What's your longest coyote confirmed kill?
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MasterBlaster
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557 yds 223 AR-15 50gr Ballistic tip. Got another at 497 same set up.It was SHL.
Maybe we should ask what is your closest miss. I will start at 10 ft.
MB
Maybe we should ask what is your closest miss. I will start at 10 ft.
MB
cosletdecoy
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340 yards on the run, alot of luck with a 300 WSM, rolled him in the snow. it was neat to see.
accubonded
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350 yds weatherby 7mag. 175 nosler partition. After my buddy hit him on the run at 300 yds with his .338 wildcat.
A touch over 500 with a Sako .243 Varmint, slight breeze. Was able to shoot prone with a pack to use as a rest.
DRT, it's what I love about a .243.
Actually I have to modify that, I was thinking of my first over 500 yarder, but since that one I've shot a few that were between 525 and 575, much more consistently with the .243 than the .22-250 though.
DRT, it's what I love about a .243.
Actually I have to modify that, I was thinking of my first over 500 yarder, but since that one I've shot a few that were between 525 and 575, much more consistently with the .243 than the .22-250 though.
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Originally Posted By: mtwood24sounds like we got some shooters here! keep em coming! not sure if the guy that said he shot one at 1200 is pulling my leg or not. haha
It's funny you should say that, I met a group of guys that shoot at the 800 yard range in Ione, they develop loads for shooting ground squirrels at 800 to 1500 yards. They shoot with other guys and only accept confirmed and ranged kills for bragging rights to the 800/1000/1100/1200/1500 yard clubs.
One guy that bought a rifle from me showed me a bullet he uses that's a .338mag necked way down to somewhere around .26 caliber or even less, it looked like a tiny bullet on a monster case. He's done a 1200 yard squirrel with that.
He directed me to youtube videos of those type shots, they were shooting them at ranges that seem ludicrous.
My first reaction to that was to call BS.
It's funny you should say that, I met a group of guys that shoot at the 800 yard range in Ione, they develop loads for shooting ground squirrels at 800 to 1500 yards. They shoot with other guys and only accept confirmed and ranged kills for bragging rights to the 800/1000/1100/1200/1500 yard clubs.
One guy that bought a rifle from me showed me a bullet he uses that's a .338mag necked way down to somewhere around .26 caliber or even less, it looked like a tiny bullet on a monster case. He's done a 1200 yard squirrel with that.
He directed me to youtube videos of those type shots, they were shooting them at ranges that seem ludicrous.
My first reaction to that was to call BS.
Chupathingy
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Originally Posted By: MasterBlaster
Maybe we should ask what is your closest miss. I will start at 10 ft.
MB
Those are always much more fun and adrenaline pumping. Closest miss I can recall is about 20yds with a shotgun no less! I'm terrible with a shotgun, but its so much fun.
Chupa
Maybe we should ask what is your closest miss. I will start at 10 ft.
MB
Those are always much more fun and adrenaline pumping. Closest miss I can recall is about 20yds with a shotgun no less! I'm terrible with a shotgun, but its so much fun.
Chupa
rynokron
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Furthest hit was 250 on the run with a witness. You guys that make those long shots amaze me! Something I'd like to get better at. Closest miss was about 20 feet! Didn't have a shell chambered in the 12 guage. Heard me rack one in after the dreaded click and ran off with me throwing some lead behind it. Good times.
canislatrans54
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I'm a "wimp", I guess.
My confirmed longest was 256 yds.
Standing female, broadside.
Sept. 19, '06
Shot with a .223 Stevens #200; Simmons 3x9x50 scope; Hornady 55 gr V-Max.
Shooting off of homemade shooting sticks.
Initial shot/hit was at a mere 75 yds.
She went down like a sack of rocks.
But, while I was attending to her kin (called 5 together, killed 3 of them)...she got up & started to leave.
She made the "mistake" of stopping for a final look back (although she would've died anyway), at the 256 mark.
