Dog Days of Summer
The hog's diet is changing as soft mass fruits are falling everywhere and the outdoors is beginning to be filled with the noise of vocal young coyotes at night. My notes from last year indicated that my hog numbers fell slightly last August but my coyote numbers started growing again so I threw my CS24C in the truck just in case.
The hogs were scattered and my trail cameras proved that and I started hearing vocal coyotes at multiple sights so I headed to a large field I had called coyotes into before. I had spent most of the night after swine so a quick hunt was worth the chance and it didn't take long to howl in two young coyotes, one of which fell to the 308 Hog Hunter from Savage topped with an ATN THOR 4 1.5-5x 384 which is ATN's entry level thermal. I scan with the ATN OTS THOR-HD 2-8 and it's really all you need for these young coyotes that charge right in to the call.
On this set I used the Swagger Bipod which mounts to the gun rather than carry my big set up.
Young , dumb coyotes are my favorite and I heard more as I was loading the truck up at the end of the night.
Now may be a good time in SC to switch up to the plentiful numbers of coyotes. Another great advantage of keeping up with last years totals to remind you of patterns from the past.
Please check out my hunt videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/Mailman29680
No comments:
Post a Comment