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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted January 02, 2016 06:34 PM
We were working around the area we call "The Morgue" yesterday and I made what is one of the most unusual shots I've ever made.
We don't call much anymore over the small pasture that borders the feedlot that sources the dead pile that pretty much affects coyote numbers in a five mile radius, if not more. The first year we hunted there, we took about a dozen coyotes. Three years ago, we took 38 there. The past two years, the numbers have slowly dwindled as we concurrently observed higher numbers in surrounding sections, indicating that coyotes that survived seemed to actually be teaching their pups to not be anywhere near that place when the sun comes up.
Anyway, the place is a major mange problem and we continue to make every effort to cull any coyotes that show mange as a way of trying to keep them from infecting the whole damned neighborhood. Mostly, we do this by doing a simple drive thru along the south side of the place and whack any coyotes we push out ahead of us from the truck. Lucky if we see one coyote anymore. Used to see as many as six or seven.
Anyway, had one bust out on my side of the truck yesterday quartering away from me and to the rear. By the time I got on him with my AR, he was a hundred-plus away. I hit a couple times right behind him and made corrections on the fly. AT about 175, I took a shot that literally ricocheted off a frozen dirt clod about a foot to the coyote's right hip before enough of the bullet struck him in the right side of the neck and putting him down. I hurried out to where he lay to put him down. His hindlegs were out of commission and he could barely stand on his front legs because of his right foreleg being mostly out of commission. I got back to the truck and K asks me how in the hell I got him. I asked him what he saw and he saw exactly what I saw, heard the ricochet, too. I told him that I prefer a broadside shot over running straight away so I just bounced one off that clod to hit him in the side rather than in the ass. He wasn't buying the lie. LOL
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Lonny
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posted January 03, 2016 06:56 AM
It just wasn't that coyotes day... That is one shot that just might not happen again, but ya take whatever comes your way!
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Leonard
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posted January 03, 2016 08:53 AM
You don't handload, do you, Lance? I didn't even know you made stands with a machine gun? But, what kind of bullet would ricochet off a (frozen) dirt clod, at a pretty severe angle?
One of those, rather be lucky than good, situations.
The type of luck I like is when they are moving away, then stop suddenly to take a dump. Another gift is a coyote that checks up to bite at a cactus spine in his paw. Gives you just enough time to center him up. That's on kicked out coyotes, not usually "called" animals.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: anybody ever shot a coyote you couldn't see? I have.
[ January 03, 2016, 08:54 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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Kokopelli
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posted January 03, 2016 02:02 PM
Ok...............I'll bite;
How does one shoot a coyote one can't see and still be a responsible Boy Scout ????
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Leonard
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posted January 03, 2016 02:56 PM
Well, he was slightly downhill and all i could see was the very tips of his ears, and looking straight at my lip squeak. So, i just came down about 5 inches and shot through the CRP. A little luck, plus I heard the plop and had a pretty good idea where Id find him. Really split his skull wide open.
Thats my story and i am sticking to it!
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted January 03, 2016 07:18 PM
Last thing first, yes I did hit one I couldn't see. Was tracking one through the glass as it ran away quartering left to right. Just as I shot, I realized my lead was shooting right into CRP grass. Coyote was completely out of sight and I have no idea how that Vmax bullet didn't frag going through that switch grass, but it did. I was shocked when I heard the meat report. Even more shocked to find the coyote laying their dead when I got out there.
I bought an AR about three seasons ago as prep for the insurrection. Figured it would be a truck gun because I loved my 22-250 so much. Over time, with the ranges we shoot, it became my front line rifle out to 200 yards. If we're hunting the big grass country, I have the 22-250 and yes, I hand load for it. But, not for the AR. K and I have a hard and fast rule - no spray and pray. We try our best for one shot-one kill and have gelled into a pretty effective team on stand. He uses an AR as well. Example: Had a single reply over 500 yards of open wheatfield this morning. It was on K's side and I was doing the DJ, so I let him take the shot. Even though I had it in the wires all the way in. K started barking to stop him, and he ignored him. I barked louder and growlier and he started to do that stiff legged slowing down bouncy thing. 35 yards out. K shot, hitting him through midship. He went down, jumped back up and began that bucking bronc thing trying to get some legs under him. I had a second shot to anchor him before K even reacquired him in his scope. Wasn't necessary, took out the bases of both lungs just fore of the diaphragm.
The bullet in the case of the bank shot is the standard 55grn Vmax. How it held together to make the hit stumps me, too. My best guess is that the base of the bullet is what whacked him while the rest just fragged all over the place. We both heard it "zing" at impact and both saw the dirt clod explode with the coyote cartwheeling out the other side spinning to its right and yelping. When I got to him, he had one apparent entry wound midway down the neck on the right side. Mangy as hell. Put a round through his head and left him where he lay. And yes, I'll take lucky over god any day. Lucky's more memorable.
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posted January 05, 2016 11:02 AM
Breeding season is right around the corner.
Clean up them doubles, like THIS!!!
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Leonard
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posted January 05, 2016 02:32 PM
Yeah , the first time I tried that knife trick, i only got one BFD!
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