Anyone Coyote hunt with the carbine?

[painter777]

Soon after I posted this last night I was putting my boots on out in the garage and could hear the ducks and the geese beyond them. I hadn't heard any scattered coyotes far off, which I still often do even when the ducks and geese are noisy. When I was about half way back it sounded like all H3ll broke loose. By the time I covered the other 50~yards I couldn't hear anymore water splashing, ducks or geese. But I could hear the underbrush cracking and popping. I stood at the gate looking down on the river and the low land across it with my night vision scanning for about 15 minutes, not seeing anything. The sounds were coming from the 1'0 clock from me, back maybe 30' in the high grass and twisted dead brush that gets deposited from high water. Current flows from my right to left and in this spot when the water level is low a finger comes out pointing down river to the left. Above the finger the water backs in there like a small bay that the ducks often gather in to get out of the current. Surrounding this 'Bay' is this tall grass up to 6'. With the bank across the river only being about 3' high and the tip of this 'Bay' maybe 8-10' across a Coyote could easily jump across it. It's a perfect choke point and not far from where I found the feathers.

After cutting, clearing some lanes the other day I ran out of time to clear off the leaves and sticks from the dock, stairs and around the gate. So I didn't want to spook anything by opening the gate. I stayed scanning another 1/2 hour which was pretty much quiet now. Then while scanning one lane where I had zig zagged those reflective tags I had something at the long end of it that was walking away that would block the reflector from side to side as it moved away from me. Couldn't tell if it was a deer or coyote. I staggered them in height but never caught eyeball reflections to tell how tall, or antlers that shine on my night visions. So back to the garage and sure enough while pulling my boots off I hear the Alpha right out back........ close. In less than 6 or 7 minutes I heard others from the pack calling back. Came in and the Wife asked me if I heard that? Spent the next hour with a cup of coffee trying to hold my night vision up to my spotting scope on the dinning room table looking out back. It was after Midnight before they split up and moved deep enough in the woods that we could barely hear them.

Today nearly 80 here, so I cleared the leaves from the steps, dock, back gate and oiled the gate hinges.
Coyotes had scored last night. Right where I heard the noise in the brush. You could see some feathers, but mostly signs of multiple animals in what looked like Circling of the Attack / Kill site.