.22WMR for coyotes and timber wolves

[beefman]

your right I have never shot a wolf but I sure wouldnt pass one up if all I had in my hand is a .22WMR....not really worried about tracking I dont save pelts and dead dogs get left in the woods anyway all I need to see is blood on the snow a wolf will die quick if the shot was in the ribs,neck or head he may run a ways first but who cares? not me DEAD is DEAD.

everyone in here who is saying .22 centerfires are to small for wolves need to pull their heads out of their ass they are a soft skin dog I'm sure a .22LR would kill one at 50yds so why not a .22WMR out to 100yds?...all it take is 1gr through the lungs or heart to kill an animal its not magic like you guys are making it out to be......if a 45gr TSX can drop deer dead in their tracks I dont see why it wouldnt kill a wolf.....unless they have special powers I dont know about......LMAO

Shoot straight shoot often and make the shot count .22WMR will kill wolves hands down and people who think different are the same ones who think they need a .338 for moose .

Out of this whole thread, these are the words that stick in my mind the most. I think any game animal that gets shot, deserves to be tracked.
It is truly unethical for a hunter/lover of the out of doors to let any animal suffer. If you want to leave the yote in the bush when you FIND it dead...no problem. Just follow up your shots please.

 

[srt4u2nv]

Out of this whole thread, these are the words that stick in my mind the most. I think any game animal that gets shot, deserves to be tracked.
It is truly unethical for a hunter/lover of the out of doors to let any animal suffer. If you want to leave the yote in the bush when you FIND it dead...no problem. Just follow up your shots please.

no where in my post did it say I never track..... every animal I have ever shot I have tracked if it was needed..I dont understand the issue you have with my post I hunt vermin yotes I havent shot one yet this year but when I do it will be a well placed shot in the vitals and there wont be a need for tracking thats what I ment about I'm not worried about tracking if theres blood on the snow they are easy to track is what my post ment......

basically what I ment was make a good shot with any caliber with in its range limits and tracking is not a concern......that doesnt mean I dont go find the animal to make sure its dead it just means tracking isnt a concern....to add to that you wont catch me tracking a wounded yote more then 500yds before setting up and calling again....they are not a game animal they are vermin like a rat...

you rag on me for my post but its ok to advocate knowingly taking a marginal shot on a running wolf at 300+yds? like H4831 is saying?

 

[beefman]

your right I have never shot a wolf but I sure wouldnt pass one up if all I had in my hand is a .22WMR....not really worried about tracking I dont save pelts and dead dogs get left in the woods anyway all I need to see is blood on the snow a wolf will die quick if the shot was in the ribs,neck or head he may run a ways first but who cares? not me DEAD is DEAD.

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I wasn't trying to pick on you.....But when I read the highlighted section from your post above, I had to question it.
Now that you have clarified your response I feel a little better.
And no I don't agree with 300+ yard shots on running animals.

 

[beaverfur]

I may track it if it has mange then burn it.

 

[BAITRON]

A fox

I guess I am wrong and you are right. Go ahead and hunt with rimfires. I know I will down more animals humanely with centerfire rifles. My 17 hmr shoots .4 inch groups and I know where I hit the fox. I am only posting this as advice but I guess I am a B.S. artist...


No worries I know what happened and have nothing to gain. Anyone that willingly shoots a wolf with a .22 Mag is a fool. Simply not enough kinetic energy to guarantee a humane kill unless you are under 50 yards.

 

[srt4u2nv]

ya your right BAITRON animals know when a 40gr peice of lead goes through its heart and lungs as long as its from a rimfire it will live cause rimfires cant kill anything bigger then a rabbit.....LMAO.....I bet you used a 17gr bullet in that .17HMR and it blew up on the foxes shoulder if you had of put that bullet in its heart it would have died plain and simple the fact you never recovered the animal says you made a bad shot cause if you made a good shot at that distance the fox would have died.....there are plenty of pics of downed foxes, yotes, wolves on the net that got hit with a .17HMR or .22WMR at 50-100yds and some of the pics I have seen are through and through .22 intrance and a 1/2'' exit lots of blood.

no one cares how your gun shoots paper me behind my .22-250 can put 5shots in .8'' at 100yds but if my 40gr vmax hits a yote in the butt its not going to kill it.

