Evening everyone,
I spent most of the day in the woods today and had some fun! No deer, didn’t even see one! Although there is huge activity in the past couple days. We had some bad weather go thru so I haven’t been in the woods since Tuesday afternoon. I was supposed to go out after work Friday, but got stuck a bit late and couldn’t go. My buddy shot a nice doe leaving the woods, he saw about 10 deer in two and a half hours. So we planned today’s hunt. There are atleast six or eight trees around one of my stands. We must be experiencing a second rut.
About 08:30 I hear my pop shoot, I later find out he shot a coyote, but saw two. One shot from the 243 stopped him cold. 100Gr Hornady
RN in the front of the chest, exited the left ham with a dime sized exit. I also later find out my friend ,(with us.) also saw two coyotes cross the tote road as he worked his way to his stand earlier this AM.
Here is pops coyote:
About 09:00 I hear something behind me, I finally see it’s a coyote about 75 yards, walking directly toward me, down a deer run. Only problem is he is on my right . Now I’m a righty, so, I will need to either wait till he passes or shoot him off my left shoulder. He makes it about ten yards closer and looks as if he is going to take an abrupt right behind a big blow down. I need to shoot or let him go. Cant do that…
so I need to shoot him lefty. I get the rifle a Handi 454 thru the hole in the blind window and line up on the yote. He is facing me at a slight quartering angle. I put the post high on his left shoulder and squeeze. BOOM and bag I see stars!!! The scope cracks me in the bridge of the nose. I must have crawled up the stock a bit. I grabbed my nose and at first I don’t find any bleeding. I look up and the yote is doing circle flips and snarling. He makes it about fifteen feet before piling up. Now I can feel and see the blood running down my nose. I’m on four different blood thinners from my heart attack two years ago. So I tend to bleed freely. It took me almost an hour to get it to stop.
I can feel a clicking and piece or tow moving inside. So I guess I broke a piece off.
The 454 Casull bullet tore a dime sized entrance and a baseball sized exit!!! This was a 200 FTX bullet at about 2000 fps. I haven’t choreographed it so the velocity is a guess. Its 1650fps from a 7.5” barrel. Mine is 20”. Explosive expansion I would say as the coyote shouldn’t offer any real resistance in the spine is not hit and I didn’t hit the spine.
Saw NO deer all day!! Guess those coyotes pushed them into other areas.
My nose is pretty sore and my right eye is beginning to show a bruise.. LOL I guess I got stomped by my 454!!! I thought you guys would get a chuckle from my story.
CW
