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Post by Rimrock on Dec 7, 2013 14:53:54 GMT -7
It was cold yesterday morning, at,least for this part of the country. 23 degrees (I know, that's balmy for Idaho) when my partner and I opened the ranch gate. First stand, partner and I were separated by about 30 yards. He looked into draw to the North East and I into one to the North West. Wind was from the east. At about ten minutes a coyote appeared due NW of me at near 100 yards, on a ridge. He was trotting south and coming down hill. I barked but he did not stop. He went out of sight behind some brush in the bottom of the draw. Directly down wind. Almost immediately he reversed and and retraced his route. At about 75 yards he went down in his tracks. No exit. Really nice fur with a white tip. Shooting a Sako .223 with 50gr Nosler Ballistic Tips.  Called one on the next stand that circled down wind and busted us just as I saw it. Several more stand with no takers. An excellent day wit a fellow that I have hunted with for almost 50 years. |
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Post by Timber Butte Outdoors on Dec 7, 2013 15:12:56 GMT -7
rimrock,
Very nice! Thanks for sharing!
Yeah I wish it was balmy here in Idaho, woke this morning to about 4 inches of snow, and very cold!
Gary
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Post by broper on Dec 7, 2013 16:14:55 GMT -7
Nice! What part of the country are you in?
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Post by Timber Butte Outdoors on Dec 7, 2013 16:40:06 GMT -7
Bob,
It looks to me like the California Coastal Range Foothills, maybe the Western Slope of the Sierra Nevada Range, with the scrub oak trees in the background, and the warm weather??
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Post by Rimrock on Dec 7, 2013 18:13:52 GMT -7
Yes, Western Slope of Sierras, north of LaGrange. I know about that Idaho weather. When I lived there I saw -24. Brrr
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Post by Timber Butte Outdoors on Dec 7, 2013 18:32:04 GMT -7
And I know about California weather. I lived in Waterford and we built a house in Hickman. Fished many days on Don Pedro and X-Checker (McClure). Grandparents lived in Waterford, family lived Modesto, Turlock, Oakdale, LaGrange, Don Pedro, Ceres, Patterson, Oroville, and the Bay Area!
I know about the LaGrange hunting area pretty well, I accompanied my Grandpa for the first time coyote calling out in the LaGrange area, 1971 I was 10 years old. Fast forward to 1980 I went down to visit, and took a friend that had never called before, out near Don Pedro in the foothills, going out toward Sonora, and did some calling, until someone called the sheriff on us.
I knew that landscape looked familiar!
Gary
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Post by Rimrock on Dec 7, 2013 19:35:29 GMT -7
Gary, You have been around. lol. Most folks now don't know what you are talking about if you mention X-Checker. I have keys to ranches on that side of the valley around Knights Ferry, LaGrange, Hornitos and Snelling. You would probably know the location of some of them.
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Post by broper on Dec 8, 2013 7:03:47 GMT -7
Hmmm, your still allowed to shoot coyotes in California?
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Post by Rimrock on Dec 9, 2013 12:08:04 GMT -7
At,least for the present. Don't know what tomorrow will bring.
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Post by Timber Butte Outdoors on Dec 9, 2013 12:55:05 GMT -7
Gary, You have been around. lol. Most folks now don't know what you are talking about if you mention X-Checker. I have keys to ranches on that side of the valley around Knights Ferry, LaGrange, Hornitos and Snelling. You would probably know the location of some of them. rimrock, You are right about being around alot. My favorite areas were Sonora, Jamestown, Angels Camp, Greeley Hill (my Grandpa and I would hunt squirrels in the Greeley Hill area), Grandpa and I killed a blacktail buck in the X-Checker reservoir, it was swimming across the lake, and we intercepted it, I had a tag, and it was season! Just on a State Park property, OOOOoooops!! I learned to flyfish at LaGrange, in the Tuolumne River, and up the Tuolumne River at Strawberry Reservoir. But it has been many years since I have been there, I wouldn't recall or remember much about the place anymore. It has been 30 some years. Just memories now! Thank you for posting them! Gary |
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Post by earthwalker on Dec 9, 2013 16:35:03 GMT -7
1972 it was -20 in Idaho. Think it went to -25 that week. I know every tractor and car was froze for a day or two.
Would love to see 37 right now.
Good job rimrock.
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Post by Rimrock on Dec 9, 2013 17:32:13 GMT -7
Gary,
I was walking some of that country in the mid 50's so I am sure that you have walked in some of my tracks and in the last 30 years I have walked in some of yours. I spent a lot of time at a little higher elevation, in the Cherry Valley Dardanelle country. Most of that Cherry country burned last September. 250 thousand acres plus.
Earthwalker,
Right on. In 1972 I lived at Meridian and saw -24F. The duck hunting on the Boise river was pretty good that day.
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Post by earthwalker on Dec 11, 2013 14:51:12 GMT -7
Just 250k acres up in smoke?
Lost over a million acres on our coyote line last year.
Lost one of the marten line in another 100k plus fire.
Had a couple more fires on the coyote line again this year. They missed some sagebrush.
Will never see it come back in my lifetime.
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