New for Michigan, summer coyote hunting.

[Alleyyooper]

Walking the pup Tuesday evening week ago today about 5:30 pm thru the woods like of old. Get to the back line fence and a group of coyotes cut loose and about made me wet myself, the hair on the back of the neck stood up as well and the arms.

Well shoot I was not even carrying my single six with the mag cylinder in it like I use to before surgery.
I didn't see them but they had to be within 25 yards or so the way they sounded.
Take the pup back to the kennel and get her set for the night. Go in the house and grab my caller and the Swift, don the bug jacket ( deer fly's are awful) and camo pants. Head out for the back of the place and set the caller on a stump along the creek back track a little and climb a rise to a raised deer stand that has been in the woods for about 7 years now so about every thing is use to it. I climb up, get settled in and say to self as the fawn in distress starts going BOY the weed along the creek are tall.
Never realized it since we have not been able to hunt this time of year before. I stayed on stand for about 35 minutes and not sure if I could have seen any thing in that tall grass.
Decide that the best place to set up is going to be across a bean field in a old fence row. I call my friend Eric and ask if he wants to come the next morning about 4:30 am, we'll walk back and cross the field about mid way set the caller up in the old fence line and retreat down that same fence line about 50 yards.
Eric arrive right on time and after a quick conference we decide to set up two callers One we will run the fawn in distress sound and the other a coyote group rollicking sound, So the ones we're after would think there was  interlopers in their territory. About 10 minutes Eric shuts his group sound off and points to some tall grass at the end of the field. There are 3 sets of ears sticking above the grass about 200 yds out at the end of the field. They stay there about 5 minutes it seemed like then continued down the end of the field fence row. About the time we thought they were going to go all the way to the end of the fence row and then come down the one we were in they decided to cut the corner and head right for that distressed fawn that was getting weaker and weaker. At about 120 yds we decided to take them. Eric whispers he will take the tail end and I should do the middle one.
sounded good to me and I watch Eric's fingers when 3 stood up I fired, one coyote spun and fell, Eric's second shot got the third coyote as it stopped at the end of the field to look back before going into the east fence row.

One adult female at the end of the field for Eric and a young female, Mine was also a young female.

Now I am wishing I had some money. That 742 wild cat of Eric's is some deadly medicine on coyotes. This is his 4th double of 2016.

   Al

[lazy shooter]

Al:

You must be an accomplished coyote caller.  I have a difficult time calling coyotes.  On occasion, I am successful, but they are very smart animals and often times circle before coming to a "call."  When they circle, they often times smell the caller and vamoose. 

I remember that you too have a .220 swift.  That is one fine old nostalgic caliber.  I just love the swift.  What is a .742 Wildcat.  What is the caliber and what is the mother cartridge?

We don't have a season of coyotes or feral pigs.

lazy

[Alleyyooper]

Don't know if I am accomplished or not. Just spend a lot of free time doing it. I have a lot of dry sets many a day too and use a Ecaller.  It is a Ico Tec gc350 holds 24 sounds to a SD card and carry a second card. Try to make our sets where we can watch 360 around at least a pair of us. We also use some Odd sounds for here in Michigan too. Newest one the coyotes seem to really respomt to is a piglet in distress.

Eric bought the Remington 742, Looked gawd awful and we all told him he got took at $125.00 for the thing. He took it to a well respected gun smith here and got the word every thing was OK to shoot it. He had it rebarreled with a 22 cal. barrel, was a 308. So it is a 308/22 wild cat. He also had the barrel Mag Na Ported so he has no muzzle jump at all and is able to get on a second target quickly. He some how has managed to learn to shoot a rifle with both eyes open. I do it with a shot gun  but just can't force my self to do it with a rifle.

   Al

[lazy shooter]

@Al:

OK, it was the 742 that that threw me.  I remember when Remington made the MODEL 742.  I believe it is rear locking lug bolt.  It was a short rifle and some of the calibers had a vented rib.  They were cheap and ugly but had a great reputation for being accurate.  The .308 cartridge has long been an efficient powder burner, and it has been used for decades as a bench rest rifle.  I bet the .22-.308 is fast, fast, fast.  Also, you are correct about the muzzle break holding the muzzle in line with the target.  I too, am going to look into this wildcat cartridge.

You are a real outdoor's man.  Have a nice day,

lazy

[Alleyyooper]

Eric's  cat of course is hand loaded and does some where between 3800 and 4000 FPS. He has a crony but I've never heard him talk about the speed.

Mag Na Porting isn't a brake.

http://www.magnaport.com/rifle.html

   Al

[lazy shooter]

Yeah Al, I got too casual and misspoke comparing magna porting to a brake.  I don't like brakes and don't own a weapon with a muzzle break.  The muzzle breaks create too much noise and back blast.  I love magna porting and have it on a couple of pistols.  As for the recoil reduction of a muzzle break, even in my old age I feel that a man can't take the recoil he should go to a lesser caliber.  To me, recoil is part of the game.

I would assume that your coyotes have nice fur in the late winter months.  Do you tan hides?

lazy

[Alleyyooper]

I don't like ML brakes either at our club you have to amke an appointment to use the range if you have one on a rifle. Lots of complaints due to noise and back blast.
I have a Remington custom 700 300 winchester mag with Mag Na Porting

Recoil about the same as my 243.









No don't tan hides, sell the decent ones. the rest feed other critters.

   Al