[diggler1833]

More blood for the M24R yesterday morning:

I had a sick calf die, so I've used the carcass as bait the last few days. Almost zero coyote activity (I usually bust them at night with a thermal).

As dawn rose yesterday, I spotted one at what I guessed was about 210'ish from the back porch. He wasn't on the calf carcass, but was eating colostrum shit. I grabbed what I had handy (the M24) and slipped out the door.

Put the dial on 2, held high spine as the coyote was at a hard quarter to me and let fly. Heard the thump, regained the target...coyote was down hard, but was alive and trying to see what was pinning it down ...it was now perfectly broadside. Held 3" or so higher and let another fly. Saw that impact just behind the shoulder. Rolled it a second time and saw the steam come off.

Lasered at 244 yards (on a 210 guess) when I put out hay a half hour later. The first shot had entered about 1/3 of the way from the bottom (~3" below where I aimed). It probably took out a lung, but that 175gr SMK basically eviscerated the stomach and intestines, leaving probably a 10" opening...I'm guessing it was tumbling. It was mortal for sure, but I felt better about giving a finisher.

.308 (7.62x51), 175gr SMK at 2575 FPS.

The yote:

The rifle:

My last group at 250 with it:

 

[Bear Sits In The Woods]

Good group and great guess on the distance. That sucker did some damage.
When is the next video coming out?

 

[dennishoddy]

Awesome shot on that coyote. That match king sure did some damage.

Buddy and I went out last year in the shadows of a wind turbine to call.
Set the decoy and speaker in the wheat field about 100 yds out in a wheat field. While calling, the shadow of the wind turbine blades was coming by but it didn’t bother the dog. He came out of the trees and stood at the edge until the .55 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip from the .243 WSSM put his lights out at around 80 yds. No exit wound.
I do like some carnage though like in your pic!

 

[diggler1833]

Awesome shot on that coyote. That match king sure did some damage.

Buddy and I went out last year in the shadows of a wind turbine to call.
Set the decoy and speaker in the wheat field about 100 yds out in a wheat field. While calling, the shadow of the wind turbine blades was coming by but it didn’t bother the dog. He came out of the trees and stood at the edge until the .55 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip from the .243 WSSM put his lights out at around 80 yds. No exit wound.
I do like some carnage though like in your pic! View attachment 10252

That dog sure has a pretty coat.

 

[retrieverman]

I killed a couple back in the fall.

 

[dennishoddy]

I killed a couple back in the fall.
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Awesome!
I think its about the time new baby's are being born. I'll have to look that up for confirmation so if it is, a pup in distress call is about as good as it gets.

 

[retrieverman]

Awesome!
I think its about the time new baby's are being born. I'll have to look that up for confirmation so if it is, a pup in distress call is about as good as it gets.

I didn’t call those two. They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

[Bullbuster]

I shot this guy with my Glock 22 .40.

 

[dennishoddy]

I shot this guy with my Glock 22 .40.
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That's not Oklahoma in the background, so did you get that dog recently?

 

[baby]

In Missouri where I am originally from there were two ways to hunt them. One was with the Amish with a coyote drive. The other way was with dogs. Now I just pop them with my 870 12ga Super Mag at my pond when I was duck hunting

 

[diggler1833]

As we get closer to pupping season, which is immediately followed by fawning season I start to go looking for coyotes around here more. If I can keep 1-2 more fawns alive on the property and reduce predator pressure a bit, I hope that the deer numbers continue to increase.

Plus I have calves on the deck. Had a big male get in the middle of the one herd several times a week or so ago and got everyone riled up. Caught him the third time and had to take a less-than-ideal shot, but everything worked out perfectly.

Now that we can shoot them a bit more freely at night, I'll put this dude on YouTube shortly.

Super-extra-bonus is that I've had my bald eagles back and feeding on the coyote carcasses the past week. Boy are they fun to watch.

 

[Bullbuster]

That's not Oklahoma in the background, so did you get that dog recently?

That was about 15 miles south of here. I shot that about 1.5 years ago. We were headed home from the mountains and he was just laying down by a fence row. I got out and he stood up so I gave him a double tap of Gold Dot LE Defense to the chest. Shot test checked 5.0 DRT.

 

[diggler1833]

Still usually shoot them at night.

However I noticed one in my herd this morning as the sun rose.

Played the game of laying prone on my concrete patio in my skivvies in 45* and had to thread the needle between moving cattle. It was about a cow's width window.

My rangefinder was dead, so I guessed 275, and dialed .9 mils on my 6.5x47 shooting 120gr Scenar-L at 2,780 FPS.

Got a perfect window, and a perfect broadside in about 2 MPH wind. Saw the impact and watched the coyote break down in two stages, ass first hitting the ground, and then the front collapsing. Gave myself an internal high five as the coyote flopped a few times...then flopped some more.

Waited for another window and then tried a head-on shot on the flopping coyote that was biting back at its side now. Saw the impact as the bullet skipped off the face and then run down its side and into the hip area.

Coyote stopped moving so I went back inside and loaded two more back into my magazine. Walked back to my dining room windows...damn coyote is still moving.

Repeated the setup and let one fly into the middle of the neck. I finally saw that I was about .1 mil high, so I came down a tenth. That got him to stop moving, but I was hyper sensitive at that point and swore I saw breathing. The 4th and final round when through the head, top to bottom.

Range ended up being 258 when I got my backup rangefinder out. I'm familiar with the land layout, so I knew I wouldn't be off much on the guess.

When I put out hay, I went over and surveyed the mess. That first shot went through and through...nothing but some blood loss on the entry side where he laid (still alive) for a good minute or two.

Entry point (the bloodiest) and exit are marked by blue dots because you wouldn't see them otherwise.

Here's the 3rd and 4th impacts. Note: with a bone strike, I got the bullets to tumble and leave much larger asymmetric exits.

At this point I'm not real sold on the 120gr Scenar-L for killing anything but steel. Yeah, with a bone strike I got good inadvertent exit wounds. However just about any hunting bullet would have been more humane. I couldn't feel any broken ribs from the first shot, so I guess I just got "lucky" and slipped between them.

As always, I suck at everything, and YMMV.

 

[dennishoddy]

Good shooting! I'm going to have to agree with you on that 120 grain Scenar. I'd think that first shot should have done the trick.

 

[diggler1833]

Good shooting! I'm going to have to agree with you on that 120 grain Scenar. I'd think that first shot should have done the trick.

I bet it needs a good 8" of soft tissue travel before it yaws and starts to do some real damage.

Only problem is you don't get 8" of soft tissue on a lot of animals.

Of course, we both know that first hit was mortal. But 60-120 seconds on a double lung can have something half a county away if you don't incapacitate it.

 

[dennishoddy]

I guess that's why they design varmint bullets to do what they do in a short distance.

 

[diggler1833]

I guess that's why they design varmint bullets to do what they do in a short distance.

Which is precisely why I get a headache, and have to argue with strangers on the internet when they mention using a varmint bullet for self-defense 😄.