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whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« on: March 07, 2011, 08:28:41 PM »
just for kicks and giggles :P anyone have any amazing shots they made they would share? :)

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2011, 08:33:07 PM »
just for kicks and giggles :P anyone have any amazing shots they made they would share? :)

I shot a coyote in the head off-hand at 320 with a .300 Weatherby.. Dumb luck!
Ill see if i can find the video some time.
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2011, 08:37:41 PM »
Coyote @ 303 yards with my 22-250.
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2011, 08:40:17 PM »
472 yards on a standing 'yote....was laser ranged from the shooting position...how i knew how much drop the Bob would have to be compensated.   :bfg:
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2011, 09:01:41 PM »
wow those are all great shots!

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2011, 09:08:08 PM »
330 yards with my 338. Later on that day I ended up missing a 5x5 mulie at 150 yards  :bash:
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2011, 09:14:14 PM »
the weekend before last i shot a pair at 650 yards two shot two dead yotes and two more popped up but i missed them..I ht an elk at 650 yrds to i use a 7mm remmington with leupold scope its my elk rifle.

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2011, 09:16:20 PM »
Coyote 405 yards off the hood of a pickup 25-06 Ruger #1.
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2011, 09:21:12 PM »
50 yards colt 1911 45acp. While he was taking a crap. He didnt know what to do when that truck came around the end of the hay shed. lol  With a rifle 436yrds with my 300rum.

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2011, 10:08:25 PM »
wow even more great shots! :D im pretty new to predator hunting but i was hitting a 16in steel square in goldendale this weekend at around 750 yrds. its a little tough with out a target turret style scope, just hold over and hope:p i have a browning a-bolt in 300wsm shooting 185g bergers at about 3000fps. plain jane leaupold 3x9 scope. i really want to send it in to leupold and get a target turret made for it!!  :chuckle: :chuckle:

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2011, 10:24:31 PM »
Yote at 103 yards, with a iron sighted 357 mag, and a 110g hp. With 3 people watching. I also lost some hearing over that yote. Dang ported handguns :bash: I have shot yotes at 400+ yards but the handgun yote, takes the cake. Surprisingly I have shot 13 yotes with handguns.
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2011, 10:30:43 PM »
anything with a pistol is impressive as far as im concerned. ya. my dads got a 454 casual that really rights the ears... ported. it shoots a 300gr slug:D do the pistol bullets tear up the yotes like a high power rifle does?

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #12 on: March 07, 2011, 10:38:59 PM »
Hahaha! I have shot a few with my 454 raging bull, that's ported as well. Like rifles it depends on the bullets. The hollow points mess them up pretty good on the entrance. A lot more when you hit them in the shoulder :chuckle: Most of the time the bullets don't come out with the 357's.
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #13 on: March 07, 2011, 11:40:46 PM »
after setting up my 7mm-08 for long range shooting, i tried it for a couple yote outings, i managed one at 711 yards. went back to the .223 after that, best for the .223 is about 400yrds, was my 12th shot (AR).lol.

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2011, 12:15:05 AM »
A little over 630 meters with a H&K 91.  One shot to the head, damn coyote never knew what hit him.  Shot a bunch of them from the porch at 350-450 yards with the old .300 Win Mag.  It sure makes a mess of them.

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2011, 12:21:28 AM »
510 yards yote with my 270 win and 450 yard with my 204 ruger
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2011, 11:29:08 AM »
Cant remember exact range but a little over 500yds of sticks with my ar. It was a miracle shot im sure of it but I had been shooting a lot at gongs out to 600 with the rifle too. Longest off hand was a hair over 300yds at a running yote with my .338 win

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #17 on: March 08, 2011, 11:58:49 AM »
wow even more great shots! :D im pretty new to predator hunting but i was hitting a 16in steel square in goldendale this weekend at around 750 yrds. its a little tough with out a target turret style scope, just hold over and hope:p i have a browning a-bolt in 300wsm shooting 185g bergers at about 3000fps. plain jane leaupold 3x9 scope. i really want to send it in to leupold and get a target turret made for it!!  :chuckle: :chuckle:

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #18 on: March 08, 2011, 01:33:31 PM »
after setting up my 7mm-08 for long range shooting, i tried it for a couple yote outings, i managed one at 711 yards. went back to the .223 after that, best for the .223 is about 400yrds, was my 12th shot (AR).lol.

what load are you shooting for your long range stuff?

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2011, 01:56:30 PM »
365 yds. 30-06 156gr. 2-7 Leupold

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #20 on: March 08, 2011, 01:58:57 PM »
193 yards with my .223. Coyote

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #21 on: March 08, 2011, 02:04:00 PM »
Yotes at 513yds twice with my ultralight .204.  One DOA in the earhole (thank the wind), and the other ran 50 and piled up.  He was lunged, and it was a pass through at that distance with a 40gr. Vmax :yike:  It took several (100+) misses over the years "kill" one at over 500yds. with a varmint gun!:chuckle:   

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #22 on: March 08, 2011, 08:17:37 PM »
For bhylton:  they are just factory load, 7mm-08 Hornady 140gr SST, light mag. got a custom turret specific to that round and where i hunt most.

