Troy, I always, always have my 30-06 with me when I'm on the farm. A few years ago we had a really wet fall. There's a low area in our largest hay field that we didn't cut on the last cutting of hay because it was too wet. That was the year that I had killed 8 coyotes during the daytime in that same hay field.

Sometime around Christmas I had taken a deer carcass over to that field and put it in the wide open field 100 yards from the woodline, along a fence, and put a camera on it to see if I had wiped out the yotes. The carcass had been out for a few days and something had drug it about 10 yards, so after I finished Sunday lunch at Mommas, I drove over in my truck to check the camera. I left 4 sets of pasture gates open on my way over because I was only gonna be a few minutes. Remember, I always have my ought6, except that day. I pulled up to about 50 yards from the camera, got out of the truck and stroll over to the camera. When I got about 30 yards from the truck I hear grass break. I look up and here comes 100lbs of dog, wide open and growling. I had nothing to do but run back to the truck. I got in an closed the door about 1/2 second before the dog got to the truck. It was one of those big white fluffy goat protecting dogs. I slammed my truck in drive, passed Mommas house running about 60 and slid into my back yard. I grabbed my ought6 that was propped inside the back door and headed back to the camera site. When I got back the dog came up out of the grass and headed towards the truck, growling. I turned the truck sideways and shot out of the window. The dog didn't make it. I normally have one or both of my kids with me but I sure was glad they weren't there that day. I wouldn't have had time to throw 2 kids in the truck before the dog got there.