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Topic: Read about it here, seen it happen
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brad h
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posted November 14, 2004 10:18 PM
On a three dayer in ND two weeks ago, I finally got to see something I only read about here.
Had a coyote come in on a foggy morning, actually I spotted it straightly down wind of the e-caller. How it covered the 200 yard clearing I spotted it I'll never know, but it did, and while looking back I adjusted the Swift, put the crosshairs on it's chest quartering toward me and pulled the trigger.
The distance was 60 yards the bullet entered the chest and exited the opposite side (left) of the coyote, low and center. I shot it with the last of my extremely hot loads pushing a 55gr Ballistic Tip.
Historically, when I hit one in the chest, wether it be head on or quartering, it's dead before it's down. This one spun, tiped over, then got up, and picked it's guts up in it's mouth.
I don't know if it was trying to eat the guts back up or just trying to free itself of anything that might slow it down when it got reoriented. My partner put another bullet in it right away knowing a coyote can be cut in half with each end having the potential to run off never to be found.
Thought I bring it up here since this is where I first read about it (a coyote eating it's own guts that is). A coyotes will to survive is beyond comprehension in my opinion. This one was really tore up and made one hell of a mess. Even after that, was ready to leave town.
[ November 14, 2004, 10:22 PM: Message edited by: brad h ]
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Leonard
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posted November 14, 2004 10:58 PM
Tough critters, for sure.
I remember a stand at night, where just as I touched the trigger, the coyote turned suddenly, and instead of a chest shot, I don't know what it was, other than fur.
I knew I hit him, heard it, found blood and other stuff, but couldn't find him. We looked all over with flashlights, and were just about to give up when I spotted him. He was at least fifty yards from the shot, and had about twenty feet of intestine dragging that he had snagged on a creasote. And, he was tugging on it. Amazing.
Thanks for sharing, brad.
Good hunting. LB
[ November 14, 2004, 10:59 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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Locohead
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posted November 18, 2004 10:04 PM
I shot a badger once from about 8 - 10 yards away. All I did on the first shot was rip its belly open and intestines just dropped out of the bottom. That badger went into one of the most horrifying screaming fits I've ever seen. He was jumping in circles and screaming, the whole while grabbing at his intestines and biting at them.
I think the critters havn't a clue what an intestine is. They feel pain down there and look to see these squirming jiggly things and they try to rip those suckers out. Because obviously (critter think) its those squirmy things causing so much pain!!!!
In fact, (I'm thinking out loud here) I'd be willing to bet that when a coyote gets stung by a bee in his gut, he'll go to spinning and biting just like when a 55 grain hits him in the same place. He's gotta be trying to remove what ever it is causing him pain!
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