Where to go to view the ultimate walking coyote sniping rifle?

Interesting thread title. Walking and sniping generally don't belong in the same sentence. For lightweight in a long distance platform, Christensen Arms makes a couple of options if you don't want to go full custom. As others have said, just about any sub moa rifle with the right optic, practice, and good dope will take you to 400 yards.
 
Ok what are you currently shooting and having trouble with hitting at 300 yards? What optics are you using? Give us exact specs on your rifle ie what’s your trigger break at, how comfortable are you behind the scope, is there flex when shooting off your bipod, are you reloading if not what ammo you shooting and what kind of accuracy are you getting at 100/200 yards what caliper are you currently shooting. There is a lot that can take into consideration. If you want to do a cheaper build go off a savage action they can be had for reasonable price and can do all the work your self.
 
I was in to 3d archery for many years and enjoyed it a lot.

I saw a lot of high dollar unlimited bows with fancy sights
and long stabilizers. Guys were using expensive releases and
arrows, shooting the unlimited class.

I shot in the limited class (fingers and fixed sights).

There was a guy that was in the limited class with a bow that
looked like he bought it at a yard sale, or owned it for ever.
I think it was a Bear whitetail compound.

That bow launched arrows with the ballistics of scud missiles.
He knew his equipment and knew how to use it, he was also good
at guessing the yardage to the target. (unmarked distances).

I remember him scoring well at posting, and wonder how he would have
done in the unlimited class if he would have had the equipment.

But I remember hearing how successful he was in taking elk and deer
during archery season, (from guys that knew him and wanted to be like him)

He had the knowledge and skills out in the field, and knew his equipment
and limitations.

I know this was long winded, but I know there are a lot of guys out there
with cheaper rifles, good calls, (mouth and electronic) and have the experience
and patients to sit still and make good set ups.

I'm sorry for taking everybody around the mountain to come back to the same point,
just get out there and have some fun.
 
I have been taking coyotes over 350 with my Tikka T3X Superlight with a Zeiss scope. My past posts state lasered ranges.
Once in a while we shoot a friends 600 yd target.
Practice and technique go a long way here regardless of the gun.
Confidence is a big deal here.
 
Originally Posted By: tripod3I have been taking coyotes over 350 with my Tikka T3X Superlight with a Zeiss scope. My past posts state lasered ranges.
Once in a while we shoot a friends 600 yd target.
Practice and technique go a long way here regardless of the gun.
Confidence is a big deal here.

With shooting sticks or bipod?
 
I shoot half MOA from the bench and from a bipod w/kimber montana 243 win w/1-12 twist with my handloads. I have a Leupy 4.5-14x40mm LR w/Boone & Crockett. I am good to go up to 200 yards. It's after that is where i start having trouble. There a several places that require hits at 3-400 yards.
No offense taken to all of the suggestions. I am using a Bog-Pod Tripod w/extreme shooting rest (support for from and rear of stock).
Work is getting in the way this season for my coyote hunting, so while Im not out in there field, I am trying to improve my equipment and my technique. Health issues narrows my choices, so a chair and a tripod is what Im going with. I see the newer types with the hog saddle type of tripod set up, which looks a lot more stable than my bog-pod. It was probably designed up to 200 yards, but for me, that is where my misses start to occur. The hog saddle looks like the way to go.
I have started to employ the use of a light weight sleeping bag for support of my left hand shooting elbow, which seems to help a lot. I saw the PRS guys applying this technique, and it does work for me.
It sounds like i just need to burn some ammo and improve my abilities w/my kimber. I am waiting for what the shot-show reveals for the new manners for the Tikka's. I guess I might visit them some Friday before work really starts to get rolling, which it is about ready to do.
Maybe spending trigger time indoors, off of my tripod is the way to go for now. I see others applying equipment that I don't have, and it makes me wonder if Im lacking in that area. Thanks for all if the suggestions!
 
I have home made shooting sticks when in the wheelchair and just stick the gun out the window when in the truck.
Shot 16 coyotes out the window in one spot last winter from 123 yds to 355 yds.
bagged a running elk at 242 yds this fall.
Last year a friend recorded my deer kill shot at just over 300 yds.
Point is these are common shots here in open country.
 
