Our luck changed!

[bull_357]

Our luck finally changed this weekend. We have had some great runs and some not so great runs over the last five weekends, but no matter how good or bad the run was we never ended up getting the coyote. This weekend we hunted one of our favorite spots with our usual crew and hounds. We cold trailed one out with our two best cold trailers in the morning off of a set of 4 tracks and they lost it at a road. They then continued on and found another coyote. The coyotes we started off with in the morning had one of the males barking back at the hounds while they were cold trailing so we tried to get some more hounds in on him. We got that one jumped with Lady, Envy, and Snow. They chased this one for about 2 hours and then the other two that went off on their own in the morning came back in and joined in on the fun. At this time we had already had a few chances to take it, but the people seeing it were out of range with their weapon. They did say it was a very dark or black coyote though. They ended up splitting into two chases and two of our females took the one coyote across a hard road into another big valley we hunt. We got some dogs fetched up and headed over to them. We added in storm, snow, blitz, and another guy added in his Sport dog into the chase. The two hounds that were originally in on the chase for a few hours fell behind the fresh young hounds all under 2 ½ years of age and the chase was really on. One guy saw the coyote near a road while trying to head it off and said it was a big black coyote. Somehow in the middle of all the ciaos they switched off to a female they brought right by me. I couldn’t see it because of the thick pines, but I could tell the young hounds were sight chasing the female. I haven’t heard hounds open up like that in a long time. They made one more half circle right to where the big black one was seen and a guy ended the chase with a 12 gauge shooting Wingmaster HD. Ended up being a 3 footed small female probably about 25-27 pounds. She was missing her front right foot from the dew claw down. We are guessing a trap since the wound was very fresh. The dogs got separated with the shots and picked up the big male again they ran him for another hour or so down into a small trailer park in a town where they mixed in with a bunch of domestic dogs and lost the track. We rounded up the hounds and headed back home. It was a good long run from about 630 am to 300 pm on and off different coyotes throughout the day.

The coyote check out the foot


Polecat and Barbie


Polecat our throat dog


The group HOUNDRUNNER is the one on the far left with the white hat


Me and some of the group

[Hounder-]

Good story, congrats!

[NYCOYOTEHOUNDS]

good job fellas

[Dan Edwards]

Nice work.