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4. Two coyotes leaning across my rifle. "I'd been waiting a while for this custom rifle from Don H. in Prince Albert, SK. He finished it just before Christmas and by the 26th I was ready to leave for my, then, annual coyote-hunting trip to southern Saskatchewan (I was an elementary school teacher at the time, and filled my time with hunting whenever I could). It's a .243 (I believe the scope was a fixed 16X) shooting 60 grain Sierra bullets. Very accurate and usually no exit holes. I don't remember how I got the first coyote, but the second taught me a lesson. You can see the land begin to drop off beyond the fence line. Usually I'd have slipped over the edge and called the large bowl-like depression located there (about a kilometer across). But I knew that I'd be quite exposed as I crested the lip and was afraid that I'd spook anything residing there. So I stayed back about 75 yards and let the call do the work. Within minutes the coyote ran into view. He was close. That was good. What wasn't so good was 16X magnification. It took some time to get him into the scope and by that time he was running. Fortunately he ran parallel to the depression rather than heading back into it and I was able to make the shot. Two coyotes my first morning with my new rifle. Does it get better? I took the first one out of the plastic garbage bag where I'd placed him (along with a generous dose of spray-type house and garden bug-killer) and positioned them both for this photo. I took a friend back there another year and learned another lesson-but that's another story."