The Adventures of Rizzo: Coyote Clinic Graduate Drops First Coyote

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Coyote Clinic Graduate Drops First Coyote

One of the Coyote Clinic Graduates shot me over a text message last week with this message and this picture:

"Finally got a coyote. 85 yards. Straight through the chest. Only problem is I'm supposed to be deer hunting."

I shot him back a message asking for more details, and got this this response and another picture of the closeup shot in the chest - nice shot!

"Called him in. Was sitting for deer and a herd of cattle shows up. Decided to blow on the call a little."

Fantastic! He must have remembered what we teach in Coyote Clinic: where there are cattle, there are coyotes.

Excellent job, Brice!

Happy Hunting!

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In our emasculate age, it is considered uncouth to confess to anything resembling a killer instinct. Yet such a thing does exist, and it is worth study. It is fashionable to protest that one does not hunt in order to kill, as with Ortega y Gasset, yet if one does not kill, hunting is emotionally unsatisfying. This is why some people hunt and others do not. I think it is ingenuous to protest that the killer instinct is evil. Man is a carnivorous predator - you have but to look to his teeth - and though very few men now need to hunt for their food, a good many men do need to hunt for emotional fulfillment. This is not evil. It is as natural as the enjoyment of good food, great art, and fine music. To deny this is simply to look foolish. I know many shooters who are not hunters, and I do not think less of them for this. I know a surprising number of hunters who are not shooters, and while I think this is peculiar, I do not think it is wicked. I must admit that today in my declining years my bloodlust has slackened, but this has no moral significance for me. Even today I hunt whenever I can, and I often play catch-and-release by snapping in on an empty chamber. The fact remains, however, that there is such a thing as a killer instinct, and it is neither to be extolled nor condemned. In my own family there are those who are true killers and those who are not, and I love them equally. Judging from my own experience (which is a thing one never ought to do) I feel that those without the killer instinct lead somewhat diminished lives, as do people who are tone deaf or color blind, but I think we should drop psychological pretense in this matter, and face facts as they are. I happen to relish chili very much, but I do not demand that you do. It is not a moral issue. - Col. Jeff Cooper
We do not 'harvest' or 'take' or 'reduce to possession' in our sport. We kill. Dress it up anyway you want, but we pursue white-tailed deer with the intent of ending their lives. - Walt Hampton
Personal field testing trumps everything despite what Field and Stream says, your degree of perceived manhood, and what your buddies think. - Greg Williams
The Woods were my Ritalin. – Richard Louv

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