 

[Dukester]

Out of this whole thread, these are the words that stick in my mind the most. I think any game animal that gets shot, deserves to be tracked.
It is truly unethical for a hunter/lover of the out of doors to let any animal suffer. If you want to leave the yote in the bush when you FIND it dead...no problem. Just follow up your shots please.

You are too polite beefman.

Got a good laugh watching him squirm and back paddle.

The only vermin in the woods have 2 legs and no ethics or judgement.
These are the guys that make the papers making us all look bad.

 

[srt4u2nv]

Still not understanding the big deal about not worrying about tracking a yote I'm not going to eat it, skin it or mount it so whats the big deal?......I wont take a shot I "know" will wound the animal like others are advocating in this tread. If I shoot a yote it will go down and tracking wont be needed if the yote does bolt and I'm sure they do some times I will not spend my day tracking it like the 10hrs I spent tracking a Doe this past season. I would track a yote for 20-30min.

yotes are vermin according to the hunting regs thats why there is an open season all year with no limits or restrictions.

The 2 legged vermin you describe are the ones who take 300+yd running shots on yotes/wolves with .30cal rifles instead of making a well placed shot on one with a .22 caliber rifle at a reasonable distance.....I dont know about you but I like to keep my shots to a max of 300yds unless everything is perfect I may go out further but on the land I hunt 300yds is bacially the max for distance with 150yds be the average.

Its hard to understand what people mean some times when reading posts because you cant read their body language or tone of voice alot of what people say here gets taken out of context and its quite anoying.

 

[pilgrim]

used .22Mag on badgers several times....it works good up to 150m...

 

[ratherbefishin]

My late friend used a 22 magnum for culling feral goats on one of the gulf islands.He limited his shots to about 60 yards, used a shooting stick and only took standing head/neck shots.He wasn't noted for missing-as his collection of tanned hides attests to including a polar bear and couple of tigers-these were shot with a 308.His favourite deer rifle was a single shot 243.I don't think coyotes would be a challenge for a careful shot with a 22 magnum, but I think I'd choose my 6.5x55 swede for a wolf .

 

[beefman]

Still not understanding the big deal about not worrying about tracking a yote I'm not going to eat it, skin it or mount it so whats the big deal?......I wont take a shot I "know" will wound the animal like others are advocating in this tread. If I shoot a yote it will go down and tracking wont be needed if the yote does bolt and I'm sure they do some times I will not spend my day tracking it like the 10hrs I spent tracking a Doe this past season. I would track a yote for 20-30min.

yotes are vermin according to the hunting regs thats why there is an open season all year with no limits or restrictions.

The 2 legged vermin you describe are the ones who take 300+yd running shots on yotes/wolves with .30cal rifles instead of making a well placed shot on one with a .22 caliber rifle at a reasonable distance.....I dont know about you but I like to keep my shots to a max of 300yds unless everything is perfect I may go out further but on the land I hunt 300yds is bacially the max for distance with 150yds be the average.

Its hard to understand what people mean some times when reading posts because you cant read their body language or tone of voice alot of what people say here gets taken out of context and its quite anoying.

!st point: Big deal is: you should always follow up your shots, to make sure what you just attempted to kill...is dead. Sometimes, shots don't always hit the animal where you expected it to...its called ethical hunting practices.

2nd point: Coyotes are classified as "fur bearing mammals" not vermin. And you must possess a small game license to hunt them.

Again...not picking on you, its just that the image that this portrays to the general public, is the stereotypical blood-thirsty animal killing, un-ethical person. And only further divides us outdoorsmen from the non-hunter.

 

[srt4u2nv]

again taking one part of a paragraph out of context my statement looses its meaning when you do that.

FYI: Coyote: population unknown, but “abundant” Harvested as a furbearing mammal Hunted & trapped as vermin 4,600

thats from the MNR