On our second stand my hunting partner was calling upwind of me and I was on top of a hill watching our backside and a draw on each side of me. After about 15-20 min. of calling, my buddy gets up and starts walking toward me. Little did he know that for the past 5 min. or so I had been watching three coyotes coming in from about 3/4 mile out; so I signal him to sit back down and keep calling. After a few minutes I see two heads peaking around a soap-weed about 50 yards away from me. I get one in my sights and pull the trigger. CLICK.
What's going on?! I swear I put a shell in the chamber 
I pull back the bolt thing (my first time shooting a Colt AR-15) and a shell pops out. SO, there WAS a shell in the chamber, maybe it was just a bad primer. In the mean time, the three coyotes actually came in CLOSER to me at an angle, stopping every so often to give me a shot. Turns out, the gun I borrowed from my friend was gummed up from the cold and wouldn't fire right. He doesn't oil his guns, so try to figure out how it gummed up 
Aw well, there were no shots fired, so we decided to try to chase them down on our next stand. The next stand didn't produce any of the coyotes he had seen a few minutes prior.Two stands after that, we get set up looking over a huge tract of land. My hunting buddy howls a couple of times, and gets 3-4 in a pack to howl back. Nothing showed up for that stand, so off to the next stand we go! We take a quick break on the side of a hill to catch our breath, and my friend see's a coyote laying down with his/her head up 250-350 yards away. He tries to tell me where it's at, but I can't find it. I trade back guns with him so he has the working gun. He takes the shot and kills it. We go in for the un-armed retrieval, and we get there and the coyote is still breathing. Here we are with no gun and a coyote still kickin'. Standing on her chest worked out pretty well. This one had big hole in the top/back part of her neck from the shot and had mange, so we left her there. A couple fruitless stands later and we're back at a friend's house eating some homemade vegetable-hamburger soup. Good stuff!
The next mornin' we head out around 8:30. The first two stands produce nothing, but the third stand got really interesting. It had been about 20 minutes and we were about ready to pack out to our next stand. My buddy lip-squeaks me and motions head out. Just as I'm getting ready to stand up he lip-squeaks me again and says there's some waaay up on a hill across from us. We were almost at the bottom of a small creek-eroded valley and to the top of the hill where the coyotes were was 1000+ yards. I do my best at a cotton-tail distress on my howler and here come those FOUR coyotes RUNNING down the hill! They probably saw my friend's dogs after I got their attention with the rabbit call, so they were coming HARD. We sit and watch the coyotes run to withing 250-300 yards and then the dogs took off after them. The dogs only ran about 25 yards or so and stopped, and the coyotes took off up a slough. I've never hunted coyotes with dogs before, so I was bummed out that all the coyotes ran off. One of them booked it back up the hill we saw them run down moments before. A couple seconds later, I spy a coyote peaking it's head over a small hill. My friend had been lip-squeaking this whole time, trying to get the coyotes to come back and give us another look. I get this coyote in my cross-hairs and pull the trigger. BOOM! the AR-15 worked today, but I must have pulled the trigger instead of squeezing or been shaky or something. It's hard shooting a gun you haven't shot more than 7 rounds through. After I shot, my friend shot one that was headed back up the hill and dropped it. We got up to it and it was nice looking. About a 2 year old male. We found a fence post and skinned him out. I had a test today to study for, so we headed back to the pickup (which was stuck and took some effort to pull out
) and headed home. All together over about 24 hours we saw 9 coyotes and shot 3. What a weekend!Do you think the one coyote of those four that headed up the hill right away might have been a female?
shooter, you need to get a gun and stick with it !!!!! 
but sounds like you had fun and learned a few things 
