This past Saturday I took my daughter to the woods for the MO youth deer hunt. We sat on what looked like a very nice crossing. The deer have been using it so often they have ruts wore in the ground.

We never saw a deer. We saw about two dozen turkey, a pair of coyotes and more squirrels than I could fit in the bed of my pickup but no deer. She did put down a nice coyote. She has been wanting to shoot a coyote for several years now so this actually meant a lot to her even though it wasn't a deer.

She spotted a pair of them about 100 yards out nose to the ground tracking along one of the ruts made by the deer. She put her cross hairs on the lead coyote and they got to within 20 yards of her and she popped it with her 243 and it just collapsed in a heap.

We are planning going to go back out Sat morning for the regular rifle season and see if we can't get that deer but for now she's still smiling over the coyote.

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