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I went up to strawberry to do some fishing and hunting figured I would see if I could get some grouse on the advice of another person on where they get them. I don't know if I went to the right spot or not to hunt grouse as I didn't see any I saw a few crows and hawks and song birds and that was it. This is the first year I have ever hunted in Utah and the only luck I have had is with some morning doves and that is about it. anyways as I was tromping through a group of pines and a bunch of fallen trees I thought I heard some cooing so I headed in that direction, still no birds. As I walked further I heard a rustling sound and though I had found them but to my surprise no i didn't I found to be a coyote eating a deer (I am assuming it was a coyote as I have not ever come face to face with one only seen them on the Animal Planet channel). When I realized what I had stumbled on I started to slowly and as quietly as possible back out, but I was not quiet enough and this coyote started to snarl at me and come towards me so I took my shot gun off my shoulder and fired a shot into the air hoping it would scare it, well that didn't do a **** thing, so I took another shot that landed about 2 feet in front of it and it took off running in the other direction. I in-turn decided to hike back to my truck and just go fishing. I have hunted several times when I lived in Georgia and for the most part hunted with friends but felt comfortable hunting alone. Being this is my first year hunting in Utah I have decided I need some friends to hunt with to be more on the safer side. If anyone wants to help show me the ropes and help me figure out better ways to hunt in Utah I would be very grateful. So to end my day I got skunked on grouse and the only thing I caught at strawberry fishing was a lone crawfish, so I am going to boil him up and partake of my wonderous bounty
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As a side note I did not want to kill the coyote as I was in it's territory and invading it's space that is they reason I did not shoot it.
As a side note I did not want to kill the coyote as I was in it's territory and invading it's space that is they reason I did not shoot it.