Oops, guess I'm a bit late to this party!
Shotguns because that's all they allow on base. I have an AR built for predators that I use elsewhere. Honestly, at close range, a shotgun is 10x worse than an AR. I shoot 3" 4 buck which equates to 41 .24" pellets going down range. The two yotes that I've killed with that load were hit with 20+ pellets each. That's what I call DRT.
It was definitely cool seeing one in the wild. I'd guess I got to stare at him for a good minute while he was looking at me, looking at the caller, looking at his escape route up the hill. He finally turned and started slinking up the hill. I leaned over and rustled my coat a bit and he heard me, stopped, looked at me, then went into a trot. I leaned over further and snapped a tiny twig and he went off at full speed up the hill. (I had to lean over to look around the tree and behind me.)
M4M, I just talked to the Nat. Res. guy on base and he said another pair of hunters had struck out on base also. Hopefully I'll get healthy and we'll get 3-4 inches of snow on a Friday so we can go hit it hard again and track some. One great thing about snow would be we could tell if they downwinded us and cut our tracks.
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We spent the entire day on the Crane base pursuing coyotes with shotguns and his electronic caller.
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Dude! Why shotguns and not ARs?
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