If you have a 243kimber, I would think that you are close already. Put a few hundred dollars into wearing out the barrel from real world shooting positions.
Ruger precision rifle in 6creedmoor with a 4x14 vx3 would be well under 2k.

Call orkan. He can probably fix you up but it wont be cheap. There is a nice kelbly 22/250 in the classifieds.
 
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Check and make sure you Leupold is tracking good. After that it’s all practice, don’t just go to the range and shoot off the bench shoot the same way you shoot out hunting. Proably just need more practice I would think your limber 243 should be able to makes hits well past 300-400 yards. What bullets are you shooting? Do you know how fast they are going? Are you using a range finder, do you know how far your bullet is dropping at 400 yards you might be surprised how far off you can be from 100-200.
 
A pellet gun and a flock of starlings will give you a ton of trigger time. This also builds confidence, shooting live pesky targets.
 
I had a few squirrels that have been busting me over the last several seasons at one of my sniper hides. I took my 10/22 along with the kimber and waxed 3 of them, off hand from 15 to 50 yards. So my whiskey shakes aren't that bad!
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Yeah... give up the custom build will save you idea. You’ve got my cheapo set up by a whole digit plus some. My longest kill was with a 223 using a barbed wire fence as a rest(not the post, the wire) at 450 yards. Used a 22-250 to take one at 400 not long ago off of shooting sticks sitting on my butt. Rifle for the long one was a bushmaster AR and vortex diamondback. 22-250 is a wood stock savage and STAC. Cheapo set ups but 1 moa.

I zero everything at 200 yards and practice that range every week about 40-60 rnds a week of cheap stuff. I’m not shooting groups; I’m focusing on breathing, trigger squeeze, proper hand tension, recoil management, the basic shooting stuff.

Not that well known but snipers are trained for 1 MOA groups and the rifles are built for between 1 and 3/4 MOA. Nothing changes in the shooting process when going from 100 to 800. Same process will give same accuracy. You just have to know your dope.

Now my suggestion to fix things. Buy snap caps. Every day I try to practice my trigger squeeze by bringing the rifle in and setting up and going through the motions in the living room. Also go online and plug your rifle and ammo info into a calculator and print out the ballistics table for every 50 yards till whatever you want 500 or 600 is good. Also include a 10mph full value wind. Tape it to your stock or keep it on a card that stays tucked in your gear or something easy access. Now for range day buy cheapo ammo and go shoot practicing the basics and giving zero care for the groups. When you quit jerking, tensing, rushing etc then bring out your good ammo and confirm your ballistics sheet. Shoot the cheap stuff the most and a 3 shot group to confirm per session.

Good luck bud!

Oh! I take about 45 minutes or more at the range to make 23 shots. Go slow. Do full breathing cycles between shots. Do some dry fires after each reload before shooting again. Once comfortable with basics add in jumping jacks or something to get the heart rate up before shooting so it feels like when a coyote runs out
 
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Sounds like your equipment is fine, but your technique needs work.

Find somewhere to practice shooting from field positions instead of from a bench. 22lrs are great for this. If you shoot seated in a chair over a tripod, practice that. Particularly pay attention to how stable your platform is. Are you using a solid tactical type tripod setup, or are you using a $19 camera tripod? What are you using for rear support? How steady are your crosshairs? How does your system handle the recoil?

I bet you just need to find a better chair or position and maybe a better tripod or other front rest.
 
If you want to fondle a more than capable rifle, go look at a weatherby accuguard. 257 or 240 magnum. The 240 should run aan 80grn bt around 3500. That would be a point and shoot to 300 or 350. The barrel weight would help settle itt down.
 
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I have seen videos taking the Tikka CTR out of the box and shooting 1100 yds target. It's a $1000 gun.
There is a new Tikka T3x TAC A1 6.5 Creedmoor 24" Rifle JRTAC382L with some good reviews.
At least one member here has a Tikka Sporter that also just came out in a .260 $1500.
These are for accurate long range stuff much farther than I will be shooting mostly because of wind. A lot of trouble for me on game. Much different on paper.
 
