2025 Coyotes

[birdshooter1189]

Time for a fresh coyote success thread.  It's a new year and I know coyotes are dropping already.

Mods, can you sticky this one and un-sticky last year's?

[Rainier10]

Got this guy on the 5th.

[redi]

Nice Rick congratulations

[birdshooter1189]

Nice one. That's cool terrain/weather to hunt in. (as long as you can keep warm)

[metlhead]

Somebody deflated 2 coyotes recently in the Potholes area. Thanx and keep it up.

[LDennis24]

Got 2 out of 3 yesterday. Missed the first one from about 200 yds away.  The second 2 werent so lucky. They were playing with each other until I squeaked a couple times with my lips and they came bounding directly at me. I let them get about 50 yds away then let them have it! First one dropped dead and the second one did a flip onto its nose as it ran directly away from the first one being shot with hair and blood misting into the snow! I looked for a spot to climb over the log I hid behind then looked up again to see the 2nd one go running into the tall CRP grass. Rrrgggh, I had to track it down. I started following its blood trail through the snow and noticed at times that it seemed to be an artery just spraying a mist of blood all over the snow. Came across several spots where it stumbled and fell in the snow leaving a blood smear and after 3/4 mile I came upon this leg! Then about 300 yds past the leg it made it into the drainage ditch and crossed the creek and turned back towards the house. Only it quit bleeding! How could it stop bleeding after a leg came off!? I never did find the second dog but I circled the pasture and it didn't leave so it's layed up under some brush dead I'm sure. I just wanted to put it down quickly and couldn't find it after dark. Unbelievable how far it went. Anyway, here is the first one and the second ones leg.

[Encore 280]

It evaportated. After new scope install, dialed in the 17 and 204 today. Bring on the dogs.

[Born2late]

Dang! They are darn tough. I’ve fatally shot them and had them keep going for quite a ways and hide in cattails.
Good job on putting a few down

[Goshawk]

I'm not interested in pelts, just dead coyotes in the calving field without killing off the birds that eat them. To that end, I have a SMOK'N load for my Ruger #1 that's tack accurate.
I'm loading the Barns 85gr all copper bullet in my 270 Win.  That long barrel and Big Game powder has them chronographed at 3,950fps. Since it's a lightly constructed varmint bullet it all but explodes on impact. Shooting a 'yote sideways leaves a hollow ribcage with only fragments of bone and lung left in it. Hit a little high in the front shoulders and the only thing holding the head on is skin where the neck used to be. Lengthwise, and the bullet's fragments stay inside. No lead fragments for birds to poison themselves with, and if I miss, the bullet can't ricochet. Very flat trajectory with a 300 yard zero and sub moa.

[birdshooter1189]

I'm not interested in pelts, just dead coyotes in the calving field without killing off the birds that eat them. To that end, I have a SMOK'N load for my Ruger #1 that's tack accurate.
I'm loading the Barns 85gr all copper bullet in my 270 Win.  That long barrel and Big Game powder has them chronographed at 3,950fps. Since it's a lightly constructed varmint bullet it all but explodes on impact. Shooting a 'yote sideways leaves a hollow ribcage with only fragments of bone and lung left in it. Hit a little high in the front shoulders and the only thing holding the head on is skin where the neck used to be. Lengthwise, and the bullet's fragments stay inside. No lead fragments for birds to poison themselves with, and if I miss, the bullet can't ricochet. Very flat trajectory with a 300 yard zero and sub moa.

Sounds like you've got a pretty great system set up for them.  My go-to rifle is a CZ 527 american in .223.  I dabble with a few others. I've got some 110 gr vmax rounds loaded for my 300 winmag at about 3600 fps.  I'm hoping to get a couple coyotes with that one of these days....

That last coyote is really mangy!  My brother got a couple last week, they were both VERY mangy.  I got two this weekend, one was pretty clean, and one was partially thick fur, and partially bare skin-mange.