A 2nd shot put in her there & she never moved again.
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I've never been overly confident in taking extra-long shots...on any animal.
So I've always tried not to take shots past an "estimated" range of 300 yds.
I figure that if I can't get them to commit to coming as close as possible, then I'm better off giving them a "pass" for that day, & trying to call them again some other time.
Probably 90% of my shots are between 30-100 yds.
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Closest miss?
Probably was about 20 feet! Coyote scared the heck out of me!
Not sure of the exact date...sometime during the winter of '95-'96 though.
That was the winter that I switched from hunting the "old-fashioned way", to learning to use calls to bring them to me.
I remember the exact location I was calling at...a mile long creek bottom, & I was sitting on the exact 1/2-mile line, with my back against an old tree.
The call used was a Crit'r Call Standard. Gun was a Chinese Norinco SKS, with open sights. Ammo: el-cheapo 124 gr Wolf hollow points.
A few minutes into the stand, a coyote came buzzing past me on my right-hand side...from behind me! He looked like he was shot out of a cannon, as he went by me!
Like I say, it scared the heck out of me, & I just instinctively "threw" the rifle to my shoulder, & hardly aimed.
I remember that the bullet hit the trunk of another tree...about 3 ft too high, & about 10 yds too far behind, since I hadn't bothered to lead the coyote at all before pulling the trigger. hahaha
(Poor excuse, but this was only about the 10th coyote I had ever called, after making probably 4-5 times that many stands.)
My confirmed longest was 256 yds.
Standing female, broadside.
Sept. 19, '06
Shot with a .223 Stevens #200; Simmons 3x9x50 scope; Hornady 55 gr V-Max.
Shooting off of homemade shooting sticks.
Initial shot/hit was at a mere 75 yds.
She went down like a sack of rocks.
But, while I was attending to her kin (called 5 together, killed 3 of them)...she got up & started to leave.
She made the "mistake" of stopping for a final look back (although she would've died anyway), at the 256 mark.
A 2nd shot put in her there & she never moved again.
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I've never been overly confident in taking extra-long shots...on any animal.
So I've always tried not to take shots past an "estimated" range of 300 yds.
I figure that if I can't get them to commit to coming as close as possible, then I'm better off giving them a "pass" for that day, & trying to call them again some other time.
Probably 90% of my shots are between 30-100 yds.
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Closest miss?
Probably was about 20 feet! Coyote scared the heck out of me!
Not sure of the exact date...sometime during the winter of '95-'96 though.
That was the winter that I switched from hunting the "old-fashioned way", to learning to use calls to bring them to me.
I remember the exact location I was calling at...a mile long creek bottom, & I was sitting on the exact 1/2-mile line, with my back against an old tree.
The call used was a Crit'r Call Standard. Gun was a Chinese Norinco SKS, with open sights. Ammo: el-cheapo 124 gr Wolf hollow points.
A few minutes into the stand, a coyote came buzzing past me on my right-hand side...from behind me! He looked like he was shot out of a cannon, as he went by me!
Like I say, it scared the heck out of me, & I just instinctively "threw" the rifle to my shoulder, & hardly aimed.
I remember that the bullet hit the trunk of another tree...about 3 ft too high, & about 10 yds too far behind, since I hadn't bothered to lead the coyote at all before pulling the trigger. hahaha
(Poor excuse, but this was only about the 10th coyote I had ever called, after making probably 4-5 times that many stands.)
Chupathingy
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That was an awesome story Will. I could probably count the shots I've taken over 200 yards on 2 hands.
Chupa
Chupa
Ky Fur Buster
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Best I've done was 378 yards with a Rem 700 vtr in 223, coyote was dead on arrival of the 68 gr smk.
WyFox
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Just shy of 600 yards with my 204 and 40 Berger, it was a DRT too!! I had a Swarovski 6-18x50 with the ballistic turret set at 600 yards.
I practice at 600 yards all the time at our local range, even get cocky and shoot the 900 yard gong with the 204 when I get guys next to me saying the 204 is no good past 300 yards.
