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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: jdb on September 03, 2008, 05:34:34 PM

Title: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: jdb on September 03, 2008, 05:34:34 PM: anyone else shoot one? I shoot an 870 with a 20" barrel and rifle sights works real well. JB
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: actionshooter on September 03, 2008, 05:50:40 PM: Benelli M1 super 90 :mgun:
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: DeKuma on September 03, 2008, 06:21:22 PM: I have always wondered about shotgunning. Seems you would need them REALLY close. Thought about picking up an 870 to due work as grouse/rabbit/turkey gun, might as well throw coyotes in there too!

Just noticed your tag line jdb...... "Illustious Potentate" That is pretty good. :chuckle:
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: Bscman on September 03, 2008, 06:48:16 PM: #4 buck with a full choke does a great job.

I've been wanting to try the hevi-shot Dead Coyote....but I'm too cheap.
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: demontang on September 03, 2008, 06:49:21 PM: I use my 870 with 3" T or F shot, work pretty good out to 50 or 60 yards.
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: DeKuma on September 03, 2008, 06:53:00 PM: Wish I would have had that on Monday when I missed at 60 yards! :bash:
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: KillBilly on September 03, 2008, 07:22:35 PM: I have the Benelli Super Nova 3.5 Mag with Dead Coyote Choke and Hevi shot Dead Coyote. At 70 yds. it will tear up a 8 0z. plastic water bottle. It holds a tight pattern.
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: jdb on September 03, 2008, 08:36:47 PM: Quote from: Bscman on September 03, 2008, 06:48:16 PM
#4 buck with a full choke does a great job.

I've been wanting to try the hevi-shot Dead Coyote....but I'm too cheap.
amen to that brother!
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: jdb on September 03, 2008, 08:38:53 PM: Quote from: DeKuma on September 03, 2008, 06:21:22 PM
I have always wondered about shotgunning. Seems you would need them REALLY close. Thought about picking up an 870 to due work as grouse/rabbit/turkey gun, might as well throw coyotes in there too!

Just noticed your tag line jdb...... "Illustious Potentate" That is pretty good. :chuckle:
you know where that tagline comews from?
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: DeKuma on September 03, 2008, 08:42:17 PM: Can't put my finger on it. I have heard it in the "Left Behind" books/movies, and in Robin Hood and some others but for the life of me cannot remember where...........
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: demontang on September 03, 2008, 08:47:59 PM: Jeremiah Johnson? I think I remember it in that movie? The old man come running in the cabin with a griz in tow and jumps out the back window with Jeremiah inside :chuckle:
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: jdb on September 03, 2008, 08:56:06 PM: the "Illustious potentate" I got from a line from a ray stevens song call the ali babba temple of the shrine. the p[ilgrim can you skin griz did come from jeremiah johnson
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: DeKuma on September 04, 2008, 06:23:11 AM: regardless, they are both pretty good tag lines!
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: Bigswedegml on September 09, 2008, 09:55:47 PM: I use a Benelli Nova with a 28" barrel. Extra full turkey choke and #4 buck shot. Has worked well so far.
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: rainshadow1 on September 09, 2008, 10:07:00 PM: Had an 870 all dolled up and NEVER SHOT IT in the field! Sold it. I just bought a Benelli SBE2 with a steadygrip stock, advantage camo, 24" barrel.... so sweet! Hope to bloody it bad over its lifetime! I haven't patterend it yet, but I have 3" and 3.5" #4 buck for Coyote, and 3.5" 00 buck when I'm hunting brush for Cougars.
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: BC CHASER on September 09, 2008, 10:34:10 PM: Not a lot of pressure for them in rifle restricted areas. I use 870 with a Hastings rifled barrel and a 2.5 power Pentax lightseeker II
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: alfbennett on September 12, 2008, 11:26:39 AM: How is that barrell? I'm thinking of getting one. what would you consider the maximum humane effective range?
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: BC CHASER on September 12, 2008, 11:29:16 AM: Deer 175, bear 100.
Title: Re: shotguns for coyotes
Post by: coyotemadness on September 21, 2008, 10:41:42 PM: I use a Benelli Nova with Dead Coyote choke and Dead Coyote 3" loads. But I have killed more coyotes with a old 870 using #4 buckshot.