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Predator Hunters and Wildlife Photography
Expand your wildlife photography opportunities by teaming up with hunters & predator callers-Mike Burm contributing photographer/blogger.
As you may recall from my previous blog, I’m always looking for opportunities to get out and photograph wildlife. If you understand wildlife management and respect the role of hunters harvesting animals, get to know a predator hunter that doesn’t mind a photographer tagging along and team up! You just might get some incredible wildlife images.
A friend and I both missed out on Archery Elk Tags in Arizona. Tag-less once again, we decided to go up just prior to the regular archery elk season to see if we could fill our “Camera Tags” for elk (We both enjoy wildlife photography). It was warmer than normal and the elk were not active very long after sunrise. Early in the day we managed to get a couple nice images of a 6X6 bull elk, but as the heat came up and the elk headed to bed down, we went looking for something else to “shoot” with our cameras.
My friend loves to hunt and photograph just about anything, and at the moment was feeling the need to grab a rifle and predator call. It was mid morning and I was up for getting a photo/image of a coyote, a bobcat, or anything that would come to our electronic wildlife caller. My buddy knew I didn’t mind someone bringing a rifle to take a crack at a coyote and I knew he wouldn’t mind if my shutter noise messed up the stand by scaring something off.
He grabbed his Remington model 7 .243 and I grabbed my Canon Model 1DMKIIN, we took a FoxPro model FX-3 and off we went. After a long morning chasing elk and the warm sun beating down on us, it proved difficult to keep our eyelids open. We were just about to completely fall asleep on our stand when we spotted a coyote responding to the call! In an instant we both drew our “weapons” of choice and well …. he missed.
His missed shot proved to be my good fortune!
As you can see from the image, his narrow miss made my “connection” a hit. The bullet from the .243 just barely misses the running coyote and creates a billow of dust in the background. The coyote then kicks it into super-high gear and disappears into the timber.
If you want to increase the type and quantity of wildlife images and don’t mind being with hunters, find a proficient predator caller and get him/her to let you tag along. You never know what kind of images you will come home with.
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Amazing Shot! Great right up!
Chad,
Thank you for checking in on Mike’s new post. We saw the photo on his smugmug portfolio and called him immediately with a guest blog request.
The coyote looks like it needs a Superman cape.
Enjoy your weekend,
Mark Healy
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