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....