Coyote Down in Southwest MO

Coyote #3

The HunterByDesign team Was able to finally get out and predator hunt a piece of land that I’ve been wanting to get out on for some time now. This property is set up great for coyotes complete with many draws, large open areas, and a lot of cattle nearby.
We arrived at the land about an hour before dark and quickly moved to get set up. We were just getting to a clump of trees that overlooked a large draw when I spotted a coyote approx 250-300 yrds away just before he slipped into the brush.
We quickly sat down and after a few minutes and I began the rabbit squealing both from the Primos Catnip call, and the Verminator Tweety call. Our patience was rewarded about 15 minutes later as the dog cautiosly stepped into an opening in the brushy draw about 80yrds away. The Remingtion R-15 ,223 was already in postion on the shooting sticks. I was shooting through a briar bush was made me a bit squeamish with a .223, but my cousins couldn’t see him so I took my chances by putting the hammer down. The coyote never took another step, it went straight down – not bad for a lung shot!
This is a great time of the year to get after the predators as most regular seasons for deer, and waterfowl are starting to close up. This can be a great way to keep enjoying God’s creation and scratch that hunting itch that most of us diehards have year round! Best of luck!

Custom Vinyl Decals for Waterfowl Trailers

I try not to plug myself very often, but here in the past month I’ve had significant interest in my waterfowl trailer layouts/decals. I wanted to show a few of the projects/layouts that I’ve designed and give you a brief rundown of the process. As you can see from the pics, I have both geese and duck decals. All of my decals I personally traced off of pics of actual birds, so if you’re looking for the cartoon style of decals these are not them. A significant amount of time was spent trying to capture the reality of the bird along with the functionality of vinyl decals.

I can do these layouts custom, meaning that if you’re wanting more birds, less birds – whatever – it can be accomplished. The colors of the actual decals can also be switched up depending on your trailer color and what sort of look you are wanting. I can also design logos that can be incorporated into the layout. The logos I make are saved in all the formats that you could possibly need to do anything from letterhead, to website headers, to signs, to t-shirts, to hats, etc etc.

All the vinyls that I use are high performance which is the highest grade vinyl that can be used and in reality, the only vinyl recommended for vehicle graphics. You can definitely get graphics cheaper with economy grade vinyls, but in the long run, they become more expensive as they’ll last about half as long on most applications. Sometimes I’ll cut the vinyl myself and send it to you, or I also like to work with a local sign co in your area. I send them the files needed and they cut and prepare the vinyl for installation and/or install depending on what you’d prefer.

Plese feel free to contact me with any questions regarding your trailer/vehicle. Best way to reach me is by email at www.HunterByDesign@gmail.com. In the mean time, good luck hunting!!

Great Start to the New Year!

9 Geese (limit) & 2 Ducks

Had a great hunt this morning with my best little hunting buddy and two great friends. We were hunting a big pond that both geese and ducks frequent so we set out our spred with ducks on one side of us and geese on the other. I’ve been very successful with this layout as both geese and ducks will usually come right into the hole between the two groups.

We had 4 big honkers come and sit down about 25yrds in front of us – the only problem was that it was 10 minutes before shooting time :-( They slowly swam away and there was nothing we could do but watch. We didn’t have to wait long. About 25min later we had a group of about 30 geese do a half circle, they locked up about 150 yards out and sailed right into our faces! I gave the “take’em” when they were about 3 feet off the water with their feet dangling. The pic pretty much tells the rest of the story! We were still in the process of reloading and taking care of some stragglers when a group of about 20 gadwall came sailing in. Unfortanately we weren’t completely reloaded so we only managed to bring 2 out of that group.

We stayed put for about 20 more minutes only to watch two more geese sail right in to us, but we were limited out so once again, we had to just watch them swim away! We decided that it would be best to clear out so they could come back in if they wished and give the pond a break. It’s been an extremely mild winter up to this point and we really don’t have many migratory birds in the area. It’s in these times when scouting is of utmost importance as there aren’t necessarily a lot of opportunities. Thankfully, we made the most of our opportunity today and ended the morning with a great bag of geese and even a couple of ducks!

Happy New Year to You All!!