How do you practice shooting for coyote hunting

[Jerry malbeck]

Just a thread to get some idea how you guys prepare for gunning coyotes.
 

[400out]

By shooting coyotes   

no seriously I practice by putting the sneak on the neighbors cats, maybe set up a stand and blow the wounded rabbit call 

[wsucowboy]

I practice by keeping the coyote population down around my house. 

[ML_Hunter]

The funny part...I do something very similar!  
My dog actually will come and check out what i'm doing when I pratice my calls.  And I've noticed that the better I sound, the faster and more aggressive he'll become (aggressive as in him coming over and start licking me).  I will also record my calling and play them back to myself.  I spend a lot of time out photographing so I use that to pratice how I set up my stands for coyotes, and big game hunting.  

As for shooting...which is what this tread is about, I pratice shooting all year round, with targets at differnt angles, differnt ranges, from the bench and from my bi-pod, and I pratice up to 75 yards standing.  
Champion Shooting supplies makes targets with life size and scaled down sized targets that I will often shoot at, and them golfer targets are fun to shoot at as well.  I also enjoy shooting clays then he peices of clays.  Really, for all the shooting I do, I should buy stock in brass, primers, and powder!  

[Big10gauge]

I practice by going down to Jerry's stomping grounds and call in coyotes, then shoot in the air and holler when they come in.  

Actually for me is staying in shape to hike all day whether on bare ground or in snow.
Lots of practice shooting the distances that I expect to be hitting coyotes at with the exact same gear I use when hunting them.
Spend some time blowing my calls except I have to do that out of the house.

[Jack Diamond]

Fill a coffee can with concrete, let it dry tie it to 60 feet of rope, and have someone drag it with a pickup at 35mph, 150 yards from you, when you can hit the can every shot, you are qualified to shoot at running coyotes.
 tough to find someone to drive pickup.

[rasbo]

Fill a coffee can with concrete, let it dry tie it to 60 feet of rope, and have someone drag it with a pickup at 35mph, 150 yards from you, when you can hit the can every shot, you are qualified to shoot at running coyotes.
 tough to find someone to drive pickup.

shoot the truck and slow the thing down

[bearhunter99]

Fill a coffee can with concrete, let it dry tie it to 60 feet of rope, and have someone drag it with a pickup at 35mph, 150 yards from you, when you can hit the can every shot, you are qualified to shoot at running coyotes.
 tough to find someone to drive pickup.

I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.  Also has quite a bit of truth to it as well!

[demontang]

Well I spend lots of time with my .338 shooting and the AR hasnt seen much this year. I normaly shot at gongs off my sticks from unranged yds to get me use to reading how far it is when I cant rangefind it. My plates for this are about 6x10" which is a little big but its what I had. I do like to stick clays up and shot them past 100yds but just realy have put time into my AR this year, now my .338 is another story I was shooting it out to 600yds at a 8x8 gong and could hit it cold bore first shot every time I went out. My 243 ive shot a lot this year too and im pretty good out to 400yds with it on the gong, first shot hits 99% of the time. The biggest thing that helps me is to shot off my sticks and odd angles like when one comes in from somewhere you didnt think about.

[WAcoyotehunter]

Sight the gun then practice by shooting at coyotes.

[grundy53]

shoot coyotes

[VarmintVentilator]

Shooting wise, 2 inch target at two hundred yards.  That keeps my focus nice and tight.  As far as my eyes, I don't hunt year round so in the fall I actually have to retrain my eyes to look for those things that don't fit the surroundings.  Ear, a tail, something that might be just a little out of color or shape for what is out there.  And of course movement.  Then when I have done all that I go out hunting, hopefully call in a yote, close my eyes that I have trained, and  

[shoot-em-dead]

Doesn't really matter how I train because coyotes avoid my calls. I think its my payback for watching the old cartoons and laughing when wilie could never catch the roadrunner no matter what he tried.

