Check this out--crazy!!
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/05/01/news/down-east/coyote-lunges-for-turkey-on-opening-day-bites-a-hunter-instead
:o Crazy!... I'm glad I don't use decoy's :TooFunny:
That would be very scary. Just goes to show you that you never know what can happen hunting. Glad he was ok.
Crazy stuff! Would make for a good hunting story though! :fire:
Another reason to add to the list of why we should hate coyotes. :z-guntootsmiley:
I see more yote during turkey season than any time of year.. its like a feast out there between fawns and turkey nests
the look on a yotes face after they take some Hevi #6's to it is priceless... cuz its dead :smiley-char092:
I've had this same thing happen to me twice. Only I didn't get bit both times as the coyote got about 5 feet away and ready to pounce what he thought was a turkey I had to jump out of my seat at him and scare him off. I woould have shot them but funny thing was both times it was a first light and I had birds roosted not more than 50 yds away. I did not want to blow my hunt. We work to hard at this to get under a rooste and blow it. You know.
We were charged by something 2 weeks ago in the silent darkness by our trucks while we were waiting on a buddy.
Sucker came at us WFO and all we could do was instinctually spring into the bed.
Our suspicion is that it was a yote.
Quote from: VaTuRkStOmPeR on May 04, 2012, 12:48:54 PM
We were charged by something 2 weeks ago in the silent darkness by our trucks while we were waiting on a buddy.
Sucker came at us WFO and all we could do was instinctually spring into the bed.
Our suspicion is that it was a yote.
VA turkey. Were you guys making calls or was it a random charge.
I peppered one in Georgia a couple weeks ago. Me and a buddy were sitting on the edge of a greenfield and one came running in over a knoll behind my decoy. He/she was about to grab it and I sent out a load of 7's. Dang thing just spun around, starting biting it's belly and yelping, and ran 5ft from my buddy into a fence. Never saw it again. Don't know if I killed it, but I dang sure ruined it's day....
Quote from: mikejd on May 04, 2012, 01:45:13 PMQuote from: VaTuRkStOmPeR on May 04, 2012, 12:48:54 PMWe were charged by something 2 weeks ago in the silent darkness by our trucks while we were waiting on a buddy.
Sucker came at us WFO and all we could do was instinctually spring into the bed.
Our suspicion is that it was a yote.
VA turkey. Were you guys making calls or was it a random charge.
Man, our buddy was running late and it was 430am; we were standing there quietly about to leave the truck for a tight roost set-up.
I can't identify anything we did to provoke such behavior.
I splashed thru a mud puddle on the way out of the woods one day. I heard something running out of the creekbottom coming my way.
Two 'yotes came directly at me. I raised my gun and they made a 90 and hit a gear I'd never seen before.
They didn't get too close and I didn't get a shot.
That is crazy...I've seen a few in the past out turkey hunting,but never did they want to come into my decoys....
I gave one a lethal dose of HeviShot 6's at 7 yards yesterday in NH's opener as it was stalking my DSD's. Last week in Ct a big reddish male raced in and bit my motion hen, dropped it and ran just as fast away. I was waving both hands at it trying to drive it away as two longbeards were closing fast but that coyote was oblivious to me.
I shot one opening day in Florida as it stalked a wind blown decoy during the youth hunt. Rolled him up to stalk no more. Sorry but I say kill em all every time regardless! :fud:
I LOVE IT WHEN A YOTE COMES SNEAKING IN,BECAUSE HE USUALLY DIES