Shooting coyotes with .223 at long distance ?

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What’s a maximum but effective distance for shooting coyotes with a .223 using heavier bullets between 68 to 75 gr. that can be loaded with a 1-9 twist ? Thanks for any info...
 
I have a CZ 527 varmint model that I’m setting up for shooting targets out to 500 yards. Once I have it all setup and have done some shooting , I was wondering if I would have to limit myself to around 300 yards for shooting coyotes. My concern was to have the most humane shot possible but if I can reach out to 500 yards, that would be great...:D
 
350tracker said:
I have a CZ 527 varmint model that I’m setting up for shooting targets out to 500 yards. Once I have it all setup and have done some shooting , I was wondering if I would have to limit myself to around 300 yards for shooting coyotes. My concern was to have the most humane shot possible but if I can reach out to 500 yards, that would be great...:D
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Have you ever watched a wolf hamstring a deer out on the ice??
I have!!
Humane shots on wolves is not the highest of my prioritys, hitting them is 1st & foremost :sniper:
 
A buddy with a heavy barrel Ruger 77 /.220 Swift could hit coyotes farther than he could kill them.They are tough and a wolf is tougher .....................Harold
 
senior said:
Have you ever watched a wolf hamstring a deer out on the ice??
I have!!
Humane shots on wolves is not the highest of my prioritys, hitting them is 1st & foremost :sniper:
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X2 And when they get the deer down & the pack gathers they can clean a deer in 30 minutes.All you will find when there done is some bone & lots of blood on the ice and snow.DAN>>>
 
senior said:
Have you ever watched a wolf hamstring a deer out on the ice??
I have!!
Humane shots on wolves is not the highest of my prioritys, hitting them is 1st & foremost :sniper:
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From one senior to another, you got it right about being humane to wolves.
I would like to have someone hear how a deer can scream while it is being eaten alive, how the sound is just like a babies terrible scream and how long it can last, then say they want to place a shot to reduce suffering!
Or, chase eight wolves away from a freshly killed cow moose, (I have,) and see that the animal died from having it's rear end eaten off, with the front two-thirds of the animal untouched, then say they want to treat a wolf humanely.
This moose had run a ¼ mile after the wolves had first drawn blood. She even got up twice, after having been pulled down. Like the vast majority of moose killed by wolves, she was not hamstrung. Wolves pull at the rear end of a moose to pull it down, so the odd time it gets hamstrung, but usually not.
A few years later I again was instrumental in chasing a pack of wolves from a freshly killed moose, and again they had not eaten from the vital forward portions of the animal.
I will shoot at a wolf at any range, if it is OK to shoot at that spot. This is why, in another thread, I said to use a rifle in the 270, 30-06 class for wolves. I was ripped apart on those postings by people who may not have ever seen a wild wolf in the bush, and told a 22 magnum was sufficient. Even a poor hit with a 30-06 will likely anchor, or severely slow down a wolf, where a light calibre would allow it to get clear away.
I think a wolf has a strange mind set. I have twice tracked down and killed wolves I had hit at long distance, one with a 30-06 and the other with a 270. In each case I got about ten feet from the animal before I did it in. Each wolf showed the same facial expression, just dead pan! Not fright, not fear, not fighting mood, and definetely not panic. Both wolves were standing and in the case of the one, I walked around it at about ten feet away, wondering where I could put a 30-06 bullet that would do least damage to the hide. The wolf was standing on all fours, but never moved, except to turn his head, in order to keep his eyes on me.
 
Quoted--"X2 And when they get the deer down & the pack gathers they can clean a deer in 30 minutes.All you will find when there done is some bone & lots of blood on the ice and snow."DAN>>>
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And Dan, the same remains are left from a moose kill on the ice. Just splinters of bone and red tinged black hair.
 
H4831 said:
I would like to have someone hear how a deer can scream while it is being eaten alive, how the sound is just like a babies terrible scream and how long it can last, then say they want to place a shot to reduce suffering!
Or, chase eight wolves away from a freshly killed cow moose, (I have,) and see that the animal died from having it's rear end eaten off, with the front two-thirds of the animal untouched, then say they want to treat a wolf humanely.
This moose had run a ¼ mile after the wolves had first drawn blood. She even got up twice, after having been pulled down. Like the vast majority of moose killed by wolves, she was not hamstrung. Wolves pull at the rear end of a moose to pull it down, so the odd time it gets hamstrung, but usually not.
A few years later I again was instrumental in chasing a pack of wolves from a freshly killed moose, and again they had not eaten from the vital forward portions of the animal.
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Yes it’s very cruel but isn’t that Mother nature at work with predators. I don’t see any difference in what you described compared to the type of footage I’ve seen from Africa with big cats taking down their quarry. I have no love for the wolves but it’s all part of nature...
 
350tracker said:
Yes it’s very cruel but isn’t that Mother nature at work with predators. I don’t see any difference in what you described compared to the type of footage I’ve seen from Africa with big cats taking down their quarry. I have no love for the wolves but it’s all part of nature...
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It's also part of MY nature to shoot them where I find them.
When they become a rare species I will stop;)
 
dizzy dan 1 said:
X2 And when they get the deer down & the pack gathers they can clean a deer in 30 minutes.All you will find when there done is some bone & lots of blood on the ice and snow.DAN>>>
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Years ago I worked in the bush behind Percy Lk. There happened to be a huge winter deer yard there. I saw on average 3-4 dead deer every day of the winter, in the odd case they were cleaned to the hide, in the majority there was maybe 20lbs eaten, in quite a few cases, a lb or two from the arse. Wolves are killing machine whether hungry or not, if they have an opportunity to kill something they will.
 
I'm with H4831 ad Senior. I don't give a sh!t where I hit a coyote. They are vermin, when I do kill them, I leave them where they die.

People at my golf course used to get upset at my attitude about them and fox until one day me and three women menbers I was playing with watched on fox trot up the fairway with the hind quarters of a house cat and the other one with the front half.
 
350tracker said:
What’s a maximum but effective distance for shooting coyotes with a .223 using heavier bullets between 68 to 75 gr. that can be loaded with a 1-9 twist ? Thanks for any info...
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The 223 will kill a Coyote much further then you will likely be able to hit them at.
Happy Hunting:wave:
 
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