Pinch_of_Snuff
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Buddy and I decided to hunt some dogs this weekend instead of dealing with the chaos of opening weekend. Had a place we had permission to hunt. Did pretty well. We saw 6 dogs total, 3 of which we called in - none of them making it out alive.
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clucknmoan
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I love shooting dogs. Good Job--no education there.
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gemstatejake
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God I seen about 50 of those damn things down in Nevada. Wanted to shoot but did'nt want to run the deer off.
Nice job!
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archy99
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On Monday, I was glassing a long, partly-treed slope from the edge of a stand of loose timber in central Washington, and had a good-sized coyote set up and commence to yipping and yowling on the far side of the bowl, invisible beyond a string of pines...I gave him the benefit of a few minutes, hoping he'd shut the hell up, but he never did. He sounded close, like he was mid-basin, and I searched for him for about fifteen to twenty minutes at that distance, shifting around to try to see him...and finally got down the hill far enough to catch a glimpse of him perched on a rock outcropping on the far edge of the basin, with a stand of thick trees behind him. I set up for a long, seated shot through a broad gap in the branches of the dividing trees, and used a forked branch to help steady me a bit after all the crawling around...then lobbed a tipped copper (300 WSM, 130gr Barnes TTSX) at him from about 400 yds. The way he launched off the rock, I thought for sure I had punched him high on the shoulder, but it looks like I mis-ranged it by a bit and sent it just over his back, so the acrobatics were purely instinct. After hiking down-slope much farther than I'd estimated for, there was no hair, no blood and no dead dog to be found...bummer. It was the first dog I've shot at...and I gotta say, I can see why people get hooked on predator hunting. I'll be putting a rangefinder on my wish list for Christmas for sure, as I won't miss a shot like that again.
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Beyond this, where there is no memory, the countryside lies vacant. -Indra Kagis McEwan
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