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Well, Sonny was home from college for the Christmas break, and he made good use of his time. He was out every day in all weather, dark to dark. Hounded with a friend and then called yotes when the snow melted, and scouted for wolves and possible next year's deer/elk spots anytime inbetween.

Two guns went along. Classics of the '50's/'60's, really.

First, his Ruger MKI .22 which goes pretty much everywhere in the woods with him unless his Redhawk is along. The .22 got some use by his houndsman buddy who used it to take this big bobcat they treed.

Sonny called yotes a bunch and as I've said, this is some of the world's toughest coyote-calling country, timber always too close, rippling, rough ground they make use of to sneak up to the call, etc. But the young man did good, and killed this one with a head shot at 215 paces with another classic, his FN .270 glassed with an old M8 Leupold fixed-power, crosshair {the package just screams "1960-something" around here...} scope. He put the crosshairs on the things forehead but the yote turned a bit at the shot and lost his crown.

Skinned and ready for the furbuyer;

More scouting with his pal {there's a snowshoe hare below that shotgun}:

Lots of country, lots of logging in the last few years has opened it up, but Jack O'Connor was right, a .270 doesn't NEED a high magnification scope to make good work with it.

This one came in to about 110 paces and bolted for safety but the kid swung on it and tagged it amidships at about 125. Who cares the far back shot. It's a deer killer. Scratch another one.

Still working on some strategies for wolves.

One thing's for sure, the young man can shoot, and if we get in range there'll be one less elk killer. In the meantime, we'll keep stressing the coyotes.

Sheep butchering today. That means gutpiles for the coyote trapline.

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Edited by NitroX (18/07/10 05:03 AM)