Very cool (and cold) hunt this morning. I don't know what drew me to my food plot stand other than the obvious funnel that it is. Had I been in that stand opening morning of our rifle season, I would have had a shot on a big (according to my landowner) buck that my landowner missed. The buck came out under my stand, walked across the field and he missed it twice with his 6mm. I saw a small buck that morning as well as doe as I was in a stand inside a bedding area. Anyway, fast forward to this morning. Although I didn't see anything from the stand, it became very cool, very quick once I got down. I walked out to the cornfield you see in the background to watch for tracks. There were a couple that cross the plot as well as walked along the corn field. There was a ton of tracks in the corn, of course. :p As I walked along the corn field on my way out, I heard all kind of ruckus in the hedge row. I thought hmmmm, it really didn't sound like a deer. But I listened. I decided to walk closer and got behind one of the bushes (term used loosely) to break up my outline. Suddenly I saw a coyote! Cool, so I got semi ready and started sucking on my lips in a squeal like sound and the SOB ran right at me. He stopped abruptly staring at me and started moving to my right (downwind). I had to reposition myself in the crunchy snow but got away with it as I made squealing like sounds. I drew, estimated a little over 30 and loosed an arrow. I barely went over his back. @*$% but it was cool. He didn't bolt, he looked behind him where the arrow hit grass and I knocked another arrow but didn't get drawn. He moved down wind and then bolted back to where he came from. I was smiling ear to ear while I looked for my still lost arrow. I walked toward the ruckus and that's when I found the Rob buck. Wasn't sure what happened to him. He's been laying there for quite a while and I hunted close to him on several occasions without any indication that he was there. I text my cousin who hit a buck earlier in archery and never found him. He thinks this is the buck although he thought it was an 8 point. It's a 4 x 1, a true representative of a Rob buck.
That yote is one lucky SOB! Sounds like an awesome hunt Rob. It's too bad that buck didn't live another year, he would have been a dandy rob buck next year.
I'd still be afraid to drink the water there. :D If I ever come for a visit, I'm brining my own drinks.
LOL Too bad about the yote. It is harder estimating yardage when everything is happening fast. Been there... done that !!! I tend to underestimate... 30 yards is really 35 yards and such. Too bad about the Rob buck. Just think what he would have been in a couple years... a bigger Rob buck !! LOL You seriously have some messed up bucks !! Good luck hunting !! Tim
With you're speed demon you shot over him???? I think your follow through lacked because you were surprised by the whole encounter...... Just a hunch, I can see you missing that shot on a 3D range, that's for sure!!! Sorry on both accounts that a buck ESPECIALLY for you is dead and not by you're efforts, and that you missed the Songdog. It looks COLD there!!! BRRRRRR!!
Tough loss on thast Rob buck. I know how you enjoy them so much. lol Good to see you still after them.
Nice John. I would have likely put an arrow through him during this rifle season but during our archery, I'm thinking he would have gotten a pass. I'm thinking it but I can say that now. :p Ya. I heard a couple shots very far off. There are lead slingers still out there trying just like I am. I have a stand about 40 yards from this downed buck. Maybe another coyote will show himself. LOL, I said to my wife, it's better off I missed him, $450 for a mount, $100 for a pelt...... :D Ya might want too. :p I hear that Tim. It happened fast, I was "pumped" and did I mention it happened fast! Semi cold. I was carrying my Air Raid, although still flinging over 300fps, I think you are right about the shot execution. Ben knows my coyote target is one of my favorites and I light it up! Real world experiences are much, much different. :D Don't let that give you too much confidence at the next gtg. :p I'll likely be burning targets with a Destroyer. Sure was, especially from the ground, one on one and face to face. Was my 4th attempt, 2nd with a bow. I'm now 3-4 on yotes. :D Germ, is that Germinise for genetics? And I'm trying like hell, if it's my cousins deer, now I have the family involved. LOL Brian. Ya figured me out.
