About 1961 we got to hunting the red fox which had a $5.00 bounty on them then. We used the 410 with slugs and dads model 94 in 30-30. I had bought a Oilt rabbit squealer call for that.
By the 60's the bounty system ended and so did our paid hunting for varmints. But the3 ever present wood chucks in farmers fields presented a new money maker as they would pay us a few dollars for every one we cleaned off the farm. Both my brother and I bought 243's for this, I got mine first a Remington 700 BDL and Rob got his later a Winchester model 70. He put what we thought was a monster scope on his a 4x12.
By the late 70's we still hunted but earning money was not foremost on our minds we discovered sweet smelling women were nice to spend time with.
Fast forward to the 1980's Brother got married at beginning of decade I waited till 1985. Bought my deer camp in Michigan's UP and hunted till almost 2000 before we seen or heard coyotes around there. By 2003 we were shooting them a lot when we would go up in Oct scouting using my old oilt call.
2oo6 I built my home made caller used a apple shuffle to hold the calls a real expensive bit of junk for that perpous. Really no way of selecting a certain sound and you needed I tunes to load the sound to it. A sanza clip is much better.
And as Of Tuesday a new ICO tec GC350 has joined my equipment pile, along with the 220 Swift and that old Remington 243. My last hunting partner passed away in 2005 so these days I tend to do a bunch of coyote hunting alone.
So that is a little of my back ground varmint hunting.
Al
Al
