augnmike
12-22-2006, 12:03 PM
Well I met Soreloser at about 1:00 pm for a few day stands in the desert yesterday. We did a little scouting and then made a coyote stand with no luck although Soreloser did check his zero on a jack at about two hundred yards, right on. wink.gif
Nest stand we set up in an unbelievable wash that gave us a view out to 500 yards. There was dog sign everywhere and this was not "cat country" so we were expecting to get a good coyote response to the wailing FX3. Eleven minutes into Lightening Jack I see movement, its another jack rabbit (saw five while SL was setting the decoy and the call) but behind it was a bobcat coming in at a trot. I made a low clicking sound and SL knew something was coming but couldn't see due the angle. I followed the cat from about 180 yards to 140 yards, he stopped twice along the way to check out the sounds and decoy. On his second stop at 140 I put one in the boiler room. He ran about twenty yards and piled up. Man what a surprise that was! First daytime bobcat for me.
We went to get a celebratory steak sandwich, gassed up, put on warmer clothes and headed out for some night work. Things got off to a real bad start for sure, we were calling in eyes but angles were bad and communication as always is a challenge. I shot at a fox at 194 lasered yards, we had a good meat report so we spent a half hour looking nothing found. SL had a dubious shot at the fox and no luck as well. We had a brief disussion about getting our sh!t together and then got down to business. Next stand we lit up a cat that hung up at about 300 yards. SL decided to take the Maglite/shotgun combo and go on foot with me on the 6-volt behind him. He got close to it but at the end it took off with a load of fours following it away. I went back to the furbucket still carrying the running FX3 which was on Coaxer shut it off and waited while lip squeaking. At the truck I swept the area and found eyes, after finally getting the light, my sticks and the rifle in concert I dropped the first gray fox and the stink was off. SL came back the truck and couldn't believe I had scored on my own working the call, sticks, light and gun.
Next stand SL doubles on gray's thirty seconds apart. We then proceed to score on the next five stands as well. We had six consecutive stands with animals in the bag. Talk about on fire!
We got so accustomed to seeing eyes and hearing meat reports. On our last stand, SL on the light, we got eyes within five minutes again. It was coming really fast, like all the foxes do. I could not see eyes in the scope after the intial sighting but caught movement a couple times as it came in. It hit the trail in front of us and I saw it briefly again but lost it behind a bush. Eventually I thought I saw it on the road with my naked eye and it was sitting down next to the trail. I quickly put my scope on the chest and fired, big meat report, bang flop. We headed down in the vehicle to get the last fox of the night but guess what, not a fox, my second bobcat of the day/night. We were beside ourselves at that point. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/banana-man-yeah.gif
Took quick pics and then headed home. Epic night in California, I understand they have some ok predator hunting in Texas as well. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley_rotflmao.gif
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Nest stand we set up in an unbelievable wash that gave us a view out to 500 yards. There was dog sign everywhere and this was not "cat country" so we were expecting to get a good coyote response to the wailing FX3. Eleven minutes into Lightening Jack I see movement, its another jack rabbit (saw five while SL was setting the decoy and the call) but behind it was a bobcat coming in at a trot. I made a low clicking sound and SL knew something was coming but couldn't see due the angle. I followed the cat from about 180 yards to 140 yards, he stopped twice along the way to check out the sounds and decoy. On his second stop at 140 I put one in the boiler room. He ran about twenty yards and piled up. Man what a surprise that was! First daytime bobcat for me.
We went to get a celebratory steak sandwich, gassed up, put on warmer clothes and headed out for some night work. Things got off to a real bad start for sure, we were calling in eyes but angles were bad and communication as always is a challenge. I shot at a fox at 194 lasered yards, we had a good meat report so we spent a half hour looking nothing found. SL had a dubious shot at the fox and no luck as well. We had a brief disussion about getting our sh!t together and then got down to business. Next stand we lit up a cat that hung up at about 300 yards. SL decided to take the Maglite/shotgun combo and go on foot with me on the 6-volt behind him. He got close to it but at the end it took off with a load of fours following it away. I went back to the furbucket still carrying the running FX3 which was on Coaxer shut it off and waited while lip squeaking. At the truck I swept the area and found eyes, after finally getting the light, my sticks and the rifle in concert I dropped the first gray fox and the stink was off. SL came back the truck and couldn't believe I had scored on my own working the call, sticks, light and gun.
Next stand SL doubles on gray's thirty seconds apart. We then proceed to score on the next five stands as well. We had six consecutive stands with animals in the bag. Talk about on fire!
We got so accustomed to seeing eyes and hearing meat reports. On our last stand, SL on the light, we got eyes within five minutes again. It was coming really fast, like all the foxes do. I could not see eyes in the scope after the intial sighting but caught movement a couple times as it came in. It hit the trail in front of us and I saw it briefly again but lost it behind a bush. Eventually I thought I saw it on the road with my naked eye and it was sitting down next to the trail. I quickly put my scope on the chest and fired, big meat report, bang flop. We headed down in the vehicle to get the last fox of the night but guess what, not a fox, my second bobcat of the day/night. We were beside ourselves at that point. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/banana-man-yeah.gif
Took quick pics and then headed home. Epic night in California, I understand they have some ok predator hunting in Texas as well. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley_rotflmao.gif
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