Your coyote rigs
- Thread starter chuck nelson
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Just got an old vintage '60s Belgian-made Browning Hi-Power built on a Sako action in .243 win. Its in great shape, and I've topped it with a Browning 5-15X scope that I got on a great sale. Seems to work pretty well at the range, although I've not had a chance to use it on any coyotes as of yet. Sorry, don't have any pictures of it...
JDForBrkFst said:
Ya not bad...I actually aquired that back in university. Its a long story and kind of grey on legality.... it was a draw chair but I was tigh and found a gulable worker and happend to convince them I had won it...they even helped me load it!!
Hey, does anyone know if there are many coyotes in NS? Id like to do some coyote hunting ive seen fox and bobcat but i dont think ive seen a coyote. Id also like to get into bear hunting. When coyote hunting do you set some kind of bait pile? For the record my coyote rig would be a 8mm mauser. Ive decided to try and start using it again.
Steve
Steve
NS is full of Coyotes.steveyb4342 said:
Bait piles do work, they will clean a 100lb pig in a few days and if it is not staked to thr ground, they'll just drag it away. Best way to hunt coyotes is either calling them or hunting with hounds.
Calling being the preferred and cheapest method. Lots of mouth calls on the market and some real good electonic as well. There is a predator hunting forum, that spun off of CGN a few years back:
http://doomedyote.freeforum.ca/index.php
lots of great info there as well as here.
Start a new thread in the hunting forum asking how to get started in Coyote hunting calling etc. you will have lots of great info.
Biggest thing is hiding/camo/movement, then start calling them, preferrably on a calm day and 99 times out of 100 a Coyote will always come from downwind of your call. (this is where electronics have a huge advantage, you can put them in a cross wind and get out of the way)
Thanks for the great info you will be seeing a new thread in the hunting forum soon. By the way i forgot to give a bit more info the 8mm mauser will be fireing winchester 170 grain power points. I know its over kill for coyotes but its all i have and i dont reload. On top will be some old leupold i have i believe its a 3x7 40mm i think thats what it is, just trying to remember off the top of my head. Might not be an ideal setup but it should work.
- Location
- Central Sask
my coyote rig
savage 12 FVSS 300WSM
elite 3200 10X40 mil-dot
a ruger 77r 243light redfield 4x12 just ran out of 63gr mccracken bullets.this set up shoots! better than me. I shoot to 450 yds no prob. & its fast enough for calling.fun all the way around. as for pelts fur market (auction) and lately a fur buyer buys in round, beets the hell out of skinning the stink dogs.
Here's my latest project. It's a M700 ADL in .223 Remington. Had an oversize bolt handle fitted, glass bedded, trigger lightend, and the barrel cut & crowned from 24" to 20". Since the majority of hunting I'll do will be in the winter/early spring, I figured a little white paint wouldn't hurt.
I'm going to swap out the Bushnell for a Nikon Buckmaster 4.5x14 and lower scope rings, probably Talley's.
It's not exactly a full blown custom; as I'd never spend big money on a rifle intended for hunting. As long as the accuracy is acceptable, I'll be plenty happy with it.
Can't wait to try it out.
I'm going to swap out the Bushnell for a Nikon Buckmaster 4.5x14 and lower scope rings, probably Talley's.
It's not exactly a full blown custom; as I'd never spend big money on a rifle intended for hunting. As long as the accuracy is acceptable, I'll be plenty happy with it.
Can't wait to try it out.
powder burner
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Alberta, Canada
2 Bad,
are you going to get that stock airbrushed with some tree branches for camo? Looks like a stock which has some potential
are you going to get that stock airbrushed with some tree branches for camo? Looks like a stock which has some potential
powder burner said:
Might get around to it at some point. Just not sure what I'll decide to do yet. Thinking of getting some of those fancy stencils fro the US to nake a winter flactern pattern of sorts. Add some grey and black to the white and it'll be suitable.
Wow! When I first saw this thread I thought it may be a bunch of pictures of "pretty guns' that had lots of fancy "accesories" and were posed on velvet pillows.
But "handsome is as handsome does" as they say in the shire. And I like to see what a rifle will do when its working, not at home under artificial light.
A fine looking shooting iron looks just that much better beside a coyote it has tipped over.
Some great looking and working guns guys.
Robin in Rocky
But "handsome is as handsome does" as they say in the shire. And I like to see what a rifle will do when its working, not at home under artificial light.
A fine looking shooting iron looks just that much better beside a coyote it has tipped over.
Some great looking and working guns guys.
Robin in Rocky
