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YuckItUpRed
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posted November 20, 2012 10:44 AM
This is the final pile from the GTG minus a few foxes that were skinned. All in all it was pretty successful and I got to meet a few new fellow hunters. Only bad part was backing into a cactus while helping set up a tent. I failed to realize it was a cactus and not a catclaw due to lack of light. Haha.
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Leonard
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posted November 20, 2012 12:10 PM
Yes, but the help was appreciated, nonetheless. Cactus awareness is vital, anywhere in AZ. Especially Cholla, "The Jumping Cactus".
I remember feeling sorry for a coyote, one night. He was fringed and ran straight into a buckhorn cholla before collapsing. When I went out and put a light on him, not yet dead, his face was all pinned with dozens of spines and it wasn't pretty. I'm sure he won't soon forget CACTUS AWARENESS.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: full disclosure: those are my blown up and worthless grays in the foreground.
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KaBloomR
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posted November 20, 2012 03:49 PM
What happened to the Gray in the front? It looks like it went trolling for Great Whites... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Prune Picker
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posted November 20, 2012 04:01 PM
That is a heck of a tally, very impressive! What cal rifles were you using?
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YuckItUpRed
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posted November 20, 2012 04:05 PM
The two coyotes and the two foxes at the top right of the pic were mine and I killed the coytoes with my .22-250 and the foxes with my 12 gauge shooting 3" 00 Buck. Foxes were four and six yards. One coyote was killed with a Saiga something.something something. Hahaha. Another coyote was with a 12 gauge shooting 3-1/2" #4 buck. As for the rest, I couldn't tell ya.
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Lone Howl
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posted November 20, 2012 04:19 PM
That fox looks like it got split open with a light sabor. Great pile o fur Red!
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Leonard
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posted November 20, 2012 04:23 PM
In my defense, I didn't have a shotgun with me. They were all shot with my 22/243 Middlested, 62 gr. Berger. Looks worse than it was. <gulp>
Good hunting. Lima Bravo.
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jimanaz
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posted November 20, 2012 04:39 PM
quote:
Looks worse than it was.
I bet the foxes would differ with that opinion, lol. Dead is dead. I've yet to kill anything smaller than a coyote with my 250AI and 75 grain pills, but I bet that is a good preview. Not running the speed you are of course, but it sure is ruining the coyotes unlucky enough to run into it.
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Prune Picker
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posted November 20, 2012 05:19 PM
When i hunted with a 22-250 i used the 53 gr Sierra flat base. It wasn't bad about blowing up a coyote. I bought (by mistake for me) a couple of boxes of the 52 gr Sierra boat tail bullets and things changed, (whent to shit) blow ups, 6" holes etc. So i tried the sierra 63gr smp sierra. I used that bullet for years with great success. But i wasn't collecting fur!
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jimanaz
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posted November 20, 2012 06:26 PM
Success is a relative term in this subject. Desert coyotes brought $40-$75 in the mid '70s, but are hard to sell at any price these days. Success today to me is measured in dead coyotes regardless of how big the holes are. I built that rifle as a long range shooter with an 8 twist barrel to stabilize the heavy bullets. It does what I intended for it to do AND knocks the piss outta coyotes. Win, win.
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Leonard
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posted November 20, 2012 07:28 PM
Agreed, I just want them dead and that build is strictly a coyote rifle. As it happened, I rode with another guy and left my "shottie" in my truck. I felt at a disadvantage, but made due with what I had. I know it looks ugly, but.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: and I'm committed to that bullet for the time being.
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posted November 20, 2012 08:02 PM
I was wondering how many different cal guns were used. Can ya kill one too dead? I don't think so unless you are fur hunting.
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Leonard
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posted November 20, 2012 08:33 PM
Hmm? Well, I know that Paul used a 22-250 on one of those coyotes and pretty much the rest of them were killed with shotgun except one Ar type rifle chambered in a russian cartridge.
Good hunting. LB
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stangguyaz
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posted November 20, 2012 08:59 PM
Leonard thanks again for teaching me a little of what you know. My rifle that I shot the coyote with using the skills that Leonard and Eric taught me is a Armalite AR10 .308 loaded with 42.5gr imr 4895 pushing 155gr smk s. But since I hunted with Leonard I just call it my machine gun and the names sticking can wait to get out again.
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stangguyaz
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posted November 20, 2012 09:12 PM
Here's a pick of the coyote I shot at the gtg and it also has my machine gun in it to,
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Leonard
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posted November 20, 2012 10:39 PM
Welcome to The New HuntmastersBBS.com, stangguyaz. Glad to have you on board.
Good hunting. El Bee
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posted November 21, 2012 07:32 AM
diggin' the machine gun!
Leonard, I shot a gray fox with my .22-243 Sat night using a 70gr TSX going 3600-ish. I loaded them up for deer hunting, so took what I had in the stock pack for a quick night stand.
Shot was 30yds, base of the neck broadside, and the TSX just pencilled through. That cute little fox is in fine shape in the freezer. I suspect if I had my 75 Amax 'varmint' load @3500 in the pipe, I'd have been collecting up fox shrapnel with a dirt rake...
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Kokopelli
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posted November 21, 2012 09:21 AM
Uh............Stangguyaz.
That coyote you shot is one of the `White Tipped Tail` sub-sub-species of Canis Latrans Mearnsi. I know that they're legal to shoot in Maricopa County and a few other counties but I think that the White Tipped Tail ones are considered endangered in Chochise County (Az.) I could be wrong, but just a heads up, if U.S. Fish & Wildlife knocks on your door........swear that you shot it in down-town McNeil.
This sub-sub-species is so rare that some coyote hunting contests have been known to award extra points for them.
Anyway, congrats on your first coyote. Well done.
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posted November 21, 2012 01:27 PM
dont let LB shit ya...he really likes machineguns...
stay after them
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posted November 21, 2012 04:01 PM
Yeah, there was a photo.............
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stangguyaz
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posted November 21, 2012 07:04 PM
I've heard of this photo but have not seen it
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Leonard
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posted November 21, 2012 11:08 PM
You won't either, as long as I keep paying the black mail.
Good hunting. Lima Bravo
PS why did I think that machine gun was chambered in some russian cartridge? You showed it to me and it didn't look like a 308?
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posted November 22, 2012 03:09 AM
Photo?
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posted November 22, 2012 08:36 AM
LB, I shoot that 62 grain Berger in my 22x47 Lapua and love it! But as you may or may not know, the bastards quit making it. I have about 500 left.
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posted November 22, 2012 09:25 AM
Cal, Congrats to you and Cenny on your National win!
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