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...coyote killing update.

As stated in a prior post I closed out stating that a follow up on the coyote kill mission will be posted.

Beautiful bright moonlight lighting up a good length of the escarpment plateu making it more visible through the thinning foliage of bush, every silhouette of leafless branch between me and the top of the escarpment where the coyotes run are perfectly delineated in a type of morbid definition, like a backdrop scene for a "House of Dark Shadows" movie set.

It was a gorgeous night...and I stayed in position until about 03.00hrs. Not once did the bears have a sense of uneasiness, completely relaxed. When they pick up a scent of another bear they tree the cubs immediately until parameters are set. With coyotes, when a bear picks up a scent, 15minutes away (1-1.5miles) they completely leave the area.

Earlier yesterday evening the coyotes could be heard in the distance, last couple days they were spread out across the plateu in a crescent and stay silent, the male bears aren't bothered, the coyotes are interested only in the young cubs.

When they got a fix on a target the yapping and howling begins and because of their formation they create a confusing situation in which a lone runner will barrel right through the family of bears beginning the process of separating the targeted cub from the brood.

Tonight everyone was relaxed and no coyotes showed up thus depriving me of a kill.

But later today I've got squirrels to knock off with the .22 Henry Golden Boy