The city of Boulder, CO has always been a safe haven for liberals and bleeding hearts, but this story literally made me LOL (did I just say that?!) as the city has now also become a safe haven for coyotes! Boulder has been plagued recently by coyotes, several of which have been quite aggressive, which has left city officials searching for a solution. "Oh geez, what should we do about all of these aggressive coyotes?" Well, I think that I have a pretty good solution, but let's throw logic out the window and throw tennis balls at the coyotes instead, which Grand View Outdoors reports is just part of the passive solution that the city is enforcing as a way to "haze" the coyotes into not liking humans: http://www.grandviewoutdoors.com/predator-hunting/articlecontent/1/2013/4557/coyote-hazing-program-under-way-in-boulder. And if you think that's funny, read the whole story over at the Daily Camera: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_22402955/boulders-coyote-hazing-sees-eventful-first-day-new.
What is our country coming to? Sheesh.
Happy Hunting!
Monday, January 28, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
First fox turns into a triple fox!
A former Coyote Clinic student emailed me this story and pictures last week, and I wanted to share it because it's such an awesome story! He has been working on getting a gray fox for a while, and with a change of tactics and sounds that he picked up in the Coyote Clinic, he was able to not just get 1 fox, but get 3 within 48 seconds! I'll let Justin tell his full story:
Well I finally broke my curse and killed my first fox! It was the final stand of the morning and I decided to sit in a wash at the mouth of two smalll canyons. I set up the ecaller about 15 yards away from me and played some various birds in distress calls with no luck. At the 9 min mark I switched to Screaming Grey and within seconds saw a flash of something in the brush. A few seconds after that and there was a nice sized fox 30 yards away focused on the caller. I shot him with my 870 using #4 buck and he dropped. I quickly changed the sound to fox in distress and moments later a second fox showed up on the other side of the wash. He saw me turn towards him and he sprinted, I took a running broadside shot and he rolled. Turns out I had in error grabbed some 7.5 bird shot but at 16 yards it was plenty to make a humane kill. Well by now I felt like getting up and doing a victory dance but decided to change the sound to fox/rabbit and really push it. I am so glad I did becuase seconds later a third fox shows up and just stands there staring at the call wondering why it's not furry while I take aim and blast him. All total I went from 0 foxes to 3 foxes in 48 seconds! It was a rush!
I want to thank Glen (Rizzo) for the tips he gave me on hunting fox. He is the reason I switched to different fox vocalizations and kept calling after the first shot. I had heard that before but until I heard it from him I never really believed they would keep coming in.
Well I finally broke my curse and killed my first fox! It was the final stand of the morning and I decided to sit in a wash at the mouth of two smalll canyons. I set up the ecaller about 15 yards away from me and played some various birds in distress calls with no luck. At the 9 min mark I switched to Screaming Grey and within seconds saw a flash of something in the brush. A few seconds after that and there was a nice sized fox 30 yards away focused on the caller. I shot him with my 870 using #4 buck and he dropped. I quickly changed the sound to fox in distress and moments later a second fox showed up on the other side of the wash. He saw me turn towards him and he sprinted, I took a running broadside shot and he rolled. Turns out I had in error grabbed some 7.5 bird shot but at 16 yards it was plenty to make a humane kill. Well by now I felt like getting up and doing a victory dance but decided to change the sound to fox/rabbit and really push it. I am so glad I did becuase seconds later a third fox shows up and just stands there staring at the call wondering why it's not furry while I take aim and blast him. All total I went from 0 foxes to 3 foxes in 48 seconds! It was a rush!
I want to thank Glen (Rizzo) for the tips he gave me on hunting fox. He is the reason I switched to different fox vocalizations and kept calling after the first shot. I had heard that before but until I heard it from him I never really believed they would keep coming in.
Thanks for the story and pictures, Justin!
Happy Hunting!
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