Was sitting in a picked cornfield about 50 yds from a tree line waiting for a deer at around 5 this morning, full moon, beautiful sunrise, was behind a hunting blind, all wrapped up, rifle on lap, hands in thick mittens, from off to my right comes a large coyote at a fast pace. He was parallel to me before I could get hands out of mittens and rifle up, he saw movement, was gone gone gone. I shook my head, wasn't there to shoot coyotes anyway. Ten minutes later another one comes on the same line as the last but slower. I was ready, hit him at about 60 yds with a 150g sp 30-30, he spun and ran, stopped after ten yds, I hit him again. He went down but was far from giving up. I took out my backup pistol (Wather PP .32)and shot him in the head. Didn't phase him. Next shot in the ear did phase him. I dragged him to the truck, reorganized my stuff, got my climbing stand and went about a half mile in the woods, found a very suitable opening with an overlooking pine tree, went up thirty feet and got comfortable. After about an hour and a half I heard a deer coming, large doe, stepped out at about 75 yds. One shot to the chest, she didn't move. Finally got her out of the woods and to my truck, just finished packing up the venison and putting it in the freezer. Not a bad day. This is my second deer in a week, I'm done for the season. I will be back tomorrow after the coyotes.
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