. No sweat, we got this.
So we get a distress call and he plays it for a minute or two and we look. Well, we see somebody on a 4 wheeler tooling about in the area where he thought he saw something and then we see a big red coyote running away from the guy. I give him a minute to move further down the hill and into the wooded area and I see a smaller dog just standing on the hillside mean mugging my dad and I. I didn't appreciate the way he was looking at us so I pull up, squeeze the trigger and connect on the best offhand shot I've ever taken in my life. We estimated it to be about ~200 yards (according to google maps).
Other than the successful shot, I just really enjoyed getting my dad out there with me to do a bit of spot and stalk type hunting. Actually, just getting out there and hunting with him for the first time in general was cool. I think he'll be getting his hunting license soon so that we can try to get on some pigs. He really wants to take his gun pig hunting lol.
Only yotes I've ever shot, I was out hunting something else, usually deer. I've taken a half dozen over the years. The funniest one I was dove hunting with my 12 gauge Winchester 1400 semi auto. I had a premonition, was leaning against a tree. I looked around the tree behind me and I see this yote coming right at me. I wheeled around and blasted him amidships with a load of 7.5 which took him down. He was REAL close. 
