I was working out in the yard this afternoon and heard a yote start yodeling in a wooded draw about 400 yards across a corn field behind me so I grabbed my yard-gun, a Ruger 77-22 Hornet and started across the field towards it. My two dogs took off out ahead of me. The male is half German shepherd and half Alaskan Malamute and female is a one year-old full-blooded Alaskan Malamute and looks like a wolf. And they both hate coyotes.
Needless to say they beat me to the woods and just before they got there, I noticed my female really accelerated like she had zeroed in on something. She flew into the woods and I heard her catch the yote. The fight lasted less than 10 seconds, and by the time I got there the yote was dead and she was chompin on it some more and Bo was running around looking for another one. When she saw me she dropped it and joined Bo in looking for victim #2 and I eased along the edge of the woods in case they flushed one out across the field. That's a good tactic if you've got dogs that hunt with you. :-)
A few times, they've attacked a whole pack of yotes, and they went after the Alpha's first and I shot (at) the subordinates that were trying to escape through my field of fire. I've about got Bo trained to sit with me while I'm calling, so then I can either sic him on the yote or pop it with the Hornet. He almost always knows somethings coming way before I can see it or hear it. The hardest part is getting him to sit still if I want to shoot it. I like using the Hornet around my dogs because it doesn't hurt their ears. They don't pay much attention to the report, but if I go up to even a .223, they flinch like crazy when I shoot. So that's how I've done most of my yote hunting the last 3 years.
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