.22 rimfire for Coyotes?

Onagoth said:
yotes don't wear body armor, even at 100m there's enough power to down one....Just have to know your capabilities.
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we should only take shots that we are sure will take an animal down as quickly and humanely as possible. but, theres a point where you have to step back and say to yourself "this is just a bad idea". shooting a yote at 100 yards with a 22 rimfire is ridiculous and there is not enough power to put the animal down unless you are very lucky.

i couldnt find a chart on the yellow jacket, but a federal load that is 2 grains lighter and 70fps slower at the muzzle has a mere 141 ft/lbs at the muzzle and only 75 ft/lbs at 100 yards. definitely not coyote medicine.

even though they are only yotes, they still deserve to be put down quickly. :ar15:
 
I've taken quite a few coyotes with the 22lr, Federal American Eagle ammunition, I've never lost one. The best shot was right between the eyes at 90 yards just as he got ready to jump on my Jack Russell Terrier. If a 22lr is what you've got or is the most suitable thing because of noise considerations I'd say go for it, just know your limits. If you can swing it any 22 centerfire is a better choice though.
 
I've shot em with a 22lr, but only because I was out rabbit hunting and I never let a yote walk. :D

It'll work, but its been said many times already...there are better choices. Start with a 22wmr and go up from there.
 
Absolutely amazing

MattW said:
I've taken quite a few coyotes with the 22lr, Federal American Eagle ammunition, I've never lost one. The best shot was right between the eyes at 90 yards just as he got ready to jump on my Jack Russell Terrier. If a 22lr is what you've got or is the most suitable thing because of noise considerations I'd say go for it, just know your limits. If you can swing it any 22 centerfire is a better choice though.
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Greg
 
I have shot one coyote with an old single shot chambered for 22 rf short. It was in our yard, about 30 yd away. Hit it in the lungs, and it was dead within five or six seconds.

Never tried it again. :)
Ted
 
About 20 years ago when I was a teenager and knew EVERYTHING (Dam! I miss those days!), I shot a coyote with my 9422 magnum at 125 long paces. It was early summer in a hay field, the farmer was cutting the hay and I happen to see this coyote mousing in an uncut area. I hit him once in the shoulders and knocked him down, I racked another round immediately and as the coyote got back up he put his head right in my crosshairs, the second shot took him right in the ear and he was down for good. I was using the winchester 40 grain solids and it seemed like the first round in the shoulder actually broke it, and the second shot in the head passed right through. I am positive that coyote would have run/staggered a long way if I had not been lucky enough to get the second shot, and he probably would not have been recovered. That is the last coyote I shot with a rimfire of any desciption. I would recommend a 22 centre fire as a minimum, and I now use a 25-06 with 75 grain Vmax.
 
There are better cartridges but I have been amazed at what the ''little" 22lr will do. My first Coyote was while out Gophering with a 10\22. Plain Federal bulk pack ammo made short work of him in 2 rounds at about 60m. It was hard not to just dump the mag at him.
 
Sure a .22lr will work. Head, heart or spine shots equal quick deaths. Shot in the lungs and the coyote will most likely take off to die a miserable death hours later. Shot elsewhere it might survive but now you've got a crippled and wounded coyote roaming around.

If you're think you are good enough to make head shots each and every time then you have an overestimation of your abilities. If the prospect of wounding or crippling a 'yote doesn't trouble you then you are a scumbag.

Use enough gun.
 
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