No Kill Like Over Kill.

I have shot a whack of coyotes with deer and bear rifles, .257 Roberts, 6.5X55, 7mm-08, 7X57, .30-30, .308, .30/06, .356, .358, 9.3X62,.44 Mag, .45/70 and more... most of the time, I don't worry about spooking deer when a coyote shows up.
 
So there I was bore sighting my 14.5mmx114mmR canon and a coyote wanders into the gravel pit. I wasn't sure my 1,000 grain solid brass bullet would be a very good varmint round, but I guess what it lacked in expansion it made up for with 2800 FPS of Velocity = overkill kinetic energy, a little bit.

A little bit, coincidentally, is what was left of the coyote.
 
My cousin and I were out sighting in our deer guns. I was 30-30, he was 12ga slug gun. Anyway, this ground hog decided to watch. So he nails it with the 12 gauge. we walked over and looked. The Groundhog lay on the grass. He says "Well that didn't do much". I, noting the spray on the grass behind, suggested he turn it over. The head was there, the hide was there, but little else.
 
Dad was starving in the woods, after his cache got soaked with rain and molded, he had a 303 Lee Enfield and tried for a rabbit, got the head, and a grouse.... Well let's say pink mist in both lol, he cry laughed he said lol
 
I watched a farmer take a coyote with a 50 cal hollow point at about 200 yards with a grizzly 50BMG. I think the bullet hit front shoulder because the front end just blew up. We never found the head just the two hind quarters and tail.
My biggest overkill was while duck hunting I came up to a ruffed grouse 6-7 yards away. Stupid bird just stood there so I tried to load a target load for a head shot. Stupid bird took off the second I pulled the trigger. What was supposed to be a head shot ended up being a full dead center body shot. I had also grabbed a slug instead of a target load. Nothing but feathers left.
 
TheTooner said:
Standing gopher at about twenty feet using a 12 gauge with no. 7-1/2 shot. (Didn't need the second barrel.)
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^yep, that works. :) I've brought a 12ga with me on most gopher shoots. Nice to get off your belly (from shooting prone) and go for a walk, listening for squeaks. I joke about calling this "upland gopher" shooting, as we hope to "flush" one and get it on "the wing". lol A better description might be "chip shots". Aim a little low on one in a hole and in his hole, he'll be no more.

Overkill~thanks to a buddy who joined us from Calgary a few years back, I've shot gophers with a .223 (the most fun), 6.5 Creedmoor, 308 and 45/70. The 45/70 was actually the least remarkable, but did inspire me to track-down an original JM Guide gun. Proud to have one of those now. :) Here in Ontario, groundhog shooting, I once hit a small one in the thinker with a 32gr. Hornady V-Max from my .204 Ruger. 204 vs groundhogs~not really "overkill", but boy...tell that to what was left of that groundhog. lol
 
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