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Finally got a break from calving heifers and the weather yestterday afternoon so I went out and made three stands. The first stand, I snuck in on a yote about 1/4 mile out. I snuck ina s close as I could and watched with my binocs for about 5 min and tried to squeek him in with no response. Next I took out my custom by me howler and through out an interrogation howl and got a nice lone howl answer back. I asnswered back with a lone howl and got him coming my way. He came in to about 250 yards(just a guess, as I don't own arange finder) sat down and howled again. This went on for about 5 minutes, he'ld howl I'ld howl. This is where I completely blew the whole deal. Instead of trying to challenge him at this point,I looked on my lanyard and saw that I had my trusty old Dan Thompson Weems Cotton Tail call. Now, people around my part of Wyoming have been telling me not to use distress calls during mating and denning seasons. I now know the reason why they say that. I no more than got started real light and soft so as not to spook him out of the country, when Mr Coyote took out of there on a dead run headed for freakin Canada. Needless to say my next 2 stands did not produce another oppurtunity. If any of you guys up north see a yote going past at full speed, don't use your Dan Thompson Weems Call. It scares the living crap out of him!!!!!!

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When you howled at him and he came in, he was expecting to see another coyote. When you have him within 300 yards you should hopefully know your gun good enough to make a bang flop shot while he was jsut sittin there Patience is a virtue sometimes when coyote hunting. When you sit there and are patient sometimes only howl that once his curiousity alone will more than likely get him killed.

Yeah. I know. I have shot the same gun for 7 years and I am sure I could have made the shot. But I am a dumb ass and just like to see if I can get them into shotgun range. Just one of those moments when you were glad no one else was there. These dogs are really close to going to the hole right now and I hope to get my redemption then.

I hear ya i have had some of those "lets see how close he will come in" like i'm making a video or something when in the end i wish i would have just lit the fire and been dragging fur!

That is not being a Dumb A$$!!!!!!!!!! , Now if you do it again then you can Call youself a Dumb A$$!!!!!!!!!!
We Learn from Mistakes we make!!!!!