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Great photo, plays with any hunters mind, but the story & picture are a set-up. Below is a cut & post from the Outdoor Life editor:

HuntingEditor wrote 5 years 11 weeks ago

Here's an update. The photo was staged. I'm going to refrain from calling it a hoax, which implies there was some trickery to this. Instead, it apparently was a couple of guys having some fun, without thinking the photos would wind up before a national audience. My friend Mark Henckel at the Billings (Mont.) Gazette finally made contact with one of the guys on the initial email string, who disclosed that his buddies set up the scene with several of their frozen snared coyotes.

It makes sense, as several of the posts on this thread have detailed, when you look at the visual cues: snow trampled, the crusted snow on the side of the near coyote, the stop-action photography in low light, and the dubious gun safety skills of the shooter.

Thanks to everyone for weighing in with a perspective.
Andrew McKean
Outdoor Life Hunting Editor
 

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