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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: crow killer on December 09, 2012, 07:21:22 PM

Title: .22?
Post by: crow killer on December 09, 2012, 07:21:22 PM: How many have you actually killed a coyote with a .22? I know the normal coyote gun is an ar, but I was wondering if any if you have killed them with just a .22 :dunno:
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: KFhunter on December 09, 2012, 07:22:51 PM: who hasn't?
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: crow killer on December 09, 2012, 07:24:45 PM: Quote from: KFhunter on December 09, 2012, 07:22:51 PM
who hasn't?
Me :bash: never had a coyote in sights either
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: KFhunter on December 09, 2012, 07:28:07 PM: are you in a rimfire area or something?

.22 kinda smallish for yote really, 22 mag is better.
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: crow killer on December 09, 2012, 07:34:17 PM: Quote from: KFhunter on December 09, 2012, 07:28:07 PM
are you in a rimfire area or something?
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thats all my uncle wants us to shoot is a rim fire, tries to talk him into a .243 but it wasn't going to far
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: KFhunter on December 09, 2012, 08:03:48 PM: well, if you got time to wait ahwile there is a whole new rimfire calibur coming on the market.

It's a big secret right now though, but it's suppost to be faster than .17HMR.

Speaking of such, .17HMR is so damm fun to shoot you might consider that.
I giggled like a little girl first time I shot mine. :chuckle:
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: Kola16 on December 09, 2012, 08:05:33 PM: Quote from: KFhunter on December 09, 2012, 08:03:48 PM
well, if you got time to wait ahwile there is a whole new rimfire calibur coming on the market.

It's a big secret right now though, but it's suppost to be faster than .17HMR.

Speaking of such, .17HMR is so damm fun to shoot you might consider that.
I giggled like a little girl first time I shot mine. :chuckle:

It is a ton of fun to shoot :yeah: Especially 800 yards :yike: :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: Huntbear on December 09, 2012, 08:11:02 PM: Quote from: crow killer on December 09, 2012, 07:21:22 PM
How many have you actually killed a coyote with a .22? I know the normal coyote gun is an ar, but I was wondering if any if you have killed them with just a .22 :dunno:

I killed several way back when I was a teenager... (almost to the stone age) :chuckle: My old Mossberg bolt action .22 was quite accurate and with a 24" barrel really spun up them .22 LR. I took headshots.. either a hit or a miss. Was quite fun actually.
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: KFhunter on December 09, 2012, 08:18:26 PM: I'll toss this here, since it's a rimfire discussion

http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/gun-shots/2012/12/winchester-introduce-world (http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/gun-shots/2012/12/winchester-introduce-world)’s-fastest-rimfire-cartridge

Any guesses on what this'll be?
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: ICEMAN on December 09, 2012, 08:30:52 PM: Winchester to Introduce World’s Fastest Rimfire Cartridge

by John B. Snow

Keep an eye out for a sizzling new rimfire round from Winchester that’s going to be announced in early 2013. I can’t release specific details right now—a series of confidentiality agreements has seen to that—but I can offer this tidbit.

The new round is going to be the fastest rimfire round available by quite a margin.

This is going to be good news for varmint and small game hunters and, if history is any guide, I’m very optimistic about the accuracy potential of this cartridge too.

One gun maker has already signed up to chamber the cartridge and by the end of 2013, I expect at least two more to jump on the bandwagon.

The author stated he would have more info later...
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: huntingfool7 on December 09, 2012, 08:34:20 PM: I have out in Grahm. Before the dump went in I used to sit up on some old stump piles and call them in. Almost like shooting from a tree stand. That area was so brushy and tight a shotgun would have been better.
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: lokidog on December 09, 2012, 08:40:00 PM: Quote from: KFhunter on December 09, 2012, 07:28:07 PM
are you in a rimfire area or something?

.22 kinda smallish for yote really, 22 mag is better.

I'm curious as to what a "rimfire" area is? .22's, .17's, and .22mags are not allowed in firearm restricted areas unless being shot out of a revolver style handgun. (Stupid I know, but
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: Kowsrule30 on December 11, 2012, 01:36:50 PM: Killed quite a few yotes with 22's... Always used the high velocity solids... The hollow points sucked for penatration on dogs if you were shooting chest shots...
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Post by: WSU on December 11, 2012, 01:40:03 PM: I've killed a couple. One was stone cold dead on impact like I shot it with my .300 and the other ran a few hundred yards and piled up. I'm not too sure it is an ideal caliber and would only use it at pretty close range.
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Post by: Kowsrule30 on December 11, 2012, 02:47:30 PM: Quote from: WSU on December 11, 2012, 01:40:03 PM
I've killed a couple. One was stone cold dead on impact like I shot it with my .300 and the other ran a few hundred yards and piled up. I'm not too sure it is an ideal caliber and would only use it at pretty close range.

Dad had one that he unloaded the 10 shot Ruger 10/22 in At @ 50-75 yards... Big male yote.... It ran down canyon and was about to jump a creek 240 or so yards away when I leveled it with my 243... Turns out he hit it at least 8 times... 4 of them being in the heart lung area 4 others in it's ass.... I'm sure it would've died... But it could've been miles away by then... :dunno: And had one shot @ 45 yards same set up with the 10/22 broadside and it dropped..
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: Bofire on December 12, 2012, 09:21:20 AM: shot one in the chest once about 50 yards, it jumped got up and took off. I killed that yote about 6 months later the bullet had penetrated about 1/2 inch. It was sitting down facing me and the bullet a high velocity solid 22LR.
My reading indicates a barrel longer than about 10 inches actually slows 22LR down all the powder is burnt.
I might shoot at a coyote if a 22 was all I had but I would never hunt with one given an option.
Carl
Title: Re: .22?
Post by: b23 on December 12, 2012, 10:24:41 AM: I've only shot 1 with a 22LR and it didn't end well. Was about 30yrs ago and it was a 40yd shot. Hit it right behind the front shoulder. Yote lopped off and I don't know what ever happen to it.

Do I think a 22LR will kill a coyote, sure. Do I think it's the right choice, only under certain circumstances.