trackin seems impossible but we caught a break

[Slimpickens]

#13 for us this year

If it hadn't been above zero with the windchill on Sunday here in Minnesota, we probably wouldn't have hunted. We were itching to get out and did have one spotted but it was a section we didn't really want to hunt so we free casted into a new section to try it out. There were plenty of coyote tracks but the dogs were not interested in any of them and we didn't blame them with the tracking conditions as of late. There were deer tracks like crazy and we did jump close to 20 deer. A young dog trigger kept opening up in a chunk of woods but we figured he was on a deer because it was the first time out for him this year due to injury and he had a deer problem last year. Just as we were trying to leave the section and find Trigger, a coyote was spotted and trigger was right behind it! He took it north a mile and then west a ways and then back south a mile where it held up in a slough. Trigger made a loss and the other dogs we had in the section couldn't figure it out either. We had a good idea where he was hiding so i brought molly, our most reliable dog down to the slough and she couldn't get it going so i fired some warning shots and that spooked it out and was shot just outside the slough by a poster. The dogs still couldn't follow the track after it was jumped. We wanted the dogs to finish the track out to the dead coyote but they just couldn't. That told us how tough the tracking was if our best dogs couldn't figure it out. We gotta give a lot of props to Trigger for getting it going and sticking with it. We might have a good up and coming dog!

[burnin tail]

Good job slim,sounds like a fun day.