You've convinced yourself that you need a better gun. Is it also possible that when you get those longer shots, you may have convinced yourself you're going to miss? What people like to call "buck fever" is a sort of self-deprecating mental thing we're all prone to on occasion. The pressure not to fail turns into a weird, self-fulfilling prophecy. There's a cure. If you can so easily convince yourself that your equipment is substandard, you can just as easily convince yourself that there is no pressure to either hit or miss your target.

An 80-acre plot of ground, after the crops are harvested, is my favorite place to practice the fine art of mental preparation. I pick a spot in the middle somewhere, and set out a bunch of 5-gallon, white buckets with numbers painted on them. I set stuffed animals from thrift stores on them. Ranges from 60 yards to 350 yards. I go back to my chosen shooting spot and have the wife call out numbers, and begin the slaughter. When I've killed them all, I move the shooting spot back about 100 yards, range the buckets again, and start it all over. Great for getting kids/grandkids used to shooting at various ranges, too.

The stuffed animals don't need to be realistic. The goofier they are, the better. My favorites have been a quite large Barney the Purple Dinosaur and a really big Ronald McDonald. I'm afraid to admit how much pleasure I've gotten from assasinating poor, headless Ronald.

Next coyote hunt, when you see one out there at 325 yards, tell yourself, "Sorry, Ronald, but you're poisoning my kids with your greasy food!" and BLAM! take that clown out with a head shot. The trick is simple... stuffed toys won't run off or bleed or laugh at you for missing. Treat the critter like a stuffed toy until that missing problem goes away.

This might win me an award for goofiest reply in a predator hunting forum, but hey... if you have a blast doing it, and it teaches you to relax and just shoot... who cares how goofy it sounds, right?
 
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There is a lot of hate toward guys with nice equipment on virtually every forum.

Everywhere you'll find instances of people telling you what you don't need. You'll hear stories about what their cheap stuff can do.

On car forums, you'll hear about guys with cheap cars telling people they don't need a ferarri.

On pistol forums, you'll hear about guys with cheap cars telling people they don't need custom STI's.

One thing I've noticed in common is that almost all of the people telling folks how they don't need good equipment, have never owned good equipment. This is the modern world. You don't "need" a hunting rifle at all. You don't "need" to hunt at all. You could just do your job, and stay home, and you won't need much of anything.

So who cares about need? Isn't what you want much more important? What most people are actually doing when saying you don't "need" something, is trying to convince you to stop wanting it.

I certainly don't need nice rifles. ... but I have them. I have a bunch of them, and have previously owned even more. So when you want to find out if you want a high end rifle, I'd suggest you go to folks that actually HAVE high end rifles with your questions. There are several folks on this forum that hunt with nothing but full custom rigs. Don't be confuse other peoples wants with your own. The decision is yours. ... but you'd do well to ignore people claiming a 1/4moa rifle won't net you more coyotes than a 1moa rifle, because they will. I bet half the coyotes I shoot each year are between 300-600yds. Better equipment and better technique have allowed me to become significantly better than I was when I was younger. The two go hand in hand. Yet all the technique in the world isn't going to save you if you don't have a kit that's capable of what you're asking of it. Don't ask much and you don't need much. Ask more, and you need more. It's quite simple.
 
I didn’t take the time to read the entire thread, so there may be some repeated info here and I apologize.

The rifle you described is far from a walking varminter. I’m young(ish) and in great shape and I don’t care to pack a 15 lb gun.

I’d suggest a Tikka T3 if you’re thrifty, or if you want to see one of the finest coyote rifles in existence, I can send you some pics. It was $3450 without optics... but its what I wanted, shoots 3/8 or better groups at will, and weighs 10.1 lbs scoped.

It carries good, shoots half MOA at 600 and is quite easy on the eyes.

Not knowing what your ability is, I’ll remind you that you can’t buy or build ability (you probably know this) so without a lot of practice it won’t be worth a dime.

All that being said, a good caller can kill 99% of his coyotes with a $150 single shot topped with a Walmart Bushnell... in the daytime anyway.

Good luck with your build or purchase.
 
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