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #23 on: March 08, 2011, 09:00:58 PM »
 GEARHEAD:thats awsome. that what i want to do with my 300wsm. i dont have a leupold mark 4 or vx III CDS, but i am gonna send in my vxII and have a turret made for it. do the calibrations thay gave you work really well?

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #24 on: March 08, 2011, 09:05:28 PM »
315 yards with a Muzzleloader.  Open sights...
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #25 on: March 08, 2011, 09:18:59 PM »
A coyote at 780 with my 300 remington ultra mag. Now wait I know nobody will believe me. But I had 3 coyotes in a straight line walking away from me. i put my crosshairs 4 foot over the first coyote in the line and hit the middle coyote and rolled him. It was all luck.

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #26 on: March 08, 2011, 09:25:36 PM »
Shot some armadillo's in oklahoma during turkie season!! Does that count?

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #27 on: March 08, 2011, 09:52:53 PM »
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #28 on: March 09, 2011, 08:06:30 AM »
A coyote at 780 with my 300 remington ultra mag. Now wait I know nobody will believe me. But I had 3 coyotes in a straight line walking away from me. i put my crosshairs 4 foot over the first coyote in the line and hit the middle coyote and rolled him. It was all luck.

Why didn't you just spin your turret to 780? :P

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #29 on: March 09, 2011, 08:12:36 AM »
Are we talking killed one or hit one?
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #30 on: March 09, 2011, 08:32:34 AM »
A coyote at 780 with my 300 remington ultra mag. Now wait I know nobody will believe me. But I had 3 coyotes in a straight line walking away from me. i put my crosshairs 4 foot over the first coyote in the line and hit the middle coyote and rolled him. It was all luck.

Why didn't you just spin your turret to 780? :P


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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #31 on: March 09, 2011, 11:25:14 AM »
22-250:  503 yds.  three times in a row, the first one dropped him, the second two were just to see if I could do it consistently.   264 magnum: 525 and 547 yds.    270: 631 yds.  I have alot of open area on my property where I live.  Those are one shot confirmed kills with at least one witness on each except with the 22-250 no one was around last week when I did it.  Good job guys, some really nice shooting out there.

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #32 on: March 09, 2011, 01:58:07 PM »
Just over 400yds. on a black bear from the seated position. 300RUM domed no chasing a pissed off bear

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #33 on: March 09, 2011, 02:00:00 PM »
856 this last year with a 7RUM Huskemaw 5-20

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #34 on: March 09, 2011, 02:00:21 PM »
A little over 630 meters with a H&K 91.  One shot to the head, damn coyote never knew what hit him.  Shot a bunch of them from the porch at 350-450 yards with the old .300 Win Mag.  It sure makes a mess of them.

how much holdover do you have to use with the 300 win mag at 450?

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #35 on: March 09, 2011, 02:18:09 PM »
1st coyote ever was also my farthest. 22-250 and PredatorPro says it was about 525 but I say it was at least 675 feet.  So in yards that would be 175 or 225!  :chuckle: Either way like I said before - for a westside'n city boy like me it was a lonnnnng ways out there!  :dunno:
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #36 on: March 09, 2011, 04:02:40 PM »
1st coyote ever was also my farthest. 22-250 and PredatorPro says it was about 525 but I say it was at least 675 feet.  So in yards that would be 175 or 225!  :chuckle: Either way like I said before - for a westside'n city boy like me it was a lonnnnng ways out there!  :dunno:

its all good! im from the west side too and i do alot with a shotgun! only time i took my long range gun out i ended up shooting a yote at like 25 feet :P

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #37 on: March 09, 2011, 04:12:42 PM »
There's some tuff hunting in some of those areas over there for you west siders.  It's like now you see'em, now you don't.  And that's at 50-75yds.    :o

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« Reply #38 on: March 09, 2011, 04:38:31 PM »
yep! it aint to hard to find some decent sixed openings. a tough part for me is getting into a game unit without firearm restrictions. i live in the battle ground unit which restricts to a shotgun bow or muzzleloader. have to travel a ways into a unit where i can use a high powered rifle. anyone know any good places around brush prairie/ battle ground/ vancouver?

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #39 on: March 09, 2011, 10:26:59 PM »
yep! it aint to hard to find some decent sixed openings. a tough part for me is getting into a game unit without firearm restrictions. i live in the battle ground unit which restricts to a shotgun bow or muzzleloader. have to travel a ways into a unit where i can use a high powered rifle. anyone know any good places around brush prairie/ battle ground/ vancouver?