I practice at 600 yards all the time at our local range, even get cocky and shoot the 900 yard gong with the 204 when I get guys next to me saying the 204 is no good past 300 yards.
frozenbutt
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Closest miss? Close enough that when I turned to see what was running at me we locked eyes and he started to spray pee everywhere and it got on me. Stupid scope.
Friday a pal estimated along w/my guestimate a coyote at 1200 yards, may have been more. It was standing broadside to us & I told him to dial his 243AI & shoot it since he had the ballistic table on his Ipad, he wimped out, even though we shoot to 700 yards at the range all the time & he has it to 1500 yards on his tablet.
I dialed up my old BSA target scope 3.8 full turns up on the 6x45 and dang it, I hit about 16 feet low and 4 feet right! I knew I should of went 5 full turns up!
DRTCTI!!!....Dust right there close to it.
The coyote just looked about then left like nothing happened.
Im sure if it hit it would of hurt a bit & I would of been stoked.
I did miss a double at less than 90 yds with the same gun in March. Dummy me I left it on 24x from the range the prior day. They came running in to my call & 4 shots later they were still running, but away. 80yd at 24x on a coyote, not going to see them well at all!
I dialed up my old BSA target scope 3.8 full turns up on the 6x45 and dang it, I hit about 16 feet low and 4 feet right! I knew I should of went 5 full turns up!
DRTCTI!!!....Dust right there close to it.
The coyote just looked about then left like nothing happened.
Im sure if it hit it would of hurt a bit & I would of been stoked.
I did miss a double at less than 90 yds with the same gun in March. Dummy me I left it on 24x from the range the prior day. They came running in to my call & 4 shots later they were still running, but away. 80yd at 24x on a coyote, not going to see them well at all!
I believe I have made further "hail mary" type shots when I was younger, or went shooting at a wounded animal. But my furthest confirmed CALLED shot was 440 yards.
I was taking a new caller out, and we got a double to come in, that hung up way out there.
We both saw them, and he was hesitant to take the shot at such a long distance, even though they were on "his side"
So I turned around took a quick look, and said in a confident voice "I can get that"
"Just a touch under 450, about 25 clicks on the old scope" Really playing it up for the new guy.
BOOM 1 dead coyote. But the female saw her mate drop and stood there just long enough
BOOM 2 dead coyotes.
We went out an paced it off at 450 steps.
He is an experianced rifle shooter, and was floored that I could estimate range that well, and then knew the bullet drop.
What I didn't tell him was... we were on one fence line in a field divided into 1/8 sections and the coyotes stopped on the other fence(making it 440 yards no range finder needed). And by a coincidence I had glanced at the 450 yard bullet drop printed on my box of ammo as we got out of the truck.
EDIT: For clarity, the field was divided weirdly, and somewhat difficult to explain, but the long and short of it, we were on one fence, and the other fence with the coyotes was exactly 440 yards away.
I was taking a new caller out, and we got a double to come in, that hung up way out there.
We both saw them, and he was hesitant to take the shot at such a long distance, even though they were on "his side"
So I turned around took a quick look, and said in a confident voice "I can get that"
"Just a touch under 450, about 25 clicks on the old scope" Really playing it up for the new guy.
BOOM 1 dead coyote. But the female saw her mate drop and stood there just long enough
BOOM 2 dead coyotes.
We went out an paced it off at 450 steps.
He is an experianced rifle shooter, and was floored that I could estimate range that well, and then knew the bullet drop.
What I didn't tell him was... we were on one fence line in a field divided into 1/8 sections and the coyotes stopped on the other fence(making it 440 yards no range finder needed). And by a coincidence I had glanced at the 450 yard bullet drop printed on my box of ammo as we got out of the truck.
EDIT: For clarity, the field was divided weirdly, and somewhat difficult to explain, but the long and short of it, we were on one fence, and the other fence with the coyotes was exactly 440 yards away.
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