Lone tree

[JohnOD]

With the first real snow of the season on the ground I set my alarm to 4:15 AM last night. Just before daylight this morning I was nestled up against a tree at a spot I call "Lone Tree". I discovered Lone Tree ~20 years ago. The first coyote I harvested there fell to a 6.5MM 120 Ballistic Tip fired from a 6.5JDJ TC Contender. Since then myself and several other close friends have taken dozens more at Lone Tree. I would say 95% of the times I've called there Coyotes come to the call... on time we had a five pack come in! I don't coyote hunt as much as I used to and for the last four or five years only hunt that particular spot once or twice a year. I'm convinced that the lack of pressure (along with good numbers of dogs) goes a long way to keeping Lone Tree as productive as it is.

Back to this morning I set the Fox Pro forty yards to the north and figured with a westerly breeze the coyotes would circle down wind like they usually do. It was not the case this time. This dog came in like he was on a string and by the time I was set up for the shot he was circling the juniper tree I had set the call in.

This time the 120 B-T was launched from my AR-15 Grendel. First shot was through the lungs and as he bit at his side I hammered him in the shoulder a second later with an unnecessary finisher. I Love Lone Tree

[parallax]

Good shootin'!
As soon as deer season is over in South Carolina we're going to work on our yote population. I have the same call.

[LRRPF52]

Great post. Any pics of the exits? We have a $50 per jawbone incentive here in Utah, so I need to get out and blast them.

[Whelenon]

Nice

[JohnOD]

Great post. Any pics of the exits? We have a $50 per jawbone incentive here in Utah, so I need to get out and blast them.

No exit pics of today's yote. Here's an exit from a 120 B-Tip on a Pronghorn I took with the Grendel several years ago. The entry was quartering to me on the point of the right shoulder. The exit was in front of the left hip. Lots of bone fragments/blood shot meat in the shoulder.

Estimated impact velocity was 2,250 FPS

[sneaky one]

John, great looking rifle, nice dog on the ground. The 120 nos is accurate, and deadly. That pronghorn shot looks bad-for chow. I'm going lead free for most meat hunts. 100 & 120 nos bt for varmints!

[txgunner00]

Nice shooting. I can't wait to do some varminting myself next week.

[JohnOD]

I shot that Pronghorn on a warm day in a basin without a stitch of shade in sight

After tagging & gutted him I packed him out whole, head, hide, hooves & all. Once he was at the truck I drove to an aspen thicket and got him hanging in the shade and got the meat cut up and iced down in a large cooler I had ready with blocks of ice in it. I had plenty of fresh water to rinse the stomach contents off the meat. Eating wise it was some of the best game meat we've ever had. My S.O. Marina has eaten deer, elk, moose, caribou, and a few others and she claimed it was the best wild game she had ever eaten. I've here people all the time say things like "I wouldn’t feed antelope to my dog", etc. but the four I've eaten have all been excellent. The typically hot weather there harvested in really requires getting the meat cooled ASAP.

[Smoke]

JohnOD .
great story and good Shooting .. I have shot 2 yotes this year while deer hunting
Hope to get some more..
Good hunting to you !!!

[sneaky one]

Nice pronghorn, better tasting than venison ?

[sureshot]

Great post. Any pics of the exits? We have a $50 per jawbone incentive here in Utah, so I need to get out and blast them.

Where do you claim that at?

[JohnOD]

Nice pronghorn, better tasting than venison ?

Sneaky I have to say pronghorn one of my favorites. The blacktail buck I shot last month is good too... I guess its kinda like AR's... varity is the spice of life