Late afternoon coyote down

fratri

fratri

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The plan this afternoon was to do 2 sets at 2 different farms... Got to the first farm around 3:45, did a 25 minute set with no luck. Made my way to another farm, setup with only 25 minutes of legal light left.... did 2 rookie mistakes today....

This coyote comes out after about 5 minutes, I stop him with a loud "wolf" sound at 80 yds or so..... I take the shot and he drops....... I switch from dying rabbit to coyote pup distress and this coyote decides to get up and start running away, I follow him through the scope pull the trigger and hear click.....Rookie mistake #1, I didn't eject my first round and chamber another..... By the time I eject the round and chamber the new one in, he is over the rise.....

I sit there playing the coyote pup distress for a few more minutes before I decide to see if I can recover the coyote (how far did he go, is he dead?).... Rookie mistake #2 coming up..... Instead of me slowly getting up and looking around, I get up without thinking and there is another coyote in the field looking at me, he makes a quick turn and back into the bush he goes.....

My coyote had a strong will to live, even though he had a frontal chest shot that exited his far shoulder, he still made it 75 yds....

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Yes rookie mistakes aren't just for rookies. We all slip up the odd time even though we know better.

Congrats on a successful hunt
 
Knew you had to be in the east by looks of the coyote/brush wolf ...........not hard to see the timber wolf features/DNA.Good job.One down 100,000 to go.
 
Your threads are always a great learning experience as well as an exciting hunt.

Hopefully next weekend I can get out and start doing some coyote hunting. Didn't get many opportunities last year.
 
Fruck, I need sum Fratarri……………………………………….:runaway:

Great threads you post.
And peektures too.
 
Hi there. What caliber did you use for this time? I tried .223 yesterday under strong wind and missed two coyotes at about 250m, may consider the .270win next time.
 
fratri said:
This coyote comes out after about 5 minutes, I stop him with a loud "wolf" sound at 80 yds or so..... I take the shot and he drops....... I switch from dying rabbit to coyote pup distress and this coyote decides to get up and start running away, I follow him through the scope pull the trigger and hear click.....Rookie mistake #1, I didn't eject my first round and chamber another..... By the time I eject the round and chamber the new one in, he is over the rise.....
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Thats a good gun you got there, mine won't even give me a click if I don't cycle it. :p

The few I have shot, one with 243 and others 12 gauge through chest all went over 50 yards.

Keep at em Fratri, only cut one dog track in this area the whole deer season. Shoot on sight policy around here. Seems to work.
 
Dukester said:
Thats a good gun you got there, mine won't even give me a click if I don't cycle it. :p

The few I have shot, one with 243 and others 12 gauge through chest all went over 50 yards.

Keep at em Fratri, only cut one dog track in this area the whole deer season. Shoot on sight policy around here. Seems to work.
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Mine either....now you got me thinking, what actually happened.....man now I am confused, because what I described is impossible... Could I have just short pulled the bolt? Oh well, it did happen like I said, but maybe not exactly like it happened, it that makes sense.....The excitement must have gotten the better of me.... :)
 
LMO said:
Hi there. What caliber did you use for this time? I tried .223 yesterday under strong wind and missed two coyotes at about 250m, may consider the .270win next time.
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I am using a savage axis .223 with a 55gr vmax bullet with 25.5 BL-C2.... So far with this load, I had 3 bang flops (from 50-150 yds) and this runner....It has been fur friendly so far
 
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