MRUTVOL
Well-Known Member
Had a interesting hunt this weekend. Got a call from owner of farm I hunt from time to time . He said he had a calf die about mid week and the yotes were really working it. I decided to give it a try. I had about a good half to 3 quarter mile walk to get back to the field he said the calf had been in so I got down there a good hour before dawn and slipped into an old 100 year old plus homeplace house there and got up in the second level where I have a shooting bench set up overlooking this huge field. It was a good 30 mins b/4 daylight. I knew the yotes were there cause I actually could hear them fighting over the calf. It was a little hair raisng to say the least! As light began to move in I could see 2 yotes out in the field at about 200 yards out. The calf had pretty much been dismembered and was scattered over about a 30 yard area. The yotes had no idea I was around so this was going to be more or less an ambush. While I waited for a little more seeing light I notice another yote to my right coming across the field to the other 2 . Was neat to watch them bristle up trying to intimidate each other. There was one that was what I call the Alpha yote of the 3 and I decided that would be the one I would take first. Just as I settled in on her low and behold here came another one across the field to them. Now I have 4 yotes all within 10 foot of each other. This was a yote hunters dream come true. I thought about trying a flanking shot and hope it would cause the others to at least hesitate long enough to get maybe a couple more shots off but then I notice 2 of them were standing almost side by side so I thought I would do a 2 for oner shot and hope to get at least 2. So when I had the opportunity I squeezed off a lung shot that zipped right through one and into the other. One went down and the other went to spinning and hollering like crazy. The other 2 bolted in opposite directions but one stopped out at about 350 yds out and kind just stood there watching the howling wounded yote . I fired off a quick shot and boom down he went. I finished the other wounded yote off and by 6:30 had 3 yotes on the ground. I had that happen once before in the mid 90s when I had a family group of 5 come across a wide open field and got 3 of them by doing the same thing. On top of that since it was so early I walked down to a bluff along the elk river and sit up to try and call a cat in. Being this was the last weekend for cats I really did not have a lot of faith in my success but I called for about 10 mins and darn if this young tom did not show up. I went ahead and took him but after seeing he was probably last years cat I wish I had let him go but you have to react quick sometimes. Being I was so far back on the farm I just cut the yote tails off and carried the cat out. I guess you could say I had a better than expected day. I just wish BIG COUNTRY71 could have made it but he had a 3d shoot to be at...maybe next time ! :grin:
