.22 Magnum for coyote hunting
- Thread starter sealhunter
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Your snowmobile must be pretty slow if you can't outrun a charging coyote.
Or run over!
Your snowmobile must be pretty slow if you can't outrun a charging coyote.
yeah, she's a slow one all right and even slower pulling the loaded sleigh, molasses comes to mind! How do you think the firewood gets to the warm up shacks and the trail sign markers get out there? Not all sledder's are out there for recreational riding on a zippy sled, some of us have to do the work. A lot of trails are impassable in the off season due to swamps etc, so we can only stock up as needed during the regular riding season.
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- Location
- Niagara Region, Ontario. For now
Around here the only way your getting a shot at a yote under 100 m is when your pushing bush, and I have thought about taking the .22 mag to give me the option for both the rabbits and coyotes that pop up.
Sitting and calling though, I don't think its the best idea. Not only is it hard enough getting them in closer than 100m, but as mentioned a moving target of that size, and the slower moving round just doesn't cut it for me.
Sitting and calling though, I don't think its the best idea. Not only is it hard enough getting them in closer than 100m, but as mentioned a moving target of that size, and the slower moving round just doesn't cut it for me.
Since the can is open. Here you get maybe one opportunity for a shot with every 20 or so set ups. Why take a 22 mag and risk that one shot you worked your ass off to get when I have a 223 and a 243. To each their own
antiqueguy
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- windsor ontario
.22 mag should work well as long as you know its limitations ihave a bunch of pelts sitting here most of them taken with .22lr not ideal but works if need be
WMR will do the trick fine out to 150 yards (100 yards might be your personal limit)... I have taken a few opportunity yotes with .22 LR, one in the lungs, they ran a short ways but went down and out quickly... a coyote hunting friend has only used WMR for coyotes for 40+ years and he does well with it. Personally I use my .22 K-Hornets, .223's or .243's when I am targeting coyotes... they give more range and more margin for error.
I agree with this. I have shot about 12 coyotes this year and use a 223. Had i been using a 22 mag it would be more like 8. A few were shot at 175, 200, 230 ish yards. If I were the owner of a 22mag and wanted to dispatch a few coyotes then I would use it. To go out and buy it as a dedicated coyote rifle I think would be foolish. I think my personal limit for shooting them with a 223 is about 300 yards. And thats with a bipod and on a calm day. At that range the 223 is still effective and very flat shooting. If I had close neibours or was shooting in the bush I would perhaps consider a 22 mag.
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antiqueguy
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- windsor ontario
yes the .22 mag is a good choice i wish someone would make some of the old school cup and core soft point ammo everything is rapid expanding now
- Location
- Back in the Peace Country
For me, I used to shoot Yotes at max 600 yards.
Took one at 580 yards and the results weren't what I wanted, though the yote was dead within a minute, ... I ended up being a 500 and in shooter.... Then as time went on.... I set up a few stands, with short shooting lanes.... And ended up with shots in the 100 yard range...can make much easier head shots now and less worrying about the wind.
Took one at 580 yards and the results weren't what I wanted, though the yote was dead within a minute, ... I ended up being a 500 and in shooter.... Then as time went on.... I set up a few stands, with short shooting lanes.... And ended up with shots in the 100 yard range...can make much easier head shots now and less worrying about the wind.
Well they still do......
As i posted above if one is determined to use the 22Mag as a coyote getter your best bullet choices are the Federal 50 grain jacketed hollow points or the Winchester 40 grain Jacketed hollow points(not necessarily in that order). Neither are rapid expanding. Keep your shots relatively close.
The 50 grain Federal will drop a fair bit more at 100 yards but is the tougher bullet if you encounter shoulder or leg bone.They penetrate well but may actually not expand as well as one would like. Probably the toughest bullet for the 22 Mag i have ever encountered.
The Win 40 JHP is arguably the best all around coyote bullet in the 22 Mag. Fairly tough yet it is a little flatter shooting then the Federal 50 grainer and expands quite well without being to frangible.
Ruko used to make a pretty decent lead tipped one as well but i haven't seen a box of them for probably at least fifteen years.
If one is determined to use the 22 Mag as a dedicated coyote rig in my humble opinion your search for a bullet should begin and end with one of the two i mentioned.
I would forget about any of the newer plastic tipped 30 grain fodder.
Just my opinion based on my own experiences.
Take from it what what will.
I use these CCI 40 grain Game Point JSP's... they hold together good and get excellent penetration.
http://www.cci-ammunition.com/products/detail.aspx?use=2&loadNo=0022
I have heard other people had good luck with these as well, but i have no first hand personal experience with them.So i did not comment on them. Good to know.
lol.
Opps, you are wrong Gary, must be the first time, ever!
. The work sled in question is a single banger Bombardier.Now, on the other hand, the play sled is a Polaris, with a capital P.
P for Pilot, you must hold a valid Pilot's Lic to operate it, legally! Hence the reason I bought the M6.
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Right back at ya! R U going to Dauphin Apr 20-21? Dugald Apr 27-28?
Bah, working is for the young, gun shows are for everyone!
