Called an Owl In Today

[Glanceblamm]

But left with a Ki-oat!
Front had come through yesterday afternoon with the thermometer near the 21degree mark at 6:00 this morning.

Was on a hillside with a small pasture to my right and the woods being just 80yds away. Could see down the south edge of the woods for 600yds where it branched off into more woods. Entire area bordering this was picked corn & soybean stubble.

First saw the coyote at 250yds coming in at a dead run in response to my MallardTone short range squaller. Had about a 5min wait as I shut up while he was parked at the base of the hill 145yds away. This was a no shot situation as there was plenty of scrub trees and brush in between us. Knew he would circle though. Either to the left to the open pasture, or to the right into the bean stubble. He chose the right and promptly collected  a 55gr Hornady (#2267) from the .22-250 through the lungs.

Usually average 1 in 10 success rate with the cottontail squaller, but have done better using the howler or a combination of the two.

I will not hunt the area above for at least 7, if not 10 days. Exceptions to this would be to use a totally different call. A turkey call such as the double Kee Kee can work well. Start with a few clucks, but then really pour it on in volume and intensity.
I have even used a MR. Squirrel call. Like to have a small sapling close so as to operate with foot pressure, shaking it hard while blowing on this distress.

And finally: How do ya post pictures here?

[hillbilly]

glanceblamm this summer while trying to help out a neighbour with his coyote problem(can coyotes be a problem? the more 'yotes the more targets right) i was set up at the end of a narrow slough in the bullrushes calling for all my worth when i spotted a large dog heading my way along the opposite shoreline about 150yds out. When all of a sudden the most piercing cry I've ever heard wailed out directly above me I had called in not only a good sized male coyote but also a big, I mean REAL big (from my prespective) Northern Harrier a bird of prey common here in the great white north.

[Glanceblamm]

Your Northern Harrier or My Great Horned owl.

I wonder how many times, if any that they are able to bluff a fox, or even a coyote out of their fresh kill via making several low passes???

In my original post, the owl showed up just before the coyote and was on roost at the 80yd woods. It stayed put having a ringside seat to the show until I shot. If the coyote would have been a no-show I would have expected at least one low pass and probably would have waved the bird off with the rifle barrel.

Make no mistake about this people. The Great Horned Owl is capable of sending you to the hospital for 10 or more stitches, not to mention getting hit in the head by a six pound object moving at 15mph.