I was able to put a dog down last friday night in the full moon. I had just gotten home from the grocery store at about 7:30pm and as I was standing in the driveway I could hear a pack of yotes carrying on just on the other side of the highway. I thought to myself for a minute whether I should pursue. It had been a snowy day and I was fairly tired. I remembered I had just gotten a new C-bad call from my cuz, so put the groceries on the garage floor, grabbed the call, snowshoes, white camo, and the hornet. I put my crap in a duffel bag and carried it till I was a safe distance away from the neighborhood. I crossed a footbridge over the river, ditched the bag under the highway overpass, crossed under the road, and hiked to the top of the hill where I thought the critters were. I was right, cuz there were tracks along the top of the ridge. I found a nice depression in the snow to hide in which overlooked the rest of the ridge and the river bottom. After just sitting a while looking, listening, and waiting for my scope to defog after I had blown the snow off the lenses, I pulled out the C-bad. I made a very short sequence, maybe 10 seconds, and FOUR coyotes came racing out of the river bottom. They climbed the steep bank up to the ridge in nothing flat. Pretty soon the lead dog was in my crosshairs at about 25 yds. .22 hornet dropped him like a ton of bricks. I was unable to connect with a follow up shot on one of the other dogs as they were in the process of getting the hell out of dodge. But by the time I got back to the house with that big dog, I was really glad I hadn't gotten another one. This was one of the coolest experiences I have had predator calling to date. It was just one of those times where I felt like I had done a really good job with the sneaking in, making a set up etc... It was fun. No night vision or lights involved, just a bright moon and totally snow covered landscape. Only thing I wished I had remembered was the damn camera.

awesome story! i hope i can have some success this weekend after the bitter cold has past. i just don't like the thought of sitting in a snow bank with -35 degrees windchills!

Way to go!

CJ- had a moonlite xperience myself, what a hoot !! November full moon, my wife and I both set up in bed @ 2 AM and said "did you hear that- hes' close !! He continued to bark , giving me time to slip to the basement and grab the 12 ga/4 buck and slip out onto the deck. When it come out from the pine tree I shot him !! 65 yds it was. We have lost our fowl and cats quite often. When it snowed 1" in oct. one came to the garage door, continued under the deck and out to the pasture. Taint hard to tell a coyote tract from a domestic dog. p.d.s and callin cyotes is our passion on the plains of co. JC

great story copperjohn