Started out the other morning at 2 degrees and it never got above 10 all day. Turned loose on a rig strike that ended up being a few sows with shoats. They went about .75 miles and stretched a 125 sow. On the way to them I saw another sow fly across the road. Stuck the first sow and quickly cut her up. I then loaded up and was turned loose on the second sow with in a half hour or a little more. She had a pretty good head start. An hour or so into the race I started hearing coyotes barking in among the running dogs. I've never had much trouble with coyotes. I guess they are getting ready to breed because they were extremely territorial today. Another hour or so rolled along and I was starting to second guess the hounds because of the way they were running on the garmin. They where headed for a road crossing so i decided i was just going to catch them. They wouldn't have any part of that. About another hundred yards and they where caught in a nasty thicket right off the road that you could hardly move through except for crawling. I finally got into them and got the second sow stuck. I slowly drug her out got her cut up. I went down the road a ways to water the dogs and then came back by the the carcass about 15 minutes later. There stands one of the coyotes just daring me. I was wishing I had had a long gun. I cut a nice boar track later in the day and turned loose again. I went back up the road the direction I had just come from and saw that 3 or 4 coyotes had crossed my track going in towards the dogs. Once again, the coyotes got to harassing them. I finally ended up catching them and called it a day.
Second Sow