Battle Ground is where we are originally from. Go to Larch mountain. Some good shooting spots there.

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #40 on: March 09, 2011, 11:05:34 PM »
i nailed on up there a few weeks ago. just havent had alot of time and theres so many stinkin people up there

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #41 on: March 29, 2011, 12:34:17 AM »
Not me, but my pard I used to hunt Yotes with in Montana. Old farmer. 270 Winchester Model 70 with a post and cross hair scope. We were out on our favorite spot and he made a LONG shot on a yote, dropping it, and said it was a touch over 500 yards. I challenged him and went back to the farm to get a steel 100 yard tape we had. 513 yards. I told him it was a fluke. He had me put one of the SMALL juice cans on a fence post and he took it off with one shot at 400 yards. Never challenged him again.
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #42 on: April 06, 2011, 11:13:01 PM »
Well I set a new personal long distance this last Sunday out hunting with PredatorPro.  :IBCOOL: I shot a dog on the side of a canyon with my Howa Axiom 22-250 and he ranged in my finder at about 228-235 or so. OK - not a world record, but again to that I say for a westside'n city boy like me, its a lonnng ways out! :chuckle: I didnt check the range until after I dropped him - PP just said aim at his front shoulder & shoot!  So I just ranged from the general area I was sitting when P-Pro hiked up there to get him. I am quite confident he was out there at least 230. I'll post some pics and a story on a new thread in the next day or two.
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #43 on: April 07, 2011, 01:27:26 AM »
With my Remington 700 SPS Ruger .204 Hornady 40gr ballistic tip, regularly shoot them over 400. I have zeroed in at 278 yards, which is my no-hold max distance (meaning anything between 0-287 I don't change my hold because the rise and drop are all within kill area.) At 400 yards -4.8", 500 yards -12.5". I have put well over a thousand rounds through it in 4 years, most of which are practice.

My personal best shot on a coyote was with this gun at 550 yards, standing, offhand. My wife was with me and let me out of the rig while driving to another stand when we saw it. I didn't really think I had hit it, but never saw it running off so I had to go check. Sure enough it was hammered right behind the shoulders and spun it to the ground. The only way my bushnell 800 yardage pro could range the distance was ranging the vehicle back at the road after finding it in the tall brush.

My best friend hit one, just after we were out of high school that we paced off at around 1000 yards. It was snowy conditions, we saw it, there was no getting closer to it over the wide open area so we started popping rounds off. Not knowing anything about shooting back then, I was only holding maybe 3 feet over, so obviously I never came close (and with a .300 savage none-the-less). My friend was shooting a .243 and said he was lining the coyote up and raising the scope until its back was at the bottom of the scope. This was about his 3rd shot. We knew we were close because he started getting nervous, but couldn't tell where we were with all the fresh falling snow absorbing the sound. On his third shot the dog started sitting down and biting its rear end. The snow was well over knee deep so I walked back to the rig while he went to check for a hit. about 2 hours later he came walking back up the road with a dead dog, and I was stunned beyond belief. I simply said "There's no way we hit that dog." He replied, "One of us did. I found him over the hill sitting under a tree biting his foot and finished him off." He then held up the hind foot in question showing me the perfectly shot-off toe.
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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #44 on: April 07, 2011, 10:27:41 AM »
story of a lifetime there. gotta love looking back on those memories

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #45 on: April 07, 2011, 10:42:50 AM »
First coyote i killed was 100 yards.. Wenatchee Heights Orchard...30/30..Corelock bullet.. He was facing away from me...BOOM in the Sphincter. Her wasn't very happy

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #46 on: April 09, 2011, 10:29:11 PM »
I hit my longest last Wed at 512 with a 30.06 with a dead rest on biopods laying down.  I had a cool kill with a Ruger-22 about 250 yards in the head with a 25 round clip I started flingin lead and about the 6 shot I hit him he didn't even know we were shooting at him...and he droppped like a ton of bricks... 

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #47 on: April 09, 2011, 10:38:46 PM »
Species: Coyote
Distance: 617yds
Gun: 7mm mag browning A bolt with boss, 2 lb trigger, 6.5-20x50VXIII Leupold, Harris bi pod
Bullet: 160gr Sierra BT, Reloader 19 Powder, Federal Magnum
Location: back porch, sand bag rest, Chattaroy  :chuckle:
If you shoot the first one you will never get that true trophy.

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Re: whats the furthest you have shot a coyote or other predator?
« Reply #48 on: April 09, 2011, 10:44:17 PM »
Species: Black Bear
Distance: 472 yds
Gun: 7mm mag browning A bolt with boss, 2 lb trigger, 6.5-20x50VXIII Leupold, Harris bi pod
Bullet: 160gr Sierra BT, Reloader 19 Powder, Federal Magnum Primers
Location: 4 miles above Bonaparte Lake, berries
If you shoot the first one you will never get that true trophy.

 


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