[redi]

Good shooting Goshawk

[Goshawk]

I'm not interested in pelts, just dead coyotes in the calving field without killing off the birds that eat them. To that end, I have a SMOK'N load for my Ruger #1 that's tack accurate.
I'm loading the Barns 85gr all copper bullet in my 270 Win.  That long barrel and Big Game powder has them chronographed at 3,950fps. Since it's a lightly constructed varmint bullet it all but explodes on impact. Shooting a 'yote sideways leaves a hollow ribcage with only fragments of bone and lung left in it. Hit a little high in the front shoulders and the only thing holding the head on is skin where the neck used to be. Lengthwise, and the bullet's fragments stay inside. No lead fragments for birds to poison themselves with, and if I miss, the bullet can't ricochet. Very flat trajectory with a 300 yard zero and sub moa.

Sounds like you've got a pretty great system set up for them.  My go-to rifle is a CZ 527 american in .223.  I dabble with a few others. I've got some 110 gr vmax rounds loaded for my 300 winmag at about 3600 fps.  I'm hoping to get a couple coyotes with that one of these days....

That last coyote is really mangy!  My brother got a couple last week, they were both VERY mangy.  I got two this weekend, one was pretty clean, and one was partially thick fur, and partially bare skin-mange.

It was so mangy, that I didn't shoot at first because I couldn't see a tail! From 240 yards, at night it looked like a blue healer. After watching for a bit, I recognized it as a coyote chewing on afterbirth and dropped it. Rat tail, right eye swollen shut and hardly any hair, might say I ended his misery.

[Goshawk]

Good shooting Goshawk

Thanks. I get lucky once in a while. From every rabbit's nightmare one day to breakfast for the Eagles the next.

[HntnFsh]

That's cool!

[pickardjw]

First critter with the ULUL AR setup. Need more practice with it, totally forgot to rack the bolt for a follow up shot. Real happy with the setup otherwise.

Set up right on top of him. Noticed him 50 yards behind the call at about 1:30 into the stand.

Met a guy in Taco Bell on the way home who was thermal hunting, they shot 15+ and we shot one. Didn't catch his name. If anyone knows a hound guy that collars cats for the Tribes on the Olympic peninsula that loves thermal hunting let me know. Haven't stopped researching thermals since, would like to connect with him.

[Cougartail]

Nice!

[jstone]

Night time must be the best time

[LDennis24]

My dad just picked up a FOXPRO FX3 at the Potlatch gun show and I'm excited to try it out! Have any of you guys used one and do you have anything you do or don't like about them?

[Goshawk]

#6 for 2025.

[Goshawk]

My dad just picked up a FOXPRO FX3 at the Potlatch gun show and I'm excited to try it out! Have any of you guys used one and do you have anything you do or don't like about them?

In my area electronic calls have been used so much that I really don't see them being effective anymore. My example is, when I'm hawking and my bird catches a rabbit every bird, cat, dog, in a quarter mile comes in fast at the sound of that rabbit in destress. I've not seen an artificial call that has the same effect regardless of cost.  Perhaps in areas where electronic calls are not used often the results should be better.

[TitusFord]

My huntin buddy killed 1 and I killed 2 last night. And had my furthest shot on a critter at around 430 yards so that was cool.

[birdshooter1189]

Nice work.  One of my local spots lost 4 ducks to coyotes this week.  I've seen them on my camera at that location too 3 times this week.  I camped out last night till a little after midnight but the coyotes didn't show up. 

[Wetwoodshunter]

This one was stalking me on my morning walk for about a week. .300 WSM with a 182 hammer hunter…

[Skillet]

This one was stalking me on my morning walk for about a week. .300 WSM with a 182 hammer hunter…

 

[Angry Perch]

This one was stalking me on my morning walk for about a week. .300 WSM with a 182 hammer hunter…

Looks like you were not undergunned!