How far does the coyote run after a heart/lung?

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For the first time, I was told that "As predators go Coyotes faint like Rabbits" after being hit with a heart/lung shot, even with the equivelant of a .22Short. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Even though I have no personal experience in the matter, I think they are full of it, and told them I'd never heard such a thing from the predator hunters I have corresponded with.

They replied that anyone that thought they needed more gun than a weak .22 was just a "weekend warrior" and wasn't a very good shot.

I was under the impression that the coyote, pound for pound, is very hard to kill. Am I wrong?

How long is the average run when hit properly in the heart/lung area?
 
If your out calling coyotes with a 22 and hope to kill it you better hit it in the heart or lungs
The average run properly hit in the heart/lungs with a 22-250 55gr Nosler balistic tip and 35.5 of Varget is about -1 step

22-250 dont leave home with out it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowingsmilie.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowingsmilie.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowingsmilie.gif
 
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TexasTweeter, I was trying to find netting just today. I know of one guy that found some in the Halloween section of a department store so I went looking.

PayLess has a HUGE Halloween section. I did find some netting (big bag, too) with about 1 inch squares made out of what looked like jute, and am considering it as I can't find anything else around. Think it would work?

I guess if I have to, I will order the stuff in the first link I sent you in a PM.

I'm painting my gun tomorrow, and the ghillie suit is the next project on the list as I only need the netting, and one or two more simple items to get going on it.

After hearing about some accidents with burlap ghillie's catching fire, and killing a few folks, I have been considering incorporating something else (the second link I sent you in a PM).

What do you think? Should I just stick with burlap and get some really good fire retardent?
 
So how far would you expect the average run to be when hit in the heart/lung with what amounts to be a .22 short? This guy is telling people that coyotes have a really weak physiology, which goes against everything I have ever been told by actual predator hunters.

I think it's just some troll kid trying to act like an experienced hunter. But people are listening.

And so everyone knows, I would never shoot one with such a load. I'm going to be hitting them with a big slug.
 
I shot a dozen with the .17 remington and factory loads last year and most ran about 35-50 yards and collapsed.
 
Get yourself some coyote hunting videos you will see all kinds of impact hits and what happens after.Shot placement is the key but heart or lung shot they tend to run as far as they can /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
I wouldn't even think of shooting a coyote with a .22 rimfire....ever.

But, to answer your question on how far could one run on a heart/lung shot...I've got one on film that was shot at 200 yds with a .223 through the heart, a few years ago. It ran a complete circle in the open field, before finally tipping over. It had ran a good 250 yards or more, before running out of gas. When we picked it up, the shot had took the heart out so well that parts of it were hanging out the exit hole. I learned a new respect to what 'tough' was.

Tony
 
Coyotes are frickin' tough... tougher than anything I've ever shot. I've seen a lot of dogs go 30-100 yards after taking rounds right through the boiler room.

.22 rimfire? No way.
.22 centerfire? Still not my choice.
.243/6mm Rem? Now we're getting somewhere on coyote rounds.
.25-06? That's my Huckleberry!
 
Sounds to me like someone is trying to push someones buttons. No avid predator hunter would even concider useing something that small. Very childish. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

One shot,one kill,DRT.
 
These suckers are tough like Quaterboard said. I lost a dog once with 3 rounds in him all I could see in my scope was red on one whole side of the dog and he ran more than 500 yards into some maple trees in the fall and I could not track the blood to find him. I know he was hit 3 times, I will admit 2 of those 3 shots were on the run so they could have been fairly poor placement but the first one got at least one lung and he still ran that far.
 
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So how far would you expect the average run to be when hit in the heart/lung with what amounts to be a .22 short? This guy is telling people that coyotes have a really weak physiology, which goes against everything I have ever been told by actual predator hunters.

I think it's just some troll kid trying to act like an experienced hunter. But people are listening.

And so everyone knows, I would never shoot one with such a load. I'm going to be hitting them with a big slug.



Invite that person to come here and tell of his experiences with weak coyotes, real life experiences only count btw. I think he'll get an education about coyote toughness pretty quick. And he calls others "weekend warriors..." /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
I have an acquaintance that knows everything about anything and most of the time he hasn't even had one experience on the subject to which he's an expert on. He's a "know it all." Or at least he thinks. A wise old man once told me this and I'll never forget it, "believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see." Stick with what you know from your own experiences and don't let someone who "know's it all" tell you otherwise. Just my .02
 
I have seldom seen a heart or low lung shot coyote go DRT... They have always ran, sometimes 40yds sometimes 200yds, depends on the coyote I guess. We have several great pieces of educational footage of this exact thing..
 
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I have used 22-250 and had them roll on themselves tracking = zero . furthest with a good hit 30 yards. I use fragmenting bullets and it eats up thier insides real bad. Frint of the yote has next to no mark and inside it looks like a granade went off. Exit wound depends on how far they are when shot.
 
I'm in the middle of a debate with some ^%#$^%#'s over at Rimfire Central about using rimfires for yotes. It all started when a new hunter was wanting to go yote tippin with a 22 mag. I informed to get a more suitable gun AFTER he started calling yotes. That has started a flame war with some of the guys touting the rimfires as giant slayers and then spouting that the members here at PM are a bunch of guys that like to turn yotes into mist with our overly powerful centerfire guns. They spout on and on about every coyote they hit with 22lrs, 22 mags, and 17mags are DRT with zero runners. It's almost sickening to see the crap some of them spew.

Here's my experience with rimfires. I've seen 3 yotes shot with rimfires. 1 head shot with a 22LR and 2 chest shots with a 22 mag. None of the coyotes were recovered. Not only do rimfires not anchor a yote but yotes bleed very little when hit with a rimfire and it makes tracking them almost impossible. There is no way to tell how far these yotes ran because after a 100 yards or so the blood trail ran out.

Will a rimfire kill a yote, Yep. Will some be DRT, maybe. I'm sure all the ones I saw get shot with rimfires died. But unless you can you can see for miles around and not lose sight of the yote for a long ways after the hit you'dd better give up. IMHO, Once a yote makes it to cover your odds of recovering a rimfire shot yote dwindle.

CB

BTW, I've only had 1 yote shot with my 22-250 run at all. It made it about 10 ft. The rest were all DRT.
 
I've killed 3 or 4 adult cows/steers with a .22LR between the eyes, so there's no doubt you could kill a coyote with one.
Reliably under field conditions? No.
If I called one into 25 yards and machine-gunned it with my 10/22?
Yeah, I think so. Not a very humane way to take animals, though, in my opinion.
 


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