day before my birthday pete calls says hey- you up for a hunt man we got this place baited up like gangbusters. I jump up and grab my gun, camo suit, flashlight make a sandwich load the atv hitch the trailer and I'm off for homer.
When I get there it was already 6 we hung around and set up shop. They had culled a goat that was getting violent with the new babies, cut what they wanted off it and left it in the field between his farm and the neighbors property which isn't a farm I don't think but the owner said yeah, come on in I hear them every night. We slap the goat in the field and split. They had been laying dead chicks from their die off all day in strategic spots so it looked good. I needed two more to fill my quota, I'm like this is gonna be a good night- clear skies, warm enough it's on.
Pete didn't even get to the road outside when he sees one stop by the fences. He shot it from the truck BAM! there's one down. Good size too.
It turns dark and we hear them, sounds like a pack high on the property and two smaller groups at the neighbors. We decided to split up- I'll go back behind the farm and see about that group back there, you guys go up to the hill and set up on em. Started our CB's and off I ride.
I get to their badass natural blind they set up and I hunker down for a spell. I can hear them doing distressed fawn call every ten minutes or so. I hear the group I'm after getting closer. I have this atomic beam 13,000 lumen tac light and I hear them quiet down all of a sudden. I turn it on and pan it around sure enough- blue eyes. They aren't turning away they look at me and back down to the ground- they got something. YIPE YIPE YIPE! I'm like oh shit it's a trap! I wait and watch yep- one is caught in a leghold. I get adrenalized.
There's another one hesitating to leave the other so I'm left with like do I shoot it, do I go hack it in the head with a cane knife so I don't screw pete's groove across the way what am I doing? Hell. I raise the barrel of the SX3 and pop off three rounds. It's a definite hit on the trapped one. A second or two later I hear the boys open fire, I mean every round.
I went ahead and got the yote out of the trap and set it back up and go back to the blind to get my stuff. The radio hisses. "Yo man you there?"
I go over and grab the handset "yeah man got me one" he replies "we just saw like ten of em we got some."
About ten minutes later I get another call. I answer. "Hey man we can't find shit we got blood but we can't see shit there's mist all over the field. I assure I'll be right over.
I get up there and start riding around with my high beams- we can see a whole world over their old flashlights and hat bill lights. They point me at it and I start riding around. There's one. Oh there's another. What's that? OH! another one. It was a champ. It even cut through fog and ground level mist to the point where spotting them from my seat was easy. While I collected them on the front rack they started getting piled up pete goes look look look there...
We look there's several way off watching us near the treeline. beady little eyes. Apparently when I shot the one several lurking in the field picked their heads up from their goat and the boys slammed em. Pete remarked that if I wasn't there they wouldn't have found nothing till the next day. 48 bucks if you got amazon prime. He's sold. We started wondering if they can't be ordered or the lenses modified to red.
Well more good news I got my quota filled and turned in, past two trips up were skunked but we did it! I owe it to those headlights. And not only that an ATV is supposed to be a utility vehicle, that's why I own it to be a horse. I gotta say that's some utility. It has it all, 28hp, a winch, a radio, gear bags, a toolbox under the front rack and now those wildly powerful lights. Pete wants me to help him get his ATV running again and dress it up like that. It's all about those LED 3k cool white kits baby.
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When I get there it was already 6 we hung around and set up shop. They had culled a goat that was getting violent with the new babies, cut what they wanted off it and left it in the field between his farm and the neighbors property which isn't a farm I don't think but the owner said yeah, come on in I hear them every night. We slap the goat in the field and split. They had been laying dead chicks from their die off all day in strategic spots so it looked good. I needed two more to fill my quota, I'm like this is gonna be a good night- clear skies, warm enough it's on.
Pete didn't even get to the road outside when he sees one stop by the fences. He shot it from the truck BAM! there's one down. Good size too.
It turns dark and we hear them, sounds like a pack high on the property and two smaller groups at the neighbors. We decided to split up- I'll go back behind the farm and see about that group back there, you guys go up to the hill and set up on em. Started our CB's and off I ride.
I get to their badass natural blind they set up and I hunker down for a spell. I can hear them doing distressed fawn call every ten minutes or so. I hear the group I'm after getting closer. I have this atomic beam 13,000 lumen tac light and I hear them quiet down all of a sudden. I turn it on and pan it around sure enough- blue eyes. They aren't turning away they look at me and back down to the ground- they got something. YIPE YIPE YIPE! I'm like oh shit it's a trap! I wait and watch yep- one is caught in a leghold. I get adrenalized.
There's another one hesitating to leave the other so I'm left with like do I shoot it, do I go hack it in the head with a cane knife so I don't screw pete's groove across the way what am I doing? Hell. I raise the barrel of the SX3 and pop off three rounds. It's a definite hit on the trapped one. A second or two later I hear the boys open fire, I mean every round.
I went ahead and got the yote out of the trap and set it back up and go back to the blind to get my stuff. The radio hisses. "Yo man you there?"
I go over and grab the handset "yeah man got me one" he replies "we just saw like ten of em we got some."
About ten minutes later I get another call. I answer. "Hey man we can't find shit we got blood but we can't see shit there's mist all over the field. I assure I'll be right over.
I get up there and start riding around with my high beams- we can see a whole world over their old flashlights and hat bill lights. They point me at it and I start riding around. There's one. Oh there's another. What's that? OH! another one. It was a champ. It even cut through fog and ground level mist to the point where spotting them from my seat was easy. While I collected them on the front rack they started getting piled up pete goes look look look there...
We look there's several way off watching us near the treeline. beady little eyes. Apparently when I shot the one several lurking in the field picked their heads up from their goat and the boys slammed em. Pete remarked that if I wasn't there they wouldn't have found nothing till the next day. 48 bucks if you got amazon prime. He's sold. We started wondering if they can't be ordered or the lenses modified to red.
Well more good news I got my quota filled and turned in, past two trips up were skunked but we did it! I owe it to those headlights. And not only that an ATV is supposed to be a utility vehicle, that's why I own it to be a horse. I gotta say that's some utility. It has it all, 28hp, a winch, a radio, gear bags, a toolbox under the front rack and now those wildly powerful lights. Pete wants me to help him get his ATV running again and dress it up like that. It's all about those LED 3k cool white kits baby.
