@Ezana4CE. Thank you. Yes simple things can be overlooked sometimes. After spending enough times stalking and failed to succeed, valuable lessons were learned each and every time especially sitting in that lonely, cold chair with plenty of time to think and wonder.
However, it was always easy to plan and visualize what to do at the beginning of each hunt if and when a coyote would appear. The first two hours was when I was full of excitement and adrenaline, but as the minutes and hours passed by in the cold night, my mind would begin to drift off and hallucinations would creeped in. I would see imaginary objects forming and moving in the field.
Not a good feeling to have in the dead of night where I was sitting alone in the dark inside a barn. Crazy thoughts would flood my tired minds as well where I would reminisce and think about my purpose in life... I would tried to shut my eyes for a few seconds hoping to rest, but the thoughts of passing out cold and missed the encounter with a coyote would quickly forces me to open my baggy eyes to see if the trail cam lights would pop up. Very exhausting if you haven't done something like this before. I am sure I will pay for this as I aged.
The lighting in the target area was sufficient with the stationary IR light and the trail cam IR light, enough to spot and identify any moving targets. The downside would be the clarity of the recorded footages not as sharp if I use the IR lights connected to my gun. But this method has been proven so I will continue to do so for my future hunts. My trail cam does not have any sounds when activated and the coyotes did not seem to be bothered by the IR lights at all. Either they were used to it being there or they never saw these lights at all.
I have ordered two more trail cams and they should be here this week. I have other locations to hunt coyotes as well so I need to setup at different locations. I am currently hunting another coyote(s) at another location after I tagged this one. The farmer had a still born calf and it has been eaten by coyotes and eagles this past week.
Too many videos to edit first before I can work on this coyote#6 video. So please stay tune and I will do my best to get it down.
Here are a couple of pictures as a teaser, lol.
This one was sick and mangy.
