Other Hunting > Coyote, Small Game, Varmints
2025 Coyotes
redi:
Good shooting Goshawk
Goshawk:
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--- Quote from: Goshawk on February 25, 2025, 09:39:22 PM ---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.
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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.
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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:
--- Quote from: redi on February 26, 2025, 08:26:20 AM ---Good shooting Goshawk
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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.
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