[MtnMuley]

Obviously more practice does one better.  Training the eyes and quickly getting into positions to get an accurate shot off are two important elements.  The most important factor to me, is having confidence in my gun.  Years ago, we'd have someone drive down a mtn road a couple miles and put out 5-6 balloons out 30 to 100 yds off the road at various spots of their choice.  Then he'd come back and grab the other guy who had no clue as to where the balloons were.  We used a 17hmr with a clip.  As soon as the shooter spotted a balloon, the driver would stop and shut off the rig.  The shooter would have to bail out as fast as he could, insert the clip, and get into position to pop the balloon.  This really improved the speed and ability of the shooter to get into a solid shooting position quickly.  This was fun to do in the summer, when there wasn't really a lot else hunting wise to do. 

[BIGINNER]

I SHOOT WOLVES TO PRACTICE FOR COYOTE HUNTING....      

[Big10gauge]

Obviously more practice does one better.  Training the eyes and quickly getting into positions to get an accurate shot off are two important elements.  The most important factor to me, is having confidence in my gun.  Years ago, we'd have someone drive down a mtn road a couple miles and put out 5-6 balloons out 30 to 100 yds off the road at various spots of their choice.  Then he'd come back and grab the other guy who had no clue as to where the balloons were.  We used a 17hmr with a clip.  As soon as the shooter spotted a balloon, the driver would stop and shut off the rig.  The shooter would have to bail out as fast as he could, insert the clip, and get into position to pop the balloon.  This really improved the speed and ability of the shooter to get into a solid shooting position quickly.  This was fun to do in the summer, when there wasn't really a lot else hunting wise to do.  

That's the first time I ever heard of somebody practicing road hunting. I would imagine you would need to practice putting your coffee in a cup holder and the donuts back in the box too? 

Hey all in good fun.

[VarmintVentilator]

That was good.        

[MtnMuley]

That's bullsh*t  Big10!  Just because out styles differ a little.........   At least I left out: the box and beer and rest over the passenger side mirror...........      

Totally kidding for all serious folk. 

[Bofire]

 :)anybody can shoot out of the truck if it is stopped and they are not drunk, try it drunk and at 25mph on a rough road!

I do not practice.
Carl

[GEARHEAD]

55 grains at a time.

[halflife65]

:)anybody can shoot out of the truck if it is stopped and they are not drunk, try it drunk and at 25mph on a rough road!

 

Hell, when I was your age, it was HUNTING.  We'd drink and play cards all night, puke before we left camp, drive around drinking coffee all morning to wake up and switch to beer in the afternoon.  I could still hang a rifle out the window and whack a coyote at 200 yards - even after a half case of beer.  You just try to do that you coddled little SOB.

[Rudy]

:)anybody can shoot out of the truck if it is stopped and they are not drunk, try it drunk and at 25mph on a rough road!

 

Hell, when I was your age, it was HUNTING.  We'd drink and play cards all night, puke before we left camp, drive around drinking coffee all morning to wake up and switch to beer in the afternoon.  I could still hang a rifle out the window and whack a coyote at 200 yards - even after a half case of beer.  You just try to do that you coddled little SOB.

Thats MAN *censored* right there boys! 

[wsucowboy]

 

[tlbradford]

I check zero on my first coyote seen on stand.  It cost me two early this year, which is the first time that rifle has been off.  I just don't get much range time anymore, but I am very confident in my shooting abilities, and if I do miss I don't lose any sleep over it.

[JimmyHoffa]

:)anybody can shoot out of the truck if it is stopped and they are not drunk, try it drunk and at 25mph on a rough road!

 

Hell, when I was your age, it was HUNTING.  We'd drink and play cards all night, puke before we left camp, drive around drinking coffee all morning to wake up and switch to beer in the afternoon.  I could still hang a rifle out the window and whack a coyote at 200 yards - even after a half case of beer.  You just try to do that you coddled little SOB.

The sad thing is that when I talk to the old people around Forks that hunted back in the 70's and 80's.....this is pretty much how they described elk hunting way back then.

[halflife65]

:)anybody can shoot out of the truck if it is stopped and they are not drunk, try it drunk and at 25mph on a rough road!

