Shot placement on a coyote

dog1wchkr, looking back I see now why that bullet careened rather than punched on in. Noting the steep slope of a coyote's forehead. Coyote turned his head to the right a few degrees ready to run, right when I shot. Knocked him goofy TKO
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Coyote was huge larger than the 50 lber I killed yrs ago.
 
Shot mine in the inside corner of the eye, a little closer to the nose. No exit wound from first(or any of the follow up shots). Not a BIG coyote, just real old. He did have a thick skull that was for sure. I was shooting remington LR round nose.
 
That's why I mentioned the part above of headshots; "too many things can go wrong" with the low velocity rounds. Really good shot placement and good angles - it ends well. However, take a highly animated part of the body such as the head and couple that with field shooting positions, low velocity, bad angles, round nose strongly jacketed bullets, and things have a good chance of ending poorly. Bullets glancing off skulls is a well known thing, it's happened to big game hunters of many species and it has happened in shootings with people too.
 
GC Thats why I DON'T take head shots anymore or hunt coyotes with anything smaller than my 22-250s. The odds are bad. Point well taken....
 
I shot a coyote in the head with the 17 hmr. 20 gr hp complete pass through at about 40 yards. I shot one coyote at about 20 yards broadside with the 22 mag. Using 40 gr. hp it ran a bout 70 yards before dieing. The bullet went all the way through. I know my dad shot some yotes with the magnum, but will have to talk to him about bullet and placement.
 
Had one in a trap a few years back that I shot it in the head with a .22 lr out of a ruger bearcat. Went to get it out of the trap and it jumped up and tried to bite me. So I gave him another pill to the head only to knock him out for about a min. Finally the 3rd shot went through the skull and killed him. This was all at about 5 feet away from him and hitting him on the top of the skull between the ears.

Had a buddy shoot one between the eyes at 25 yards with his 10/22 and all it did was yip and run away.

But one day we bought a hog and the farmer put 6 9mm slugs in the head of the hog only to piss it off. So went to the truck grabbed the bearcat and pop dead hog.

You just never know with a head shot and slower moving firearms.
 


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