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Title: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: nateshooter89 on February 11, 2013, 11:27:38 PM
what are the firearm rules on coyote if any? and has anyone hunted the rosalia area for coyotes?
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: bobcat on February 11, 2013, 11:31:55 PM
Pretty much anything goes, from 22 Short to 50 BMG.   :tup:
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: bear hunter on February 12, 2013, 12:42:51 AM
Pretty much anything goes, from 22 Short to 50 BMG.   :tup:
:yeah: I saw a guy shooting one at 50 yards with a 50 BMG. Just stick a dynamite stick up a coyote butt a light. You get the picture. Crazy *censored*.
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: mitchfiling on February 12, 2013, 09:23:54 PM
would a .22 short even kill a yote humanily...reason im asking is .22lrs are very hard to find now but there is still a crap load of shorts and they are half the price :twocents:
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: KFhunter on February 12, 2013, 09:32:28 PM
Pretty much anything goes, from 22 Short to 50 BMG.   :tup:
:yeah: I saw a guy shooting one at 50 yards with a 50 BMG. Just stick a dynamite stick up a coyote butt a light. You get the picture. Crazy *censored*.

I was just imagining a  50 BMG Z-Max round  :chuckle:

(no they don't make it, but they should)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunsandammo.com%2Ffiles%2F2011%2F10%2F316319_10150349685928369_80176223368_8118710_1939886866_n.jpg&hash=26ce45215579cff8d182e6c2b755f9fa1441f5a7)
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: Noiro on February 13, 2013, 08:56:17 AM
Can anyone post the specific reg for firearm restrictions?
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: JLS on February 13, 2013, 09:12:01 AM
Here you go.

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=232-12-242 (http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=232-12-242)

Outside of these seasons you can use any caliber you want.
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: lokidog on February 13, 2013, 10:54:40 AM
would a .22 short even kill a yote humanily...reason im asking is .22lrs are very hard to find now but there is still a crap load of shorts and they are half the price :twocents:

NO!  Not even in a live trap.  We have flattened them on coon skulls at point blank.  Of course, stick one through a lung, it will probably die, but I would not guess quickly or humanely.   :twocents:
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: couesbitten on February 13, 2013, 11:10:36 AM
When I read that link, I think it's saying that I can hunt coyotes with any caliber I want to, but if I'm using a 240 or larger caliber, and a deer or elk season is open, I have to have a tag in my possession.
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: JLS on February 13, 2013, 11:54:38 AM
When I read that link, I think it's saying that I can hunt coyotes with any caliber I want to, but if I'm using a 240 or larger caliber, and a deer or elk season is open, I have to have a tag in my possession.

You got it 8)
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: FALFire on February 13, 2013, 01:58:41 PM
When I read that link, I think it's saying that I can hunt coyotes with any caliber I want to, but if I'm using a 240 or larger caliber, and a deer or elk season is open, I have to have a tag in my possession.

Yep...just another stupid law that the Game drones came up with. Like you can't kill/poach a deer or an elk with a 22-250 or 223..... Those people are regular geniuses I tell ya  :rolleyes:

I stood next to a Game Officer in Raymond, Wa. one evening and watched him shoot a deer that had just been shot but was not dead yet, he shot it 9 times in the head with a .22LR pump action rifle while he stood over it waiting for it to die. I offered up my 12 gauge but he refused to use it  :dunno: I saw this doe rolling down a hill next to the highway, as I pulled up to the vehicle that was stopped they got in and left in a hurry, it was after dark, my suspicion was they were spotlighting, so I called 911. Gamie showed up within about 20 minutes, I told him what I saw then he euthanized the deer, however, one 00 buck would have done the deed more efficiently.  :twocents:
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: bobbydean on April 08, 2013, 12:55:54 PM
Is there a round capacity restriction? I was going to try hunting yotes with my AR but not sure if I can only have five rounds in the mag or all thirty rounds of rock and roll
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: Jrzbullelk on April 08, 2013, 01:02:25 PM
Is there a round capacity restriction? I was going to try hunting yotes with my AR but not sure if I can only have five rounds in the mag or all thirty rounds of rock and roll
:yeah:
and is there restrictions on big game hunting also
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: CP on April 08, 2013, 01:03:49 PM
Is there a round capacity restriction? I was going to try hunting yotes with my AR but not sure if I can only have five rounds in the mag or all thirty rounds of rock and roll
:yeah:
and is there restrictions on big game hunting also

No to both questions -
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: bobcat on April 08, 2013, 01:04:54 PM
You can use a one-thousand round magazine, if you can get one that big. Deer, elk, bear, coyote, doesn't matter. There are no restrictions on magazine capacity.
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: bobbydean on April 08, 2013, 01:11:02 PM
Well in that case the 4th of July may be here the next time I see a coyote in my cross hairs :) can't wait!
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: Jingles on April 08, 2013, 01:14:22 PM
My understanding is the only magazine limits are hunting upland game and waterfowl. Limited to 3 rounds
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: bobcat on April 08, 2013, 01:18:48 PM
Well in that case the 4th of July may be here the next time I see a coyote in my cross hairs :) can't wait!

Try to get that on video too, if you can. I'd love to see it.  :tup:
Title: Re: firearm restrictions on coyote
Post by: bobbydean on April 08, 2013, 01:27:38 PM
I'm new to coyote hunting but I will do my best bobcat
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