 

Hell, when I was your age, it was HUNTING.  We'd drink and play cards all night, puke before we left camp, drive around drinking coffee all morning to wake up and switch to beer in the afternoon.  I could still hang a rifle out the window and whack a coyote at 200 yards - even after a half case of beer.  You just try to do that you coddled little SOB.

The sad thing is that when I talk to the old people around Forks that hunted back in the 70's and 80's.....this is pretty much how they described elk hunting way back then.

Ah, I was conceived in Forks when my dad was logging out there.  My mom said screw this, and we pulled up stakes and headed out of there before I was born, though.  It's probably where that thought above came from, though. 

No offense to all you Twilight f#(@ers.

[rasbo]

:)anybody can shoot out of the truck if it is stopped and they are not drunk, try it drunk and at 25mph on a rough road!

 

Hell, when I was your age, it was HUNTING.  We'd drink and play cards all night, puke before we left camp, drive around drinking coffee all morning to wake up and switch to beer in the afternoon.  I could still hang a rifle out the window and whack a coyote at 200 yards - even after a half case of beer.  You just try to do that you coddled little SOB.

OYEAH!!!! well one time at band camp

[JimmyHoffa]

:)anybody can shoot out of the truck if it is stopped and they are not drunk, try it drunk and at 25mph on a rough road!

 

Hell, when I was your age, it was HUNTING.  We'd drink and play cards all night, puke before we left camp, drive around drinking coffee all morning to wake up and switch to beer in the afternoon.  I could still hang a rifle out the window and whack a coyote at 200 yards - even after a half case of beer.  You just try to do that you coddled little SOB.

The sad thing is that when I talk to the old people around Forks that hunted back in the 70's and 80's.....this is pretty much how they described elk hunting way back then.

Ah, I was conceived in Forks when my dad was logging out there.  My mom said screw this, and we pulled up stakes and headed out of there before I was born, though.  It's probably where that thought above came from, though. 

No offense to all you Twilight f#(@ers.

Haha....Forks is defintely a different place.  Nearly everytime I drive through now I see 'vampires' walking around in their capes.  But at least  when I stop in at places I get to use my limited Spanish because nearly everyone I seem to run into out there doesn't speak English.

[AWS]

I work on calling, stand selection and set up it's not hard to shoot a coyote under 100yrds even easier under 20.  I use very low power scopes with very large FOV's and practice with them out to 300yrds just about anything under a 100 is a chip shot unless there is smoke coming off their feet then I don't mess with them and wait for a day that will put them in my lap.  If I don't shoot at one or spook it they usually can be called back as soon as the next day.

AWS

[norsepeak]

"how do you practice shooting for coyote hunting?"  hmmm, by volume.  Very high volume.

[boneaddict]

I never could really tell them apart.

[rasbo]

Old woman shoots MP40 Machine gun

[littletoes]

Trigger Control, Breathing, sight alignment. 

400 yards is best with the .223, 6 inch steel target. Shooting stix is more practical, prone is dead-on. I even go to 500 and 600 yards prone. If you can consecutively hit at those ranges, closer stuff is cake. I've infected some friends too.

Practice helps, I hit my deer this year, in the neck, as it was looking back at me at 526 yards, as I was kneeling. I loaded one round in the chamber for that shot.

[littletoes]

I never could really tell them apart.

THIS TARGET NEEDS A COLLAR!!!   

[Mustang50]

If you really want to get better at shooting coyotes on the run, try putting cardboard in an old tire and roll it down a hill.  You should also never stop calling at them, 9 times out of 10 they will stop you just have to be ready.  Good luck

[rock]

My uncle would get in a back of a truck when he was younger his other two brothers. 1 would drive 1 with a shotgun and 1 with a .243. they would drive through hayfields and pasture and the farmer would pay them for whatever they got if they were causing problems

[Bofire]

  :)getting good at moving targets;

go hunting far away, tell the Ole Lady yer coming home Friday, come home Wednesday, sneak up close and call home, Tell her yer "on the way, be home in 15 minutes"
See if you can blow the mirrors off his truck 'fore he gets outa range.
Carl