Coyote Hunt

Over Christmas break, to say the least, conditions were not ideal for furbearing ventures. Most of the snow melted off and thus rendering coyote hunting extremely difficult. However the weather did produce approximately half an inch of snow on the Saturday after the Christmas holiday. It was not ideal but yet it was sufficient enough to give the hounds enough powder to trail a track.

We loaded up the dogs and our hunting party of about 20 guys and were able to hit a track northeast of New Sharon. With more than a dozen dogs in pursuit they were able to catch a coyote twice on the ground and one other was led into the sights of a hunter. We ended up near Montezuma, but the dogs and hunters were unable to catch the last coyote as both the dogs and hunters tired and the little snow there was soon was disappearing yet again.

Beyond that day’s catch of three coyotes, we didn’t really have any success any other day hunting. However, I was able to finally sight in my new rifle, which is a Mossberg .243 with a 9 power scope. I had several shots at a coyote, but I missed them all or at least it had little effect to the coyote’s movement. I hope for another good snow and that I might be able to get a kill with my new rifle as I’m used to it now after the practice I had with it.